Devil's Deposition: Penn State Coach Delayed Reporting Child Sex Abuse to Avoid Ruining Anyone's Weekend
Submitted on December 20, 2011
By Dave Zirin - December 19, 2011
...[T]he happenings at Penn State require our collective vigilance. It matters not only because of the heinous nature of [Penn State coaching legend Jerry] Sandusky’s crimes. It matters because it’s a story about how Big Football, together with the Cult of Coach, created a company town in Happy Valley as venal as Homestead, Matewan, Ludlow or any of this country’s corners colonized by robber barons a century ago. It matters because these university company towns dot the national landscape, living by their own rules.
