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The Big Ten on Monday removed Joe Paterno's name from the football championship trophy that will be handed out after the conference's inaugural football title game. It's just the latest in the sudden and precipitous fall of a once-legendary figure, whose name is now badly tarnished, if not permanently ruined.
Some 10 years, 20 years from now, what will people think of Joe Paterno? Probably not the same way he was thought of two weeks ago: A football icon who has done everything the right way, never incurring even a sniff from the NCAA and has sent countless young men into professional football and the world at large as upstanding citizens. Now, and perhaps forever, Paterno would be...
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