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Can a great man's life be judged by its final two months?
Joe Paterno died Sunday morning, and that central question remains unanswered. An American legend passed and his legacy will be defined, for many, by how those final months played out -- in controversy, in sadness, in disgrace.
Is that how he should be remembered?
"It's so crazy that this one [freakin'] pervert son of a bitch can bring down a university."
Paul Levine is speaking not about Paterno, but about Jerry Sandusky, whose alleged actions are central to the narrative but certainly not the end of it. Levine met Paterno in the 1960s as sports editor and eventually editor of the student Daily Collegian.
It is relationship that didn't...
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