From the HARRISBURG PATRIOT NEWS:
…“Over the last few days Joe Paterno has experienced further health complications,” spokesman Dan McGinn said in a brief statement Saturday to The Associated Press. “His doctors have now characterized his status as serious.”
“His family will have no comment on the situation and asks that their privacy be respected during this difficult time,” he said.
Paterno, 85, was diagnosed with lung cancer on Nov. 18. The diagnosis came just days after Paterno was fired by Penn State’s board of trustees in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal…
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EDITOR: The Board of Trustees have apparently missed its opportunithy to publicly appologe to Paterno for his abrupt and egregious firing. He had already said he was resigning at the end of the season and, if asked, can there be any question that he would have resigned right away? As a classic diversion from his own culpabilitly, Governor Tom Corbett led a lynch mob to focus attention on bystander Paterno rather than Corbett’s role as a negligent (if not worse) attorney general!
