Penn State Scandal Forces Paterno's Exit at Season's End

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Joe Paterno, the winningest football coach in NCAA Division I history and once widely considered the most popular state employee (if not person, period) in all of Pennsylvania, will retire from the only head coaching job he has ever held at season's end, according to Associated Press reports.

A Penn State University fixture for 62 years, including 46 as its head coach, Paterno has come under fire in recent days for his handling of sex-crime allegations involving former longtime assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. In 2002, a graduate assistant reported to Paterno that he had witnessed Sandusky with a boy believed to be about 10 years old in the showers of the on-campus Lasch Center. The witness, Mike McQueary, currently serves as Paterno's receivers coach.

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