Synopsis
From America’s premier sportswriter, the definitive, #1 New York Times bestselling biography of Joe Paterno and the story of America’s love affair with football.
Joe Paterno believed that football was a way to teach young men how to live. He coached at Penn State for 62 years. In the course of his years as a head coach, his teams won 409 games, a Division I record. At the end of his life, more than 100 of those wins were invalidated by the NCAA because of the crimes of a longtime assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky, and Paterno’s alleged knowledge of those crimes—knowledge Paterno denied until his death. In the process, the name Paterno—the name he had spent a lifetime building—came to represent scandal and controversy.
Joe Posnanski lived in State College, Pennsylvania, through the turbulent final months of Paterno’s life and was with him and his family as the scandal that eventually consumed him unfolded. Now with a new afterword, Posnanski’s book delves deep into the life of Joe Paterno, going back to his childhood days in Brooklyn and his college days at Brown, and looks at him through the eyes of the young men he coached. It is a portrait that goes beyond the daily headlines and into the life of a stubborn idealist, a teacher, and a flawed but principled man who, to the very end, loved to coach.
Chapters
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Paterno 41 AdamA
Duration: 15min -
Paterno 42 AdamB
Duration: 19min -
Paterno 43 AdamC
Duration: 08min -
Paterno 44 Winter
Duration: 17min -
Paterno 45 ToBeOrNotToBeA
Duration: 22min -
Paterno 46 ToBeOrNotToBeB
Duration: 10min -
Paterno 47 WinningA
Duration: 12min -
Paterno 48 WinningB
Duration: 11min -
Paterno 49 TheFinalAct
Duration: 03min -
Paterno 50 FallA
Duration: 20min -
Paterno 51 FallB
Duration: 09min -
Paterno 52 FallC
Duration: 20min -
Paterno 53 FinaleA
Duration: 05min -
Paterno 54 FinaleB
Duration: 04min -
Paterno 55 EncoreA
Duration: 23min -
Paterno 56 EncoreB
Duration: 26min -
Paterno 57 Close
Duration: 01min -
Paterno 58 PhoneInterview
Duration: 21min