Jerry Sandusky

Who cares? In response to the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports, a letter writer asks, "Who cares" ("No big deal," Wednesday)? He says he has never spoken to a fan who thinks it's a big deal. I have operated a baseball/softball training facility in the Philadelphia area for 17 years, and to almost everyone I deal with, it is a very big issue. We constantly stress the idea of reaching goals and competing at the highest levels, but all within the framework of hard work and sacrifice that will hopefully result in "being the best you can be" and "getting the most out of your ability.

Funny how nobody talks much anymore about Joe Paterno's statue. Much like that 900-pound likeness the university removed last summer from outside Beaver Stadium, the late Penn State coach's legacy once seemed destined to endure forever. Now, almost a year after Paterno's death, it is melting away rapidly, like the last vestiges of a snowfall in spring. The tumult provoked by the Jerry Sandusky scandal, the red-hot debate over Paterno's response, and the fears about Penn State football's future all have eased somewhat, even if the torment of Sandusky's child victims has not. Sandusky is in prison.

Pennsylvania State University denied defamation and wrongful-termination claims Tuesday that were lodged by a former assistant football coach who testified against Jerry Sandusky. In filings in Centre County Court, the university asked a judge to throw out a state whistle-blower lawsuit brought by Mike McQueary, arguing that any damage he endured as a result of his role as a prosecution witness was not caused by Penn State. So far, McQueary has failed to provide any evidence suggesting that Penn State officials publicly questioned his character, university counsel Nancy Conrad wrote.

Pennsylvania State University denied defamation and wrongful-termination claims Tuesday that were lodged by a former assistant football coach who testified against Jerry Sandusky. In filings in Centre County Court, the university asked a judge to throw out a state whistle-blower lawsuit brought by Mike McQueary, arguing that any damage he endured as a result of his role as a prosecution witness was not caused by Penn State. So far, McQueary has failed to provide any evidence suggesting that Penn State officials publicly questioned his character, university counsel Nancy Conrad wrote.

BELLEFONTE, Pa. - An attorney for Jerry Sandusky told a judge Thursday that he had not had enough time to fully review thousands of pages of investigative material handed over by prosecutors in advance of his client's trial. As result, Joseph Amendola contended, Sandusky should be granted a new trial. When pressed, he added that his posttrial review of the documents revealed nothing that would have changed his defense strategy. "Did we look at the material? Yes," Amendola said.

BELLEFONTE - Joe Amendola, the attorney representing Jerry Sandusky, had a mission in the months leading up to the trial: get the prosecutors in the case to turn over as much information in their case as possible in hopes of raising doubt about the victims' accusations. Amendola got more than 9,400 pages of documents during the discovery process - plus another 2,100 from subpoenas and 674 pages of grand-jury transcripts. All told, he amassed a collection of 12,000 pages. As it turns out, Amendola testified Thursday during a court hearing for Sandusky, many of the documents the attorney labored to get were irrelevant to the trial he tried to have delayed multiple times on the grounds he needed more time to prepare a defense.

Jerry Sandusky is expected to return to a Bellefonte, Pa., courtroom Thursday for the first time since his sentencing last year for the sexual abuse of 10 boys. The former Pennsylvania State University assistant football coach was transported from his cell at Greene Prison in southwest Pennsylvania on Wednesday to the Centre County Correctional Facility. Meanwhile, his attorneys prepared an argument they hoped would win their client a new trial. The hearing comes as the impact of Sandusky's conviction continues to reverberate in court battles across the state, ranging from a criminal case against three former Penn State administrators and civil suits from the former coach's victims to a lawsuit filed last week by Gov. Corbett against the NCAA over sanctions imposed in the wake of the scandal.