RealClearSports: Angry at Paterno - and Ourselves

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

Are we angry at our own ignorance? Or at those who made us aware of what we didn't know?

It was Hollywood stuff, a paperback novel, the descent of the man whose statue has been carted away like that of a toppled dictator, the crash of a man who virtually had wings.

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© RealClearSports 2012

RealClearSports: Escaping the Hurt for a Few Hours

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

It was all right to watch the Raiders and Chargers, to check in on Tiger Woods at the Australian Open, to find out what was happening with Virginia Tech-Georgia Tech.

It was all right to get away from the hurt.

The world of sport had been changed, pummeled...

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© RealClearSports 2011

RealClearSports: PSU Scandal Robs Sports of Innocence

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

It comes so fast you barely have time to duck. Or blink. “Bad news on the doorstep,’’ were Don McLean’s thoughts in “American Pie’’ – which, heavens, is 40 years old.

Now the bad news is on the screen, on the internet, on Facebook, on Twitter. Now the bad news assaults without a stop.

This is not about results...

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© RealClearSports 2011