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Someone throw the flag for piling on, please. In the past week, Joe Paterno has lost his coaching position at Penn State amid a sex-abuse scandal that has rocked the university. The winningest coach in Division I football likely has lost a shot at the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the nation’s highest civilian honor — and the status of a 900-pound bronze statue of Paterno at Beaver Stadium is in peril. Now, Brown University, the 84-year-old Paterno’s alma mater, is considering removing his name from an award presented annually to an “outstanding” first-year varsity male athlete. What’s next?
