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LINEUP
DEPARTMENTS
2 Leading Off
8 Letters
11 Editor's Letter
15 Scorecard
Coaching college football the right way
22 Faces in the Crowd
24 Just My Type
Oklahoma State's Mike Gundy
BY DAN PATRICK
28 Inside ...
College Football
Heisman shake-up?
Boxing
Pacquiao's flaws
NFL
A Bengals breakthrough
NASCAR
The Chase's final two
Baseball
Big money for closers
NHL
Hockey's waiting game
84 Point After
MJ is still a competitor, now for the other side
BY PHIL TAYLOR
FEATURES
40 | SPECIAL REPORT
PENN STATE
Shame, and a search for answers, in the most explosive scandal in the history of college sports
By L. Jon Wertheim and David Epstein
• VALUES THAT DEFINED AND ENDANGERED
• PATERNO'S FINAL DARK CHAPTER
54 THE NFL
THE 49ERS
A roster full of NFL castoffs is thriving in San Francisco
By Jim Trotter
60 THE NHL
THE SLAP SHOT
Once the most thrilling play, it's becoming a blast from the past
By Michael Farber
64 TRIBUTE
JOE FRAZIER
Remembering one of boxing's greatest fighters
By Richard Hoffer
68 THE NBA
J.J. BAREA
How the breakout star of the Finals is spending the lockout
By Alexander Wolff
LEXI THOMPSON
The youngest winner in LPGA tour history has the game, the drive and the charisma to be the sport's next megastar
By Alan Shipnuck
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"The man known as much for his moral authority as for his 409 wins was being shown the door over a moral failure that even he conceded was a horrible lapse in judgment.
—L. Jon Wertheim and David Epstein on the firing of Penn State coach Joe Paterno
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GAME TIME Interim coach Tom Bradley (far left) and his team before facing Nebraska last Saturday.
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