BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com

The coverage of former FBI director Louis Freeh’s report on the 14-year cover-up of the child abuse scandal associated with Penn State’s football program gives us a peek into an issue I’ve thought about for a long time: Closed circles.

Closed circles are like black holes in physics: An actual, physical force. The gravity they generate is so great, not even light can escape; and anything that ventures near the event horizon will be sucked in and will (essentially) disappear.

It is clear from even the most cursory reading that paramount in the minds of Joe Paterno and the university leadership was protecting the football program. Penn State football was Joe Paterno. Paterno was PSU football. Period. Continue reading →