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Posted: 2/10/2013 9:03:43 AM EST
FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2011 file photo, former Penn State Coach Joe Paterno and his wife, Sue Paterno, stand on their porch to thank supporters gathered outside their home in State College, Pa. Breaking more than a year of silence, Sue Paterno is defending her late husband as a "moral, disciplined" man who never twisted the truth to avoid bad publicity. The wife of the former Penn State coach is fighting back against the accusations against Joe Paterno that followed the Jerry Sandusky scandal. Her campaign started with a letter sent Friday Feb. 8, 2013, to former Penn State players. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
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Posted: 2/10/2013 8:53:36 AM EST
FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2011 file photo, former Penn State Coach Joe Paterno and his wife, Sue Paterno, stand on their porch to thank supporters gathered outside their home in State College, Pa. Sue Paterno says the family’s detailed response to a critical report on the handling of child abuse allegations against former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky is being released to the public. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
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Posted: 1/22/2013 6:08:31 PM EST
Penn State students Dan Hamm, left, a freshman from Williamsport, Pa., and Nick Bucci, a freshman from Dayton, Md., visit the grave of former Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno in State College, Pa. Supporters of Paterno are marking the 1-year anniversary of his death with a candlelight vigil Tuesday night. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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Posted: 1/22/2013 6:08:31 PM EST
A sign of support is displayed near the site where a bronze statue of former Penn State head coach Joe Paterno once stood outside Beaver Stadium in State College, Pa., Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. Supporters of Paterno are marking the 1-year anniversary of his death with a candlelight vigil Tuesday night. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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Posted: 1/22/2013 7:18:20 AM EST
FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2009 file photo, Penn State coach Joe Paterno walks the field before their college football game against Syracuse in State College, Pa. The Hall of Fame coach died of lung cancer on Jan. 22, 2012, at age 85. On Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, exactly a year after his passing _ community residents have organized a vigil at a downtown mural that includes a depiction of Paterno. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Posted: 1/17/2013 3:18:44 PM EST
FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2012 file photo, Al Pacino poses for a portrait, in New York. Pacino will play Joe Paterno in a movie about the late Penn State football coach. Brian De Palma will direct “Happy Valley,” the tentative title of the film, based on Joe Posnanski's best-seller “Paterno.” (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP, File)
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Posted: 12/24/2012 1:58:24 PM EST
FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2009 file photo, Penn State coach Joe Paterno smiles as he walks the field before an NCAA college football game against Minnesota in State College, Pa. On Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, family says Paterno, winningest coach in major college football, has died. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Posted: 12/24/2012 1:53:18 PM EST
FILE - In this July 12, 2012 file photo, an excerpt from the Freeh Group's report appears in Philadelphia. The report, Penn State's investigation into the Jerry Sandusky scandal, concluded that former head football coach Joe Paterno and other senior officials "concealed critical facts relating to Sandusky's child abuse." The reverberations from the Penn State child sex abuse scandal was selected as the sports story of the year by United States editors and news directors in an annual vote conducted by The Associated Press, marking the first time that the same issue was selected in consecutive years since the AP began announcing a sports story of the year in 1990. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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Posted: 12/19/2012 3:53:23 PM EST
FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2009 file photo, Penn State coach Joe Paterno smiles as he walks the field before an NCAA college football game against Minnesota in State College, Pa. On Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, family says Paterno, winningest coach in major college football, has died. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Posted: 12/19/2012 11:18:32 AM EST
FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2012, file photo, candles on the steps of Old Main on the Penn State University campus spell out "Joe" in remembrance of former head football coach Joe Paterno during a memorial service in State College, Pa. Paterno died at the age of 85 after battling lung cancer. The reverberations from the Penn State child sex abuse scandal was selected as the sports story of the year by United States editors and news directors in an annual vote conducted by The Associated Press, marking the first time that the same issue was selected in consecutive years since the AP began announcing a sports story of the year in 1990. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
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Posted: 12/19/2012 11:18:31 AM EST
FILE - In this July 12, 2012, file photo, an excerpt from the Freeh Group's report appears in Philadelphia. The report, Penn State's investigation into the Jerry Sandusky scandal, concluded that former head football coach Joe Paterno and other senior officials "concealed critical facts relating to Sandusky's child abuse." The reverberations from the Penn State child sex abuse scandal was selected as the sports story of the year by United States editors and news directors in an annual vote conducted by The Associated Press, marking the first time that the same issue was selected in consecutive years since the AP began announcing a sports story of the year in 1990. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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Posted: 12/19/2012 11:18:31 AM EST
FILE - In this July 22, 2012, file photo, the outline of part of a football statue is visible on the wall after its removal in State College, Pa. The famed statue of former head coach Joe Paterno was taken down from outside the Penn State football stadium, eliminating a key piece of the iconography surrounding the once-sainted football coach accused of burying child sex abuse allegations against a retired assistant. The reverberations from the Penn State child sex abuse scandal was selected as the sports story of the year by United States editors and news directors in an annual vote conducted by The Associated Press, marking the first time that the same issue was selected in consecutive years since the AP began announcing a sports story of the year in 1990. (AP Photo/John Beale, File)
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Posted: 11/1/2012 1:08:38 PM EST
FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2011 file photo, Penn State President Graham Spanier presents head football coach Joe Paterno with a plague commemorating his 409th collegiate win after an NCAA college football game against Illinois in State College, Pa. Spanier is accused of perjury, endangering children and other charges in the Jerry Sandusky molestation scandal. According to online court records charges were filed, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, against Penn State's ex-president and two other administrators in what prosecutors called “a conspiracy of silence." (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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Posted: 11/1/2012 12:28:26 PM EST
FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2011, file photo Penn State president Graham Spanier, left, and head football coach Joe Paterno talk before an NCAA college football game against Iowa in State College, Pa. Spanier is accused of perjury, endangering children and other charges in the Jerry Sandusky molestation scandal. According to online court records charges were filed, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, against Penn State's ex-president and two other administrators in what prosecutors called “a conspiracy of silence." (AP Photo/Gene Puskar, File)
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Posted: 11/1/2012 12:28:26 PM EST
FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2011, file photo Penn State president Graham Spanier, left, and head football coach Joe Paterno talk before an NCAA college football game against Iowa in State College, Pa. Spanier is accused of perjury, endangering children and other charges in the Jerry Sandusky molestation scandal. According to online court records charges were filed, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, against Penn State's ex-president and two other administrators in what prosecutors called “a conspiracy of silence." (AP Photo/Gene Puskar, File)
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Posted: 10/25/2012 7:43:23 PM EST
FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2012, file photo, Miami head coach Al Golden appears during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Notre Dame at Soldier Field in Chicago. Golden's crisp white dress shirt and a sharp orange tie make him arguably the best dressed coach in the college game. He played for the late Joe Paterno at Penn State, himself one of the last throwbacks to the jacket-and-tie set. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
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Posted: 10/2/2012 7:03:27 PM EST
FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2012 file photo, former Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary arrives at the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center on the Penn State campus for the funeral service of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno in State College, Pa. McQueary, the former Penn State graduate assistant who says he saw former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky showering with a boy in 2001 and testified against him has sued the university for what he says is defamation and misrepresentation. His whistle-blower complaint was filed Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma, File)
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Posted: 8/31/2012 4:13:32 AM EST
FILE - In this July 23, 2012, file photo, the outline of part football players is visible on the wall after the famed statue of former coach Joe Paterno was taken down from outside Beaver Stadium in State College, Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
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Posted: 8/30/2012 6:43:33 PM EST
FILE - In this Oct. 22, 2011 file photo, Penn State coach Joe Paterno stands on the field before his team's NCAA college football game against Northwestern, in Evanston, Ill. A new era is dawning at Penn State, with a new football coach and a new look to the uniforms. But no Paterno on the sideline in a season opener for the first time since 1965. Penn State plays Ohio on Saturday. (AP Photo/Jim Prisching, File)
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Posted: 8/30/2012 6:43:33 PM EST
FILE- In this Sept. 16, 2006 photo, Penn State coach Joe Paterno watches the college football game against Youngstown State from the side lines in State College, Pa. When Penn State opens its football season on Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012, for the first time since 1965, no one with the last name of Paterno will be on the sidelines. Paterno died of cancer in January 2012, just months after losing his job in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
