Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett plans to sue the NCAA for the penalties it imposed on Penn State following the Jerry Sandusky scandal. Corbett scheduled a press conference Wednesday at Penn State to announce the antitrust filing in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg, Pa.
The school was fined $60 million (with the money targeted for child-abuse prevention grants) and the football team faces a four-year ban from bowl games along with reduced scholarships and the forfeiture of 112 wins.
Corbett, a Republican, was the state's Attorney General when his office took over the Sandusky case in 2009, but the former Penn State assistant coach was not charged until almost three years later. Attorney General-elect Kathleen Kane, a Democrat, has promised to investigate why it took so long to charge Sandusky.
Read more about that story and others, plus check out videos, trivia and more, at Wednesday's Morning Mashup [1].
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[1] http://leeinks.weei.com/sports/2013/01/02/wednesdays-morning-mashup-pennsylvania-governor-plans-to-sue-ncaa-over-penn-state-sanctions
[2] http://www.weei.com/category/boston/general