The Penn State Board of Trustees announced Wednesday night that football coach Joe Paterno and school president Graham Spanier had been fired in the wake of a child abuse scandal.

Successful hip replacement surgery was performed Sunday on Penn State coach Joe Paterno at the Mount Nittany Medical Center. Dr. Wayne Sebastianelli reports that all object... Joe Paterno Penn ...

STATE COLLEGE - Penn State played the first College Football Playoff game in its history on what would have been Joe Paterno’s 98th birthday Saturday. Paterno was a persistent advocate of a playoff.

26. “I'm truly blessed for a lot of reasons to work with Coach (Joe) Paterno at Penn State when I worked for him,” Schiano said. “But he was the best at bowl games. I mean, his record says ...