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The scandal gripping bucolic Penn State University managed to combine two discordant elements that most thought would never be linked in the same sentence, much less in a courtroom. Unspeakable sexual assaults against children were alleged to have occurred inside the facilities of the most respected college football program on the planet - the Nittany Lions coached by Joe Paterno.

Patriot-News reporter Sara Ganim, who would go on to earn the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for her reporting, first broke the Jerry Sandusky case and became the nation's authority on the scandal. From Joe Paterno prepping to face a hostile press late at night in his kitchen to ousted President Graham Spanier being warned by his wife to pack up quickly so he isn't hurt by rioting students, The Patriot-News uses its unmatched access to tell the riveting story of nine days that transfixed the nation - and their echoes which will reverberate for years to come.