My Broken Heart:Paterno De-mythed

I was preparing a piece I was going to call, "In Defense of Joe Pa." Hell, I was thinking of writing an entire book. My first take on the Freeh report, the independant investigation of the PSU scandal, was that it was a smear piece. As a writer it's easy to see that the author of the Freeh report was trying to sway the reader's opinion using inflamatory langauge and biased conclusions. A truly un-biased writer would never have used the wording the author of the Freeh report used. It was a hit piece. The story outlined in the report was bought and paid for by the university to hang responsibility around the cold dead neck of Joe Paterno. Why not? There's nothing you can do to hurt him now. The notion that the victim's will be able to sue the Paterno estate is completly flawed. The level of involvment and culpability nessacary to win a civil judgment against the Paterno estate will never be reached. The victims would have to prove that Joe knew his actions would lead directly to them being abused. Let me note here, I am all for the victims. I hope they get the monetary compensation they deserve. The only thing that is unsettling to me is that other child abuse victims are not able to sue their attackers with such financial benefit. In that sense, they are fortunate that they can transform this horrible thing that happened to them into a financial windfall-deserved windfall. Most victims of child abuse cannot recieve this compensation because their attackers are not of the means PSU is.
I wanted to point out that the 1998 incident was THOUROUGHLY investigated. There was absoloutley zero attempt by Joe Pa', the university, Curley, Schultz, or Spanier to influence or obstruct the police investigation. The cover up the Freeh report speaks elludes to simply isn't there. What is there are detectives hiding in the victim's house, so as to listen to conversations between Jerry sandunsky and the vic's mother. The police actually imloyed this  technique twice. The police pursued the matter right into the wieght room of PSU. I wanted to point out how after the D.A. of Centre county failed to bring charges against J.S., PSU banned J.S. from bringing his guests onto university property in 2001. However, I have run into a problem, Actually, I have came across information that scrambles my brain like an egg. When I read it I felt like I had been witness to an event that rock's ones sense of the universe to the core. Maybe you won't be, but I was. I kept coming back to one question. Who was the D.A. who decided to not file charges against J.S. in 1998, and why did he decide that?
His name, the D.A. who wouldn't bring charges, is Ray Gricar. He's been missing since April 15th, 2005. Yea, let me repeat that. RAY GRICAR, D.A. OF CENTRE COUNTY PA, HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE 2005. He's not simply missing, he's missing under very, very, strange circumstances. Ray Gricar's car was found close to a bridge where his brother took his own life. While Ray was never found his laptop was. Minus the hard drive of course. They did find the hard drive two months later. The forensic tech's that were able to extract information from the hard drive of a computer aboard the space shuttle discovery, were unable to extract anything from Ray's. Granted it had spent a couple months in the river, they could find nothing. What investigators did find were internet searches on Gricar's home computer titled, "How to fry a hard drive."
I wanted nothing more than to believe that the myth of Joe Pa was true. A straight shooter who would have beat the living $#!T out of a child molester. But the revalation that the principle investigator into the 1998 incident is missing is the straw that breaks the camel's back. There is a saying that breathes truth every time it's said. If it walk's like a duck and talk's like a duck, it's a duck. If it looks like a conspiracy to conceal, smells like it, talk's, walk's, and shit's like a conspiracy, well................

Greener Pasture's: There's Just More $#!T for Fertilizer.

As a general rule a sports blog should be just that, sports. Occasionally stresss and the lack of outlets to vent my frustration, will see me included personal stuff here. The last two months have been very trying for me. I have been through so much in life, losing close friends before thier time, marriage, divorce, losing everything I own multiple times, a broken neck, I could go on for a while here, I truly do my best to eliminate drama from my life. However, best as I try sometimes drama just finds you. Call it what you will, the Christian sect say's it's the devil putting your feet to the fire so GOD can temper you. The Bhuddist, I would suppose say it's karma coming back on you. Whatever the source, I have been pushed to the breaking point.
Life here in Fairmont, WV being what it is, I'm opting to take a position in Pittsburgh, PA. God willing this will be the door to a new season in my life. A season of prosperity, not poverty. A season of security, not uncertainty. A season of positive, not negative. The point I'm getting to is I'm not abandoning the WVSI. I'm native West Virginian and will always fly our flag, However, since I'm going on the road the show goes with me.
 That being said I will soon be posting links for the, pittsburghsportsinsider@blogspot,com,   don't go there yet, I simply secured the address and have not built the sight yet.
                               Thank you to anyone who visit's either of my blogs--J.A.T.IV

There May Be No Off Position On the Genius Switch, But There is System Overload and Slowdown.

I'll apologise in advance for lack of poetry and grammatical corrective-ness. It didn't seem possible 6 weeks ago but soemhow my life is more out of control than then. But, I digress, this is a sports blog. In the sports world the skies are always blue, everyone is a millionarie, and no one plays hurt. Unless it's not, they don't, and they do.
#1. Jermey Lin is the real deal. I'm tired of everyone doggigng the man cause, "he's Chinese, he's not really worth 40 mil, it's only cause he is the only reresenitive for 1 out of every 6 people on the planet." Yea, it's true he could lay a turd and sell a billion jersey's but he doesn't. Instead he does things like outscore Kobe Bryant head to head 38 to 34. Unless the talking heads who are downplaying the man can average 22.5 pts and 8.7 assists over 12 games, SHUT THE HELL UP.
#2 Tiger. Who the hell knows. I was captivated by his 2nd round lead at the U.S. Open only to watch him lay an egg on Sunday. However, he validated my statements a couple of weeks later when he turned on the juice and won at Congressional. This week he makes his first visit to our little home state. His first impression at the Greenbrier Classic will probably be a favorable one. With the Tiger back to his old ways, making immpossible shots easy, and easy shots look like he's just practicing against the field, he should take the million dollar purse like he's robbing of the southern aristocratic old ladies in the crowd. As of today Tiger is  tied for 61st through 16 at +1. Jeff Maggert is in the lead finishing the day at -6.
#3 WVU in Big 12. Uh, this might not be as easy as everyone thinks. When, and in what universe did Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Baylor, and TCU become after thoughts?! This will probably the hardest season WVU has seen since Miami and VA Tech left the Big East.
#4 The Pittsburgh freaking Pirates are above .500 at mid-season and look like they can continue to win! Andrew McCutchen is my first half NL MVP hands down. McCutchen is hitting .360, 16 HR, 54 R.B.I and .412 O.B.P. For those who don't read baseball that = MONSTER 1st half! It's been 19 losing seasons, C'mon people, Let's Go Bucs!
#5 The London Olympics. eh, whatever. I'm not really a summer Olympic fan. The U.S. Typically dominates the medal count during the summer swing, which is great but little to no drama.
#6 No I have not found mary Lou's, "Little Red Corvette," and I'm having problems researching my story on the K.H.L. Who woulda figured most of the sites dedicated to a Russian hockey league would be written in Russian!