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Game Over

Jerry Sandusky, Penn State, and the Cullture of Silence

By: Bill Moushey,Robert Dvorchak

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Game Over

Jerry Sandusky, Penn State, and the Cullture of Silence

By: Bill Moushey,Robert Dvorchak

The most comprehensive and explosive book on the worst scandal in the history of sports, Game Over investigates the devastating sexual abuse case that brought down Joe Paterno and forever tarnished the name of Penn State. In this incisive work of investigative journalism, Bill Moushey and Bob Dvorchak, along with Lisa Pulitzer, go behind the headlines, official statements, and court transcripts to tell the full story of the sexual abuse scandal that has rocked the nation—a tale of power, privilege, money, and politics that leads from the football building on the Penn State campus to the administration’s boardroom to the highest echelons of the state capital and beyond. Eye-opening and fast-paced, Game Over exposes the lies, willful ignorance, and cover-ups that may have allowed a sexual predator to use his position and status to prey on vulnerable young victims for years. Its explosive new discoveries shatter the illustrious image of “Happy Valley”—State College, Pennsylvania, home to one of the nation’s most successful and highly lucrative college football programs. Moushey, Dvorchak, and Pulitzer craft a story that is as compelling as it is unsettling. Probing beneath the male-dominated football culture, they share the untold stories of the mothers and wives, the sisters and daughters associated with the scandal. They trace the rise and fall of hometown hero and national icon Joe Paterno—the Nittany Lion’s legendary head coach with the most wins in the history of college football, including two national championship titles—juxtaposing Penn State’s success and glory with the hidden anguish of former coach Jerry Sandusky’s accusers. As it details the rise and fall of the individuals associated with the scandal, it also makes clear the larger implications for the university, its vaunted football program, the community, and all of us. An exploration of the messy morality of pride and loyalty, silence and bearing witness, Game Over will leave readers pondering their own values and their beliefs in right and wrong.

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006220114X

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Never Give Up

Cut Four Times by NFL Teams, James Harrison Could Have Thrown in the Towel Many Times on His Rocky Road to Stardom and Self-acceptance. If He Wasn't a Man of Such Raw Power, Fiery Emotion, and Sheer Will, He Could Not Have Risen Above Personal Setbacks and Repeated Snubs to Become the Only Undrafted Free Agent Ever Named the Best Defensive Player in the NFL. Or He Could Have Gotten There Faster

By: Bill Moushey,Bill Parise

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Never Give Up

Cut Four Times by NFL Teams, James Harrison Could Have Thrown in the Towel Many Times on His Rocky Road to Stardom and Self-acceptance. If He Wasn't a Man of Such Raw Power, Fiery Emotion, and Sheer Will, He Could Not Have Risen Above Personal Setbacks and Repeated Snubs to Become the Only Undrafted Free Agent Ever Named the Best Defensive Player in the NFL. Or He Could Have Gotten There Faster

By: Bill Moushey,Bill Parise

James Harrison is a no-nonsense man whose powerful will was born out of necessity back in Akron, Ohio where he was repeatedly forced to overcome obstacles that in some respects makes his swerving Super Bowl sprint pale in comparison. His riveting story about overcoming the underpinnings of poverty, issues with the law that almost ruined him before he emerged from high school, a two-year-fight to gain college eligibility and finally never giving up despite being cut four times by NFL teams before he earned a job as a special team player. He used that opportunity and a relentless work ethic to become the game's most dominant player, a two-time Pro Bowler and the reigning Associated Press NFL Defensive Player of the Year. Never Give In, Never Give Up, will not only document through his eyes for the first time his remarkable effort in the 2009 Super Bowl and other exploits on the field that helped him earn the largest contract ever issued to a linebacker, but it will transcend sports with the gripping story of how he overcame daunting odds to get there. He will tell the humorous story of his record setting Super Bowl run, discuss candidly his views on racism and many of his highly publicized failings in life. He'll once and for all discuss his reasoning for refusing to join his teammates in a visit to the White House with President Obama, he'll lay out how he thinks the NFL can come to a new agreement on a collective bargaining agreement with players, and a wide assortment of other insights into the life and times of James Harrison. Sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's bad. In James Harrison's life, there is no in between to this hard edge that frames his psyche. What's certain is that his lifetime of tremendous highs and lows offers an inspirational story filled with extreme adversity and the hard work it took to achieve overwhelming redemption.

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