Paterno hospitalized after re-injuring pelvis
The Associated Press reported Sunday afternoon that former Penn State coach Joe Paterno was admitted to the hospital Sunday after re-fracturing his pelvis after falling at home. The report, which cites a source close to the Paterno family, told the AP that no surgery would be required.
Paterno hospitalized after re-injuring pelvis
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno re-fractured his pelvis after falling at his home Saturday but was expected to make a full recovery, the family's lawyer confirmed through a firm spokesman on Sunday.
Paterno was admitted to the hospital on Sunday and will not require surgery, according to the Associated Press, which initially broke the news of the injury on Sunday.
Wick Sollers, who the Paternos retained last month in the wake of the scandal that led to the coach's firing, confirmed that the AP report was "accurate" through a spokesman from the law firm of King and Spalding.
Paterno, who was fired by Penn State's Board of Trustees Nov. 9 in the fallout from child sex abuse allegations against former assistant Jerry Sandusky, has also been undergoing treatment for lung cancer. The AP reported that Paterno will remain in the hospital so he can receive cancer treatments as he recovers from his pelvis injury, though a source told The Inquirer Sunday that that element of the story was "unclear."
Paterno, the winningest coach in the history of Division I football, has not spoken publicly since his firing. He turns 85 on Dec. 21.
Just days after his removal from the post he held since 1966, Paterno was diagnosed with what his son Scott described as a treatable form of lung cancer. He has been undergoing radiation and chemotherapy, and a source said Thursday that Paterno was "progressing."
This is the second time this year that Paterno has injured his pelvis. On Aug. 7, wide receiver Devon Smith accidentally blindsided the coach in a preseason practice. Paterno walked with the aid of a cane early in the season and spent a majority of the season coaching upstairs in the coaches' box.
On Saturday, the same day as the injury, Paterno's son Jay, who is also Penn State's quarterbacks coach, tweeted "great walk with my dad this afternoon."
--Jake Kaplan
I bet poor JoePa will be glad to see 2011 come to an end! Wow!— Neebo- I hope he stays healthy enough go on trial and go to jail. JoePa has his spot reserved in hell.— thingfish
- I'm sure if the position of god ever opens up, you'll be first in line. You already show you think you know everything without needing to rely on actual facts to come out.
- Go to jail for what? It's morons like you that make the courts so corrupt! You know all the facts do you? You were there? Why don't you just STFU until the facts are out instead of marking a possible innocent person. You've been taught a lesson, now get wiser from it! — twpman
- thingfish....you are an idiot. — Romus
- Paterno is garbage. Had the report been his grandson in that shower he would have gone ballistic and done more than he did. That is all you need to know about him. — JonKap
- It wasn't his grandchild idiot, that is a simple moronic response. I thought liberal clowns like you support sodimizers! — downthemiddle
- Hope he is suffering as much as possible.— Sidewinder7
- sidewwinder7....knew you were an idiot....go back down to your Mom's basement and play your Nintendo now. — Romus
- Sidewinder7 and thingfish- You may be two of the dumbest people on the planet. Maybe you should learn how to read, then you could actually learn facts about a situation before you make idiotic statements. I am very concerned for this country when it is full of such uneducated morons such as yourselves. Kindly go to hell.— jdp941
- Actually you go to hell. If that had been Paterno's grandson you think he just tells his puppet AD? Hell no, he goes ape on Sandusky. Paterno is human garbage. — JonKap
- sidewinder7 & thingfish are both F%$*ing dolts. Would love to tell you in person. WIP lemming cowards. I wish the same on you and your families. Cowards.— delcodanno
- The lemmings are the tools supporting Paterno. He threw the AD and President out of his house in 2004 yet hid behind them in 2002. A coward. He made Sandusky resign because he knew in 1998. — JonKap
- The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls.
The words of uncouth sociopaths are written on these message boards. I'm glad some of you respond to the dolts who have tried Joe Paterno based on media innuendo, conjecture, and flimsy inferences.— retzlaff - Dimweed, if McQueary, who he trusted enough to promote soon afterwards, had told his Sandusky was showering with his grandson what would Paterno had done? Think, then post. — JonKap
This season is Joe's fourth season on the paper's Penn State beat. He previously covered the Nittany Lions for United Press International from 1976 to 1984.
