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PSU to receive 'corrective and punitive' sanctions

What does NCAA President Mark Emmert have planned for the future of Penn State athletics? (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
What does NCAA President Mark Emmert have planned for the future of Penn State athletics? (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)Read more
    by By Jeremy Roebuck, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER, External or Unknown
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The NCAA is expected to announce "corrective and punitive measures" against Pennsylvania State University on Monday in the wake of a child sex-abuse scandal that has plagued the campus since the arrest of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky last year.

The association, which governs college sports programs nationwide, said President Mark Emmert and Ed Ray, chairman of its executive committee, will outline the sanctions at a news conference at 9 a.m. in Indianapolis.

Emmert said in an interview with PBS last week that he had not ruled out the possibility of shutting down Penn State's football program – a measure nicknamed the "death penalty" in sports circles. That punishment has only been handed down one time in the organization's history: to Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 1987 for making payments to players in violation of NCAA rules.

NCAA officials did not elaborate on the punishments Sunday, but CBS News quoting an anonymous source described them as "unprecedented.

Sandusky currently awaits sentencing on 45 counts of child sex abuse involving 10 victims, many of whom were abused on Penn State's campus.

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