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Nittany Lions show JoePa's still got game

By Herb Gould
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, September 18, 2002

Every time we think he's on the way out, he pulls us back in. At 75, coming off the first back-to-back losing seasons of a Hall of Fame career that is now in its 37th season, can we be blamed for thinking that Joe Paterno's time had come? We meant no disrespect to the winningest coach in Division I-A history. But we saw a coach whose tried-and-true ways had run their course. Playing seniors to a fault, relying on a buttoned-down offense and sticking with vanilla uniforms in a neon age ar ...

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