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It's awfully hard to let go of JoePa

By Michael Weinreb
Special to Page 2

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

If there is one thing that makes my girlfriend reliably sad, it is the sight of an old man eating alone in a restaurant. I've been thinking of this image quite often lately, now that Joe Paterno is again facing questions about retirement. I should mention here that I once asked Joe Paterno a question about retirement. That was 15 years ago. Penn State had just finished its first season in the Big Ten, and I was a student-newspaper reporter; Paterno was in his late 60s. It seemed to me like a re ...

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