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Telander: By supporting Bernie Fine at first, Jim Boeheim embarrassed himself

Posted by ccv on November 30, 2011 in Syracuse Comments Off

Telander: By supporting Bernie Fine at first, Jim Boeheim embarrassed himself

Parents, guard your kids against coaches. You worry about cribs with wide slats, toys with lead paint, sidewalks with holes. Why aren’t you warning your kids about the men who can be as dangerous to a minor’s physical and mental health as any thug in a gang, any drug in a bottle, any horror lurking down a dark alley?Bernie Fine, the alleged child molester and longtime assistant basketball coach to the legendary Jim Boeheim at Syracuse, should prove once and for all that men who might know about winning games do not necessarily know about winning anything else.

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11.30.11

Can’t deny similarities between Syracuse and Penn State scandals

Posted by ccv on November 29, 2011 in Syracuse Comments Off

Can’t deny similarities between Syracuse and Penn State scandals

SYRACUSE — Like Joe Paterno, Jim Boeheim is one of the most successful coaches in college sports.

A master not only at winning but, until recently, a master at controlling the message and practically everything else — the epitome of the big fish in the small college town.

But the era of the all-powerful coach seems to be coming to and end. The ink has hardly dried on reports of the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal that rocked Penn State and cost Paterno his job. And now a similar firestorm is bearing down on the Syracuse campus and is already affecting Boeheim’s status in upstate New York and his dealings with the media.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/t-deny-similarities-penn-state-sex-abuse-scandal-bernie-fine-syracuse-mess-article-1.983754#ixzz1f624J254

11.29.11