The Delaware Gazette

When a hit becomes a ‘hit’

March Mad­ness is unde rway. Base­ball sea­son begins in two weeks. Clearly, it must be time for a col­umn about the law of … foot­ball? Indeed, foot­ball is the sport mak­ing legal news right now both for the penal­ties it has just imposed on teams for vio­la­tions of a non-existent salary cap in 2010 and, even more so, for the penal­ties that it is about to impose on teams for run­ning a “bounty” sys­tem. The lat­ter is more crit­i­cal, and, though law enforce­ment offi­cials in cities like New Orleans, Buf­falo and Wash­ing­ton have already declined to become involved, it is the lat­ter that also likely crossed the line into being criminal.

Watts named Ohio Wesleyan football coach

Tom Watts, assis­tant foot­ball coach at Baldwin-Wallace Col­lege, has been named head foot­ball coach at Ohio Wes­leyan Uni­ver­sity, it was announced by ath­let­ics direc­tor Roger Ingles.

Ohio Wesleyan to begin national search for new football coach

Ohio Wes­leyan Uni­ver­sity Ath­let­ics Direc­tor Roger Ingles announced Mon­day that head foot­ball coach Mike Holl­way will retire at year’s end.

New accuser files 1st Penn State suit, Sandusky

PHILADELPHIA — For­mer Penn State assis­tant foot­ball coach Jerry San­dusky sex­u­ally abused a boy more than 100 times, and threat­ened to harm his fam­ily to keep him quiet, accord­ing to a law­suit filed Wednes­day by a new accuser who is not part of the crim­i­nal case.

Penn State shaken after firing of Paterno

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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — After nearly a half-century on the job, Joe Paterno says he is still get­ting used to the idea of not being Penn State’s foot­ball coach. So is the rest of the shaken cam­pus, after one of the most tumul­tuous days in its his­tory. In less than 24 hours Wednes­day, the win­ningest coach in major col­lege foot­ball announced his retire­ment at the end of the sea­son — then was abruptly fired by the board of trustees.

Barons fumble late, fall at hands of the Pirates

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Last year, a Card­ing­ton fum­ble deep in Buck­eye Val­ley ter­ri­tory helped the Barons secure a vic­tory. Now, change places.This sea­son, a Buck­eye Val­ley fum­ble deep in the Card­ing­ton end was recov­ered by the Pirates, scut­tling a Baron come­back and giv­ing the vis­it­ing Pirates a 19–17 Mid-Ohio Ath­letic Con­fer­ence win Fri­day at Baron Field.

Library hosts ‘Ohio Means Jobs’ program

Col­lab­o­rat­ing, coop­er­at­ing and shar­ing of resources at the Delaware County Dis­trict Library are long-held and widely-used prin­ci­ples. We under­stand that we are entrusted with tax­pay­ers’ dol­lars, and using them wisely and in the most cost-effective man­ner is impor­tant to us. We pride our­selves on our abil­ity to get the biggest bang for your buck.

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