Paterno Audiobook (Free)

From America’s top sportswriter, the definitive, #1 New York Times bestselling biography of Joe Paterno as well as the story of America’s love affair with football.

Joe Paterno believed that soccer was a way to teach teenagers how exactly to live. He coached at Penn State for 62 years. In the course of his years being a head coach, his teams won 409 video games, a Department I record. At the end of his life, more than 100 of those wins were invalidated with the NCAA due to the crimes of the longtime associate about Paterno trainer, Jerry Sandusky, and Paterno’s alleged knowledge of those crimes-knowledge Paterno rejected until his loss of life. Along the way, the name Paterno-the name he previously spent a lifetime building-came to represent scandal and controversy.

Joe Posnanski lived in Condition College, Pa, through the turbulent last weeks of Paterno’s life and was with him and his family members as the scandal that eventually consumed him unfolded. Today with a new afterword, Posnan­ski’s publication delves deep in to the existence of Joe Paterno, going back to his years as a child days in Brooklyn and his college days at Dark brown, and talks about him through the eyes from the young men he coached. It is a portrait that will go beyond the daily headlines and into the existence of a persistent idealist, a teacher, and a flawed but principled guy who, to the end, loved to coach.