Shake-up: Penn State football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier were given the boot in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal, the New York Times reports. Former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested saturday, charged with sexually abusing eight boys during a 15-year period.
Fess up: Richard Nixon's June 1975 grand jury testimony is being made available to the public today, four months after a judge ordered them unsealed. According to the Associated Press, Nixon was the first former president to testify before a grand jury.
Link up: Convicted lobbyist, Jack Abramoff played three holes with Politico at his old stomping grounds - Woodmore Country Club in Bowie, Md. When asked about his three and a half years spent in prison, Abramoff described it with one word: misery.
Snatched up: Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos was kidnapped at gunpoint in his native Venezuela, the Washington Post reports. The aspiring rookie was taken near his mother's home Wednesday night. So far no demands have been made.
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