Josh Benner

Tag: Scandal

  • Wait, so we had guns going to Mexico? Fast and Furious explained

    Photo courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons and property of the USDAgov We keep seeing reports of this “Fast and Furious” story. What are we to make of it? Guns were being sent into Mexico. The republicans want answers. The democrats view this as a witch hunt and the republicans merely playing politics. Wait a minute.…

  • Resignation of Jim Tressel: 1 year later

    One year ago today, as I woke up in the late morning, I learned that Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel had resigned. A couple of months before, when the news that Tressel had lied about rules violations became public knowledge, in a press conference, a reporter asked if Tressel was going to be dismissed.…

  • Paterno Fired. Society Needs to do more in these situations than sit back and feel angry

    Photo Courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons I’ve read the Grand Jury report on the indictment for former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. I’ve spent a great deal of time over the past few days thinking about what has happened and the darkness of the entire situation. I’m torn on how things with Paterno should…

  • Stop making excuses for Tressel

    The NCAA was aware of the rules violations of five Ohio State football players and affirmed five game suspensions for them earlier this year. Then things got much worse. It came to light Tressel knew about the violations and lied, and now there are reports that even more players had done the same thing. Pryor…