Black Shoe Diaries, a Penn State Nittany Lions community

Author Joe Posnanski sits down with Black Shoe Diaries to catch up on how hard it was to write "Paterno", what life has been like since, and what his next project may be.

Al Pacino has been cast to play Joe Paterno in a new film based on Joe Posnanski's book, "Paterno".

Respected sportswriter Eric Thomas gives his thoughts on the Penn State scandal, the Paterno Family, the NCAA, and what the Nittany Lions faithful need to do next.

Go buy Joe Pa's glasses, which are not only autographed by him, but were taken off his head by a Penn State student. Paterno has no plans to get new glasses, and will instead soldier through the...

Dear Joe, Hello, friend! I haven't dropped you a line in a month ah Sundays! Howza the ah-spaghetti, paisano! I just fuhst wanted to congratulate you on yah recent contract extension. If you spent...

Teams: there are a lot of them. In our effort to bring you the finest "bullshit" coverage of college football, our Visiting Lecturer Series today welcomes Penn State blogger and zombie aficionado R...

LSU defensive monster Ricky Jean-Francois is allegedly related to Kimbo Slice. We mention this only to affirm your already solid suspicion that if he does not cheat on another test and makes it...

Two months in the can, one to go, folks, before 2007 is a misremembered, revisionist fog. Get every bit you can while you can. That is an order (Nevada-New Mexico State optional): Remember the good...

AAAHHH! RUN!!! In the Big Ten, the shit will hit the fan on Saturday night as a classic nexus of Big Ten football, Brent Musburger, and wholesome, sausage-downing fandom meet in Happy Valley as...

Guest editor Hannibal Montegna with the weekend in televised mayhem: Southerns think the world revolves around SEC football every day of the week, and for once, they’re right. Saturday serves up...