Members of longtime Benjamin Franklin Reform Democratic Club leader Bruce Feld celebrated his life last week. Feld, who was serving as a vice president of the club at the time of his death, was remembered as a “great political mind” and “irreplaceable.” He was 84 when he died on Nov. 5.
scathing report accused university officials of covering up allegations again then assistant coach jerry sandusky for more than a decade. national investigative reporter michael isikoff is awaiting the announcement at state college in pennsylvania. bruce feldman is the columnist for cbs sports. michael, you re at state college. let me start with you. what are they expecting to hear, what are they bracing for? well, chuck, to say people are on edge here would be an understatement. college football is so central to this school, to the entire region as an economic force that the prospect of severe sanctions that are going to restrict the football program is very troubling to a lot of people. i m hearing it from clerks at the hotel to the owners of restaurants, everybody is nervous about what the ncaa is about to announce. we re told these are unprecedented sanctions. that they involve restrictions on athletic scholarships that would severely limit the ability of penn state to
i think that s worth keeping in mind. just for people who are going to hear terms about devastating and crippling, two years ago, usc got hit with you know, devastating sanctions. two-year postseason bowl ban, going to lose. the number one ranked team you re talking about? yeah. what s worth noting there is us c-appealed the sanctions and what that was able to do was, it let the new coach lane kiffin basically brace for the scholarship hits and back load his roster. if penn state doesn t appeal, that means the sanctions kick in right away. and then all of a sudden, you re in this kind of scramble mode. if there s multiple postseason bowl ban, as much as three years which some speculate it could be three, four years, that makes it really hard to recruit because those kids will not want to come in knowing most of their career they re basically playing for nothing in terms of the rest of college football. the other thing when you hear the term unprecedented here, you know, i
they believe what they believed and still come to an agreement to help us pay our bills, make our government work and now it s such posturing and acting out that they re not doing what they were elected to do. a frustrated d.c. delegate eleanor holmes norton addressed congress about the impending shutdown. we ask you if you shut down the federal government, for goodness sake, don t shut down one of america s big cities and a city on which you depend greatly. many of you live here. many of the services of the federal government are taken care of by the district of columbia. this is not something you want to do to the nation s capital. it makes us look idiotic. city leaders say emergency services like police and fire won t be affected. i think many of the services that are related to public safety and emergency services will continue and many of the services that where we serve senior citizens and healthcare services will continue. but trash service is another story