fascinating find this morning. a possible piece of civil war history found in atlanta this week. an unexploded cannonball. the atlanta journal constitution reports that construction workers digging at the site of the future college football hall of fame unearthed this cannonball. the workers called the police who then reached out to military officials, one expert says the cannonball may have been left over from the siege of atlanta back in 1864. and that really is just a few hundred yards from where we are right now. i was wondering? it s right next door. wow. there was no huge scene. i wonder where it will go. i don t know. maybe in the maybe right where it was found. that would be nice. tiger woods is looking for his first major win since 2008.
school officials say they will soon announce a memorial that will be held at a later date. abc s t.j. winick has more on the passing of this true sports icon. reporter: the chant among the student body is we are penn state. but for the 46 years he was head football coach, penn state was joe paterno. a native of brooklyn, new york and a graduate of brown university, paterno followed his college coach to penn state as an assistant, disappointing his father, who thought he would use his ivy league education to study law. after 16 years as an assistant he took over as head coach and built the university into a powerhouse on the gridiron. in 1982 he won his elusive first national title, and four years later he repeated that feat. his teams would also have five undefeated seasons, and paterno would earn more bowl appearances and bowl wins than any other coach in history. he was a five-time national coach of the year, and in 2007 was inducted into the college football hall of fame. more t
university sports program. a coach is faced on leave and we will hear from a friend of the accuser. it s called 821. you probably haven t heard about it. a united nations development program has become a code word for conservatives and newt gingrich is taking full advantage. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first, herman cain. he certainly has become the first of the 2012 republican presidential candidates to get protection from the secret service. there are some questions about the timing and reasons why. herman cain himself is due to meet with reporters live this hour. we will hear the q&a. we will go to joe johns looking into this story. what do we know? reporter: cain is the first to get this protection but not going to be the last. we all know that. frankly it is to be expected, doing well in the polls and qualifies as a major candidate. when and why certain presidential candidates get secret service protection may seem like a big mystery. it s n
time for reporter roulette, we begin with jason carroll in university park, pennsylvania, with the joe paterno story. reporter: and don, an opportunity to speak to some of the players from the football team earlier this afternoon they told me they feel joe paterno made the right decision for the team, himself personally, also feel, don, he made the right decision for the university, have but having said that they are very sanded by the fact this man they looked up to for so many years to to retire in this type of way. why don t you listen to what they had to say about that. i think that in his heat, he thinks he made the right decision and he has been doing his thing for so many years and we are not going to question any decision he makes. we have been behind him the whole time and he is doing what he believes is best for the program, for us, his staff and penn state. so, we are just really happy that he is just doing what he believes is right in his heart and we are goin
of one tim russert. oh. good to have somebody from john carroll representing. thank you. let s do another piece of trivia, justin byron whizzer white the only supreme court justice in this sport s hall of fame. which one is it? this is an easy one for some people out there including my friend at msnbc.com, vaughan. it is the college football hall of fame. earned his nickname whizzer as a half back for the university of colorado buffaloes, perhaps the last time the university of colorado buffaloes actually mattered in competitive college football. save your e-mails for my tweets later. an hour from now, president obama makes his case for comprehensive immigration reform. keep it right here had on msnbc for live coverage and analysis for that at the top of the hour, new detail us in the record keeping chaos at arlington national cemetery, just a tragedy there. first, let s do the white house soup of the day. they are serving gaspacho, nice summer soup. nice trivia.