No Ordinary Joe: The Biography Of Joe Paterno

Plot

Yet there is more to Paterno than his coaching successes. He has been called the Voice of Ethics, a breath of fresh air, a modern Renaissance man, and a football genius. His critics, however, have labeled him a hypocrite and a pious fraud. Paterno has consistently championed the cause of academic and athletic integrity in a sports world fraught with compromised values and an overemphasis on winning, to the detriment of educational achievement.