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The Penn State football legend who was fired last year over a child sex scandal involving an assistant died Sunday, his family announced. The cause was lung cancer. Several media outlets, including at least one TV station in Los Angeles I'm told, had erroneously reported his death yesterday using a CBS Sports report that was based on a student publication. The Wrap, for instance, sent out an e-mail bulletin last night wanting to be first I guess with the non-Hollywood news for its Hollywood-oriented audience, then had to send another email bulletin retracting the first.
CBS Sports posted an apology to the Paterno family.