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Penn St. illustrates outsized influence of sports

Associated Press - Commentary

November 23, 2011

Joe Paterno, Rick Pitino and Mack Brown - millionaires all and many times over. Their bosses? Go ahead. Try to name them. Even if you can - Graham Spanier, James R. Ramsey and William C. Powers, for the record - they're not household names. When it comes to their salaries, it's as though they're working in different worlds, not on the same campus. Call it an imbalance of priorities or tipping the scales, but it happens all across America when multimillion-dollar athletic programs become the face of a university instead of the other way around.

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