Penn State fires legendary coach Paterno, president Spanier

 STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Happy Valley was in bedlam early Thursday as angry, chanting students ran amok in a bizarre climax to an unforgettable day that ended with the unthinkable: the firing of football legend Joe Paterno.

Chanting "Joe Pa-ter-no!" and "One More Game!" students raced to the stately Old Main administration building to express their anger that the winningest coach in major-college football history was out -- fallout from the child-sex scandal involving his former top assistant, Jerry Sandusky.
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