The governing body of U.S. college sports on Monday banned Penn
State University from post-season football bowl games for four
years, fined the school $60 million and imposed other sanctions
in an unprecedented punishment for not taking action after being
alerted to child sex abuse by former assistant coach Jerry
Sandusky.  At a news conference in Indianapolis, Mark Emmert,
president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, said
Penn State football scholarships would be reduced to 15 from 25
and the team's victories from 1998 through 2011 would be
vacated.  Emmert said the NCAA chose not to levy the so-called
"death penalty" that would eliminate an entire season or more
for the scandal-scarred football program because it would have
harmed individuals with no role in the Sandusky scandal.  In
June, Sandusky was convicted of sexually abusing 10 boys over 15
years. This month, former FBI director Louis Freeh released a
report that criticized the late Joe Paterno, the school's
revered longtime head footba