After all the hoopla, coach waives his hearing

Shrewd. Wait until the final moment. All that's left is his kickback from the hotels and motels around State College.

Preliminary hearing for Jerry Sandusky will be Twitter heaven

The magistrate who will preside over the preliminary hearing for Jerry Sandusky is so in the 21st century:

Reporters who are credentialed to attend Jerry Sandusky's preliminary hearing are now being allowed to access email, text and tweet.

The judge who first ruled to ban all transmission from the courtroom changed his mind this afternoon and decided to allow credentialed media to use the Internet.

The decision was made after Michael Berry, an attorney representing several major media organizations, argued that banning text and email would significantly impact reporter's jobs, and that banning tweets would mean a slower feed of information to the general public.

Members of the public who received a spot in the courtroom for Tuesday's preliminary hearing via lottery are banned from those functions to ensure that no audio or visuals are taken or broadcast from inside the courtroom.

Get set for the hottest news of the day, 140 characters at a time.

(Why isn't this thing on pay-per-view; give some coin back to the victims.)

What did Tom Corbett know and when did he know it?

The Pennsylvania Progressive looks at some of the delays in the Penn State child-rape scandal probe. Specifically, the handling of the investigation by Tom Corbett, first as attorney gneral and now as governor:

His roles as AG and as a PSU Trustee are beginning to be closely examined.  Why did he give The Second Mile a $3 million state grant last summer?  Here's his explanation:

"Yes I knew this (Sandusky investigation was under way), but I could not act publicly on this without saying certain things that would have possibly compromised the investigation"

Of course the investigation was already public information by then after being exposed by The Patriot News in March.  Therefore he already knew the cat was out of the bag when he gave the grant.  Remember this is the same Governor who refused to spend $40 million to support services for developmentally disabled citizens but he had $3 million to give to an organization he knew had been involved in child molestation.

I suppose we know even more about Gov. Corbett's priorities don't we?

So it takes time to build a case?  Corbett had a boy, his mom, a high school administrator and other witnesses who saw Sandusky engaged in oral and anal sex with boys.  Let's assume at the beginning he only had the Clinton County case.  Why wasn't the guy arrested there and then?  They had a strong case which is no stronger, for that incident, than they do today.  Corbett had enough evidence then because it seems to be the same evidence as included in the grand jury presentment now.

That grand jury presentment also raises questions about timing.  It seems it was accidently posted on the Magisterial District Judge's website Friday night, sooner than planned.  Jerry Sandusky was out of town at the time and his arrest wasn't supposed to happen until he returned.  After reporters found the indictment they rushed him into court.  So we know there a delay in arresting him so as not to inconvenience the man.  WTF?

If they were willing to delay the case in that instance would they also have delayed it so Joe Paterno could get to 409 wins?  So Tom Corbett could win the Governor's race?  After all Board members of The Second Mile gave $200,000 to his gubernatorial campaign.  How much influence did that buy?  Or rather, how much time?

This is not just political horseplay.