Photos: Top national sports stories of 2012
NCAA drops the hammer on Penn State
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The NCAA came down hard on Penn State July 23 in handing down punishment for the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. Penn State was fined $60 million, was stripped of all its football wins from 1998 through 2011, barred from postseason games for four years, and lost 20 total scholarships annually for four seasons.
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