NCAA has vacated Penn State football's wins from 1998-2011 and levied a $60 million fine against the school because of its handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.



The NCAA also will ban Penn State from the post-season for four years and reduce Penn State football scholarships from 25 to 15 for four years. The program will be on probation for five years.





The money, which NCAA President Mark Emmert said represents a year's revenue from the football program, will go to children's causes.

Emmert put the Penn State matter on the fast track. Other cases that were strictly about violating the NCAA rulebook have dragged on for months and even years.

There was no sign that the infractions committee familiar to college sports fans was involved this time around as Emmert moved quickly, no doubt aided by the July 12 release of the report by former FBI director Louis Freeh and what it said about Paterno and the rest of the Penn State leadership.

The investigation focused partly on university officials' decision not to go to child-welfare authorities in 2001 after a coaching assistant told head coach Joe Paterno that he had seen Sandusky sexually abusing a boy in the locker room showers. Penn State officials already knew about a previous allegation against Sandusky by that time, from 1998.

As Penn State awaited its fate,

. The Paterno family released a statement criticizing Penn State's decision to remove the statue,

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