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NCAA agrees to restore wins, title to Penn State
Penn State Abuse Foot Heal
Division 1 board of directors members Harris Pastides, left, University of South Carolina and Kirk Schulz, right, Kansas State University president, listen as NCAA President Mark Emmert speaks with reporters during a news conference at the NCAA Convention in Oxon Hill, Md., Friday, Jan. 16, 2015. The NCAA announced Friday, a settlement with Penn State that will give the school back 112 wins wiped out during the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal and restore the late Joe Paterno as the winningest coach in major college football history. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) - photo by Associated Press
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The NCAA agreed Friday to restore 112 football wins it had stripped from Penn State and Joe Paterno in the Jerry Sandusky child-molestation scandal and to reinstate the venerated late coach as the winningest in major college football history. The agreement, swiftly approved by the boards of the NCAA and the university after intermittent talks heated up this week, lifts the last of the sanctions imposed in 2012 and wipes away the black marks that had tainted one of the nation's most celebrated college athletics programs. After more than two years of criticism that the NCAA had overstepped its authority, officials with college sports' governing body did not back down.