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July 18, 2012, 10:16am
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<p>So I saw this word on another thread, and thought I would share it here. Not trying to drag you all into the Sandysky thing, if you have not entered that thread, stay away for your own sanity. </p>
<p>“hagiography”</p>
<p>explaination below…</p>
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<p>Interesting confession by ESPN sports writer Rick Rielly:</p>
<p>Quote:
<p>In 1986, I spent a week in State College, Pa., researching a 10-page Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year piece on Joe Paterno.</p>
<p>It was supposed to be a secret, but one night the phone in my hotel room rang. It was a Penn State professor, calling out of the blue.</p>
<p>“Are you here to take part in hagiography?” he said.</p>
<p>“What’s hagiography?” I asked.</p>
<p>“The study of saints,” he said. “You’re going to be just like the rest, aren’t you? You’re going to make Paterno out to be a saint. You don’t know him. He’ll do anything to win. What you media are doing is dangerous.”</p>
<p>Jealous egghead, I figured. </p>
<p>That professor was right, all those years ago. I was engaging in hagiography. So was that school. So was that town. It was dangerous. Turns out it builds monsters.</p>
<p>Not all of them ended up in prison.<br>
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