The cover story I chose, which comes from Sports Illustrated, is about the Penn State football cover up scandal. On the cover, we see the words "WE WERE PENN STATE", a play on the prideful motto, "We are (insert team name here)". They have replaced "are" with "were" because the recent events that took place within the program have left it virtually without Identity. They have been sanctioned to the fullest and this cover displays it through the use of past tense. It is saying that everything the program has built has just been crushed. Within the story itself, it says of the events, "The worst scandal in the history of college sports led the NCAA to impose harsh and unprecedented penalties on the Nittany Lions."It goes on to speak of the result of the scandal and sanctions by saying, "What's left is a legacy in ashes, a program in shambles and a community in disbelief."
Wolff, Alexander. "Is This the End for Penn State?" Sports Illustrated July 2012. 38-41.
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