Last week was a damning one for intercollegiate athletics, as an independent investigation revealed the extent to which senior officials of Pennsylvania State University (all of them now out of their positions) repeatedly opted not to report Jerry Sandusky to authorities, and allowed him to go on sexually assaulting boys. On Thursday, the National Collegiate Athletic Association announced that it was continuing its study of whether Penn State was out of compliance with rules requiring "institutional control" of athletic programs. On that same day, the NCAA announced that it was ready to fi...