Legendary former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno died Sunday.<br/> Paterno was fired in November after 46 years as head coach in the wake of a child sex abuse scandal involving an assistant.<br/> The 85-year old had scored the most wins in major college football history.<br/> He disclosed he had treatable lung cancer shortly after university trustees ousted him for failing to tell police about a sex abuse allegation years earlier against longtime assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.<br/> Overnight people headed to the statue of Paterno outside the football stadium that looms over the hospital where he died.<br/> Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters
