Earlier this week, the Patriot-News reported a bit more about the Amber Bland situation, and about how Rene Portland refused to grant the release. It's absurd.

The administration deserves some credit for stepping in and overruling Rene. But it deserves at least as much blame for letting the situation develop this way, and for letting it go on so long.

It's troubling, but not terribly surprising. Though Joe Paterno is over the hill, he's still the most powerful person at Penn State University. Even the school president is afraid to challenge a member of the Paterno cadre.

And thus we add another chapter to the colorful career of the most hated figure in women's basketball.