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BELLEFONTE, Pa. -- A lawsuit by a former Penn State coach whose testimony helped convict fellow assistant Jerry Sandusky of being a sexually violent predator goes to trial Monday over allegations that the university defamed him and wrongly refused to renew his contract.Mike McQueary, now 42, played quarterback at Penn State before becoming a member of Joe Paternos coaching staff.But he became best known as the assistant who went to Paterno in 2001 to report seeing Sandusky, then a retiree with gym privileges, sexually molesting a boy in the team shower. Sandusky was not arrested until a decade later, leading to accusations of a high-level cover-up.Nine women and three men were chosen for the jury last week. Both sides will make opening statements Monday.McQueary was suspended with pay from the football program in 2011, when the first charges were brought in the case. Following Sanduskys conviction in 2012 on charges of abusing 10 boys, McQueary learned he was effectively being terminated from his $140,000-a-year job.He claims in his whistleblower lawsuit that he was retaliated against for helping prosecutors, wrongly misled by high-ranking administrators who first heard his story in 2001, and defamed.His own role in the scandal has also drawn scrutiny because he did not physically intervene in the sexual assault of the boy, and because he didnt go to the police.McQueary went to Paternos home a day after the shower incident to discuss what he had seen. Paterno alerted Tim Curley, the athletic director at the time, and Gary Schultz, a vice president at the time, and McQueary met with both of them about a week later.Paternos handling of the complaint was eventually cited by trustees as one of the reasons for his firing in late 2011. Paterno died a few months later.In his lawsuit, which seeks more than $4 million, McQueary claims Curley and Schultz wrongly led him to believe that they considered it a serious matter and that they would respond appropriately.As a result, the lawsuit claims, McQueary has been labeled and branded as being part of a cover-up, making it impossible for him to find work as a football coach.He also claims he was defamed by a news release issued by Graham Spanier -- Penn State president at the time -- on the day Sandusky was charged, expressing full support for Curley and Schultz, who both had also been charged criminally for not reporting the abuse claim and other offenses.The lawsuit says Spaniers statement and comments he made a few days later to athletics staff clearly suggest McQueary had lied before a grand jury and to police. Spanier is also accused of failing to properly report suspected abuse and endangering children. He is awaiting trial.It appears from court documents that neither Curley nor Schultz will answer any questions if called to testify in McQuearys lawsuit. Both invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when attorneys sought to question them during the pretrial phase of the case.Spanier has not said whether he would testify.McQueary has already told his story to a grand jury, at a preliminary hearing and at Sanduskys 2012 trial.Sandusky, 72, is serving a 30- to 60-year sentence at a prison in southwestern Pennsylvania. He maintains his innocence.During the Sandusky trial, McQueary gave this account on what he witnessed:Entering the locker room, he heard showers running and smacking sounds. In a mirror, he saw Sandusky standing behind a boy whose hands were against the shower wall. He turned to see directly that Sandusky had his arms around the boys midsection, testifying it was sexual, it was wrong, it was perverse.He became alarmed, flustered and shocked, slamming shut his locker. He then saw that Sandusky and the boy, estimated at ages 10 to 12, had become separated.He did not say anything to Sandusky or the boy. Instead, he went to his office and called his father, who advised him to come to his home to convey what he had seen. Early the next day, he contacted Paterno.Asked during the trial whether he called police, he replied that he felt that he had because Schultz had an oversight role with campus police as vice president for business and finance.It was only an anonymous email sent to the district attorney in November 2010 that led investigators to first approach McQueary in the case.Sandusky was convicted of 45 counts, including four that involved the shower encounter: indecent assault, unlawful contact with minors, corruption of minors and endangering the welfare of children. He was acquitted of the most serious charge related to the incident McQueary witnessed, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse.The identity of the boy, called Victim 2 in court records, remains in dispute. 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This was no night to go to sleep.MINNEAPOLIS -- The Minnesota Twins will attempt to avoid the history books on Thursday when they open a four-game series against the Chicago White Sox at Target Field.The Twins enter riding a 13-game losing streak, one shy of the franchise mark set in 1982. Their current skid is tied with the 1961 club for the second-longest streak in team history.Minnesota finished the month of August 9-19 after a 15-11 mark in July.Its been a long week, Twins manager Paul Molitor told the St. Paul Pioneer Press. We need to try to find a way to win a game at some point to just lighten the load. Its getting heavy. Guys are getting on the edge a little bit. You can feel it. Its building.Chicago will also try and rebound after being swept in a three-game series against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park.The three-game skid dropped the White Sox to 8 1/2 games out of the second wild card spot and 13 games back of division-leading Cleveland, which capped a three-game sweep of Minnesota.Its tough. We were playing pretty good baseball but these guys, theyve been snipping us off at the end, said White Sox manager Robin Ventura. We played fairly well early on but with the lineup they have, its a pretty deep lineup tthats hard to contain.ddddddddddddJose Quintana will try for his ninth consecutive quality start. The left-hander allowed just one earned run in 7 2/3 innings his last time out in a win over the Seattle Mariners at U.S. Cellular Field on Saturday.Quintana has faced the Twins more than any other opponent this season; Thursdays game marks his fifth start against Minnesota in 2016. In four previous outings, Quintana is 2-1 with a 2.36 ERA and 27 strikeouts in 26 2/3 innings pitched. His 2.77 ERA for the season leads the American League.Ervin Santana will get the nod for the Twins, coming off his worst start since the end of May. The right-hander allowed six runs on five hits and five walks in 6 2/3 innings but did not figure into the final decision against the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday at Rogers Centre.Prior to Saturdays clunker, Santana has allowed three earned runs or fewer in 11 straight starts dating back to June 14. Santana is 1-2 against the White Sox this season but has pitched well in those games, compiling a 3.86 ERA with 15 strikeouts in 16 1/3 innings. ' ' '