<i>To: Crit Luallen, state auditor
From: Billy Reed, scribe
Re: Audit of College Athletics </i>
Crit, I want to begin by thanking you for the great work you’ve done as our state auditor. In an aggressive, but fair and non-political, way, you have exposed waste and fraud in several state – or quasi-state – agencies, such as the […]

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Tom Jurich didn’t want to do it. He hoped all football season that Steve Kragthorpe would show him something, anything, to earn one more year at the University of Louisville. It wasn’t so much that Kragthorpe was a longtime personal friend, although that can’t be ignored. It was just that Jurich, a football man, wanted […]

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It’ll be interesting to watch how Notre Dame athletics director Jack Swarbrick and his Louisville counterpart, Tom Jurich, handle their respective football coaching searches. Neither can afford a mistake. The margin for error is zero. Neither program can afford to slip any farther.
This will be Swarbrick’s first major test. He must first fire Charlie Weis […]

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He is somewhere overseas, deep in the heart of an economically poor nation. For hours, he has been standing in the back of a truck, handing out shoes to kids with wide eyes and raggedy clothes. The kids have never had shoes, much less brand-new ones. They aren’t sure what to do with the shoes, […]

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