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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

One For the Record Books


Auburn University's spokesman speaks:

"This is not an athletic issue,” said the spokesman, Brian Keeter. “The N.C.A.A. has not requested this report. We’ve provided a previous one to them. If they ask us to do for this, we would. But this is an academic issue.”

When asked how an issue involving an athlete’s grade change was not an athletic issue, Keeter said, “This is not an athletic issue.”