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Thursday, December 14, 2006
This Story's Moving Faster Than A Drunk Linebacker in a Hummer First it said it wouldn't; now it says it will. For a few hours, Auburn tried to dismiss its latest athletic scandal as a purely academic, more of the same, nothing to see here sort of thing. It wasn't going to send to the NCAA results of its internal audit involving phantom courses and illegally entered grades. I mean, why bother? What else is new? It only involved a couple of athletes... Now it's changed its mind and is busily sending off the results of the thing to the NCAA: Auburn University reversed position Wednesday and said it would forward to the NCAA relevant information from an internal audit examining grade changes. That last sentence is a beaut. James Gundlach, the professor who broke the Auburn story, may testify in Washington: "It's been indicated to me that Democrats really want to increase Pell grants but are facing an issue of pay as you go," Gundlach said. "So cutting the tax-exempt status on big-time athletics could put a whole lot of poor kids through college and would be very much the kind of things Democrats would like to point at by the time 2008 came around." |