Integrity needs to return to college athletics

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 | 12:01 a.m. CDT

The recent intramural fracas between players from the University of Kansas football and basketball teams can no longer be considered an isolated incident, nor can it be dismissed as a product of raging hormones and male marking of territory. Nor is the ill-advised posting of a Facebook account of the brawl and resulting injury by one of the KU athletes brushed off – we can be reasonably certain the player was chastised for broadcasting his foolishness nationwide.

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