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Lolley: Hoops scandal exposes college athletics’ underbelly

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Sean Miller. - AP

This just in: Big-time college athletics can be sleazy, where individuals who don't care at all about, you know, the higher learning part of our institutions of higher learning inhabit the dark recesses of many programs.

An ongoing FBI probe, which began when investigators learned that assistant coaches at several basketball programs were receiving payoffs from shoe companies to help secure recruits, has already entangled several assistant coaches at major universities and now threatens the career of former Pitt star Sean Miller, the Ellwood City native who's Arizona's head coach ... for now.

Why would the FBI care?

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