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Northwestern athletic director blasts football staffers for ‘tone deaf’ shirts supporting Fitzgerald

By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Northwestern athletic director Derrick Gragg criticized assistant football coaches and staff members for wearing shirts supporting fired coach Pat Fitzgerald at practice. Gragg called the shirts “inappropriate, offensive and tone deaf” given the hazing and abuse scandal engulfing the football program and other teams. Gragg

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“What cost is it to those student-athletes?”: Eli Drinkwitz sounds off on direction of college athletics

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) It’s been a hectic week for the landscape of college athletics, which continues to shift. The Pac-12 conference was dwindled down to just four member schools, following the departure of Arizona, Arizona State, Utah, Washington and Oregon over the past few days. Arizona, Arizona State and Utah will all join the Big

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Show Me Squad shows out in TBT opener

WICHITA, Kan. (KMIZ) The Basketball Tournament, otherwise known as TBT, tipped off on Wednesday on the campus of Wichita State. The No. 4-seeded Show Me Squad, made up of Mizzou hoops alumni, won its first round game against the Vegas Rebellion, 96-90, TBT is a 64-team, single elimination tournament, which runs in July and August.

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