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| | Inside Higher Ed :: Partial 'Death Penalty' for Baylor Basketball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | It seems morbidly appropriate, somehow, that a basketball scandal brought to light two years ago because one player killed another should result in the National Collegiate Athletic Association imposing a modified version of its rarely used “death penalty” on Baylor University Thursday. |
 | | The June 2003 disappearance of Patrick Dennehy, then a basketball player at Baylor, and the revelation that he was murdered by a teammate, Carlton Dotson, who pleaded guilty this month, led to an investigation that revealed serious wrongdoing, even though the death did not seem in any way tied to the rule breaking. |
 | | Because Baylor had been found guilty of major NCAA violations in both 1996 and in 2001, the university was susceptible to the association’s penalties for “repeat violators,” which in common parlance have come to be known as the death penalty. |
| www.insidehighered.com /news/2005/06/24/baylor (1030 words) |
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