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IDemo

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Thu Oct 23, 2014, 07:04 PM Oct 2014

U.N.C. Boosters Outraged That Some Athletes Took Real Classes

CHAPEL HILL (The Borowitz Report) — An organization of University of North Carolina athletic boosters expressed shock and outrage today over a report that a few members of U.N.C. sports teams may have taken real classes, despite the widespread availability of fake ones.

The report, which alleges that several players may have fulfilled the curriculum requirements of actual classes, sent shock waves through the U.N.C. booster community.

“These players apparently attended classes, wrote papers, and took exams,” Hal Cowlington, the president of a prominent U.N.C. booster club, said. “The impact of these distractions on their athletic performance is, to put it mildly, incalculable.”

A spokesman for the university was quick to say that the cases of athletes taking real classes appeared to be “isolated incidents,” but promised that U.N.C. would press forward with a full investigation of the matter.

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U.N.C. Boosters Outraged That Some Athletes Took Real Classes (Original Post) IDemo Oct 2014 OP
Heh. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Oct 2014 #1

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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1. Heh.
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 07:07 PM
Oct 2014

If I were the supreme tyrant of college sports, I'd boot their football and basketball teams out of any and every league, and forbid any other college to play games against them for 18 years going forward as a penalty for running this scam for the last 18 years.

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