The University of Miami is back in the headlines in every way it doesn't want with former players making claims, athletic leaders playing defense and the school's image chained to cheats again and dragged around the country.
In a story that raises as many questions as it answered, Yahoo! Sports alleges Miami committed major NCAA infractions primarily through the salacious spending and South Beach sins of former booster and convicted Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro.
To simplify the story, imagine Shapiro playing the Jose Canseco role of the jilted lover with all sorts of baggage who could be dropping the full truth on everyone. And to condense the story to Shapiro's most concrete claims:
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