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Other Scandals Pale in Comparison

AP

Tempting as it is, don’t start here with the messenger, OK? Yes, any decent defense attorney’s instinct and stock in trade is to question the accuser’s credibility, but if that is where you’re going — if that is the basis for your hope that none of this is real — well, your desperation is showing.

The University of Miami looks to be in genuine trouble right now. Its good name bruised, its image nationally taking punches.

That’s because Miami Hurricanes football looks to be in real trouble, this latest controversy inviting a resuscitation of all the old ones as new penalties from the NCAA loom into possibility. No, likelihood.

Nevin Shapiro.

Nevin Bleeping Shapiro.

Drape the name in South Florida infamy for all time. The defrocked Miami Beach businessman is a scumbag. A worm. On that, Canes fans...

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