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Should Anyone Be Surprised?

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The scandals rocking intercollegiate sports in the past few months apparently were just the warm-up acts. We give you now the main event.

The University of Miami has taken the stage to show 'em how it's done.

Ohio State? You'd better bring more than tattoos and memorabilia sales to hang with the Hurricanes. Hey Tennessee, wayward coaches Lane Kiffin and Bruce Pearl are the best you've got?

North Carolina? Academic fraud is a nice try, but not good enough. Southern Cal? We'll see your payments to Reggie Bush and raise you, oh, half the team.

Down in Coral Gables, Team Caligula apparently lived by the motto that if you're going to sin, sin bad. And man, did they know how to sin.

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