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Dark day at Indiana ends a messy, ugly saga with Sampson

By Pat Forde
ESPN.com

Friday, February 22, 2008

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The initial damage report from a spectacularly dark day at Indiana University: A career crashed. A reputation frayed. A team splintered. An administration stumbled. The result of Black Friday in Bloomington is a 22-4 team embroiled in unprecedented in-season chaos. Rarely, if ever, has a team this good had this much to frown about. Whether the climax of an excellent season is torched in the backdraft of what has become a five-alarm scandal remains to be ...

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