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Conditioned for death: Could UCF have prevented the Ereck Plancher tragedy?

By Mark Fainaru-Wada
ESPN

Thursday, October 30, 2008

ORLANDO, Fla. -- At approximately 9 a.m. on Tuesday, March 18, members of the University of Central Florida football team begin an hour-long weightlifting session. Sometime after 10, they enter Nicholson Fieldhouse, the program's $4.1 million indoor training facility, for an off-season conditioning session. It is the squad's first workout after spring break, with spring practice scheduled to start the following day. Most of the doors to Nicholson are closed. What happens over the course of t ...

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