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In the end, was anyone really punished?

By Dana O'Neil
ESPN.com

Thursday, August 20, 2009

We waited eight weeks for this? For a punishment that has the bite of a 15-year-old golden retriever? The NCAA Committee on Infractions just released its decision on Memphis, a decision that includes punishment for major infractions. And the penalty is basically to tell us it never happened. Unless the folks in Indianapolis have the ability to give group-rate lobotomies and erase the memories of every college basketball fan circa 2007-08, vacating the Final Four means nothing. I was the ...

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