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Second chance university

By Carmen Renee Thompson
ESPN The Magazine

Monday, September 28, 2009

This article appears in the October 5 issue of ESPN The Magazine. The ballroom at the Westin Galleria in Houston is filled with well-dressed young men on banquet chairs. All is quiet save for the voice of Texas Southern football coach Johnnie Cole. From the podium, Cole implores his Tigers to show good sportsmanship to rival Prairie View A&M the next day in the Labor Day Classic at Reliant Stadium. He rehashes the Oregon-Boise State postgame fracas that led to the suspension of Ducks runn ...

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