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Texas men's tennis coach Michael Center walks with Defense lawyer Dan Cogdell away from the United States Federal Courthouse in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, March 12, 2019. Center is among a few people in the state charged in a scheme that involved wealthy parents bribing college coaches and others to gain admissions for their children at top schools, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. (Ricardo B. Brazziell

Coaches accused in college bribery scandal wielded outsize authority

by Jim Vertuno Associated PressMarch 15, 2019

In a September 2016 photo, Yale's women's head soccer Coach Rudy Meredith gives pointers to players during a scrimmage in Ocala, Fla. According to the federal indictments unsealed Tuesday, March 12, 2019, former Yale soccer coach Rudy Meredith put a prospective student who didn’t play soccer on a school list of recruits, doctored her supporting portfolio to indicate she was a player, and later accepted 400,000 from the head of a college placement company. (Doug Engle/Star-Banner via AP)

Bribery scandal exposes sports side door to admissions

by Jim Vertuno Associated PressMarch 12, 2019

FILE - In this June 3, 2016 file photo, current and former Baylor students hold a rally warning of sexual assaults on and off campus in Waco, Texas. A former athletic director at Baylor University, Ian McCaw, has claimed regents schemed to make black football players scapegoats for a decades-long problem of sexual assault at the school. Excerpts taken from McCaw's June 19 deposition appear in documents filed Wednesday in a federal lawsuit pending against Baylor. Ten women are suing the school over how it handled their allegations of sexual assault. (Rod Aydelotte/Waco Tribune Herald via AP, File)

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Ex-Baylor athletic director Ian McCaw: Black athletes made scapegoats

by Jim Vertuno Associated PressJune 28, 2018

Gov. Gregg Abbott hosts a roundtable discussion about safety in Texas schools after the recent school shooting in Sante Fe at the Texas state Capitol on May 22, 2018, in Austin, Texas. Abbott convened the first in a series of discussions on school safety Tuesday. (Ana Ramirez/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

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Texas governor airs school safety

by Jim Vertuno Associated PressMay 22, 2018

FILE - In this July 24, 2004, file pool photo, overall leader Lance Armstrong, right, of Austin, Texas, follows compatriot and teammate Floyd Landis, left, in the ascent of the La Croix Fry pass during the 17th stage of the Tour de France cycling race between Bourg-d'Oisans and Le Grand Bornand, French Alps. Armstrong, on Thursday, April 19, 2018, has reached a 5 million settlement with the federal government in a whistleblower lawsuit that could have sought 100 million in damages from the cyclist who was stripped of his record seven Tour de France victories after admitting he used performance-enhancing drugs throughout much of his career. (Bernard Papon/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Lance Armstrong settles $100M lawsuit with US government

by Jim Vertuno Associated PressApril 19, 2018

Officials work at the scene where the suspect in a spate of bombing attacks that have terrorized Austin over the past month blew himself up with an explosive device as authorities closed in, the police said early Wednesday, March 21, 2018.

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Update (11:10 a.m.): Austin bombing suspect blows himself up as police close in

by Jim Vertuno Associated PressMarch 21, 2018

An FBI agent investigates at a FedEx distribution center where a package exploded, Tuesday, March 20, 2018, in Schertz, Texas. Authorities believe the package bomb is linked to the recent string of Austin bombings. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Can Austin stay weird amid blasts?

by Will Weissert Associated Press, and Jim Vertuno Associated PressMarch 20, 2018

In this Friday, Feb. 16, 2018 photo, Euless Trinity wrestler Mack Beggs puts a head gear on in the second round of the 110-pound girls division against Lewisville wrestler Elyse Nelson during the 6A Region II wrestling meet at Allen High School in Allen, Texas, Beggs, a senior from Euless Trinity High School near Dallas is transgender and in the process of transitioning from female to male. (Jae S. Lee/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

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Texas transgender wrestler back to defend state title

by Jim Vertuno Associated PressFebruary 22, 2018

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday has ordered a criminal investigation into claims that former doctor Larry Nassar abused some of his victims at the Texas ranch that was the training ground for U.S. women’s gymnastics.

Governor orders criminal probe of Texas gymnastics ranch

by Jim Vertuno Associated PressJanuary 30, 2018

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 1980, file photo, Ron Meyer, head football coach at Southern Methodist University, shouts instructions to his team as they practice for their confrontation with Brigham Young University in the Holiday Bowl in San Diego. From SMU’s “Pony Express” to the NFL’s infamous “Snowplow Game,” former college and professional football coach Ron Meyer was in the middle of some of the game’s most controversial and colorful teams and moments in the 1980s. Meyer died Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017, in Austin, Texas, at age 76. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)

Former SMU and NFL coach Ron Meyer dies at 76

by Jim Vertuno Associated PressDecember 7, 2017