Athletics Chief Quits Troubled Program

Richard A. Tharp, the athletics director at the University of Colorado at Boulder, resigned last week, the first senior official at the university to step down since the eruption of a sex scandal involving the university's football program.

Mr. Tharp's departure came one week after university officials announced that the state auditor would audit financial transactions at the university, and more than two months after a grand jury completed its investigation into accusations that the

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