March 7, 2003

Fresno State Faces Academic Scandal

By WELCH SUGGS

A team statistician wrote 17 papers for basketball players at California State University at Fresno and was paid off by a sports agent, according to a report last month in The Fresno Bee.

In 2000, an acquaintance of Fresno State's head coach at the time, Jerry Tarkanian, funneled money to the team's academic adviser, who then paid the statistician to write papers for three Bulldog players enrolled in correspondence courses at the University of Southern Colorado, the newspaper

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