March 25, 2005

NCAA Penalizes Texas State U. at San Marcos

By WELCH SUGGS

Athletics administrators at Texas State University at San Marcos gave its athletes a total of nearly $74,000, ostensibly to buy textbooks, and forced football players to attend supposedly voluntary practices in the off-season, according to a report released this month by the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I Committee on Infractions.

Texas State, which dismissed its athletics director and entire football-coaching staff in January 2004, will be on probation for three

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