SAPAKOFF COLUMN: The 'punch' that really wasn't

COACH TODD BOZEMAN HAS BEEN TREATED WORST THAN AN EX-CON
 BY THE SUITS IN THE MSU ADMINISTRATION.  HAS THE FAMU SITUATION GOTTEN EVERYONE JITTERY TO THE POINT THAT NOTHING CAN BE
 RESOLVED WITHOUT LITIGATION?

CHARLESTON, South Carolina  -  One minute, Morgan State is finishing off a routine Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference basketball victory at S.C. State. A disputed second later, the friendly town of Orangeburg is ground zero for one of the most controversial stories of the college basketball season.

Too bad the administrators evidently got this one wrong, smudging both schools and forcing apparently falsely accused Morgan State head coach Todd Bozeman to explain himself.

Over and over.

Again, too many suits in the athletic department kitchen.

"The way this thing has blown up has really surprised me," said Thomas Grant Jr. of the Orangeburg Times and Democrat, the only reporter on the scene Saturday at the Smith-Hammond-Middleton Memorial Center. "I didn't even think that much of it at the time."

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