The New York Times has this story in Sunday’s edition that describes KU’s use of a private law firm to investigate NCAA violations before the NCAA itself got a hold of the allegations…_”The black binders contained more than 700 pages and documented the misdeeds of the University of Kansas men’s and women’s basketball and football programs. Among the findings were payments to athletes and academic fraud. The report suggested remedies like self-imposed probation and a reduction in scholarships.__The investigation and the sanctions did not come from the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Instead, they were produced by a private law firm stocked with former N.C.A.A. investigators and hired by Lew Perkins a day after he became the Kansas athletic director in 2003. _ Read more… target=”blank