article on reporter who broke smu story

[kingwoodgreen]

I do not know how to link so if someone can go to Yahoo sports and look for this story.

[Ibleedgreen]

I do not know how to link so if someone can go to Yahoo sports and look for this story.

http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/daily-take/201108/reporter-who-broke-smu-scandal-pony-excess-fallout-led-directly-miami-scandal

[DeepGreen]

No wonder SMUt stays pissed at us.

[MeanGreen61]

No wonder SMUt stays pissed at us.

John Sparks is a 40-year veteran of television news and currently a professor at the Mayborn School of Journalism at the University of North Texas. His work in breaking the SMU pay-for-play story in 1986 resulted in the NCAA issuing its first and only death penalty to a college football program.

[greenpie]

John Sparks is a 40-year veteran of television news and currently a professor at the Mayborn School of Journalism at the University of North Texas. His work in breaking the SMU pay-for-play story in 1986 resulted in the NCAA issuing its first and only death penalty to a college football program.

AND he is an alum, he went to grad school at North Texas.