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Lawmaker Challenges College-Sports Exemption

By Paul Fain

In the latest salvo in what appears to be a growing interest on Capitol Hill in an investigation of college athletics, a congressman has asked the National Collegiate Athletic Association to justify the tax-exempt status of big-time sports programs.

That request came in a letter to the association's president, Myles Brand, from Rep. Bill Thomas,...

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