The Athleticās Nicole Auerbach reports tonight that NCAA president Mark Emmert was personally told in 2010 of more than three dozen reports of sexual assault committed by Michigan State athletes, but took no apparent action.
It can be hard to keep track of how many different pieces of news broke today, all of them illuminating one larger pointāMichigan State really didnāt want to try too hard, if at all, to prevent or investigate sexual assault or gender violence on its campus, and they were especially reluctant to do so if that caseā¦
Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis announced his resignation at a Friday morning press conference, shortly after it was first reported by The Detroit Free-Press.
Michigan State President Lou Anna Simon will finally resign tomorrow, less than a week after MSUās board of trustees voted to stand behind her. Trustees attempted to downplay Simonās role in the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal and vouched for her fundraising chops, but the State News and Detroit Free Press bothā¦
In an interview on local radio show Staudt on Sports, Michigan State board of trustees member Joel Ferguson reinforced the university boardās stance that the majority of board members still support university president Lou Anna Simon, saying, āthereās so many more things going on at the university than just thisā¦
After defeating the Indiana Hoosiers last Friday, Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo was asked about the Larry Nassar case and the leadership of MSU president Lou Anna Simon. MSU has come under fire after its board of trustees voted in support of Simon on Friday, even though it was recently revealed that Simonā¦
The Michigan State board of trustees gave Lou Anna Simon a vote of support Friday despite an overwhelming number of calls for the university president to resign or be fired amidst the dozens of victims testifying against Larry Nassar at the ongoing sentencing phase of his prosecution.
In response to the outward finger-pointing taking place at Michigan State over its years of downplaying and ignoring concerns voiced about disgraced doctor Larry Nassar, one of the first gymnasts to come forward saying Nassar sexually abused her has penned a pair of open letters to university president Lou Anna Simonā¦
