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Arizona men's basketball coach Lute Olson, left, sits with interim head coach Kevin O'Neill.

It is not far-fetched to say that the recent bribery scandal involving University of Arizona assistant basketball coach Emanuel "Book" Richardson may be the biggest college sports story of our lifetime. The situation at hand is unprecedented in terms of magnitude and complexity; no previous athletic scandal has had involvement from a nationwide combination of universities and a multi-billion-dollar corporation (in Adidas), let alone at the same time under the federal government's watch.