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Cleve In The Eve: BU’s Wardle, Chris Reynolds, hug it out with reporter

It’s peace! It’s peace!

Bradley University embraced longtime Journal Star hoops beat writer Dave Reynolds — literally — at its watch party for the NCAA’s Selection Sunday event at Renaissance Coliseum on Sunday evening.

BU, two days earlier, had barred the three-time Illinois Sportswriter of the Year from attending its media day for the NCAA tourney, a public maneuver in what had been a season-long private feud in which the university was critical of the newspaper’s coverage.

It quickly became a free press issue, not just a basketball issue, as the incident went viral across the nation.