A day after former Michigan Fab Five star Chris Webber said in a report that Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel privately apologized to him, Manuel said that is false.
Webber, in a lengthy ESPN interview published Wednesday, said Manuel apologized to him for the way the school handled the fallout from the investigation into claims Webber had received illegal payments from former booster Ed Martin.
“I was told by the athletic department at the University of Michigan that he was sorry,” Webber, who will be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday, said in the article.