ESPN’s recent Outside the Lines piece on the collusion between major college football and basketball programs and local police departments and prosecutors did a number on the University of Notre Dame. That number, to be precise, is four, as in four criminal incidents involving student athletes. You see, and this is reporter Paula Lavigne‘s major problem with Notre Dame, the University refused to turn over records from its Security Police Department (“NDSP”), leaving her with the very few incidents “owned,” as it were, by the South Bend Police.
In this post, I want to analyze the recent decision, now on appeal, by The Honorable Steven L.