Two weeks before former USC running backs coach Todd McNair's defamation lawsuit against the NCAA is scheduled for trial, the parties are sparring over more than 1,000 emails and other documents the organization wants to redact or withhold.
The cache includes scores of emails to or from members of the NCAA's Committee on Infractions that sanctioned USC and McNair in the aftermath of the Reggie Bush extra benefits scandal.
Though the NCAA has handed over more than 150,000 pages of documents in the lawsuit, the dispute over the remaining emails, reports, spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations underscores the contentious nature of the proceedings.