The Louisville Barcelon A Case Study

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The Louisville Cardinals an NCAA basketball team has had great success the past couple years in the NCAA tournament. In 2013 they won the National championship beating michigan by six points. And the next year losing to Kentucky in the Final Basketball. Louisville is always one of the top competitors in NCAA basketball and always has some of the best players, Peyton Siva, Jim Price, and Derek Smith. The coach for the Louisville Cardinals is Rick Pitino, who has been around basketball for a long time. In recent FBI investigations there is a big scandal brewing right now in college basketball involving bribes, and dishonesty .the federal investigation says, “Coaches worked with sports apparel executives to bribe players into committing to schools

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