ESPN’s Eamonn Brennan said the University of North Carolina academic scandal was supposed to go away in December after former Gov. Jim Martin’s probe into academic fraud involving the sports program and the Afro-American Studies department. “It was supposed to be over,” Brennan wrote today. “Five months later, we still don’t know much, but we do know at least one thing: This is anything but over.”

He pointed to the Raleigh News & Observer’s article by Dan Kane over the weekend that shows emails from the chairman of the African studies department which discuss football tickets, athletic events and sideline access with sports support staff.

“In all, the emails still fall short of smoking gun status,” Brennan writes. “There is no direct evidence UNC athletics played an active role in academic fraud committed by the AFAM department… That may still be true, even if only technically so, but these emails make it harder than ever to believe.”

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