{"id":1892706,"date":"2026-07-20T09:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892706"},"modified":"2026-07-20T11:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:03:58","slug":"michigan-athletic-director-warde-manuel-agrees-to-buyout-after-probe-will-step-down-at-end-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892706","title":{"rendered":"Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel agrees to buyout after probe, will step down at end of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) \u2014 The University of Michigan and athletic director Warde Manuel have agreed to a buyout of the remaining three years on his contract and he will step down at the end of 2026, culminating a decade-long run with four national championships and a string of scandals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/a994a-michigan-ad-warde-manuel-agrees-to-buyout-will-step-down-at-end-of-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) \u2014 The University of Michigan and athletic director Warde Manuel have agreed to a buyout of the remaining three years on his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892707,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892706\/revisions\/1892707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}