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January 2012, NCAA-Conferences
Cornhuskers Sanctioned for Major Violations
The NCAA has placed the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Athletic Department under two years' probation and enforced a $38,000 fine, which has gone to local charities, after the department committed what the NCAA called "major violations."
It marks the end of an investigation that began last summer after the department realized nearly 500 student athletes had, from 2007 to 2010, received recommended course books under scholarship. NCAA rules prohibit scholarships from paying for anything but required materials.
"The violations, which included a failure to monitor, were narrow in scope and centered on student-athletes in all sports receiving impermissible benefits," reads a statement on the NCAA website.
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