You know, a few months ago I was listening to ESPiN radio here in Vegas, and they had one of the Yahoo! guys on talking about OSU. (Steve Cofield, who writes for Yahoo!'s Cagewriter, an MMA column, is also one of our on-air personalities here in Vegas, so they've got the Yahoo! hookup.) At the end of the interview, they asked, "Anything else going on?" ...now this was back in March, when the OSU story really picked up steam. The Yahoo! guy, and it may have been Charles Robinson said something, and I'm paraphrasing here, but he said something like, "We're doing an investigation now, and it includes a Top-10 program of all time, don't think about necessarily Top-10 in today's polls and rankings, but a top-10 program all time, that will make these Ohio State allegations look like jaywalking."
Of course when the interview ended, Cofield and his co-host Dave Cokin went on and on, speculating about who this could be. Anyway, my point is, you said "hours" of investigation. This is approaching one year of investigation. This story is so well done, so thought out, so rich with facts and evidence. I've spend almost 4 hours online reading about this story. Then I realized, "I've never seen a story like this on sports." It's because the media nowadays, especially ESPN, reports anything juicy, regardless of the evidence. They just cite "sources", anonymous or not, and run with it. It's really wreckless and irresponsible. Sad, really.
Amen.