The Sporting News is in the media again, after running a controversial story titled “From Champs to Chomped: How Urban Meyer Broke Florida Football,” essentially claiming that Urban Meyer was not a good coach and will be bad for OSU. Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee fired back, defending his coach and calling the Sporting News (and Sports Illustrated) “bad journalism.”
The Sporting News was not happy. President and publisher of the Sporting News Jeff Price told the Lantern that he stands by the story. Price declares, “There were no corrections, clarifications nor retractions with regard to” the article’s statements about Meyer.
Who is right? Is the Sporting News’ story 100 percent truthful and Gee is just blowing off steam or does Ohio State’s President, whom Time Magazine ranked in 2009 as the nation’s top university president, know more about journalism than bow ties?
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