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Ex-aide: Bliss an 'angry man' She says complaints on his behavior, dealings at Baylor were ignored 07:13 AM CDT on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 By BARRY HORN / The Dallas Morning News Dave Bliss' former administrative assistant said Monday that her boss was an "angry man" who sometimes asked her to do things that she believed compromised her integrity. Laura Collins-Hays, who worked for the Baylor University basketball coach for three years before resigning in March 2002, characterized the office atmosphere as frightening and said she witnessed behavior and procedures she considered questionable. Among them: • Checks for the Sixth...

<p>Investigators looking into allegations of NCAA violations at Baylor University  have another audio tape of former basketball coach Dave Bliss  to inspect in the ever-widening scandal at the school. Richard Guinn recorded a conversation Bliss had Saturday with his son, senior center R.T. Guinn, at their Waco home. Richard Guinn turned his tape over to investigators.</p>

Report: Taped Bliss conversations show cover-up ESPN.com news services Dave Bliss is no longer the Baylor basketball coach. But the shockwaves keep coming. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported in its Saturday edition that Bliss directed a cover-up during the recent investigation into his program, and that his comments were caught on a hidden tape recorder by one of his assistant coaches. According to the paper, Bliss wanted his players to provide false information concerning slain teammate Patrick Dennehy. The Baylor coaching staff had been accused of arranging payments for Dennehy's tuition, but Bliss asked his players to say Dennehy dealt...

Posted on Fri, Aug. 15, 2003Bliss planned Baylor cover-upBy Danny Robbins Star-Telegram Staff Writer WACO - Before he resigned as Baylor University's basketball coach, Dave Bliss directed players to provide investigators with false information indicating that slain teammate Patrick Dennehy had paid his tuition by dealing drugs, according to conversations secretly recorded by an assistant coach. "What we've got to create here is drugs," Bliss said in one of the conversations, which were taped by assistant coach Abar Rouse with a concealed microcassette recorder on July 30 and 31 and Aug. 1. The tapes also reveal that Bliss knew some...

WACO, Texas - Baylor basketball coach Dave Bliss resigned Friday over major violations in his program uncovered following the disappearance and death of a player and charges he was killed by a former teammate. "I'm the head coach and I'm accountable for everything that goes on in my program," Bliss said in a hastily arranged campus news conference. "I accept that responsibility. I intend to cooperate fully as the inquiry continues. I'll do whatever I can to make things right." After Bliss' brief resignation announcement, Baylor president Robert Sloan said the school's investigation committee already has discovered major violations regarding...