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Rick Majerus has declared he is in favor of abortion, stem-cell research, gun control and raising the white flag in Iraq. This is all fairly standard boilerplate of the left, and Majerus counts himself a member in good standing with George Soros and the other leading agents of socialistic change in America. Majerus even campaigned for John FrankenKerry in three states in the 2004 presidential election. Not that the Majerus factor catapulted FrankenKerry to the White House. The political beliefs of a college basketball coach would be fairly pedestrian stuff, except Majerus scribbles his X's and O's at a Jesuit...

St. Louis basketball coach Rick Majerus had no intention of creating such a firestorm when he made an appearance at a Hillary Clinton rally last Saturday night in St. Louis and answered questions regarding his pro-choice, pro-embryonic stem-cell research beliefs for a local TV affiliate. Three days later, Archbishop Raymond Burke of the St. Louis diocese, who is very active in the pro-life movement and recently attended the March for Life conference in Washington, D.C., drew a line in the sand in response. Burke said St. Louis University, which is a university operated by the Jesuit fathers, should discipline Majerus...

St. Louis basketball coach Rick Majerus had no intention of creating such a firestorm when he made an appearance at a Hillary Clinton rally last Saturday night in St. Louis and answered questions regarding his pro-choice, pro-embryonic stem-cell research beliefs for a local TV affiliate. Three days later, Archbishop Raymond Burke of the St. Louis diocese, who is very active in the pro-life movement and recently attended the March for Life conference in Washington, D.C., drew a line in the sand in response. Burke said St. Louis University, which is a university operated by the Jesuit fathers, should discipline Majerus...

SALT LAKE CITY - Utah basketball coach Rick Majerus was hospitalized with heart problems and will resign after the season, the school announced Wednesday. Majerus, 55, felt chest pains Tuesday night and contacted a cardiologist in Santa Barbara, Calif., where he went for treatment. "He's stepping down, definitely, at the end of the season," Utah spokesman Mike Lageschulte told The Associated Press. "If he's doing better and can come back he will, but right now he definitely won't coach beyond this year." Assistant coach Kerry Rupp will take over coaching duties in the interim for Utah (15-5), which lost its...

Basketball players received excessive meal money -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah's athletic program was placed on three years' probation by the NCAA on Wednesday for rules violations that included excessive meal money for men's basketball players and academic fraud on the football team. The Utes may still participate in postseason tournaments and no restrictions were placed on TV appearances. The NCAA Committee on Infractions announced the punishment after a two-year investigation of a university review. Infractions committee chairman Tom Yeager said the violations were relatively minor and did not warrant more serious penalties. "These were not five-course...