• Duke volleyball player Rachel Richardson claimed last month that she had been subjected to racist slurs in a match at Brigham Young University.
• The mainstream media outlets ran with the story, which apparently was too enticing to verify.
• BYU’s student newspaper, The Cougar Chronicle, did investigate the story and found no sources in the crowd who heard the slurs.
• BYU did a separate, “extensive” investigation that confirmed the Chronicle’s reporting. The university apologized to the unidentified fan who had been accused of using the slurs and overturned a ban on the fan attending sporting events.

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