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\nOn March 20, 2014 – six weeks after Cal football player Ted Agu dropped dead on a campus hillside in the early morning – Berkeley campus police Chief Margo Bennett emailed John Wilton, then the vice chancellor for administration and finance, with the warning not to share with others “the documents I gave you yesterday. … The case is not available for a PRA request and I’d like to keep it that way.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bennett added, “I am fairly confident that Sandy has not had access to this level of detail.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The “case,” for all intents and purposes, could be seen as a negligent homicide. Agu had perished during a bizarre punishment drill directed by then-head football coach Sonny Dykes’ strength and conditioning assistant Damon Harrington. Ultimately, settlement of a wrongful death lawsuit by Agu’s family would cost $4.75 million in taxpayer- and tuition-subsidized funds.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Sandy” in Bennett’s email is Sandy Barbour, who, like many in this sorry episode’s cast of characters, subsequently “fell upward” in the football industry: At the time the athletic director at Cal, she is now athletic director at Penn State University.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As for “PRA” – that stands for Public Records Act. The document from which I’m quoting is one of what I suspect is the unnaturally sparse number thus far released in the course of my California Public Records Act, or CPRA, lawsuit, filed a year ago with the Alameda County Superior Court, to daylight what top administrators were contemporaneously saying and doing regarding how to handle the Agu scandal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

CONTINUED AT “Years later, questions remain regarding football player Ted Agu’s death,”http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2018\/05\/03\/years-later-questions-remain-regarding-football-player-ted-agus-death\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Concussion Inc.’s ebook<\/b>THE TED AGU PAPERS: A Black Life That Mattered – And the Secret History of a Covered-Up Death in University of California Football<\/i><\/b>is available on Kindle-compatible devices at<\/b>http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aA2LDl<\/b><\/a>. All royalties are being donated to sickle cell trait research and education.<\/b><\/p>\n

2017 op-ed article for the<\/b>Daily Californian<\/i><\/b>on my Public Records Act lawsuit:<\/b>http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2017\/04\/25\/lawsuit-uc-regents-emblematic-issues-facing-college-football\/<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

“Explainer: How ‘Insider’ Access Made San Francisco Chronicle and Berkeley J-School Miss Real Story Behind Death of Cal Football’s Ted Agu,”<\/b>https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=10931<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Complete headline links to our Ted Agu series:<\/b>https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=10877<\/b><\/a><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"