Archbishop, Saint Louis' Majerus in spat (AP)
Published 1/24/2008 at Yahoo! Sports - NCAA Men's Hoops News
A Roman Catholic archbishop's call this week for Saint Louis University to discipline its popular basketball coach for publicly supporting abortion rights has put the Jesuit school in a bind. If the university takes action against Rick Majerus, no stranger to controversy throughout his career, it risks criticism for clamping down on the free exchange of ideas.
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