Entertaining reader email claims Kendall Marshall injury a hoax

Posted Mar 20, 2012
t I don’t know if I’ve ever received an email quite like the one that popped into my inbox at 12:49 p.m. today. The individual who wrote me – whose name I’m withholding to protect the guilty – claimed that North Carolina invented Kendall Marshall’s injury so that the Tar Heels could remain in the news and overshadow N.C. State’s appearance in the Sweet 16. (Raleigh News & Observer)

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