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“To the contrary, in our steadfast opinion, Bo was not aware of such conduct and assumed that any procedures were medically appropriate,” they wrote in a letter. “As he demonstrated at many points in his career and to us as a family, Bo had a clear and compelling sense of right and wrong: he would not have tolerated misconduct, especially toward any of his players, family members, coaches or to anyone associated with the University of Michigan’s football program.

The Crawfords’ unit’s interior was designed by Kelly Hurliman. It makes up half the building’s top floor and has a private elevator entry, 4-1/2 bathrooms, a kitchen with quartzite countertops and Wolf appliances, a private office, a home gym, a walk-through pantry, a back kitchen and an 850-square-foot private terrace. The second level has a primary bedroom suite with two large custom walk-in closets, and the living room has built-ins, a custom honed marble fireplace and 20-foot Nana retractable doors.

“After an extensive process of repeated warnings without effect, gathering information from current and former players and others across the sport, two months of comprehensive data collection, listening to our fans and thoughtful deliberation, I have determined that new enforcement of foreign substances is needed to level the playing field,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement.

Money, money, money. The sides haven’t been able to find common ground on an extension, and when these things drag out, it almost always comes down to the dollars involved. Period. Then you get into structure, cash flow and the fine details of the contract. As best I understand the situation, not much has happened since early September, when the Bears made a run at an extension. The sides didn’t come close. Thus, you have the current impasse.

On its face, the defense might sound silly, but several top American athletes have mounted persuasive cases in recent years that their positive tests were caused by contaminated beef or prescription medications. That isn’t quite what Houlihan is arguing, though. “We concluded that the most likely explanation was a burrito purchased and consumed approximately 10 hours before that drug test from an authentic Mexican food truck that serves pig offal near my house in Beaverton, Oregon,” she wrote. “I notified the (Athletics Integrity Unit) that I believed this was the source.”