EAST LANSING, Mich. — Upon further review, the call stands. Michigan State University has officially fired head football coach Mel Tucker, the university announced Wednesday, less than two years after Tucker signed a historic 10-year, $95 million contract extension that made him one of the highest-paid football coaches in the country, and the highest-paid Black coach in all of American sports. Michigan State informed Tucker last week that it intended to fire him for cause, in the wake of sexual-misconduct allegations levied against him by rape survivor and advocate Brenda Tracy. Michigan State...
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