Bishop Sycamore controversy lingers months later

For a few days in late August, it was arguably the biggest story in sports – or, at the very least, the most confounding.

When Bishop Sycamore lost a nationally-televised football game to IMG Academy, 58-0, ESPN’s broadcasters wondered on-air if they’d been duped by a program that claimed it had several Division I recruits. And when reporters started digging into the story, they found allegations of overage players, exaggerated rosters, dubious academics, unpaid bills, bad checks – and even simple details about the school that were difficult to verify.