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A Good Problem for Stephen F. Austin: Distributing $137,000 in Charity

Mario Houben/Cal Sport Media, via Associated Press

At Stephen F. Austin University in Texas, administrators plan to spend this week seeking answers to a question they never thought they would have to deal with: How do you legally distribute an unexpected philanthropic windfall to the family of a student athlete?

This, apparently, is what happens when a previously unknown basketball player hits a last-second shot to beat Duke during Thanksgiving week, and word quickly gets out that there is a GoFundMe campaign for the player’s family, whose home and church were badly damaged when Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas earlier this year.