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Rest in peace, Mike Slive: A great man and a good friend

By Kevin Scarbinsky

It was Good Friday 2015. We'd just finished breakfast at Salem's Diner in Homewood, his favorite early morning hangout, when Mike Slive's phone rang. The caller ID said Columbus, Ohio, but didn't include a name. Slive said, "I'm intrigued."

He answered, and the voice on the phone belonged to Urban Meyer. The coach was calling to apologize to the commish for the way Meyer had left Florida and the SEC years before.

Actually, Meyer had been writing a letter of apology to Slive and thought, hey, why not pick up the phone?