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Related Topics: Domestic violence, Kendrick Nunn

Revoking Kendrick Nunn's scholarship is the right thing to do. So, too, would be to keep him and try to make things better. This gets complicated.

This is what domestic violence looks like. It doesn't matter that this was one incident, two-plus years ago, perpetrated by one man in a two-second span. This is what we think back to, invariably, when we hear of athletes hitting women. It is the cloak Illinois will choose to wear if it allows Kendrick Nunn, who pleaded guilty, and Jaylon Tate, who has been reinstated after his charges were dismissed, to play for them again.