Chris Webber: Michigan AD Apologized for Fallout from 2003 Investigation

Former University of Michigan basketball star Chris Webber said he received an apology from Wolverines athletic director Warde Manuel for how the school handled the fallout from his guilty plea in a 2003 court case involving an athletic department booster.

Webber told ESPN's Myron Medcalf in an interview released Wednesday that Manuel, who was hired by UM in 2016, said the school should have done more to "protect" him after he pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal contempt after paying back former booster Ed Martin over $38,000.

"I was told by the athletic director at the University of Michigan that he was sorry," Webber said. "And he wasn't even there at the time [I was playing]. He told me…