NCAA hammers Mizzou on academic fraud case, including postseason bans

Missouri athletics director Jim Sterk during a Missouri athletics caravan stop at Ballpark Village on Friday, May 19, 2017, in St. Louis. Photo by Chris Lee, clee@post-dispatch.comThe NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions brought down the hammer on the University of Missouri for former tutor Yolanda Kumar's admission of academic fraud with Mizzou athletes. The MU football, baseball and softball programs were all sentenced to postseason bans for the upcoming season, on top of scholarship and recruiting limitations and vacated wins and records.

The NCAA released its findings and penalties on Thursday, finding that Kumar, though unnamed in the report, violated NCAA ethical conduct, academic…