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Forde-Yard Dash: Updates on COVID-19 Team Cases Should Not Be Kept Private

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football, where moving trucks are standing by at Jay Hopson’s house in Hattiesburg:

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THIRD QUARTER: THIS IS NO TIME FOR SECRECY

The enduring mystery of American higher education is how much universities don’t want the public to know about how they do business. At many (but by no means all) public universities, they blockade open-records requests with creative obstinance. Privacy laws are expanded beyond their intended scope.