Legendary college basketball coach Jim Boeheim put his own reputation, as well as that of Syracuse University, firmly on the line with his support of longtime assistant Bernie Fine, who is accused of having molested two young ball boys for the school's basketball team during the 1980s.

That's not to say that Fine is necessarily innocent or guilty in the matter or that Boeheim is entirely wrong to back him if he believes in Fine's innocence as vehemently as his comments would suggest. As Boeheim told Bleacher Report - College Basketball
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