S.C. joins state universities overspending on sports teams

Image:  When a joint committee of the state Legislature spent more than seven hours Tuesday castigating members of the University of South Carolina Board of Trustees, their main target was the multiple botched attempts to hire a permanent university president. Also high on the lawmakers’ list of grievances, though, was questionable spending by university administrators to cover a contract buyout of a fired football coach, and the potential to do the same for a recently fired basketball...