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February 6, 2010

Accusation Casts Doubt on Irvin's Sincerity

J. Whitlock, Kansas City Star

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Michael Irvin may have hustled me Thursday afternoon. But I really don’t know. I don’t think he did. I hope he didn’t.

About six hours before news broke that a woman filed a civil suit accusing Irvin, a former Dallas Cowboys great, of rape, he wowed me with a provocative, intelligent, mature 40-minute conversation inside the Super Bowl media center.

I wrote a column about our conversation. Thankfully, my editors canned the column late Thursday night when the Miami Herald released its story about the 3-year-old rape allegation at the center of the civil suit filed Friday.

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