Lundy says, If we couldnt give them an opportunity to comment, we werent going to put the ir names in the paper. If we couldn't find a player, we couldn t say he was a cheater Asked what he would do differently. Lundy replied, Usually, you look back and say, I probably wouldn t have done that or 'I'd have done this instead. Theres nothing in this story I would say that about. We havent run a correction yet It's a bulletproof story. I go to bed with a clear conscience. Then there's the question of how the story turned out for the source. When Jan Gangelhoff appeared on Good Morning America after the story ran, she was asked why she had talked about the cheating. Because the reporter asked me to,she replied. As Lundy said later ,"These two an and dohrmann] had talked for two months, and Gange hoff kept saying she didn 't really have anything. A lot of porters would have given up. Then, when the story ran, Gangelhoff had no idea her world was gonna turn upside down. There were TV vans outside the casino. Shed been through all this, and yet she and george have the same re lationship they had from the start That's one of the things I'm proudest of," says Lundy. Another is having a sports de partment that didn 't have to hand off a serious story. After the university's report revealed the size of the cheating scandal, Elayne Donahue-the source who had agreed to confirm infomation for dohrmann -told the Pioneer Press, "I commend Jan for com ing forward. If she hadnt, nothing in bas ketball would have changed When Garcia-Ruiz and Dohrmann talk of the lessons they've learned, they list as No 1: When you're pursuing an investigation, don t let anything stop you The weirdest roads can pop open, that you never could have imagined, says Dohrmann. He had started out investigating several possible threads of stories about he basketball program never expecting that academic fraud would be the subject hed end up with. You can go after A and wind up with B, and B can be pretty damned good. said Dohmann. But you have to be sure you' re keeping your eyes out for the unexpected As Reader Advocate Conner puts it: All of the reporting held up. Thats the reputation we have and i think we were really careful 2. Competition There is a fierce rivalry between the Pioneer Press(circulation 21,000 daily) and the Star Tribune,(387,000 daily). What was the im pact of that on the development of this story? On its play?Lundy says, "If we couldn't give them an opportunity to comment, we weren't going to put their names in the paper. If we couldn't find a player, we couldn't say he was a cheater." Asked what he would do differently. Lundy replied, "Usually, you look back and say, 'I probably wouldn't have done that' or 'I'd have done this instead.' There's nothing in this story I would say that about. We haven't run a correction yet. It's a bulletproof story. I go to bed with a clear conscience." Then there's the question of how the story turned out for the source. When Jan Gangelhoff appeared on Good Morning America after the story ran, she was asked why she had talked about the cheating. "Because the reporter asked me to," she replied. As Lundy said later, "These two [Jan and Dohrmann] had talked for two months, and Gangelhoff kept saying she didn't really have anything. A lot of reporters would have given up. Then, when the story ran, Gangelhoff had no idea her world was gonna turn upside down. There were TV vans outside the casino. She'd been through all this, and yet she and George have the same relationship they had from the start." "That's one of the things I'm proudest of," says Lundy. Another is "having a sports department that didn't have to hand off a serious story." After the university's report revealed the size of the cheating scandal, Elayne Donahue—the source who had agreed to confirm information for Dohrmann—told the Pioneer Press, "I commend Jan for coming forward. If she hadn't, nothing in basketball would have changed." When Garcia-Ruiz and Dohrmann talk of the lessons they've learned, they list as No. 1: When you're pursuing an investigation, don't let anything stop you. "The weirdest roads can pop open, that you never " could have imagined, says Dohrmann. He had started out investigating several possible threads of stories about the basketball program , never expecting that academic fraud would be the subject he'd end up with. "You can go after A and wind up with B, and B can be pretty damned good." said Dohrmann. But you have to be sure you're keeping your eyes out for the unexpected. As Reader Advocate Conner puts it: "All of the reporting held up. That's the reputation we have, and I think we were really careful." 2. Competition There is a fierce rivalry between the Pioneer Press (circulation 21,000 daily) and the Star Tribune, (387,000 daily). What was the impact of that on the development of this story? On its play?