Updated: University of Michigan calls blog report of Manny Harris fight inaccurate

Posted on Fri, Jan 29, 2010 : 9:09 p.m.

In his most recent blog post, Ann Arbor sports writer John U. Bacon suggested a fight led to  Manny Harris' one-game suspension last week, but University of Michigan officials disagree.

"Manny Harris mistakenly thought one of his teammates had taken a cheap shot at him during practice. Harris started a fight," Bacon wrote in a column about John Beilein and Red Berenson putting values before victories. Since then, Bacon has posted a comment below noting that U-M basketball officials told him after the column came out that the incident was not a fight. Bacon said his point about the importance of placing values before victories stands regardless of the nature of the incident.

Michigan sports information director Tom Wywrot called Bacon's account of the events leading to Harris' suspension "inaccurate" Friday night. He declined to discuss the suspension or the incident, which Michigan described as an "unsportsmanlike act," further.

You can find Bacon's complete column here.

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