UPDATED: Nov. 28, 2011 at 2:49 p.m.

Shortly before 2 p.m., media personnel who had been camped out at Manley Field House all day sprang into action when they saw two men walking down the hallway and enter a locked part of the building. One was holding a stack of papers in his hand.

Reporters and photographers followed the men down the hallway, taking photographs and trying to ask questions. The reporters were stopped when the men entered the locked area.

Reporters were camped at Manley after a rumor surfaced that a search warrant would be executed. The possible search warrant would be a part of the investigation into former associate men’s basketball coach Bernie Fine. Police opened an investigation on Nov. 17. Fine was placed on administrative leave the same day the investigation began and Fine was fired from the university Sunday.

A young female walking down the hallway toward the exit of Manley was angry with the media presence.

‘Pathetic,’ she said. ‘You are all pathetic.’

Shortly after the two initial men entered the locked area, more people entered, either with a key or an SUID card.

Pete Moore, director of athletic communications, spoke to reporters inside Manley before entering the locked area and said he was unsure of whether or not a search warrant would be executed at Manley. Moore exited the area and headed back into Manley shortly afterward.

The search warrant rumor came from a report by NewsChannel 9. The station reported, in an online article, that a ‘source in a position to know’ said search warrants would be executed. The article was later updated to include another source in a position to know who said search warrants would not be executed.

At 1:22 p.m., the article was updated to say that search warrants would not be executed.

medelane@syr.edu

Published on November 27, 2011 at 12:00 pm

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