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OGDEN, Utah (AP) -- Weber State University's athletics program is on probation.
The NCAA placed the program on a two-year probation today and removed one of its football scholarships for the next school year.
Student athletes at the school violated NCAA rules by using scholarship money to buy non-textbook items at the campus bookstore.
The school discovered the problem in 2004 and performed an internal investigation. Weber State then reported its findings to the NCAA.
The school says the improper purchases amounted to almost eight-thousand five-hundred dollars. About two-hundred athletes were involved and the items were purchased between 2001 and 2004.
The school's men's basketball program was placed on a four-year probation by the NCAA and was stripped of two scholarships in 1996.
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