Hurricane Warning

Jeff Taylor | May 22, 2003

So the University of Miami wants to bolt the Big East conference and join the Atlantic Coast Conference, which promises a bigger chunk of TV dough. Fair enough. But why does UM need to shake down a high school with a threatening copyright infringement letter?

The university claims that the Umatilla High Bulldogs use a logo which is too similar to Miami's "split-U" design. The Florida school district can either stop using the logo, or pay the university $2,000 a month for the rights to use the logo. Three guesses which way the high school is leaning.