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WACO, Texas -- Billionaire businessman Drayton McLane, whose name adorns the Baylor University football stadium, said Thursday he wants to see fired football coach Art Briles honor restored and any evidence that led to his dismissal publicly released by the schools board of regents.McLane and a group of influential alumni and donors called Bears for Leadership Reform met across the Brazos River from McLane Stadium in Waco to demand more transparency from school regents, including the release of what was uncovered by an investigation into how the school handled sexual assaults.The group insisted its goal isnt to bring back Briles or focus on the football program, but to remove a cloak of secrecy surrounding board meetings, the investigation and its findings.Speaking on his own, McLane stopped short of calling for Briles return, but defended his integrity.The Baylor family and the public needs to know the truth, McLane said. Art and the other people involved in this need for the facts to come out. McLane also insisted hes been told nothing and been shown none of the evidence despite his position as a non-voting regent emeritus.Regents released some results from the investigation by the law firm Pepper Hamilton earlier this year that found the school for years mishandled reports of sexual assault, and that Briles football program acted as if it was above the rules.The probe led to Briles dismissal, the resignation of former athletic director Ian McCaw and the demotion of school president Ken Starr, who later resigned.Baylor is facing federal lawsuits from more than a dozen women, and a federal investigation by the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Education. The demands and sharp criticism of school leadership from influential donors and alumni is the strongest sign yet of the behind-the-scenes battles at Baylor.Briles assistant coaches, including son Kendal Briles, released a statement last week defending Briles. Fans lined up to buy black T-shirts with his initials before Baylors home game against TCU last week, and a similar banner also flew from one of stadiums luxury suites.The group on Thursday demanded Baylor regents hold open meetings, publish agendas and minutes, and discuss decisions publicly. And it wants Baylor to disclose what the university has spent on settlements and the pending lawsuits. It also wants a voice in selecting a new president.Baylor University has no place in scandalous, tabloid news, former regent Emily Tinsley said. Power struggles and secrecy can destroy any family.Houston attorney John Eddie Williams suggested some regents should be forced out. The board, however, is appointed by its own members.Theres some good people on that board, but there has been some bad decisions, Williams said. At some point, youve got to clean house.The group noted that Pepper Hamilton recommended reforms at the board level, including training on conflicts of interest and protocols for interaction with administrators and athletics. The group said it wants to know what the investigation found to prompt those recommendations.Baylor officials did not attend Thursdays meeting but regents Chairman Ron Murff released a lengthy statement in which he noted that emotions are running high.As we make the changes and reforms necessary at Baylor, we are determined to emerge from this experience stronger as a Christian institution, closer as a Baylor Family and united in our determination to always strive to do what is right, Murff said.Whether the group will try to force its influence for changes on the board by withholding money, Williams said that will be up to individual members to determine. Carlos Zambrano Cubs Jersey . Thousands of Southern California fans enveloped the Trojans to celebrate an improbable win secured by an interim coach, an inconsistent kicker and a thin defence that wouldnt break. 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War imagery has always been used to describe sporting contests: battled on, assault, marshall the troops, lay siege to, tracer bullet, shell-shocked. John Buchanan, in fact, is known to have taken more than a page or two out of Sun Tzus The Art of War during his time as coach of Australia.The metaphors of conflict help paint a picture of sorts for us spectators, but they begin to feel hollow when we look back at the number of players who had to leave the cricket fields to fight in real battlegrounds and the number of people who still try to lead lives (and sometimes play cricket) in war-torn areas today.October 1945: World War Two was over but it would take years for Britain to recover from the blitzkrieg bombings. In the picture above, a group of men play cricket in Blackfriars, London, during their lunch hour, with St Pauls Cathedral in the background. According to the BBC, during the 1940 Blitz attacks in London, Winston Churchill asked that St Pauls be protected at all costs to preserve the morale of the people. Bombs rained down on the cathedral. Volunteer firewatchers patrolled its myriad corridors, armed with sandbags and water pumps to douse the flames… an incendiary device lodged on the roof. As it burned, the lead of the iconic dome began to melt. But luck was on the side of the firewatchers. The bomb dislodged, fell to the floor of the Stone Gallery, and was smothered with a sandbag.dddddddddddd St Pauls was saved.Members of the Royal Air Force play cricket in the Kuwait desert, near the Iraq border, in 2003.Len Hutton and Stan Nichols (first and second from left), who played together in Englands last Test before the war, in 1939, on parade at an Army School of Physical Training in 1940. Nichols, 38 during that match, didnt play for England again. Hutton, 22, went on to play 66 Tests after the war.The Oval took on the grim look of a prisoner of war camp in 1944. However, while the ground housed searchlight batteries, it was actually never used as a POW camp for enemy parachutists as planned.Another example of war metaphors in sport - a 1933 Australian cartoon suggesting things might get worse when the secretary of war, Lord Hailsham became the MCC president during the Bodyline series.Smoke from a V-1 flying bomb, also known as the Doodlebug, rises above Lords during a 1944 Army v RAF match featuring Test cricketers Wally Hammond, Les Ames, Maurice Leyland, Bill Edrich and Bob Wyatt. A stark reminder of the violence we have grown accustomed to today: a group of Afghan youngsters play in front of a destroyed helicopter in Kabul in 2006. ' ' '