COLUMBIA, MO. (AP) -- A Missouri newspaper reports that secondary NCAA violations in all divisions have increased by nearly 50 percent over the past five years. Many of the missteps involve text messages between recruits and coaches.
The Columbia Daily Tribune reports 32 of the 77 secondary violations at the University of Missouri in 2009 and 2010 involved either text messaging or the Internet.
Most of those infractions involved coaches sending text messages to recruits. That practice is banned until a high school athlete signs a letter of intent.
The violations also involved improper use of instant messages and Twitter.
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