TIMELINE

APRIL 2003 -- Bill Self hired as head coach of the University of Kansas basketball team.

JUNE 2003 -- Lew Perkins hired as Athletic Director for KU.

NOVEMBER 2007 -- William Dent resigns as Director of Sports Medicine for the University of Kansas Athletic Department.

APRIL 24, 2009 -- William Dent is sending copies of the correspondence he is having with KU Athletic Director Lew Perkins about exercise equipment to reporters at the Topeka Capital-Journal. (This is a year before he is supposedly blackmailing Perkins. Look at the date again.).

APRIL 2010 -- KU Athletic Director Lew Perkins reports that William Dent, former Director of Sports Medicine for KU, is blackmailing him about Perkins' use of thousands of dollars of exercise equipment, as well as regarding ineligible athletes on the KU basketball team and violations of the university drug policy.

APRIL 2010 -- KU Athletic Director Lew Perkins pays $5,000.00 to one of the supposed former owners of the exercise equipment.

MAY 30, 2010 -- The Perkins/Dent scandal breaks in the Topeka Capital-Journal, and the story, in one shape or another, including the allegations of ineligible basketball players and drug policy violations, gets reported by ESPN, CBS Sports, Yahoo Sports, the Associated Press, local and regional newspapers and major TV affilates around the country.

JUNE 2, 2010 -- KU Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little tells the Kansas City Star that the university is initiating an investigation into the allegations made by William Dent, and that the matter would be fully reviewed in 10 working days.

JUNE 9, 2010 -- Only five working days after it is announced, the KU internal investigation concludes finding “no evidence” to substantiate William Dent’s claims of drug policy abuse, ineligible players and a tickets-for-exercise-equipment scam.

JUNE 10, 2010 -- KU Athletic Director Lew Perkins announces he will retire in approximately one year and three months.

JUNE 23, 2010 -- The Lawrence Journal-World reports that there is proof of William Dent allegations regarding the alleged tickets-for-exercise-equipment scam: “According to documents obtained by the Journal-World through a Kansas Open Records request, an executive of Medical Outfitters went from having four seats on the 24th row of an upper-level corner section in Allen Fieldhouse to having four seats on the seventh row of a mid-level section along the west side of the court.”

JULY 13, 2010 -- KU Athletic Director Lew Perkins indicates that he will not press charges against William Dent for blackmail. The local police follow suit.

ONGOING -- Kansas State Ethics Commission inquiry into whether KU Athletic Director Lew Perkins violated Kansas state law in taking the loan of free exercise equipment.

ONGOING -- Federal Bureau of Investigation and IRS probes into University of Kansas Ticket Scandal.

NOT ONGOING -- NCAA investigation into whether there were and are ineligible players on the Kansas basketball team and whether the team violated university drug policies.