GENEVA, N. Cheap Jerseys .Y. -- The wife of fired Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine claimed Wednesday that ESPN maliciously trampled her reputation by broadcasting salacious stories about her and about claims that her husband molested ball boys. Laurie Fine held a news conference Wednesday and threatened to file a libel lawsuit in federal court against the cable network and two employees. ESPN in November broke the story of two former Syracuse ball boys, Robert Davis and Michael Lang, who claimed they were molested by Bernie Fine decades ago. "Im here today as a wife and a mother who has had to endure the trauma of being smeared in the public as a monster," she said, reading quickly from a statement. "My life has been destroyed." Laurie Fines lawyer, Lawrence Fisher of Pittsburgh, repeatedly declined to answer specific questions and said he was discussing the complaint with Bristol, Conn.-based ESPN. He has not yet filed a lawsuit. ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz said the complaint is without merit and the network stands by its reporting. Bernie Fine has denied wrongdoing and hasnt been charged. Federal investigators opened an investigation into him following the allegations of a third man, 23-year-old Zach Tomaselli of Lewiston, Maine, who has since said he lied. The local prosecutor has called Davis and Lang credible but said the alleged crimes occurred too long ago to pursue. Laurie Fine, with her two daughters at her side, said her husband called to wish her luck Wednesday. She would not address whether they are still together. "Bernie does support this lawsuit, and hes behind me 100 per cent," Laurie Fine said. Laurie Fine said she was the victim of "treacherous lies" and said the attention has forced her to live in seclusion for the past six months and give up charity work she enjoyed. "They should apologize and retract these horrible lies reported about me," she said. Fine said the network was motivated by the unfolding child sex-abuse scandal at Penn State University. "Although these defendants have known me to be a decent and honourable woman, they have maliciously attacked me in order to attack my husband and to boost television ratings in the wake of the Penn State scandal," she said. The accusations from Davis and Lang, quickly picked up by other national media, roiled the Syracuse teams then-perfect season and brought criticism to Hall of Fame head coach Jim Boeheim. Boeheim initially called Davis a liar out to capitalize on the Penn State scandal, but soon softened his stance. Davis initially approached ESPN in 2003, but the network did not report the story then. Fisher called the district attorneys comments on Davis and Langs credibility "irrelevant, immaterial, unsubstantiated and foolish." Davis lawyer, Gloria Allred, said if Laurie Fine does sue ESPN, she anticipates Davis will be called to testify. Last week, a Syracuse-area judge dismissed defamation suit by Davis and Lang against Boeheim and the university. Allred said she will appeal. "It would be ironic if Ms. Fine is allowed to pursue her lawsuit claiming she was defamed when Bobby Davis was not permitted to pursue his defamation case," she said in an email statement. Fisher said the media coverage has made it "impossible" for Laurie Fine to go out in public in her hometown, so they held the news conference in Geneva, a Finger Lakes resort town 45 miles west of Syracuse. The family has also put their suburban Syracuse home on the market. "She cant even go to Wegmans," said Fisher, referring to a local supermarket chain. Fisher said ESPN should apologize, retract the stories and "be punished for wilful, wanton, reckless disregard for the reputation and the truth of Laurie Fine." He called it "a textbook example of defamation in the world of journalism." . PETERSBURG, Fla. 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Head coach Lisa Jordan, who founded and coached the team for 14 years, was shocked when she was informed Friday morning by athletic director Steve Sarty that the womens varsity program would be discontinued. She was told when her contract expires March 31, it would not be renewed. "Its very disappointing for womens sport in general to see a sport go by the wayside," Jordan said. "As well as another professional coaching opportunity for a woman to be gone. "This certainly chips away at the armour of our sport." The decision affects not only the 18 players eligible to return to the Huskies next season, but players Jordan has recruited. The players were informed of the decision in a meeting after Jordan met with Sarty. "This morning I think our team was completely blindsided," said third-year player Sarah Maynard of Cole Harbour, N.S. "Now Im just a little angered by the whole situation. "This is not a good day for womens hockey, taking one team out of the AUS conference. Now theres only going to be six teams and one less team for girls to try out for." The Huskies won the Atlantic Conference last year for the fourth time in their history. Saint Marys lost in the bronze-medal game of the womens national championship. The fourth-place finish was the Huskies best result in a Canadian Interuniversity Sport season. The hockey team had the highest annual operational budget of all womens varsity teams at $60,000, and according to Sarty, brought in negligible revenue. "The university came to us and said, You need to cut five to 10 per cent of your operating budget," Sarty said. "The reason for that was weve received four per cent less (provincial) funding to the university than in previous years. "Its awful. Its terrible. Its not something we want to do. I hope people will understand it was a very difficult decision and its not something that I hope to ever have to do again, nor did I want to do it this time, but its a necessary decision." 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Halifax city councillor Sue Uteck, the wife of the late Larry Uteck who was the football coach and athletic director at SMU for many years, was livid at the news the womens hockey team was falling under the axe. "That womens hockey program was his pride and joy to get off the ground and put it to where it was today," she said. "To me, this is a fundamentally wrong decision." Uteck said the decision had not yet been ratified by the universitys board of governors and that she was going to exert pressure to get the program reinstated. "My husband has a golf tournament in his honour, the Larry Uteck Golf Classic, and that raises money for student athletes as Saint Marys," she said. "Im not just alumnus. I give a huge amount of time and dollars to Saint Marys in the form of fundraising. "I will be removing his name from that tournament. That hockey team was his pride and joy." 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