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St. Paul's College is going to have to pay out a cancellation fee and other expenses to West Virginia Wesleyan after their opening NCAA Division II football game was called for lack of equipment. The home team's helmets and shoulder pads hadn't arrived by Thursday, and St. Paul's athletic director Leroy Bacote called his counterpart at WVW and told him not to make the trip. Could there be a FedEx commercial in Bacote's futureâ¦?

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