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Michael Center, former tennis coach at the University of Texas at Austin, was sentenced to six months in prison Monday for taking $100,000 in bribes to falsely tag an applicant as a recruit, USA Today reported. Center is the first coach to receive prison time in the scandal.

"This is a case, I think, that society has an interest in punishment," said U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns.