Revisionist historian at CSUN

This story that finally hit the wire services Friday afternoon about the well-respected Stanford swim coach who decided that the best way to get back at a few of his ex-athletes was to delete their records from the Cardinal media guides didn't violate any NCAA regulations. It was just a really slimey thing to do.
The indefinite suspension that the school eventually levied on coach Skip Kenney once someone discovered that the marks were erased may only be the start of things.
But for those who follow Cal State Northridge sports, it's worth reading between the deleted lines here.
Sure, it's the draconian Kenney, whose teams have won the last 26 Pac-10 championships, who's ultimately responsible for expunging the records of the five world-class swimmers who once competed for Standford. The athletes contend it's his way of trying to get back at them for defying some of his wishes about off-season swim training.
And it's Kenney who issued the lame apology: "I wish to apologize for a serious mistake in judgment on my part. To exclude these five student-athletes from our media guide was an error, and it will be corrected immediately."
Athletic director Bob Bowlsby acknowledged "the intentional omissions'' were directed by
Kenney, but he also said that former media relations representative Bob Vazquez, who produced the media guide, was "equally responsible for a tremendous mistake in judgment.''
Vazquez ... Vazquez .... Where have we heard that name?
Oh, he's now the associate athletic director for media relations at Cal State Northridge.
He says he accepted the revised list of best times that Kenney gave him for the 2006-07 media guide even though he was aware that some times were omitted.
"Because the coaches pay for their media guides (out of their own sports' funds), they have control over all the editorial content,'' Vazquez said in the San Francisco Chronicle. "In the records section, this is the top-15 list he wanted used. I didn't ask why some of the times were different" from previous years.
Was Kenney being vindictive in editing the lists?
"I don't know what to say because I didn't know Skip's motive at the time,'' Vazquez said. "It was my first year of doing swimming. Looking at it today, I probably would have questioned it."
Speaking from the Pac-10 men's basketball championships at Staples Center, Bowlsby told The Chronicle, "This is not editorial content. This is fact-based information. You don't selectively edit fact-based information. (Vazquez) should have gone to someone else in the department and found out what (was) the appropriate thing to do.''
We'll let you draw your own conclusions about how information comes out of CSUN's athletic department these days with Vazquez in charge of the delete key.