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Too. did this judge have the authority? well, he says that it's not a varsity sport and i asked judge napolitano why did the judge decide this way? take a listen. >> when schools do this, they are perceived by the court. and remember, this is a decision by a judge, not a jury. they are perceived by the court as trying to evade the law, rather than comply with it. the more they evade, the less credibility they have with the court. the less likely they are to prevail. that's what happened here. >> we contacted the university, shepard and they said they are planning on offering varsity rugby for ...

Told the agriculture secretary tom vilsack to reconsider his decision to fire sherrod. this afternoon, the white house apologized. tonight, secretary vilsack is apologizing and offering her a new job. our senior white house correspondent major garrett is live in the north lawn today. major, what about this woman's assertion that the white house pressured the agriculture department to oust her or push her out? >> that's right. at today's briefing, robert gibbs said he had no personal knowledge of that. he was pressed many times on that question. all he would say is he had no knowledge of any wh...

>> i'm shepard smith. this is "the fox report." it's the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. former agriculture department employee shirley sherrod says she's now been offered a new job. but she says that she needs to think about it first. here's what transpired over the last few days. she says she was forced to resign after an edited video appeared on line which to observers appeared to portray her as making racist statements. and then, after we learned the video was taken completely out of context, there came a number of apologies all the way to the top of the food chain. james...

You see at the bottom, this is a very simple manual process. you see just people leaning over the edges of boats, doing what they can by hand. in this case, they're putting lights in this boom so boats will see it at night. it's a startlingly slow process especially when you consider that there are hundreds of miles now of damaged coastline. >> a lot of those shrimpers now coming back from a day's work for b.p. where they make about $300 a day or about 1/5 of what they could make on a good night shrimping. shepard? >> we're told they're now exploring yet another new option in an attempt to kil...

Forecasters are saying that this system has a 50/50 chance of turning into a tropical storm and, unfortunately, it's impossible to predict the direction it will take. but b.p. reports it is taking no chances. we're told the company has temporarily halted operations on the well and that it is now ordered skimming crews back to shore. steve harrigan tonight live in louisiana with more. how long a delay are we thinking about here? do we know? >> shepard, it depends on the severity and the direction of the storm. a bad one in the gulf could cause a delay of up to two weeks, much of the work out on...