Phillip Fulmer Served With Subpeona

HOOVER, Ala. (AP) -- Tennessee football coach Phillip Fulmer now acknowledges receiving what he called "a piece of paper" during Southeastern Conference media day festivities in Alabama. But he says he didn't realize what it was.

Lawyers for a former Alabama football booster say they staked out the annual media days Thursday and served Fulmer with a subpoena to testify about a lawsuit against the NCAA.

Fulmer repeatedly denied seeing a subpoena.

But later in the day, he said as he got out of a car, he was thrown a piece of paper that he then handed with some other things to media relations official Bud Ford. Fulmer says he then forgot about the piece of paper.

Now he says he'll let his lawyers handle the subpoena. And he says he wasn't trying to mislead anyone earlier but simply hadn't looked at the paper to know what it was.

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