Baylor still reeling by grief and scandal.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Byline: Mike Jensen

WACO, Texas _ An undergraduate choir sang a mournful hymn, "It Is Well With my Soul." The mourners had just filed into a bright, modern chapel at the edge of Baylor University's campus for a memorial service for slain Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy. His mother and girlfriend took seats in the front row. Across the aisle sat the president of the university.

Also at the service Thursday was the athletic director who had lost his job and Dennehy's remaining Baylor basketball teammates.

How many teammates were left to attend? "It's hard to tell these days," one of them had said just before the service.

It may be the last time this group of people, tied by grief and scandal, is all together other than in court.

The world's largest Baptist college is still reeling from a tragedy that began when a basketball player was fatally shot twice above the right ear, allegedly by a teammate with growing mental problems. Then reports of NCAA violations surfaced, including illegal payments to players. And the head coach was taped by one of his assistants plotting to make the slain player out to be a drug dealer to explain how he could afford to pay for school without a scholarship.

"There's nobody right now that can say that we paid Pat Dennehy, because he's ...