{"id":175185,"date":"2015-12-31T06:53:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T13:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=175185"},"modified":"2015-12-31T06:53:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T13:53:06","slug":"175185-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/175185-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Splashbacks: Towson Controversy, NCAP Invitational Control Top Stories in Nov-Dec 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While <strong>Michael Phelps<\/strong> still owned his fair share of most read items to close the year, the Towson Controversy and <strong>Katie Ledecky&#8217;s<\/strong> amazing swims at the NCAP Invitational dominated the top read stories in Nov-Dec.<\/p>\n<p>The Towson situation really hit a critical point when <em>Swimming World<\/em> broke the story that the team planned on boycotting a dual meet with Pittsburgh. 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