YOUNGSTOWN Three Ursuline High School football coaches accused of ignoring widespread hazing have formally denied knowing about alleged sexual abuse within the program. They are asking a federal judge to remove portions of the plaintiffs' lawsuit.

In court documents filed in one of the hazing lawsuits, head coach Daniel Reardon and assistants Timothy McGlynn and Christian Syrianoudis argued that the amended complaint contains "immaterial, impertinent, and scandalous" claims designed to inflame public opinion rather than support legal arguments.

The coaches admitted they were chaperones on the football camps where the abuse allegedly occurred, but maintained they never witnessed or heard about the specific acts described by the plaintiffs. The lawsuit, brought by the parents of two form

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