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In August 2007, a few days before the
fall semester began at the University of Southern California,
freshman basketball guard O.J. Mayo decided he needed some new clothes for school. His friends, Louis Johnson and Rodney Guillory, picked him up in ...
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Rover
found this 12 hours ago on
obscuresportsquarterly.wordpress.com
As Noah already pointed out in the comments
, ESPN came out with a report today showing
O.J. Mayo received cash and gifts while he was at USC, which is obviously against NCAA rules about amateurism. From ESPN.com : Louis Johnson, who was a part of Mayo’s inner circle until recently, said Mayo accepted around $30,000 in cash and gifts during the past four years from Rodney Guillory, ...
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In a just world, USC basketball would have
something in common with SMU football in the near
future. The death penalty. It's not going to happen, because NCAA bylaws don't work that way. And besides, they're not likely to ever again disband a program ...
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wcbias
posted 15 hours ago from
www.wcbias.com
Alisha Mayo isn’t the only one receiving gifts
this Mother’s Day. Over the holiday weekend, her son
O.J. Mayo received some not-so-good publicity from EastSidePN about gifts he allegedly received while attending USC his freshman year. First Reggie Bush, now O.J. is finding himself in hot water over gifts he reportedly received as a Trojan. Why isn’t this a surprise?
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Former USC basketball player O.J. Mayo, a projected
lottery pick in this year's NBA draft, received thousands
of dollars in cash, clothes and other benefits in apparent violation of NCAA rules while he was still in high school and during his one year in college, a former Mayo associate told ESPN's "Outside the Lines."
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Kiefaber
posted 37 hours ago from
www.college-basketball-reference.com
With the NBA Draft Lottery about a week
away, CBR felt that was appropriate to take a
quick look at the top 14 prospects. In order: Derrick Rose, Michael Beasley, Jerryd Bayless, Brook Lopez, Kevin Love, O.J. Mayo, Anthony Randolph, D.J. Augustin, DeAndre Jordan, Russell Westbrook, Eric Gordon, Danilo Gallinari, Darrell Arthur and a bunch of other candidates.
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AEM
posted 37 hours ago from
unc5corners.blogspot.com
As we continue to wait for a decision
from the three players testing the waters, more news
comes out of the Men's basketball program, and it is not good. Mike Copeland, a senior forward for the team, injured his right knee last week while playing in a pick up game.
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beisbolct
posted 38 hours ago from
soxanddawgs.com
Congradulations is in order to the UConn Huskies
student-athletes who are graduating this weekend. For some of
them, they are family to us as we have watched them grow and mature in person and/or on our television sets.
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coachp28
posted 39 hours ago from
mensbasketballhoopscoopstore.blogspot.com
World's greatest collection of basketball coaching notes volume
5 now available.. Coaches, Here is volume 5 of
the "World's Greatest Collection of Basketball Coaching Clinic Notes". It is an impressive list of basketball coaching information. The Kevin O'Neill and Lawrence Frank stuff is really good. Here is the list: 1. A Defensive System: by Mike Jarvis 2. Al Skinner: Boston ...
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AEM
posted 41 hours ago from
theorangesports.blogspot.com
Going through the SU sites I usually check,
I found this interesting and kind of weird blog
about Donte Greene.
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AEM
posted 41 hours ago from
unc5corners.blogspot.com
Just when you couldn't get enough of the
trio and whether or not they are going to
go pro or they are just testing the waters for the next draft, here comes another small tidbit to stir up the "rumor mill" once more.
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According to John Decker at Hoosier Nation ,
guard Maurice Creek has given a verbal commitment to
Indiana and joins Bobby Capobianco and Derek Elston in the 2009 recruiting class. Creek is 6-4, 175 lbs and hails from South Kent Prep (CT). ...
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advertisement Rivers plans to enroll at Indiana THE
WASHINGTON TIMES Georgetown guard Jeremiah Rivers, who announced his
intention to transfer this past week, plans to enroll at Indiana, according to a source close to the program. A 6-foot-4 guard who ...
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Indiana coach Tom Crean on Thursday characterized Eli
Holman's transfer to Detroit as "an orchestration," according to
The Indianapolis Star.
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BREAKING NEWS: High School Phenom J'Mison Morgan has
asked to be released from his commitment to LSU.
His Sights are now set on becoming UCLA's newest basketball superstar. Our job as UCLA fans is to help make sure LSU honors his request. You can help ...
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Bruins advance to semifinal for fourth-straight year. May
9, 2008 Photo Gallery Stanford, Calif. - The top-seeded
and undefeated UCLA women's water polo team defeated eighth-seeded Pomona-Pitzer, 19-6, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament to ...
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HoosierHoops
posted 2 days ago from
iuplanet.com
Center Maurice Sutton, a 6’11”, 210 lb prospect
out of Largo High School in Maryland, has been
on Coach Tom Crean’s radar for a long time, and he should be coming to a decision soon. He took some time to talk about IU and the possibility of a commitment following his game against the So Cal All-Stars on Friday at the Adidas May Classic.
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The University of Kentucky is infallible. All great
things come from the University of Kentucky. The University
of Kentucky has a wonderful plan for our lives. Blessed be the University of Kentucky. We shall never doubt her. (Are the angry mobs ...
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If you haven’t heard yet, West Virginia coach
and new twenty-millionaire Bob Huggins tripped over a cone
( ice cream? bustier? oh, traffic, right ) at the Charlotte airport today, banging his head against the pavement. He was taken to a ...
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Duquesne junior center Shawn James, the 6-10, 225-pound
former Redirection High, Notre Dame Prep and Northeastern star
who was born in Guyana and moved to Brooklyn at age 7, has opted to give up the rest of his college eligibility, declaring for early ...
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Georgetown sophomore guard Jeremiah Rivers will transfer to
another school, making him the second player to leave
coach John Thompson III's team since the end of the season.
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We know it’s coming. “Dude that coat, like,
costs $379 at Macy’s.” BC could care less. It
looks like something we owned in 1989. Basketball punks back then would strap on a pair of Reebok Pumps , push the button ...
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Karl Hobbs makes no bones about it: George
Washington is in rebuilding mode this year. The Colonials
head man tossed junior wing Cheyenne Moore and freshman guard Miles Beatty from the program. Hobbs also kicked point guard Maureece Rice off the ...
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Turns out Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie isn't the
only big-name coach -- not even the only coach
in the SEC -- who is working without a signed, formal contract. The Gainesville Sun reports that Florida coach Billy Donovan has yet to sign the ...
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Jerry Tipton covers Kentucky basketball for the Lexington
Herald-Leader , which means there are few journalists in
the country whose work is more closely scrutinized by its readers. And many of those readers think Tipton goes out of his way to make ...
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Donte Greene may have decided on his representation,
but it's unclear whether the Syracuse University freshman has
formally signed with an agent. According to a source close to Greene, the freshman forward from Syracuse has interviewed prospective ...
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His words were guarded, but Indiana University basketball
coach Tom Crean said Thursday that he wasn't pleased
with what he called "an orchestration" in the way former Hoosier Eli Holman ended up at the University of Detroit. Holman, a 6-9 center from ...
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I always hear about some crazy stat that
there are a millions of blogs out there and
hundreds of thousands are created everyday. Regardless if these numbers are credible, I am sure most of the blogs are crap anyway. Hell, I am still amazed people ...
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When I was a little kid, thumbing through
the pages of Sports Illustrated on Saturday mornings, I
used to be genuinely shocked by the magazine's weekly "Sign of the Apocalypse." Fan decides to eat nothing but pudding in protest of island ...
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Coaching carousel season is over, and it's time
to issue grades. So who are the winners and
losers?
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UConn got good news when Hasheem Thabeet decided
to stay in school. Could more be coming on
the A.J. Price front? Jeff Goodman has the details.
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Dominic James was ecstatic upon heard that Buzz
Williams would be staying at Marquette and replacing Tom
Crean. ``I thought everyone was going to leave,” the junior point guard said. “I was surprised when Buzz got the job.” ``He’s a ...
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SbB
posted 3 days ago from
www.sportsbybrooks.com
Bob Huggins experienced a crash landing at the
Charlotte airport on Thursday. As the West Virginia coach
was checking his cell phone, he tripped over a cone & hit his head on the tarmac.
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Bob Huggins has been taken to a hospital
in Charlotte, N.C., for precautionary reasons after tripping on
an airport tarmac and hitting his head on the pavement.
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Junior forward Cheyenne Moore and freshman guard Miles
Beatty have been dismissed from the George Washington men's
basketball program, the school announced Wednesday.
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HoosierHoops
posted 3 days ago from
iuplanet.com
Jordan Hulls is still on IU coach Crean's
radar for the '09 class-- here's why...
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MORGANTOWN - West Virginia University men's basketball Coach
Bob Huggins was taken to a Charlotte area hospital
Thursday for "precautionary reasons," Director of Athletics Ed Pastilong said. "He's down there with the alumni to meet with the Charlotte ...
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There has been quite a controversy brewing in
the last few days here in the Big Blue
Nation over a couple of interviews that Marc Maggard of Kentucky Ink did with the parents of two of Kentucky's youngest and most recent verbal commitments -- Vinny ...
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He will either make my beloved Vols 1000
kinds of awesome or completely destroy our team. Our
potential next year is absolutely insane. Fact is that Maze just doesn’t look like a guy that wants to play for Kentucky (he has hit ...
OTL probe: Mayo received money, perks from agent reps - ...