Luke Winn: Maryland takes a risk on a talented player with troubled past - Luke Winn - SI.com

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The Daily Roundup: Tuesday
Published 5/6/2008 by Ed at ACC BasketBlog
... The Life of Kings: UM right to take chance on Tyree Evans even though Evans' criminal past suggests it's a major gamble as detailed by SI.com's Luke Winn today. ...

Stage Right
Published 5/19/2008 at yoco :: College Basketball
... ), but Mike Dunlap's arrival from Denver confirms the Wildcats remain a good long-term buy. Sports Illustrated's Luke Winn is right to argue that Maryland's Gary Williams is playing with fire by bringing in oft-troubled guard Tyree Evans. Even Cincinnati, not exactly a moral paragon, opted not to accept Evans a couple years back.

Something Is Very Broken In College Park
Published 5/24/2008 by Nathan Fowler at FanHouse
... When the news about Evans' impending arrival in College Park first became public a few weeks ago, there was some understandable backlash and further digging into his past trangressions and Debbie Yow made a statement that she was aware of some of his problems but unaware of his incarceration and that his admittance into school would be delayed while there was a review by the Office of Student Conduct. ...

Fire Debbie Yow? Really?
Published 5/27/2008 by Dan Steinberg at D.C. Sports Bog
... ) mostly treated the incident as a full stop; in other words, Evans was in, then he in SI.com , then he was only sort-of-in, and now he's out. Period. Game over. Ha. Bloggers were willing to skip right on over to the what-comes-next department, led by ...