O.J. Mayo case another sad chapter on a shady part of the game - Luke Winn - SI.com

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Luke Winn of Si.com: "USC deserves to fry for this."
Published 5/12/2008 by Ajax at Bruins Nation: Front Page Posts
... and signed with Andrews in April. USC, on the other hand, deserves to fry for this. A postseason ban, loss of scholarships, and a complete voiding of the 2007-08 season is in order. Even if no money was ever exchanged between the USC camp and Guillory -- and you have to at least wonder, if he was on the take from BDA, why not the Trojans as well? -- the Mayo saga is worthy of that dreaded NCAA label, "Lack of Institutional Control". Luke Winn lays it all out Winn also blasts Floyd for feigning ignorance of Guillory, who ...

MORNING ROUNDUP - 5/13/08
Published 5/13/2008 by eirishis at Thirtyfive Seconds
... We weren’t sure it was possible to extend food analogies with O.J. Mayo any further, but there you have it. Everyone has thrown their own opinion into the mix - from the MSM (Luke Winn at SI, Gary Parrish at Sportsline, Adam Rose at the LAT, Michael Ventre at NBC Sports) to ye olde national bloggers (STF, The Dagger, Rush, and tons at Fanhouse.) In the cacophony of tsking, Bruin Nation asks, when will the local paper start snooping around USC’s athletic program? Both the Bush and Mayo scandals ...

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED IS WRONG... AGAIN!
Published 5/13/2008 by E. Spencer Kyte (noreply@blogger.com) at EPIC CARNIVAL | SPORTS NEWS WITH A TWIST
... In his most recent article, SI NCAA scribe Luke Winn discusses the ridiculous situation of OJ Mayo, the USC Trojans and an "advisor" who received some serious coin for he and Mayo to live off. ...

What we Want vs. What we Expect
Published 5/13/2008 by Paragon SC at Conquest Chronicles: Front Page Posts
... Putting aside all the overblown rhetoric from people like Pat Forde and Luke Winn as well as the sensationalist tone of everything I have read from others, I am going to take a wait and see approach until there is a little more to go on. Of course this doesn't look good and I am pretty sure that he took the money but going crazy over it without all the facts is not going to fly here. ...

Word on the Court: 5/14
Published 5/14/2008 by Marco (noreply@blogger.com) at Storming the Floor
- A pair of excellent articles from former Philly writer Dana O'Neill on the five year anniversary of the Dave Bliss debacle at Baylor, including an interview with the man himself (Dana O'Neil ESPN.com with Bliss, with former assistant coach Abar Rouse, who now works in a factory making airplane parts - Everyone is still buzzing about OJ Mayo (as you can see here, here, and here), but the most interesting subplot may be the future of mega-recruit Demar DeRozan, who may look to get out of his SC ...

Pete Carroll, Tim Floyd, USC and Scandal (3rd Update)
Published 5/15/2008 by Menelaus at Bruins Nation: Front Page Posts
... , including cash, clothes, cell phone service, and a flat screen television for his dorm room.  USC immediately faced a storm of criticism, with several prominent commentator ...