Late yesterday, USA Today posted an excellent investigative story from Eric Prisbell in which Darius Cobb, the former AAU coach of Kansas star Ben McLemore, admitted to accepting cash and gifts from Rodney Blackstock, who runs a mentoring service for basketball players but also appears to be a freelance runner for agents. The article is […]
After an investigation which took almost six months, the NCAA has found no evidence of NCAA violations in the case which questioned how Lance Thomas purchased almost $100,000 worth of jewelry including a $30,000 down payment during his final season at Duke. “The NCAA has found no evidence of a rules violation in this situation […]
“Egregious”. “Meritless”. “Reckless”. “Offensive.” Those are just a few of the words tossed back and forth between the NCAA’s enforcement staff and the University of Miami in their opposing briefs regarding Miami’s motion to dismiss its infractions case. If it was not clear that lines have been drawn and that neither side intends to back […]
Yesterday CBSSports.com reported that the NCAA enforcement staff has filed a response with the Committee on Infractions. News that the Committee on Infractions denied Miami’s motion would not have been noteworthy. The Committee on Infractions has repeatedly said it does not have the authority to dismiss the case at this juncture. But the enforcement staff […]
Ron Holmes, the father of star UCLA freshman Shabazz Muhammad, had groomed his son for stardom from a very young age. When it came time to navigate the NCAA hurdles that faced both any top basketball recruit as well as Muhammad specifically, Holmes was more than prepared: For more than two years, he had been […]
Miami is alleging even more NCAA misconduct as it fights to have its case dismissed. The most explosive allegation is that after Ameen Najjar was fired for using Nevin Shaprio’s attorney to get access to depositions, his replacement kept right at it: After taking over for Najjar, [Stephanie] Hannah attempted to work with Perez on […]
Division III College of Staten Island has received a Notice of Allegations from the NCAA involving their swimming and diving program: CSI dismissed long-time swimming coach and director of aquatics Oleg Soloviev in November 2011. Soloviev told the Advance at that time he had been the focus of an NCAA investigation that he said resulted […]
Like the coaches involved in the case, Miami will file a “motion” to have the NCAA’s infractions case against the school dismissed. One problem: But according to two sources, the NCAA last week sent a letter to UM and the implicated former coaches with a warning: The infractions committee “does not believe it has the […]
Yahoo! Sports has an in-depth investigative report on allegations of abuse and inappropriate conduct with student-athletes against former Utah swimming coach Greg Winslow. Winslow is also accused of sexual abuse of a swimmer in the Arizona State swim club when he was an assistant coach at ASU prior to his appointment at Utah. After the […]
Gene Marsh has a long and distinguished career in the area of NCAA enforcement. Marsh was Alabama’s faculty athletics representative during the Albert Means case. His performance there got him a spot on the Committee on Infractions. And now he’s back in front of the COI regularly defending schools faced with major violations. A process […]