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*In light of the recent situation regarding the NCAA investigation methods, it makes sense to come up with a way to avoid this predicament again. And the solution is simple: allowing players to be compensated. Here is a column I initially wrote after Ohio State was sanctioned for improper benefits going to players about a [...]
*The NCAA will never be the same after the performance set by a certain state’s teams…not saying any names … achooBuckeyes … ’scuse me! The state’s college basketball teams can pat themselves on the back for making such an astounding achievement in men’s basketball. (more…)
*While the NBA is on strike it looks like the players are having a hard time staying out of trouble. Memphis Grizzlies forward Zach Randolph (pictured) is in a situation after police searched his Oregon home to investigate the alleged assault of a drug dealer. The victim told police he came to the home of [...]
*I have argued in the past that big time collegiate athletes (primarily football and men’s basketball players) should be paid for their services. Yet even as I held this position I could not formulate a sustainable method of paying them. And while the logistics of paying college athletes may have been tricky, the principle was [...]
*Former Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor broke his silence Tuesday, apologizing to Buckeye nation and to now-departed coach Jim Tressel for his role in the controversy that may take down one of America’s proudest programs , reports ESPN.com. As previously reported, Pryor had been suspended by Ohio State and the NCAA for the first five [...]
*Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor announced through his attorney Tuesday that he would not play for the Buckeyes this upcoming season, reports the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He had already been suspended for the first five games for breaking NCAA rules by accepting improper benefits from the owner of a tattoo parlor. Pryor was reflective about [...]
*Now that Jim Tressel has stepped down as Ohio State head football coach amid allegations of improprities and illegal benefits given to some of his players, the glare of the media is now targeting star quarterback Terrelle Pryor. Pryor, one of the more coveted high school players ever before walked on the Ohio State campus, [...]
*Not only are there reports that Tiger Woods has a new girlfriend, but the woman was arrested in October for suspicion of drunk driving and is only in the relationship for one thing … sex. A sudden flurry of reports from sports blog Terez Owens and gossip site RadarOnline Sunday has the golfer dating 22-year-old [...]
*Someone is trying to start some bull with two prominent universities in Ohio, one of them a Big-10 school. They are being chastised for having a higher concentration of blacks and Latino than usual. Certainly, the report that is being circulated didn’t intend or pretend to insinuate that African American and Latino students make up even [...]
*Although LeBron James is often called “King James,” he doesn’t always get the treatment he feels he deserves. In an attempt to protect himself while attending a Buckeyes football event on Saturday, he requested a police escort. However, he was denied for some reason that is unknown at the time – perhaps, like the rest [...]
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