Out of Bounds Show PodcastThose players, who spoke anonymously, said boosters are basically impossible to control or police because boosters are fans. If a fan decides to give a player money, that’s pretty hard to stop, with cash disappearing quickly and being so untraceable. One former Tiger, running back Justin Vincent, who was on the 2003 National Championship team…
3. The major concern for Auburn stems from one accusation and one accusation alone. Reddick claims that when he “started complaining and insinuating that I was ready to leave any day,” Auburn coaches sprung into action. One coach allegedly told Reddick that he had “some mail for you up in my office.” Reddick says he…
2. When’s the first game? Auburn is challenging Ohio State for the honor of “worst offseason.” In January, the Tigers’ best players – Heisman-winning quarterback Cam Newton and Lombardi Award-winning defensive tackle Nick Fairley – declared early for the NFL draft. In February, an Alabama fan said he poisoned the live oak trees at Toomer’s Corner in a “prank” that took SEC…
Win or lose, the coaches in the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament will make $1.4 million on average this season, according to a USA TODAY analysis of contracts and other compensation documents. But the average disguises a range among the 68 schools that could not be more pronounced. Louisville’s Rick Pitino is making $7.5…
Auburn fans should be counting the days to the April 16 spring game to celebrate this moment. Instead, after fighting off Cam Newton pay-for-play stories, we’re left with this: four players saying they received handouts during their time on The Plains. It’s troubling, and no one who proudly wears the Orange and Blue can deny…
“You just don’t date at colleges,” says Adams, 23, now a Fordham graduate student in urban studies. But there’s no shortage of casual sex on campus, she says — in part because Fordham, like many colleges, has significantly more women than men. Adams says that means guys have the upper hand when it comes to…
The University of Kentucky Wildcats are in the Final Four for the first time since 1998 thanks to some players that will likely be playing in the NBA next season. Because of those NBA hopefuls, the league is not happy that rapper Jay-Z showed up in the celebratory team locker room after it beat North…
Those juicy sound bites don’t just spike ratings. They also raise the antenna of the enforcement staff, which already has demonstrated a keen interest in the way Auburn football does business. In separate statements Wednesday, Auburn and the SEC both said they’ve alerted the NCAA to these as-yet unsubstantiated charges. Auburn also said it will…
On a bigger scale, this might be the moment that college football finally has to look in the mirror and figure out what it wants to be. The Josh Luchs-agent story didn’t inspire anything more than a yawn, and the Sports Illustrated piece on the criminal element in college football went absolutely nowhere, but the…
When it rains, it pours. Take it away, ESPN’s Kelly Naqi: Willie Lyles, who runs a Texas-based recruiting service which is under NCAA investigation after receiving $25,000 from Oregon, told Texas A&M it had to “beat” $80,000 if it wanted to sign star recruit Patrick Peterson in 2007, a former Texas A&M coach told ESPN on…
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