You have to hand it to UNC: those guys have unmitigated gall. Before their new chancellor has her first day on the job, and before lame-duck Chancellor Holden Thorp can announce whatever his “blue-ribbon” panel led by led by Hunter Rawlings, president of the Association of American Universities, has come up with, UNC athletic director [...]
SI connecting some dots re: UNC-CH’s agent scandal.
While the academic cheating scandal has curiously moved to the back burner, the agent prong of UNC-CH’s national nightmare is getting a lot of press lately. Most recently, Sports Illustrated has published this article explaining some of the various facets of the UNC-CH mess. Notice that the national press is all over this story while the local folks [...]
John Blake’s World Could Come Crashing Down
There was very heavy conversation about John Blake’s resignation that can be reviewed by clicking here. Today has given us a very interesting entry from the Sports Agent Blog is making its way around the internet. The full article is linked here. When I first brought up the Blake/Wichard tie, my source wanted me to [...]
Marvin Facebooks!
Just when you thought all the rocks were turned over, our man Marvin comes through and provides some more great material! I am sure most of you heard about this, but apparently our man has given up Twittering but taken up Facebook! Which is great for us! Yesterday it came to light that our man [...]
ANOTHER ‘mis-truth’ rears its head in NCAA’s investigation of UNC Football (Updated 10:20)
Greg Little’s father claims Little only went on a trip to Miami in March. Oops. Make that May as well. UNC proclaims multiple times that the NCAA has mandated they not speak about the investigation. Oops. The NCAA says this is not true – even if they had the legal authority to issue a gag [...]
Singletary: There’s a lot on Balmer’s plate
“It’s on Kentwan,” Singletary told Brian Murphy on KNBR radio this morning. “As far as I’m concerned, we’ve got to continue to practice and do what we have to do, and Kentwan’s got to make up his mind in terms of how he’s going to handle some of the personal issues that he has to [...]
Uh-O! Did Carolina go 0-12 or 0-13 in 2009? [Updated 4:20pm]
Originally posted @ 3:17pm. Updated at 3:21pm, 3:25pm, 3:27pm, 3:31pm and 4:20pm The cracks are starting to appear more prominently in the University of North Carolina’s historically famous, impenetrable cone of silence. Who knows what is next!? Maybe someone starts publicly discussing the Range Rovers that Antawn Jamison and Vince Carter were rumored to drive [...]
John Blake Focus of Investigation [Updated @ 7pm]
Please don’t miss out on real-time news, analysis and conversation on our message boards accessible by clicking here. Full story linked here. In a 92-minute telephone interview, Wichard repeatedly questioned why the NCAA would be looking into his relationship with Blake. Asked if Blake had ever been a Pro Tect employee, Wichard repeatedly stated that [...]
Helpful hints for Elaine Marshall [Update @ 2pm EST]
As it becomes more evident that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s athletics department is in a huge pile of stink, more and more agents are being blamed and scapegoated by UNC-CH partisans who truly believe that God created the sky after he created the color ‘Carolina Blue’. In today’s News and Observer, North Carolina [...]