Credit has to be given to an alert Joe Ovies for spotting this. At the risk of trivializing the trainwreck that UNC-CH is currently in the middle of, I could not resist showing everyone this hilarious tweet from our man Marvin, who, after all, started the whole thing by tweeting. It is also fitting that […]
Reaction the morning after
 Stewart Mandel, Sports Illustrated For all the tawdry scandals that have tarnished college football over the past 12 months — from USC to Tennessee, from Cam Newton to Jim Tressel — one can easily argue that the nine major violations levied against Butch Davis’ program Tuesday contain more filth and more blatant disregard for […]
Must be Friday?!? UNC-CH has received the notice of allegations ***8:00 update — NOA out***
Read the document here. Some (very) early commentary: slmandel Stewart Mandel by joeovies UNC managed to break almost every corner of the rule book: Academic fraud, extra benefits, John Blake unethical conduct and more. 24 seconds agoFavoriteRetweetReply ____ joeovies Joe Ovies So far consistent national response to #UNCNOA has been 1) Worse than USC 2) […]
Media information request update re: Butch’s phone logs and UNC-CH’s “internal investigation” into car registrations
A piece in this morning’s News and Observer is well worth reading. It is relatively short but contains a lot of important information. Right off the top, in keeping with UNC’s spirit of cooperation and openness: The University of North Carolina did not fulfill requests on Monday for information on its internal investigation into parking tickets for a […]
Friday-Palooza: Austin travel linked to Wichard through Amis AND two of Little’s plates came from an auto dealer now in Federal Prison
Late this afternoon two major stories broke almost simultaneously. First, this WRAL piece discusses the financial details surrounding a trip Marvin made to California in 2009 from March 7-14. The media is obviously digging into those phone records and figuring some things out. Here is an excerpt that gives you a feel about what went on: Wichard, Balmer and […]
Blake called Austin, Thomas, Davis, and agent while Austin and Thomas trained in California before 2009 season
 Let’s take a break from the cool new parking prong and look at an excellent piece from J.P. Giglio in this morning’s N & O. I don’t have a ton of time, so I am just going to quote an excerpt. The entire piece is well worth reading. Thomas and Austin have said they […]
DTH: one UNC football player got 93 parking tickets corresponding to 9 different plates and at least 5 different cars
 Full story. Also, this WRAL article has loads of good stuff, including these two paragraphs. Can anyone understand the second paragraph bolded below? If you do, please post an explanation in the responses. One of the cars, a grey dodge charger, is registered to Gregory Lamar Little who is Greg Little’s father. Wide receiver Little, who attended […]
Flashback: N & O coverage of Tracy Smith’s ONE parking violation
 As the document analysis continues, let’s take a quick look back at how a local media outlet chose to cover the “story” involving ONE parking violation committed by Tracy Smith (that apparently didn’t even result in a ticket). Here is the News and Obsever story from last June. Check out the advice given to Smith from the […]
Court of Appeals denies UNC’s request for stay of records release (9:40 update — UNC to release records as early as Thursday)
Full story. ABC11 and other media organizations sued for access to the records – including unredacted phone records of UNC’s athletic director Dick Baddour, head football coach Butch Davis and former assistant coach John Blake. Court of Appeals Order. *************** 9:40 Update: Multiple sources are now saying that UNC plans to release the records, possibly […]
Top ten reasons UNC’s NOA was not released Friday
 10. Not enough Sharpies in Chapel Hill to do all the necessary redacting. 9. It decided to spend the weekend at a lesbian festival in Miami. 8.  Tutors home for the summer. Nobody left in football program who can read. 7. It got mixed in with the parking tickets. 6. Butch does not know where […]
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