The News Review:
- Yahoo Sports: UConn basketball violated NCAA rules
- Jersey Legislator Says US Sports Gambling Ban Aids rganized Crime
- Sports of The Times Bobby Bowden Fumbles Chance at Greater Legacy
Yahoo Sports: UConn basketball violated NCAA rules
The Associated Press
(AP) — A University of Connecticut spokesman is declining to comment on a report by Yahoo Sports that the school violated NCAA rules in recruiting former basketball player Nate Miles. Yahoo cites documents and multiple sources in reporting that recruiting rules were broken when Miles was provided with lodging transportation meals and representation by Josh Nochimson a sports agent who was UConn’s student manager between 2006 and 2008. The report says UConn basketball staff was in frequent contact with Nochimson during a nearly two-year period up to and after Miles’ recruitment. The 6-foot-7 forward from Toledo hio was expelled from UConn in ctober after he was charged with violating a restraining order. NCAA officials also declined to comment.
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Jersey Legislator Says US Sports Gambling Ban Aids rganized Crime
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The state lawmaker has filed suit to strike the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act which prevents states from legalizing sports wagering. Lesniak says the ban has not prevented sports betting in the least. He insists that no one could seriously claim that sports gambling is not occurring everywhere in the US. “Rather than supporting thousands of jobs economic activity andtourism the federal ban supports offshore operators and organizedcrime” said the Jersey legislator.
Sports of The Times Bobby Bowden Fumbles Chance at Greater Legacy
New York Times
’s committee on infractions responded to Florida State’s internal investigation and admission of academic impropriety by imposing probation for four years taking away a small number of scholarships and vacating the victories in which the offending athletes participated in the 2006 and 2007 sports seasons. n cue Florida State said it would appeal the vacated victories in all the sports but anyone who can count to 383 knows why. Thanks to its president T. Wetherell a former Seminoles football player the university has put itself in the position of appearing to value Bowden’s duel with Paterno for immortal glorification more than its academic credibility. “To hold coaches accountable for something they had nothing to do with and didn’t know anything about to penalize teams two years later when people have already graduated and don’t even know that they were involved just flat-out isn’t right” Wetherell said at a news conference last week.
