The reporting that Dan Kane started in 2010 is finally garnering some national attention from non-sports outlets. Last week, the The NY Times, and today, BloombergBusinessweek: The corruption of academics at the University of North Carolina’s Chapel Hill campus could turn into the most revelatory of all of the undergraduate sports scandals in recent memory. […]
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Coming on the ‘heels’ of this fantastic must-read article, the New York Times jumps in. There is nothing majorly new here…except this is national attention. You need to read the entire column; snippets below (The NY Times): In the summer of 2011, 19 undergraduates at the University of North Carolina signed up for a lecture […]
For months, The Carolina faithful — aided by, among others, the vocal Dick Vitale and Jay Bilas — campaigned for the NCAA to #FreePJ. In the end, it turned out it wasn’t the NCAA, but in fact The Flagship, that wouldn’t #FreePJ. It’s just another in a growing list of examples of The Flagship’s athletics […]
Multiple news outlets reporting this FRIDAY afternoon that U*NC-CH will not be seeking reinstatement for PJ Hairston, thus effectively ending the junior forward’s college career. There had been much speculation after Leslie “Don’t Call Me Ronald” McDonald was cleared by the NCAA to play prior to the Tar Heels’ game vs Texas this past Wednesday, […]
As we have watched the UNC Scandal begin with some tweets that Marvin Austin thought were harmless and saw it morph into rogue academic problems, rogue agents and runners, rogue this, and rogue that, one thing that wasn’t really discussed much was how much did this cost (and was any tax payer money used). Well, […]
Now it isn’t what you think, this isn’t a shocking article. It is more of a summary of the scandal and how “The Carolina Way” is not what it originally set out to be. “When I got back, it was associated with victory, and the thought that we were winning both in the fields and […]
Here’s a couple of items out of Chapel Hill to check out before the Wake game later today. The faculty at UNC-Cheat (other than Jay Smith) is finally starting to make some noise about all the shenanigans in the athletic department. In a letter to the editor at The Daily Tar Heel, Jack Halperin, a […]
Former UNC football tutor Jennifer Wiley appeared in court today, facing charges that she illegally encouraged a former UNC player to sign with a sports agent. Jennifer Lauren Wiley Thompson, is facing four counts of athlete-agent inducement,  a Class I felony that carries a maximum sentence of 15 months in prison and a maximum fine of $25,000 […]
I’ll just leave this here for everyone’s enjoyment. http://charlotte.cbslocal.com/2013/07/30/mac-attack-productions-p-j-hairston-driving-experience-for-ps3xbox/
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