Way off topic- Show me....the money

[Tammo29@xxxxxxx]

For those of you that love a scandal, there is one heck of one going on at
the University of Missouri right now involving their basketball program, their
athletic department, and the University President.
Some of you might have heard the basics on ESPN, but it goes way further than
what they are reporting.
Thanks to 24 hours of taped jailhouse phone conversations and the magic of
the Internet, sports fans across the land have their own little sleazy soap
opera to follow.
Coaches paying players, reverse racists comments attributed to an Associate
Athletic Director, his wife, and supposedly supported by the University
President.
The University President's wife saying a girl who an athlete plead guilty to
assaulting should just "shut up" and blaming the fact that the said athlete is
in jail on his penchant for white women.
The University President and Associate Athletic Director conspiring to
undermine the Athletic Director and basketball coaches and rejoicing when
particular
aspects of improprieties hit the newspapers.
A federal judge, who is supposedly the Aunt of the jailed athlete, who was
said to have the University Presidents approval, making plans to sue not the
school but the Athletic Director who revoked the jailed athletes scholarship
over
the objections of the coaching staff and the University President.
And finally, as if all of this weren't slimy enough, division II schools
recruiting the player while still in jail AND.....at least one supposed coach
caught on tape offering the still jailed player more incentives to come play
basketball.
You just can't make this stuff up.  Interesting that you aren't hearing any
of this, except for the alledged payments, in the national media.  Of course,
the pictures of Iowa State Coach Larry Eustacy partying and smooching with
young coeds at a couple of Big 12 schools were circulating on Big 12 Internet
fan
sites months before they made national news.
These stories first appeared in the Columbia Tribune.  However, the Tribune's
website is being inundated and is almost impossible to connect to lately.
So the following links are the original stories reprinted on a KC Sportstalk
radio website.
There have been stories added on a daily basis with more to come.



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http://www.810whb.com/scripts/archives/getstory.asp?article=6631&string=noSea
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Clemons directly connects money from Assistant Coach Tony Harvey to Tigers
standouts Arthur Johnson and Rickey Paulding. In one conversation, Clemons
tells
Stewart:

"When I first got here, they did, they did everybody. I mean, they do A.J.
and Rickey. If they need money, theybd go to Harvey. He, hebd get it for
bem."

"They what?" Stewart asks.

"If they needed money, theybd go to Harvey," Clemons responds. "Hebd get
it
for bem. But it was him first, and I stopped messing with him. I stopped
talking to him and shit and then went to Lane."

In two instances on the recordings, Clemons implies he received more money
than Tony Cole, the former University of Georgia menbs basketball player who
claimed to have received hundreds of dollars from boosters and coaches.

"Just know itbs bigger than Tony Cole," Clemons tells Stewart. "He got a
couple hundred dollars. He paid for his apartment or that. Shit. Thatbs
nothing.
Thatbs a rain check."

#2)
http://www.810whb.com/scripts/archives/getstory.asp?article=6629&string=noSea
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The discussions between Clemons and the presidentbs wife also are filled
with
friendly banter. In one conversation, Clemons says he wants to find "a woman"
after hebs released from jail.

"You better. And I ainbt talkinb about no Delta Delta Delta, either,"
Carmento Floyd replies, referring to an MU sorority with a nearly all-white
membership. Bunge is white.

"Naw, Ibm talking about the people," Clemons says.

"Ibm talking about Delta Sigma Theta," Carmento Floyd replies. Delta Sigma
Theta is a historically black sorority.

http://www.810whb.com/scripts/archives/getstory.asp?article=6628&string=noSea
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In the recordings, Amy Stewart related a story, which she attributed to her
husband, about the atmosphere at the Hearnes Center at the time.
"Ed come home, every time he come home, he be like, bThem crackers shaking.
They going crazy. They donbt know what to do. They shaking. They canbt
talk to
Ricky. Theybre like some crackheads running around there,b " Amy Stewart
said.

"Well, good enough for them," Carmento Floyd replied.
Amy and Ed Stewart didnbt return Tribune calls for comment.
The source of the friction between Clemons and the coaching staff was his
opinion that he was taking the heat to save the coachesb jobs. Clemons said
that
the loyalty of his original lawyer, Wally Bley, was more with the athletic
department than his client. Clemons said he believed that Bley urged him to
plead
guilty to assaulting Bunge so testimony about NCAA violations contained in
the depositions wouldnbt come out in a trial.

http://www.810whb.com/scripts/archives/getStory.asp?article=6640

In one jailhouse conversation, a man who identified himself as a Virginia
State coach seemed eager to land Clemonsb services, even offering to cover
his expenses until the school can offer a scholarship.

Said the man: bIf you go Division II, ainbt no better place to go than
the
CIAA. Ibd like to get you in school in January. You go ahead and sit the
rest of the year out. Ibll take care of you the semester you have to sit
out. Ibll put the money up so you can be taken care of. Then, next year, you
come back and play the whole year.

bI just want to get you in, so you can get a feel for Virginia State
University. b& I think you can make a great name for yourself, and at the
same time we can help each other.b

http://www.810whb.com/scripts/archives/getStory.asp?article=6638

Missouri assistant basketball coach Tony Harvey, already under investigation
by the NCAA for possible violations at Missouri, has a history of trouble with
NCAA basketball players according to sources familiar with Harveybs career.

While an assistant at Eastern Michigan, according to a source that did not
want to be identified, Harvey was asked to resign after stealing University
money from several of his players.

The NCAA allows schools to issue payments to players in the form of bin
lieub
 checks that players can use to pay for housing off campus instead of living
in athletic dorms. According to the source, Harvey would routinely keep the
money that was to go to players.




TAM