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Lebron James Exists Cleveland
The story covers NBA star Lebron James' decision to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers and sign with the Miami Heat.
Tags: Cleveland Cavaliers; Miami Heat; Lebron James; NBA; basketball
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"How (And Why) Athletes Go Broke"
In "How (And Why) Athletes Go Broke," Pablo S. Torre, investigates how professional athletes squander their high salaries on "lavish spending," failed business attempts and corrupt "money managers." He also reveals illegal activities by a "Texas investment firm" with prominent sports affiliations.
Tags: NFL; NBA; Triton Financial LLC; Raghib Ismail; Kurt Barton; baseball; PGA
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O.J. Mayo's Inner Circle
NBA star O.J. Mayo was found to have been involved with a secret bank account and credit card used to finance luxurious gifts, meals, and travel. Mayo's agent Calvin Andrews was suspended by the National Basketball Players Association.
Tags: sports agent; USC; Minnesota Timberwolves; Memphis Grizzlies; NCAA; lobbying;
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Crashing the Borders
Araton's book examines the world inside the NBA, where selfish players want all the money and fame for themselves, foreign players are making a breakthrough and relationships between players and fans are far less than perfect. Araton not only focuses on the greed and selfishness that the NBA is now filled with, but also looks at racial issues that are damaging the sport as a whole.
Tags: National Basketball Association; basketball; professional athletes; professional sports
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Out of bounds: Inside the NBA's culture of rape, violence, & crime
This book exposes the "culture of lawlessness" sweeping through the ranks of the NBA, particularly with respect to crimes against women. The investigation found that 40 percent of NBA players have a police record involving a serious crime. The author had to overcome two chilling effects upon his reporting: law enforcement and court officials who were reluctant to release public records on account of fear of litigation or other repercussions from the players and their attorneys, and witnesses and individuals familiar with the players and their crimes who were afraid to sit through interviews.
Tags: BOOK; NBA; National Basketball Association; professional athletes; crime; rape; sexual assault; FOIA; Freedom of Information Act; sunshine laws
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NBA All Star Weekend
This story from the WAGA TV looks at the NBA All-Star weekend that was held in Atlanta in February 2003. As this report finds out the security conditions on the street was not adequate resulting in major traffic congestion and a complete gridlock of the streets. This was essentially because the policemen involved in with the NBA weekend.
Tags: Atlanta; sports; police department; NBA; basketball; NBA All-Star weekend 2003; all-star weekend; traffic problems; traffic jams
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Fake Law Firm
A lawyer leaves his house in his newly purchased Mercedes and heads to his law firm, where he helps families of federal prisoners, desperate for downward departures and resentencings. What's different? The "lawyer" is a federal prisoner, his "house" is a halfway house and his new Mercedes was purchased by the bogus law firm he created with his mother to take hundreds of thousands of dollars from people, including an NBA basketball player who thought he was investing through the "attorney".
Tags: TAPE; lawyer; firm; fraud; fake; federal prisoner; law firm; fake law firm; convict drug dealer; con artist; con-man; Department of Justice; drug dealer; halfway house; methamphetamine; federal bureau of prisons
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Shortchanged: Many Firms Refuse To Pay for Overtime, Employees Complain
The Journal reports that a lot of employers don't like overtime pay. "Violations are so common that the Employer Policy Foundation, an employer-supported think tank in Washington, estimates that workers would get an additional $19 billion a year if the rules were observed."
Tags: wages; Food Lion; labor; reporters exempt from overtime; workplace rules; NBA; courts; law
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Eligibility for Sale
An investigation by ESPN revealed how athletes in the revenue-producing sports of men's basketball and football get into college, even when they lack the "academic skills necessary to compete in the classroom... For all the talk about SAT fraud involving players who get others to take scores for them, the greater form of manipulation might be in the area of core classes, in which bogus grades are given to high school athletes in order to get them qualified for NCAA competition. ESPN's report focused on one tiny school in the Queens area of New York City where, it turns out, dozens of future college athletes have gone to get their NCAA eligibility. The school, Christopher Robin Academy, does not have any sports teams but virtually ever academically troubled basketball player in New York City in the past decade -- from former North Carolina star Ed Cota to current NBA player Lamar Odom -- has used this school as a backdoor route to college basketball. There's the regular high school they attend during the week, the one they win prep championships for... then there's Christopher Robin, which they quietly attend on Saturdays or during the summer to pick up valuable core-class credits with little or no work. ESPN exposed this scam and also showed that the for-profit, unaccredited school lies to the public about its credentials... And here's the best part: the NCAA has no problem with the situation. Fearful of lawsuits alleging that the NCAA has no right to pass judgment on the educational standards of any high school, the NCAA Initial Eligibility Clearinghouse continues to accept credits and grades from Christopher Robin Academy."
Tags: NCAA; Christopher Robin Academy; grades; credits; sports; scam; TAPE; TRANSCRIPT
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A Place where hoop dreams come true.
The Christopher Robin Academy is an NCAA eligibility factory. Dozens of academically troubled players, including several current NBA players, have used the small school in Queens in recent years as a backdoor option to gain easy access to college scholarships. They go there as part-time students to replace poor grades given to them at their regular, full-time high schools. A two-month ESPN.com investigation questions whether the NCAA should be accepting grades from Christopher Robin.
Tags: NCAA; NBA; Christopher Robin Academy; college scholarships.