Attorney blows whistle on OSU booster
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SAN ANTONIO -- Ohio State coach Jim Tressel said he knows the booster who gave quarterback Troy Smith an undisclosed amount of cash last spring, an amount large enough to warrant a two-game suspension from the NCAA and elicit similarities to the
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A U.S. communications regulator  sought a probe on Thursday into whether commentator Armstrong  Williams broke the law by promoting the Bush administration's  education plan on television and radio without properly  disclosing compensation his firm received.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana coach Kelvin Sampson and his staff violated telephone recruiting restrictions imposed because of his previous violations at Oklahoma, then lied about it to the school and NCAA investigators, according to an NCAA report released Wednesday.
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Rick Neuheisel's case against the University of Washington and the NCAA started Monday, with his lawyer claiming that NCAA administrators set the former football coach up and Washington officials fired him wrongly.
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RALEIGH, N.C., June 16 -- Hours after he was found guilty of ethics violations in his prosecution of three Duke University lacrosse players falsely accused of sexual assault, Durham County District Attorney Michael B. Nifong on Saturday surrendered his law license to the state bar and said he wou...
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Oh, if only the biggest problems in Columbus, Ohio, were how the Buckeyes might get their running game going and beat Purdue today. Not so. In a pair of stories -- one in ESPN the Magazine, the other on ESPN.com -- Ohio State Coach    Jim Tressel  was first accused by former star running back Maurice Clarett of helping him gain access to free cars and of hooking him up with boosters for cash payments. The second story traced such scams back to Tressel's days as the coach at Youngstown State, in Clarett's home town. Ohio State's response to Clarett: He's a liar, and he's lying. Suddenly, though, the Boilermakers aren't Tressel's most daunting opponent.
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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.  Â A lawyer who represented a Rutgers University women's basketball player complained to the school that her coach pressured the athlete to drop a lawsuit against Don Imus over the radio host's sexist and racist remarks about the team.
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A recently fired U.S. attorney based in Seattle said yesterday that he was told of no performance problems when he was asked to resign, and he called critical remarks by a top Justice Department official "unfair" and inaccurate.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- In the wake of Maurice Clarett&#39;s accusations of impropriety within the Ohio State football program, Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel and athletic director Andy Geiger defended the program Tuesday.
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A lawyer specializing in freedom of speech and the Internet said Wednesday he will defend free of charge a 19-year-old publisher of a Web site facing a lawsuit over an article that revealed trade secrets about an Apple computer.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Former Ohio State quarterback and current ESPN college football commentator Kirk Herbstreit said he was surprised and denied statements made earlier Tuesday by athletic director Andy Geiger.
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The attorney for the ousted HP chairman fired back  at public comments made by board rival about the HP pretexting scandal.
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An Ohio State University student accused of driving his car into three people, injuring them slightly, was among several people arrested during a raucous celebration of the No. 1-ranked Buckeye's win over No. 2 Texas.
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Ohio State athletic director Andy Geiger and coach Jim Tressel defended the school's football program Tuesday against charges that players were paid by boosters and coddled academically.
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A lawyer who represented Kia Vaughn, a junior on the Rutgers womenâs team, complained to the university that Coach C. Vivian Stringer pressured Vaughn to drop a lawsuit against Don Imus over his sexist and racist remarks about the team. Vaughn dropped her slander and defamation suit in September against Imus, who called Rutgersâs players ânappy-headed hosâ after the team lost in the N.C.A.A. finals.Vaughn had filed the lawsuit against Imus and CBS in August, saying his comments during his radio show damaged her reputation. In a Sept. 4 e-mail message and an Aug. 17 letter sent to university officials before the suit was dropped, Vaughnâs lawyer, Richard B. Ancowitz, said that Stringer and others put pressure on his client and other players not to seek legal action against Imus. Vaughn said Wednesday that no one pressured her and that she wanted to âfocus on school and basketball and everything else.â.
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A former Michigan State assistant coach testified in federal court Tuesday that he was told money had been paid to a high school coach to influence a top Memphis recruit's choice of college.
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'Patriot' Act booster has done his bit