Tinker:
Make sure that you put on the show smoothly Mr. President because the show is everything, and please don't get caught in a lie.
Well,
well, well, that is just what happen. Because the entire world now
knows where the hidden pea is under the Washington DC mixed up shells.
No magic here! Because the sleight of hand is exposed with each next
tall tail coming out of the mouth of the Obama administration to the
American news media looking for a place to hide.Make sure that you put on the show smoothly Mr. President because the show is everything, and please don't get caught in a lie.
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SYRIA ACCEPTS RUSSIAN WEAPONS PROPOSAL...
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- Eugene Robinson
- Opinion Writer
Does Obama want to attack Syria or not?
By Eugene Robinson, Published: September 9 E-mail the writer
The Obama administration keeps
undermining its own case for a punitive strike in Syria. If the
president wants permission from Congress and support from the American
people, he and his aides had better get their story straight.
The “messaging,” to use an unfortunate Washington term, has been confusing, contradictory and halfhearted. The nation simply will not approve going to war if its leaders cannot coherently explain what they want to do, how they plan to do it and why.
The “messaging,” to use an unfortunate Washington term, has been confusing, contradictory and halfhearted. The nation simply will not approve going to war if its leaders cannot coherently explain what they want to do, how they plan to do it and why.
Eugene Robinson
Writes about politics and culture in twice-a-week columns and on the PostPartisan blog.
Writes about politics and culture in twice-a-week columns and on the PostPartisan blog.
Secretary of State John Kerry threw mud into turbid waters Monday when he said the attack would be an “unbelievably small, limited kind of effort.”
This punch line came at the end of a string of similar assurances: no
“troops on the ground,” nothing “prolonged,” merely a “very targeted,
short-term” affair.
But if the attack is designed to be so limited, why bother? Why not just send a special envoy to give Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad a stern talking-to, followed perhaps by a reassuring hug?
Kerry was speaking at a London news conference, and maybe he was jet-lagged or sleep-deprived. He has seen combat firsthand in Vietnam and knows that to anyone on the receiving end of bombs or missiles, war never looks “unbelievably small.” He also knows that the stated mission — to punish Assad for using chemical weapons and “degrade” his capacity to do so again — cannot be accomplished in an afternoon.
In trying so hard to convince everyone that Syria will not be another Afghanistan or Iraq, however, Kerry and others speaking for the administration — including President Obama himself — have undermined their case for a strike.
On Aug. 21, according to the administration and a host of solid evidence, the Assad regime fired rockets containing sarin gas into a rebel-held Damascus suburb, killing hundreds of men, women and children. U.S. officials put the death toll at more than 1,400 — and say that this horror followed a series of smaller-scale chemical weapons attacks.
Even in the context of a civil war, the use of poison gas — a forbidden weapon — should shock the world’s conscience. If Assad and his brutal government face no consequences, they will draw the conclusion that they may use chemical weapons with impunity. Other tyrants around the world will be tempted to follow suit.
These are the arguments — moral and geopolitical — that the administration was making forcefully two weeks ago, when it appeared a strike was imminent. But Obama’s decision to consult Congress yet not call legislators back from recess drained the case for war of any urgency.
Obama’s words Friday at the end of the Group of 20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, only added to the confusion. He was theoretical and professorial, as if he were discussing a case study in international relations rather than a crisis obliging the nation to go to war.
“I did not put this before Congress just as a political ploy or as symbolism,” Obama said. “I put it before Congress because I could not honestly claim that the threat posed by Assad’s use of chemical weapons on innocent civilians and women and children posed an imminent, direct threat to the United States.”
I fail to see how the headline “President Says Syria Poses No ‘Direct Threat’ ” helps Obama’s cause.
I also fail to see how this standard jibes with Obama’s record in office. Without consulting Congress, he ordered military action in Libya — where the rebellion against Moammar Gaddafi posed less of a threat to U.S. interests than does the multisided civil war in Syria, which could easily spill across borders and spark a much wider conflict.
Obama justifies the Libya action on grounds that the population of Benghazi was in imminent peril. But it is hard to argue that the danger to civilians in Syria, with more than 100,000 dead and millions displaced, is somehow less grave.
Assad, at least, was clear and purposeful in his interview with television’s Charlie Rose. The urbane ophthalmologist-turned-ogre warned that in the event of a strike, the United States should “expect everything” in retaliation. “What do wars give the United States? . . . Nothing. No political gain, no economic gain, no good reputation,” he said.
Nobody is going to be dissuaded from military action by smarmy lectures from a thug. But nobody is going to be persuaded to back a missile strike unless Obama and his aides clearly explain the rationale for war — and sound like they mean it.
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----------------But if the attack is designed to be so limited, why bother? Why not just send a special envoy to give Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad a stern talking-to, followed perhaps by a reassuring hug?
Kerry was speaking at a London news conference, and maybe he was jet-lagged or sleep-deprived. He has seen combat firsthand in Vietnam and knows that to anyone on the receiving end of bombs or missiles, war never looks “unbelievably small.” He also knows that the stated mission — to punish Assad for using chemical weapons and “degrade” his capacity to do so again — cannot be accomplished in an afternoon.
In trying so hard to convince everyone that Syria will not be another Afghanistan or Iraq, however, Kerry and others speaking for the administration — including President Obama himself — have undermined their case for a strike.
On Aug. 21, according to the administration and a host of solid evidence, the Assad regime fired rockets containing sarin gas into a rebel-held Damascus suburb, killing hundreds of men, women and children. U.S. officials put the death toll at more than 1,400 — and say that this horror followed a series of smaller-scale chemical weapons attacks.
Even in the context of a civil war, the use of poison gas — a forbidden weapon — should shock the world’s conscience. If Assad and his brutal government face no consequences, they will draw the conclusion that they may use chemical weapons with impunity. Other tyrants around the world will be tempted to follow suit.
These are the arguments — moral and geopolitical — that the administration was making forcefully two weeks ago, when it appeared a strike was imminent. But Obama’s decision to consult Congress yet not call legislators back from recess drained the case for war of any urgency.
Obama’s words Friday at the end of the Group of 20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, only added to the confusion. He was theoretical and professorial, as if he were discussing a case study in international relations rather than a crisis obliging the nation to go to war.
“I did not put this before Congress just as a political ploy or as symbolism,” Obama said. “I put it before Congress because I could not honestly claim that the threat posed by Assad’s use of chemical weapons on innocent civilians and women and children posed an imminent, direct threat to the United States.”
I fail to see how the headline “President Says Syria Poses No ‘Direct Threat’ ” helps Obama’s cause.
I also fail to see how this standard jibes with Obama’s record in office. Without consulting Congress, he ordered military action in Libya — where the rebellion against Moammar Gaddafi posed less of a threat to U.S. interests than does the multisided civil war in Syria, which could easily spill across borders and spark a much wider conflict.
Obama justifies the Libya action on grounds that the population of Benghazi was in imminent peril. But it is hard to argue that the danger to civilians in Syria, with more than 100,000 dead and millions displaced, is somehow less grave.
Assad, at least, was clear and purposeful in his interview with television’s Charlie Rose. The urbane ophthalmologist-turned-ogre warned that in the event of a strike, the United States should “expect everything” in retaliation. “What do wars give the United States? . . . Nothing. No political gain, no economic gain, no good reputation,” he said.
Nobody is going to be dissuaded from military action by smarmy lectures from a thug. But nobody is going to be persuaded to back a missile strike unless Obama and his aides clearly explain the rationale for war — and sound like they mean it.
Read more from Eugene Robinson’s archive, follow him on Twitter or subscribe to his updates on Facebook. You can also join him Tuesdays at 1 p.m. for a live Q&A.
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COMMUNITY ORGANIZER GOES TO WAR
September 4, 2013
Oh, how I long for the days when liberals wailed that "the rest
of the world" hated America, rather than now, when the rest of the world
laughs at us.
With the vast majority of Americans opposing a strike against Syria, President Obama has requested that Congress vote on his powers as commander in chief under the Constitution. The president doesn't need congressional approval to shoot a few missiles into Syria, nor -- amazingly -- has he said he'll abide by such a vote, anyway.
Why is Congress even having a vote? This is nothing but a fig leaf to cover Obama's own idiotic "red line" ultimatum to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria on chemical weapons. The Nobel Peace Prize winner needs to get Congress on the record so that whatever happens, the media can blame Republicans.
No Republican who thinks seriously about America's national security interests -- by which I mean to exclude John McCain and Lindsey Graham -- can support Obama's "plan" to shoot blindly into this hornet's nest.
It would be completely different if we knew with absolute certainty that Assad was responsible for chemical attacks on his own people. (I'm still waiting to see if it was a Syrian upset about a YouTube video.)
It would be different if instead of killing a few hundred civilians, Assad had killed 5,000 civilians with poison gas in a single day, as well as tens of thousands more with chemical weapons in the past few decades.
It would be different if Assad were known to torture his own people, administer summary executions, rapes, burnings and electric shocks, often in front of the victim's wife or children.
It would be different if Assad had acted aggressively toward the United States itself, perhaps attempting to assassinate a former U.S. president or giving shelter to terrorists who had struck within the U.S. -- someone like Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood terrorist. Read More »
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Dandy Don's LSU Sports Report
LSU will play its second of three straight home games on
Saturday when the No. 8 Tigers host Kent State of the Mid-American
Conference at 6:02 p.m. in Tiger Stadium. The game will be
televised on ESPNU with Clay Matvick, Matt Stinchcomb, and Dawn
Davenport on the call. Kent State is not SEC-caliber competition, but
they are a big step above last week’s opponent, UAB. Kent State won 11
games a year ago and came up one victory shy of reaching the Orange
Bowl. The Golden Flashes beat Liberty to open the season and then lost
to Bowling Green, 41-22, last week. Saturday’s game will be the first
meeting between LSU and Kent State.
Yesterday Coach Miles addressed the media for his weekly “Lunch with Les” presser to discuss last week’s big win and this weekend’s contest, and I’ve posted a full transcript of the conference here. For your convenience, here is a quick summary of a few key points:
• Coach Miles said that Tre'Davious White and Rashard Robinson are guys that can look forward to playing significant snaps as we go forward.
• Coach Miles acknowledged that the team should have been much more efficient rushing the ball and that’s one of the areas of improvement for this week.
• Coach Miles said that ideally he would like for Mettenberger to get 60 or 65 snaps and Anthony Jennings to get 15.
• Safety Craig Loston and defensive tackle Anthony Johnson are nicked but expected to be fine to play this weekend.
• When asked whether he knew how many missed tackles there were last week, Miles said, “ I really don't want to recall. It was a larger number than we're used to, I can tell you that.”
• When asked about Odell Beckham's touchdown return of the missed field goal, Miles gave credit to specials teams coach Thomas McGaughey who recognized the potential for the return.
Click here to read the full transcript of the presser.
Speaking of Odell, Beckham, Jr., for the second week in a row he was named the SEC Special Teams Player of the Week and he now leads the nation in all-purpose yards. Beckham amassed 331 all-purpose yards last week, including 136 yards receiving, 15 yards rushing, 59 yards on punt returns, 21 yards on kick returns, and 100 yards on the missed field goal return which at first didn’t factor into the national standings because the computer systems had no way to account for the yards. After having it called to their attention, the NCAA added a new category to the statistics for “miscellaneous yards,” and Beckham’s yardage in this category gave him a substantial national lead in Average All-Purpose Yards Per Game (302). If you missed that historic play, or just want to relive the moment, you can check out a video of Beckham’s 100-yard FG return in our Media Gallery.
In other LSU football news, yesterday it was announced that LSU’s SEC-opener against Auburn on September 21 in Tiger Stadium will kickoff at 6:45 p.m. CT and will be televised by ESPN. The Auburn game will mark LSU’s third straight home night contest, and I think that’s great news. There’s nothing like a Saturday night in Tiger Stadium!
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Yesterday Coach Miles addressed the media for his weekly “Lunch with Les” presser to discuss last week’s big win and this weekend’s contest, and I’ve posted a full transcript of the conference here. For your convenience, here is a quick summary of a few key points:
• Coach Miles said that Tre'Davious White and Rashard Robinson are guys that can look forward to playing significant snaps as we go forward.
• Coach Miles acknowledged that the team should have been much more efficient rushing the ball and that’s one of the areas of improvement for this week.
• Coach Miles said that ideally he would like for Mettenberger to get 60 or 65 snaps and Anthony Jennings to get 15.
• Safety Craig Loston and defensive tackle Anthony Johnson are nicked but expected to be fine to play this weekend.
• When asked whether he knew how many missed tackles there were last week, Miles said, “ I really don't want to recall. It was a larger number than we're used to, I can tell you that.”
• When asked about Odell Beckham's touchdown return of the missed field goal, Miles gave credit to specials teams coach Thomas McGaughey who recognized the potential for the return.
Click here to read the full transcript of the presser.
Speaking of Odell, Beckham, Jr., for the second week in a row he was named the SEC Special Teams Player of the Week and he now leads the nation in all-purpose yards. Beckham amassed 331 all-purpose yards last week, including 136 yards receiving, 15 yards rushing, 59 yards on punt returns, 21 yards on kick returns, and 100 yards on the missed field goal return which at first didn’t factor into the national standings because the computer systems had no way to account for the yards. After having it called to their attention, the NCAA added a new category to the statistics for “miscellaneous yards,” and Beckham’s yardage in this category gave him a substantial national lead in Average All-Purpose Yards Per Game (302). If you missed that historic play, or just want to relive the moment, you can check out a video of Beckham’s 100-yard FG return in our Media Gallery.
In other LSU football news, yesterday it was announced that LSU’s SEC-opener against Auburn on September 21 in Tiger Stadium will kickoff at 6:45 p.m. CT and will be televised by ESPN. The Auburn game will mark LSU’s third straight home night contest, and I think that’s great news. There’s nothing like a Saturday night in Tiger Stadium!
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LSU Football - Geaux Tigers!!!
| LSU Sports | Tigers in the NFL -- Week 1 (updated stats) |
| The Advocate | LSU wants even more from offense |
| Times Picayune | Notes Connor Neighbors adds a new wrinkle to the offense |
| Times Picayune | LSU's defense is trying to tackle tackling issues |
| The Advocate | Notes: LSU, Auburn game to be played under lights |
| The Advocate | NCAA: No official spot for Beckham’s FG return |
| LSU Reveille | Notes: Mettenberger shows improved maturity |
| Les Miles | Video (1 min, 51 sec): Players of the Week - UAB |
| Louisiana Daily | Audio (19 min, 45 sec): Jarrett Lee, Jordy Culotta, Hunt Palmer on win over UAB | .mp3 |
| Sports Illustrated | Special Report on Oklahoma State Football: Part 1 -- The Money |
| Associated Press | Oklahoma State AD apologizes to Big 12 schools in advance of expose |
| Sports Illustrated | S.I. report "The Dirty Game" to launch Tuesday, September 10, at 8 a.m. CT |
| Notes: Alabama | Arkansas | Auburn | Florida | Georgia | Kentucky | Mississippi State | |
| Notes: Missouri | Ole Miss | South Carolina | TCU | Tennessee | Texas A&M | Vanderbilt | |
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Sports Illustrated Investigative Report “The Dirty Game” Set to Launch Tuesday, September 10, at 9 a.m. ET
Posted: September 9, 2013 | Author: sigroup | Filed under: B.J. Schecter, College Football, George Dohrman, Jon Werthiem, SI.com, Sports Illustrated Cover, Sports Illustrated Digital, Sports Illustrated Special Report, Thayer Evans, Weekly Issue, Weekly Press Release | Tags: NCAA, Oklahoma State football |Leave a comment »
The rapid ascent of the
Oklahoma State University football program into a national powerhouse is
examined in a five-part series to run across SI’s platforms
“The Dirty Game,” a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED special investigative report that looks into the transformation of a struggling college football program into a national powerhouse, is set to launch tomorrow morning on SI.com. The series is the result of a comprehensive 10-month investigation into the Oklahoma State University football program. It includes independent and on-the-record interviews with more than 60 former OSU football players who played from 1999 to 2011, as well as current and former OSU football staffers.
The findings will be presented in a five-part series across SI’s family of platforms, beginning with Part 1 (money), which launches on SI.com tomorrow at 9 a.m. ET and is this week’s magazine cover story, on newsstands and tablets Wednesday. Additional live coverage can be found on SI Now, SI.com’s live daily talk show (weekdays at 1 p.m. ET) and across SI’s social media outlets.
After 11 losing seasons in 12 years, OSU turned itself into one of the top programs in the nation. Since 2002, OSU has had 10 winning seasons, earned its first Big 12 title and went to its first BCS Bowl. The report reveals that OSU went to extreme measures to build a winning program, with an increased willingness to cut corners and bend rules. The transgressions began under former coach Les Miles, who was the head coach in Stillwater from 2001 to ’04 and is now the head coach at LSU, and continued under current head coach Mike Gundy, who was promoted from offensive coordinator in 2005.
SI executive editor Jon Wertheim, SI assistant managing editor Hank Hersch and SI.com executive editor B.J. Schecter oversaw the investigative report, which was written and reported by senior writers George Dohrmann and Thayer Evans.
“We wanted to take a comprehensive look at a big-time program, particularly one that made a rapid ascent,” says Wertheim. “There’s obviously a steady drumbeat of scandal in college sports – improper benefits here; a recruiting violation there – and plenty of rumor and hearsay about the unseemly underbelly. For this piece, we were more about venturing inside the factory and seeing how the sausage is made.”
Parts 2 — 4 of the report continue on SI.com this week and the series culminates in next week’s SI issue and on SI.com. In addition, SI.com will feature videos of former Cowboys talking about their experiences in Stillwater. SI Now will have live coverage and reaction throughout the week. The series will run as follows:
• Part 1: Money (On SI.com Tuesday, 9/10 and in the 9/16/13 SI issue): SI finds that OSU used a bonus system orchestrated by an assistant coach whereby players were paid for their performance on the field, with some stars collecting $500 or more per game. In addition, the report finds that OSU boosters and at least two assistant coaches funneled money to players via direct payments and a system of no-show and sham jobs. Some players say they collected more than $10,000 annually in under-the-table payouts.
• Part 2: Academics (On SI.com Wednesday, 9/11): Widespread academic misconduct, which included tutors and other OSU personnel completing coursework for players, and professors giving passing grades for little or no work, all in the interest of keeping top players eligible.
• Part 3: Drugs (On SI.com Thursday, 9/12): OSU tolerated and at times enabled recreational drug use, primarily through a specious counseling program that allowed some players to continue to use drugs while avoiding penalties. The school’s drug policy was selectively enforced, with some stars going unpunished despite repeated positive tests.
• Part 4: Sex (On SI.com Friday, 9/13): OSU’s hostess program, Orange Pride, figured so prominently in the recruitment of prospects that the group more than tripled in size under Miles. Both Miles and Gundy took the unusual step of personally interviewing candidates. Multiple former players and Orange Pride members say that a small subset of the group had sex with recruits, a violation of NCAA rules.
• Part 5: The Fallout (On SI.com Tuesday, 9/17, and in the 9/23/13 SI issue): SI finds that many players who were no longer useful to the football program were cast aside, returning to worlds they had hoped to escape. Some have been incarcerated, others live on the streets, many have battled drug abuse and a few have attempted suicide.
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Report: OK St. players got paid
Updated: September 10, 2013,
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Jake Trotter | ESPN.com
Report: Oklahoma State Players Got Paid
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Illustrated writer George Dohrmann discusses the SI article on alleged
widespread corruption in Oklahoma State's football program.Tags: Okloham State Cowboys, Les Miles, Mike Gundy, Investigation, Cash, Payment, Big 12, Allegations, Scandal
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Some players received $2,000 annually and others about $10,000, multiple players told SI, with a few stars allegedly receiving $25,000 or more.
Among the players SI identified who allegedly took money are former quarterback Josh Fields, running back Tatum Bell and cornerback Darrent Williams (who was shot to death in 2007 while he was a member of the Denver Broncos). Fields, Bell and others denied receiving illicit payments, but multiple players were on the record as saying they received money and saw other players getting payments.
"I'm in disbelief," Fields told ESPN's Brett McMurphy on Tuesday. "I never had anyone attempt to give me any type of payments or do my schoolwork and never saw my teammates accept money. I never accepted anything. Seeing my name in there was a shock."
It was just like in life when you work. The better the job you do, the more money you make.SI also claimed that former quarterback Bobby Reid was given money. During a notable September 2007 news conference, Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy staunchly defended Reid after an Oklahoman columnist questioned Reid's maturity. But four former Cowboys told SI that after Reid lost his starting job, he stopped receiving bonus money. Reid, too, denied receiving money while he was an Oklahoma State player.
” -- Thomas Wright,
OSU defensive back from 2002-04
Subsequent installments of the investigative piece allege that there also was widespread academic misconduct involving the football program, that the program tolerated recreational drug use, and that members of a hostess program had sex with recruits.
The first part of the series concentrated on financial irregularities in the football program. SI reported that payments to players, which stretched from 2001 to at least 2011 under head coaches Miles and Gundy, were primarily delivered three ways: a de facto bonus system based on performance on the field; direct payments to players from boosters and coaches independent of performance; and no-show and sham jobs -- including work related to the renovation of Boone Pickens Stadium -- that involved at least one assistant coach and several boosters.
Miles, the coach at LSU since the 2005 season, was instrumental in creating a "hospitable" environment for boosters, according to Sports Illustrated.
Several players claimed that former Oklahoma State special-teams and secondary coach Joe DeForest played an integral role in the bonus payment system and would determine how much players would get.
"It was just like in life when you work," said Thomas Wright, a defensive back from 2002-04. "The better the job you do, the more money you make."
Defensive back Calvin Mickens said he received $200 after forcing a fumble and breaking up a pass in his very first game.
"I was like, wow, this is the life!" Mickens said, according to Sports Illustrated. "I'm 18, playing football, and I just got $200."
DeForest, now the associate head coach and special-teams coordinator at West Virginia, said he never paid a player for on-field performance.
Fields, who was the starting QB from 2001-03 under Miles, with Gundy as his quarterbacks coach, also said there were never boosters in the locker room before or after games or on planes.
“Fields disputed the credibility of the players quoted in the story. Five of those players were dismissed from Oklahoma State for various reasons.I can tell you this: We have always done things right.
” -- LSU's Les Miles,
coach at OSU from 2001-04
"Anyone that played at OSU or is from Stillwater knows those guys [quoted] are not credible," Fields told McMurphy. "If you thought guys were getting paid, why not prominent players instead of backups and third-string guys?"
Former Oklahoma State offensive tackle Russell Okung, the sixth overall choice in the 2010 draft, echoed Fields' comments.
"I have never seen Joe DeForest give anyone money," Okung told ESPN's Joe Schad. "As for boosters, Mike Gundy ran a tight ship. He didn't like visitors. Boosters were not accessible to us and we didn't know them."
Okung said he believes the players who spoke to Sports Illustrated did so "out of spite." Said Okung: "A lot of these players are spiteful. They had multiple drug issues. They did things that were detrimental to the program. They didn't all graduate. Gundy couldn't tolerate it and let them go."
The SI report claims that the timing of the alleged violations coincided with Miles' return to Oklahoma State as head coach prior to the 2001 season (Miles was OSU's offensive coordinator from 1995-97). The Cowboys had gone 3-8 the season before Miles became coach, but afterward the football budget was increased. Assistants were paid more, players ate better, and facilities were upgraded. But, according to players SI interviewed, the culture change around the football program also included NCAA violations.
T. Boone Pickens, the school's most prominent booster, was not implicated in any improprieties by SI's sources.
"It's very disconcerting to hear about all these things that are alleged to have happened," athletic director Mike Holder said last week when SI presented him with its findings. "But there's nothing more important to us than playing by the rules, being ethical, having integrity. To hear we have some shortcomings or could have ... in a way I guess I should thank you. Because our intent is to take this information and to investigate and do something about it."
On Tuesday, Holder also clarified an apology he made the day before.
"In Monday's news conference, I apologized to our fans and mentioned phone calls I had made to other Big 12 athletic directors prior to the release of the first article from Sports Illustrated," he said in a statement. "To clarify, my apology was in regards to the negative publicity that was coming our way. My apology was in no way an admission of wrong doing by OSU Athletics."
I was like, wow, this is the life! I'm 18, playing football, and I just got $200.Gundy, who is preparing the No. 13 Cowboys for their home opener Saturday against Lamar, said he was confident the proper steps would be taken by the university.
” -- Calvin Mickens,
former OSU defensive back
"I'm going to guess that once we get all the information and we see what's out there, then our administration, our people inside, will look at it and we'll see where we made mistakes," Gundy said. "And we'll try to make ourselves better and we'll correct it and then we'll move forward. And I would hope that there will be some of it that we'll say, 'I'm not sure, it could go one way or the other.' That's really the best way I can put it. But I think the university is looking forward to seeing the information and seeing how we can make ourselves better from it."
West Virginia released a statement Saturday that did not mention DeForest and said it had "launched an internal review to ensure the coach's full compliance to NCAA rules while at West Virginia." WVU also contacted the NCAA.
"While our assistant football coach has denied the allegations, it is the right thing to do to look into the matter and review practices here," athletic director Oliver Luck said.
Miles has said he didn't know of any improprieties while he was coach at Oklahoma State.
"I can tell you this: We have always done things right," he said after LSU's win Saturday night over UAB in Baton Rouge, La.
Sports Illustrated reported that many of the violations happened outside the four-year statute of limitations for prosecution; however, the NCAA could still penalize the school if a "pattern of willful violations" occurred before the four-year statute but continued into the last four years and/or if allegations include a "blatant disregard" for the most serious of NCAA rules, including extra benefits or academic misconduct.
Information from ESPN.com's Brett McMurphy and Joe Schad and The Associated Press was used in this report.
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Thomas Williams · Im not telling u
Well
do you thing that the Sports Illustrated reporter has the goods on now
LSU head coach Les Miles. If so the substance of the SI story, saying
that Les Miles personally interviewed the women who were given the new
recruits sex as a added incentives to play for Oklahoma State. That seem
very hard to believe.
Show me the money?
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Chris Ross A Summary:
WHAT STANDS OUT:
If the scandal is so rampant and wide spread, and hundreds of people with knowledge, how did it take 10 years to come out?
Cash handed out freely in the locker room right after a game, with press and everyone else around? Again hundreds of people would have known.
Multiple sources in the OSU locker room and inside locker rooms across the nation have all said one thing, "No way this would take place in a locker room, it would be in the press within 5 minutes, let alone 10 years".
Starving players, when there are several meals provided by the athletic department? This just isn't true.
'Boosters became so pervasive after Miles took over that they began connecting with players even before they arrived on campus. (T. Boone Pickens, the school's most prominent booster, was not implicated in any improprieties by SI's sources.) Shaw says that after he decided to attend Oklahoma State in 2001 as a senior at Shawnee (Okla.) High, a booster gave him between $400 and $500."
The problem with that quote: Seymore Shaw originally signed with the University of Oklahoma as a partial qualifier his senior year of HS. He came to OSU in August after the season already started when OU did not give him a scholarship.
“Williams was shot to death in 2007 while a member of the Denver Broncos; Grant died in a car accident in ’05. Bell, DeGrate and Fields all denied getting illicit payments. Bowman did not respond to repeated requests for comment.”
The problem with that quote: Tatum Bell and Josh Fields both publicly stated they were never contacted by SI.
Less than 24 hours into the story and 2 ‘sources’ have claimed their quotes were twisted and manipulated. Pogi even states that he told Evans that the worse that happened at Oklahoma state was horsing around in the locker room.
"let me say this ti all of you, I was never paid or said anything negative about OSU, That Evens guy is trash for what he worte! He took what I said and flipped it to his own words! I never said anything about Bobby Reid, Defo, or John Talley! I am embarrassed and shamed of this articale! I was lied to about what this articale is about and for that I apologize to everyone for! This is something that will get resolved and I will see to that myself!" - Rodrick Johnson.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Thayer Evans played basketball at a school in Oklahoma. Evans was kicked out of school for stealing.
Evan's beat his wife, and there is currently a restraining order against him.
Evans was fired from the Houston Chronicle for lying on his resume.
Evans was fired from Fox Sports for making up sources.
He is quite literally a lying, cheating, woman beating, thief. Excuse me if I don't take him at his word.
Just so there are no illusions about Thayer Evans and his thoughts about Oklahoma State:
“…a meltdown by seventh-year Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy is coming just like usual, as evidenced by his sixth-ranked team’s sloppy 38-26 victory Saturday against incompetent No. 22 Texas.”
“Even the rest of the college football world knows Gundy is bound for a debacle. It’s the unspoken reason no one is worried about the Cowboys winning the Big 12 championship, let alone the national title, this season.”.
“Everyone is just waiting for Chokie State to once again live up to its nickname under Gundy.”
“Of course, Gundy’s biggest meltdown wasn’t even on a football field. It was four years ago, when he infamously yelled, “I’m a man! I’m 40!” while berating a female newspaper columnist for what she had written. Yet despite his knack for meltdowns, a solemn Gundy managed to avoid one Saturday when asked whether he was haunted by his past failures. “No,” Gundy said. “It’s a new season.” But it’s still the same Gundy, always on the verge of a disaster.”
“And if this season is going to be any different for Gundy, even one of his best players can’t tell you why. When asked why people should believe that Oklahoma State won’t disappoint, Weeden was at a loss for words. “I don’t know,” Weeden said. “We’re not worried about it.” Weeden actually makes a good point. You can’t worry about what’s inevitable.”.
http://www.pistolsfiringblog.
Jason Whitlock @WhitlockJason: My God, this might be the journalistic crime of the century. Boomer Sooner got to write takedown of Okie State. Unreal. #plushesahack
Jason Whitlock @WhitlockJason Yes, I'm not speculating about his incompetence. RT @MinnickTaylor: Wasn't Thayer Evans a colleague of yours over at Fox Sports.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/blog
“But then in addition to that, having worked with Thayer Evans at Fox Sports, having followed his work for some time, I am completely and utterly flabbergasted that a legitimate news outlet would allow Thayer Evans to be involved in some type of investigative piece on college football that tears down a program, and particularly one that tears down Oklahoma State when it is no secret what a huge, enormous, gigantic Oklahoma homer Thayer Evans is. This is just incredible. Knowing the lack of competence that’s there with Thayer Evans, knowing the level of simplemindedness that’s there with Thayer Evans, to base any part of the story on his reporting is mind-boggling. … When I learned Thayer Evans was involved, I just said, there’s no way I’ll read this because there’s no reason to trust this reporter on anything of any substance. If you go back and look at his track record of reporting and the consistent controversy that surrounds his reporting – he made a name for himself at the New York Times by writing these annual stories about some top high school football recruit that he would buddy up to, follow around with a tape recorder and then report what some immature 17-year-old kid said about the recruiting process. These kids tended to come from single-parent families with the mother working and busy, so there wasn’t the normal oversight and anybody with a brain could see the exploitation that was taking place. … It doesn’t surprise me there are sources in this story saying the reporting was heavy-handed and leading. I don’t want to make the whole thing about Thayer Evans, but there’s just no way to avoid it. I’ve worked with him. He’s simpleminded. He’s a hack that can’t write. This isn’t personal, I promise. I have no reason to dislike Thayer Evans personally, and I don’t. But I’ve read enough of his work this guy isn’t qualified for this job and by now Sports Illustrated and anybody else should be well aware of this. Type his name into Google, read his previous work, read how his previous work has been debunked and there’s just no surprise. This story will be shrouded in controversy.”
“ … Let me end by saying this and I honestly mean this without malice. It wouldn’t shock me if Thayer Evans couldn’t spell cat and I say in all seriousness.”– Jason Whitlock.
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