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>> bleacher report brought to you by the new ford f 150. anderson cooper moderating that town hall. sea hawks star michael bennett had a strong message for everyone in the country. >> i would like to challenge every america watching this show to treat people better. thats what it is about. treating people like human beings. thats the first step. to recognize and see somebody as an equal being when you recognize them. theres no way a person or woman should feel less human than a man. no way a bla...

You do that in life good things are going to happen. >> after 16 seasons at louisville hall of fame coach rick pitino has been placed on indefinitely it in unpaid administrative leave after his basketball program was targeted has not a federal investigation into alleged fraud and corruption in college krugts. ten men including a top adidas executive were charged with bribing young athletes to influence their choices in schools, shoe sponsorships and agents. this is the third scandal pitino has g...

Try to play a role in this? >> i think he has a role, but it is also important to note that we had an historic election in 2008, electing the first african-american president. it didnt improve under him either. >> does picking fights on twitter with steph curry getting in back and forths, does it help it? >> steph curry is an amazing story, he is an ion for a lot of young children. my middle schooler idolizes him he has his jersey and wears it often. it is a great story of a guy who was overlook...

Carissa saw, constand says she declined cosbys casual advances twice and that the former employee of the basketball program at temple university, cosbys alma mater, actually spoke about herself paralyzed and unable to fight him off the night she took those pills allegedly and then he convinced her they were safe herbal supplements. here is what she said, i wasnt able to fight in any way. i wanted it to stop. in my head i was trying to get my hands or my legs to move, but i was frozen. now, const...

Unfast, over-the-top severe, but personally ive lost a lot of faith in the ncaa and everything ive stood for for the last 35 years. now, louisville is appealing, calling all of the sanctions excessive. if the cardinals lose that appeal, theyll become the first basketball program ever to have to take down a college championship banner. all right, the warriors celebrating their nba title with a parade yesterday, and youve got to check out draymond green. he was clearly trolling, wearing this t...

Guys getting away with it. one woman says somebody assaulted me and they say why didnt you report it? the real world is not law & order: svu. one of if you word against his and he is a guy who has power over you. who do you think people are going to believe and who are people going to want to believe? people should think about it in terms of when we talk about sexual assault in this country and why it is so hard for women to go public. >> eboni: kat is making a point that a lot of women feel. ei...

Angela constand in 2004. filing weeks before the statute of limitations was set to expire. constand worked with the basketball program and accused cosby of assaulting her when she visited his pennsylvania home. >> he urged her to take pills he provided to her and to drink wine. >> cosby told her the pills were herbal. after taking them she felt dizzy, nauseous, frozen, paralyzed but was aware of cosby fondling her breast and putting his hands into her pants. though she came forward in 2005 the d...

University. it cant be a good thing for a university when espn devotes pretty much its whole day today in terms of programming, of this kind of story about your school. its not just about the basketball program, its about the university of louisville and the kind of message this sends nationally about having strippers in a campus dorm that was built by rick pitino, so hed had more control of his players. turns out, there was actually less. >> and five players or recruits speaking to espn on top ...

Most prominent citizen because he won a national championship in 2013, he also won one in kentucky in 1996, hes a hall of fame coach. we dont have an nba team here, so college basketball rules and its all everybodys talking about. >> and we just talked about some of the statements coming out of the university. whats the latest you know from university officials? >> well, theyre still investigating the situation. theyve hired an outside firm to try and gather information about what happened, whic...

Crab legs. its kicked up a notch. >> fsu keeps getting caught. my hunch is every major college campus with a major football program or major basketball program similar things are going on. what you have is big man on campus syndrome. these guys walk around these campuses. they come out. theyre doing the school a favor by going to fsu or florida or alabama or wherever they may be going, and they feel entitled to act and do what they want to do above the law. what needs to happen is coaches, admin...