Court upholds guilty verdicts in NCAA bribes case
The convictions of Christian Dawkins and Merl Code in a conspiracy to bribe top college coaches to get them to steer NBA-bound athletes to favored handlers were upheld Friday by an appeals court.
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The convictions of Christian Dawkins and Merl Code in a conspiracy to bribe top college coaches to get them to steer NBA-bound athletes to favored handlers were upheld Friday by an appeals court.
Louisville Courier Journal LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A former consultant to Adidas says in a sworn statement that the company provided airfare and other benefits to college players, including former Duke basketball star Zion Williamson. In a deposition in a lawsuit filed by disqualified University of Louisville recruit Brian Bowen Jr., Dan Cutler said an Adidas representative provided four airline tickets for Williamson’s family before he enrolled at Duke. In a September 2015 text message to an AAU coach, Cutler also said he had arranged to put up Williamson’s family in a ...
Former point guard jailed in bribery scheme has book deal Hanover Square Press announced Tuesday that Merl Code’s 'Black Market' will be published in March 2022 Loading the player... A former point guard sentenced to prison in 2019 for his role in a college basketball bribery scheme has a book coming out next year. Hanover Square Press announced Tuesday that Merl Code’s “Black Market” will be published in March 2022. Code, a Clemson point guard in the 1990s who later worked with Nike and Adidas, was among 10 individuals arrested in 2017 for their alleged plan to get top prospects to ...
Appeals court OKs convictions in college basketball scandal Follow Us Question of the Day By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press - Friday, January 15, 2021 NEW YORK (AP) - A federal appeals court in New York on Friday upheld convictions against a sports marketer, an aspiring agent and a financial adviser in a college basketball scandal that spoiled the careers of several coaches and left a stain on the integrity of college athletics. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said in its written decisi...
All three insiders were found guilty in 2018 of paying relatives of prized basketball prospects to enroll at select universities