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ESPN’s Outside The Lines ran a report on USC’s O.J. Mayo receiving illegal benefits from his first year in highschool all the way up until last year. In the last 4-5 years Mayo has received up to $30,000 in cash and gifts in exchange for a verbal agreement to sign with BDA management when he made it to the NBA.

There are two things in this story that crack me up.

1. BDA management actually paid out $200,000 for O.J. Mayo, but most of that money was taken and spent by the middleman, Rodney Guillory.

2. You HAVE to see the look on O.J.’s face when ESPN puts him on the spot questioning these allegations. It reminds me of Miguel Tejada’s interview with E:60 a few weeks ago. Check it out in the vid below….

The following video is O.J. Mayo’s carefully thought out response to the above report.

Bill Self, of the newly crowned National Champion Kansas Jayhawks, has turned down Oklahoma State.  Stank-0 wrote about this here. 

For those not in the know, Oklahoma State University has a billionaire booster, T. Boone Pickens.  Pickens famously donated $165M to the school.  Self could have easily been the highest paid college basketball coach, and only a few college football coaches would have been higher compensated. 

 Now Stank-0 being a Kansas alum is clearly biased in this instance, but Kansas would still have been Kansas if Self had chosen to take the OSU position.  Larry Brown is available and he has stated his regret at leaving.  If not Brown, then the living legend, Danny Manning, is actual on the coaching staff at Kansas right now. 

This also signifies that the days of a 20+ year head coach are over.  There are very few coaching institutions save Coach K, Coach Roy, and Jim Boeheim.  Expect Self to leave after about 8-10 seasons in Lawrence. 

File this under…no one cares, but Ohio State got past UMass for the NIT title. The NIT is normally uninteresting, but this year especially. All four 1 seeds advanced to the Final Four for the first time in history! That just makes the NIT even more uninteresting.

Stank-0 is sure those college kids played their hearts out too, but it’s the NIT. The NIT is the equivalent to being Mr. Irrelevant in the NFL, the last pick of the draft. Let the players explain:

“This is what happens when you put an NCAA tournament team in the NIT,” Butler yelled, surrounded by his teammates after beating Massachusetts 92-85 in the title game Thursday night. “Write that down and send that to the committee.”

Stank-0 has to disagree, because NCAA tournament teams are in the NCAA tournament. Look kid, no one expected a return to the Dance after losing Oden and Conley. Life goes on, keep you head up, cliche, cliche, etc., etc. blah blah…fill in the blank.

Even the guy in the pic above, Kosta Koufos, doesn’t look like he wants to be in the pic. Stank-0 can imagine he lost a bet and had to hold the “trophy.”

I’ve fell for at least four April Fools jokes today, this one on PTI being the best. Shout out to Awful Announcing for the vid.

Am I the only one who could give a rats ass about college basketball and March Madness? I know I’m in the minority on this issue, but I don’t watch college B-ball whatsoever. Any instance of me viewing an NCAA basketball game is usually under forced circumstances.

I was in the barbershop about two weeks ago on a Saturday afternoon. I didn’t make an appointment so I was forced to sit and wait for about 90 minutes until it was my turn. The battery on my cell phone died and I read about 83 magazines and then had to face reality in form of the television. Some Georgetown basketball game was on and I just couldn’t bring myself to care what happened one way or the other.

Unless someone literally dies on the court or something, you won’t hear a peep out of me. I’ll leave college hoops to Stank-O.

Maybe I should use this “sports downtime” and actually update the Criminal Fantasy League.