Louis Johnson, who was a part of Mayo's inner circle until recently, said Mayo accepted around $30,000 in cash and gifts during the past four years from Rodney Guillory, a 43-year-old Los Angeles event promoter. Mayo, Louis Johnson and Rodney Guillory is a unique and complex one. If these claims were ...
Report: O.J. Mayo Took $30,000 in Cash and Gifts in High School and at USC
sports.aol.comFound 4 days, 12 hours, 31 minutes, and 46 seconds agoFiled under: Pac-10 Basketball , NCAA Basketball Recruiting , USC Basketball ESPN is reporting that a former associate of ex-USC basketball player O.J. Mayo says Mayo violated NCAA rules by accepting $30,000 in cash and gifts from a Los Angeles event promoter before and during his one season playing ...
O.J. Mayo accepted $30,000? Chris Webber Laughs, Then Rubs Himself In $100 Bills
maizenbrew.comFound 3 days, 11 hours, 10 minutes, and 57 seconds agoAt Michigan, it's hard to wag the condescending finger at anyone for NCAA Rules violations. Anyone in Maize & Blue attempting to cop a holier than thou attitude about the recent allegations that O.J. ...
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The WWL is all over its report this morning on "Outside the Lines" featuring the claim from a former associate of NBA prospect O.J. Mayo that the player accepted $30,000 in cash and gifts over the last four years from a Los Angeles-based event promoter.
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Espn.com ^ | Updated: May 11, 2008, 2:57 PM ET
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straightbangin.blogspot.com
Well, how's that whole O.J. Mayo thing working out ? One-and-done; first-round flame out; possible probation. Totally worth it, Tim Floyd. Totes.
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conquestchronicles.com
Note: As of this writing, I have not seen the piece on Outside the Lines yet. I am waiting for the 12pm EDT showing on ESPN News to see the whole thing. I am only going on what is on ESPN.com
Before anyone goes and lights their hair on fire over the allegations that O.J. Mayo received improper benefits from those who are/were in his inner circle I want you read the last paragraph of the story on ESPN.com . (emphasis added)
Johnson told ESPN he didn't get paid, but hoped to profit once Mayo made it to the NBA.
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bruinsnation.com
A formerly close friend of OJ Mayo said that Mayo accepted thousands of dollars in cash and gifts while at USC.
Former USC basketball player O.J. Mayo , a projected lottery pick in this year's NBA draft, received thousands of dollars in cash, clothes and other benefits in apparent violation of NCAA rules while he was still in high school and during his one year in college, a former Mayo associate told ESPN's "Outside the Lines."
Mayo accepted around $30,000 in cash and gifts during the past four years from Rodney Guillory, a 43-year-old Los Angeles event promoter.
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blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com
It's not a happy Mother's Day at USC where the school appears embroiled in another controversy, this one in basketball involving O.J. Mayo .
Here's the report from ESPN as well as an overview from the USC blog at the LA Times.
A quick reading makes this sound as if it's got a lot of similarities to the Reggie Bush deal involving the USC football program.
As I have written often on the football blog, I think the Pac-10 deserves the benefit of the doubt until we see what they do with the Bush situation.
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cantstopthebleeding.com
Posted in Gridiron , College Spurts at 2:07 pm by GC
With all due respect to the Groundlings, Upright Citizens Bridgade or The Second City, the true launching pad for tomorrow's comedy pioneers has to be the University of Southern California football program (video link taken from Gutty Little Bruins ).
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basketballpredictions.blogspot.com
reportedly received a slew of gifts during his year at USC, in addition to his high school years. On the heels of the Reggie Bush thing, USC could definitely be in a lot of trouble here. I've talked about this before, but this is why schools need to be so wary of these one-and-done players. If they're kids who end up being good players and good people (like Greg Oden and Kevin Durant were) then your school can profit. But if it's a semi-professional like OJ Mayo who refuses to give the head coach his direct cell phone number, it can be disastrous.
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trojanwire.com
Free money. Gifts. Hotel rooms. All received while still a student athlete at USC. All from an agent in exchange for contract when turning pro. And we're not even talking about Reggie Bush any more.
On the heels of the Bush-Lake saga, comes a brand new scandal for Trojan Athletic Director Mike Garrett to play dress-up with. ESPN has broke with a story saying that OJ Mayo allegedly accepted approximately $30,000 dollars in cash, gifts and cellphone services over the past four years from Rodney Guillory, on behalf of the Nor-Cal sports agency Bill Duffy and Associates (BDA).
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uwfootball.blogspot.com
Former USC basketball player O.J. Mayo, a projected lottery pick in this year's NBA draft, received thousands of dollars in cash, clothes and other benefits in apparent violation of NCAA rules while he was still in high school and during his one year in college, a former Mayo associate told ESPN's "Outside the Lines."
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memphistider.blogspot.com
As if it was even a surprise, a story has come out that says OJ Mayo accepted gifts and cash while he was going to school at USC this past season. Yeah. That never happens in college basketball. Riiiight.
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". In it, he opines that USC's basketball deserves the death penalty because they should have seen violations coming with the arrival of O.J. Mayo , especially after Reggie Bush's problems. While Forde makes a good point that USC should ban Rodney Guillory from its campus if the allegations turn out to be correct about benefits flowing to Mayo (Mayo, for the record, denies it, and points out that he was a struggling student who rode a bicycle around campus because he had no car), it turns out that the earliest alleged problems with O.
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ballhype.com
Ex-Mayo confidant says he gave USC star gifts including TV, cash
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lukenotbill.wordpress.com
It is becoming harder and harder to deny that USC has achieved its recent success by cheating. In fact, I think it has become impossible. Do other schools break rules? Sure. Not only is that not an excuse, but there is also really nothing to indicate that that other schools disregard the rules as blatantly and flagrantly as USC does.
(Yes, I know that USC didn't give the money to Mayo, but you're being naive if you honestly think they had no idea it was going on. I'm not worried about proving USC guilty in court; I'm simply saying that common sense clearly says that USC has not been concerned about upholding NCAA regulations.
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Former USC basketball player O.J. Mayo, a projected lottery pick in this year's NBA draft, received thousands of dollars in cash, clothes and other benefits in apparent violation of NCAA rules while he was still in high school and during his one year in college, a former Mayo associate told ESPN's "Outside the Lines."…[ click here for more ]
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blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com
Now, O.J. Mayo . Of course USC is dirty. You can't become that good or stay that good while clean in college sports. Period. Just can't. And I'm an SC alum. Sorry, but that's part of what makes college sports the biggest cesspool we wade into. Truth is truth.
The Jazz tied the Lakers at two games apiece, no matter that everybody knows what Jerry Sloan is telling his team to do.
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s2nblog.wordpress.com
There will be plenty more dimensions to the allegations against O.J. Mayo that he accepted $30,000 in cash in gifts from a promoter named Rodney Giullory, all revealed in an ESPN report on Outside the Lines yesterday, which featured a former member of Mayo's circle who allegedly provided receipts confirming this, and accused the management agency of agent Bill Duffy of paying Guillory hundreds of thousands of dollars to land Mayo when the guard was still in high school.
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leecorsosmerkin.com
Slate's Robert Weintraub, like many of us, loves the old purple prose of early 1900s sportswriting, the Grantland Rices, the men who painted epic tales of warriors, grizzled combatants and lardywarks too manly to wear gloves. In an occasional series, Weintraub writes about the week's best baseball game in the style of the vaunted sportswriters of yesteryear.
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theoddsandsods.com
The NCAA hoped USC's scandals would go away, but they seem to arise with alarming frequency. Louis Johnson, a former associate of former USC Trojan basketball player O.J. Mayo, has accused Mayo of accepting approximately $30,000 in cash and assorted gifts from Rodney Guillory, an LA promoter.
The gifts, contingent on a verbal agreement that Guillory would become Mayo's agent, a flat screen television, a cell phone, a hotel room, clothes, meals and airline tickets for friends and relatives.
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obscuresportsquarterly.wordpress.com
2) USC wasn't active enough to have any idea what was going on with their players, and didn't learn from the Reggie Bush scandal.
Both are very bad, and as ESPN's Pat Forde points out , should be grounds for the death penalty-type penalty that SMU famously received (ellipsis mine):
In a just world, USC basketball would have something in common with SMU football in the near future.
The death penalty.
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You can plead ignorance once -- and even that was almost impossible to believe, in the case of Bush.
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year2.wordpress.com
ESPN's "Outside the Lines" program has reported that former USC basketball player OJ Mayo received around $30,000 worth of benefits from Rodney Guillory, a "runner" for sports agency Bill Duffy Associates. This is not just a passing accusation either; OTL has a mountain of evidence detailing the story. It stretches back to when Mayo was in high school in Huntington, West Virginia.
I was going to draw some detailed parallels between Mayo's case and the Reggie Bush case , but Pat Forde already beat me to it.
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