Renegade Miami football booster spells out illicit benefits to players KEARNEY, N.J. – A University of Miami booster, incarcerated for his role in a $930 million Ponzi scheme, has told Yahoo! Sports he provided thousands of impermissible benefits to at least 72 athletes from 2002 through 2010. In 100 hours of jailhouse interviews during Yahoo! Sports’ 11-month investigation, Hurricanes booster Nevin Shapiro described a sustained, eight-year run of rampant NCAA rule-breaking, some of it with the knowledge or direct participation of at least seven coaches from the Miami football and basketball programs. At a cost that Shapiro estimates in the millions of dollars, he said his benefits to athletes included but were not limited to: cash, prostitutes, entertainment in his multimillion-dollar homes and yacht, paid trips to high-end restaurants and nightclubs, jewelry, bounties for on-field play (including bounties for injuring opposing players), travel and on one occasion, an abortion............ Full Story here: http://sports.yahoo.com/investigati...miami_booster_details_illicit_benefits_081611
thats pretty crazy. def a huge wave of penalties coming their way. if not the death penalty. thats really damning stuff
There are many receipts and photos to prove it too. All of the prostitution and abortion details are crazy.
That is some crazy stuff! If the allegations are true, Miami's football program has to get the "death penalty". I have trouble believing all of that happened for so long. It's just too much.
What really makes me laugh is that half of the guys mentioned are really good players in the NFL right now that haven't caused a single problem off the field, yet had these allegations come out when these guys were in the draft, they would have dropped a good 1-2 rounds because of it.
man, Andre was cheap for Miami... All the booster had to pay for was drinks and VIP access in nightclubs?
I accept that most of the stuff is true but my mind is blown that it was so extensive and went on for so many years without blowing up. Just wow!
BTW, major props to Yahoo Sports on this. Robinson's been investigating this for what, eleven months, and this is literally the very first thing we've heard about it? That's pretty damn incredible in this day and age.
Honestly, when I read the title, I thought they got a whole bunch of crap on Ben Roethlisberger from his College days.
Ah I was waiting for this article this August (the Tressel story was rated an "8" on the bombshell scale, and a "10" was coming mid-late August).
Holy crap. Finally took the time to read the article. No coming back from this. Yahoo has a bad ass sports department. Yahoo has radio, they need to start up a tv sports station.
