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Remember back in August of 2011, when Yahoo! Sports’ Charles Robinson blew the doors open on a Miami Hurricanes scandal that had most college football fans chanting, “DEATH PENALTY! DEATH PENALTY!” At the heart of the story was a Napoleonic booster named Nevin Shapiro, who wanted so desperately to be accepted into the lore of “The U” that he planned stripper yacht parties and booze-fueled night club ragers that lasted entire weekends.

The problem was that he also planned one hell of a Ponzi scheme, and he eventually went to jail for it. That’s when he conveniently spilled the beans to Robinson about all of the players he had paid and gifts he had given over the years, and Miami had to slam on the brakes and do some serious damage control. Of course, that meant a slap on the wrist for a few guys and some crossed fingers, because after that it was all up to the NCAA’s enforcement team to determine what would happen next.

So naturally they f*cked it all up.

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NBA Commissioner David Stern and his band of 30 starving owners locked the players out on July 1 because they make too much money. The owners want the average NBA player’s salary to be reduced from its current $5 million mark, and they also want the players to sign shorter, non-guaranteed contracts so they have the right to kick them to the curb when they start sucking *COUGH GILBERT ARENAS COUGH*. But I digress.

It’s ironic that Stern is asking players to take a pay cut under the reasoning that 22 teams are losing money and the league is buried in the red, because Stern makes at least twice as much as the average player. And now the players are raising eyebrows and their voices about this double standard.

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