Posted on August 1st, 2011 by Tim Weisberg
AP-Cam Newton was ruled eligible last season despite the NCAA finding his father Cecil to be involved in pay-for-play scheme.
The NCAA announced on July 26 that it would begin a review process that would expand the NCAA’s definition of an agent to include relatives, including parents.
While the NCAA Division I Amateurism Cabinet came up with [...]
Posted on December 12th, 2010 by Tim Weisberg
The cloud of controversy left Auburn, Ala. and officially traveled to the Downtown Athletic Club in the Big Apple. Cam Newton won his Heisman Trophy in a landslide. That landslide a simple microcosm for the direction the NCAA Infractions Committee went when they declared Newton to be eligible despite the pay-for-play scheme.
So while the United [...]
Posted on December 3rd, 2010 by Tim Weisberg
Cam Newton may have created his own law because apparently the apple really doesn’t fall that far from the tree.
On Dec. 1, the NCAA ruled the Auburn quarterback and Heisman frontrunner Cam Newton clear to play despite the pay-for-play scheme involving his father, Cecil Newton.
The allegations first came to light when it was alleged Newton [...]
Posted on November 10th, 2010 by Tim Weisberg
A sad revelation in sports took another turn for the worst amidst the allegations against Auburn quarterback Cam Newton.
A week after ESPN.com reported last week that a man claiming to represent Newton during the quartberack’s recuitment out of Blinn College in Texas last year supposedly sought payments close to $200,000 dollars to secure Newton’s “John [...]