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		<title>Ex-USC Football Player: How My Coach Called Me A &#8220;Motherf&#8212;-r&#8221; for Going to Class</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/06/10/ex-usc-football-player-how-my-coach-called-me-a-m-r-for-going-to-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 09:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Bob DeMars was a football player at mighty USC back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, he wanted to major in the school&#8217;s prestigious cinema program. Since some of the prerequisite classes interfered with football practice time, however, DeMars says that the athletic department wouldn&#8217;t allow it. So he majored in business instead. In order to show up on time for a required statistics course one semester, he says he had to leave spring practice twenty minutes early, once a week. His defensive line coach, Ed Orgeron, wasn&#8217;t happy. You motherf&#8212;-r, DeMars remembers Orgeron, who went on to become head coach at Ole Miss from 2005 to 2007, and is now back at USC as assistant head coach, shouting at him. &#8220;He M-F&#8217;d me all over the place,&#8221; says DeMars. &#8220;He made me feel like a bad person for going to class.&#8221; USC did not make Orgeron available for comment. “While the alleged events happened before my time as athletic director at USC,&#8221; school athletic director Pat Haden said in an email statement, &#8220;I can say that all our football practices have been open to the media and players&#8217; families since before Bob was here, and have been open to the public for most of that time as well. The transparency of practice would have brought to light this type of alleged inappropriate behavior. We also have high standards for our coaches and monitor and evaluate them as we would any of our employees.&#8221; &#8220;Additionally, we have always been proud to support our student-athletes in a full range of academic pursuits. Majors represented in 2012 among football alone included Theatre, Business Administration, Psychology, Communications, Economics, Chemical Engineering and Political Science.&#8221; With the news coming out of Rutgers this spring &#8212; Mike Rice hurling balls and homophobic slurs at players, new athletic director Julie Hermann allegedly verbally abusing players while coaching volleyball at Tennessee in the 1990s &#8212; coaching behavior is under intense scrutiny. DeMars calls Orgeron &#8220;one of the most brilliant defensive line coaches in the country.&#8221; He acknowledges<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2346613&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Want To Get Paid As A College Athlete? Go Fishing</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/06/03/want-to-get-paid-as-a-college-athlete-go-fishing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 09:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The June 10 issue of TIME, on newsstands now, features a story on the booming sport of college fishing. Yes, there&#8217;s such a thing as college fishing. According to FLW Outdoors, an organization that runs pro fishing tournaments and started a college division in 2009, there are now 610 bass fishing clubs at campuses across the country. Five years ago, there were 90. “We were looking to reach the next generation of anglers to grow our business,” says Trisha Blake, FLW’s marketing chief, and daughter of FLW founder Irwin Jacobs. “We’re absolutely amazed by how quickly it’s grown. And we still feel like there’s more to tap into. We’re just getting started.” One reason fishing has hooked the college kids: an opportunity to win cash and prizes. For example, the team that won the FLW national championship in April &#8212; the University of Louisiana at Monroe &#8212; took home a $27,000 bass boat, $3,000 in cash, and spot in the 2013 Forrest Wood Cup, the Super Bowl of bass fishing. There, the winner gets $500,000. Football and basketball players may help generate millions of dollars for universities, while not seeing a dime. But if you want to get paid as a college athlete, go fishing. (MORE: Big Fish On Campus) Bass fishing is a club sport, which means it&#8217;s outside NCAA regulations. “We want the N.C.A.A. to stay out,” says Joe Landry, who fishes for LSU-Shreveport. Most schools require that anglers plow earnings from college tournaments back into the club. But they can get individual sponsorships and win cash in noncollegiate tournaments while still fishing for their school. For example, Miles &#8220;Sonar&#8221; Burghoff&#8211;son of Gary Burghoff, who played Radar on M*A*S*H&#8211;says he won some $30,000 in tournaments while also fishing for the University of Central Florida. That about covered the cost of college.Bethel University, a small Presbyterian school in McKenzie, Tenn., even offers fishing scholarships. &#8220;The students I recruit are coming here to fish,&#8221; says Bethel coach Garry Mason, &#8220;just like kids go to Alabama to play football.&#8221; Click here to read the full<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2346572&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Money for Nothing: Rutgers Scandal Shines Bad Light on College Sports Search Firms</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/05/30/money-for-nothing-rutgers-scandal-shines-bad-light-on-college-sports-search-firms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 09:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many universities these days, Rutgers University &#8212; the state university of New Jersey &#8212; hired an executive search firm to help the school find a new athletic director. The bill: $70,000. Think New Jersey taxpayers wish that money went elsewhere? The result of that Rutgers search, as we all know now, is a mess. Julie Hermann was hired on May 15, but last Saturday evening, the Newark Star Ledger published a report that featured a letter from the 1996 University of Tennessee volleyball team, which alleged that Hermann &#8212; then the Lady Vols volleyball coach &#8212; was verbally abusive, and called her players &#8220;whores, alcoholics and learning disabled.&#8221; Hermann has denied using that language, but such allegations are particularly problematic at Rutgers. It was only in April that basketball coach Mike Rice, and the athletic director Hermann was hired to replace, Tim Pernetti, were dismissed after a video of Rice hurling balls at the heads of players, and shouting homophobic slurs at them, went public. Stung by the PR bruising it had taken as a result of the Rice controversy, Rutgers assembled a 28-person search committee to help the school hire a new athletic director. Within that committee, a six-person executive group was most involved in the process. According to Candace Straight, a member of that executive committee, the search firm Rutgers hired &#8212; Parker Executive Search &#8212; did not make her, or, to her knowledge, any other executive committee members aware of the allegations against Hermann from the volleyball team. Straight, however, said the committee was aware of two discrimination lawsuits that involved Hermann. (The two co-chairs of the search committee, Richard Edwards, the executive vice president for academic affairs at Rutgers, and Kate Sweeney, a Morgan Stanley financial advisor and Rutgers alum, did not respond to interview requests. Through a spokesperson, Parker would not comment on the specifics of the Rutgers search, citing confidentiality. Parker, however, continued to highlight the Hermann hiring as one of its &#8220;Recent Engagements&#8221; on its website ). So according to Straight, an<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2346559&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Latest Rutgers Scandal: Does Verbal Abuse Have A Place In Society?</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/05/28/latest-rutgers-scandal-does-verbal-abuse-have-a-place-in-society/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 18:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to believe much of the news that has come out of Rutgers University the last few months. First, the athletic leadership of the school watched a tape of basketball coach Mike Rice hurling balls at the heads of players, and shouting homophobic slurs at them, but did not dismiss Rice until after the tape went public. Then the man hired to replace Rice, Eddie Jordan, was touted as having a degree in health and physical education from the school, even though, oops, he never actually graduated. Now, the latest: Julie Hermann, hired as Rutgers athletic director in May to replace Tim Pernetti &#8212; who was fired in the wake of the Rice scandal &#8212; was allegedly a verbally abusive coach herself. On Sunday, the Newark Star-Ledger uncovered a letter that players from the 1996 University of Tennessee volleyball team wrote to the school, accusing Hermann of calling her team &#8220;whores, alcoholics, and learning disabled.&#8221; The video of Rice going ballistic, played in an endless loop, was extremely damaging to Rutgers. As was hearing former Tennessee players tell a national television audience that the new Rutgers AD called them whores. Hermann has denied the allegations, and said she hasn&#8217;t considered resigning. Rutgers has said that Hermann will keep her job. But if you&#8217;re a fan of Rutgers, or just someone concerned about how authority figures, whether they be coaches, teachers or bosses, behave, here&#8217;s what should concern you most: Hermann, whose main job as athletic director is to hire and fire coaches, said that, for coaches, &#8220;there is a big canyon between being super-intense and abuse.&#8221; Big canyon? It&#8217;s more like a hairline crack, and Hermann should know better. There are a million different ways to lead people. Some do it with the gentle touch. But for others, niceness is not in their nature. They&#8217;re maniacal, and that&#8217;s fine. But the best maniacs walk a tightrope &#8212; their motivational techniques make you angry, have you hating them, maybe even fearing them. But they get results. They make you better,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2346536&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rutgers Stands By New AD Despite Abuse Allegations</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/05/28/rutgers-stands-by-new-ad-despite-abuse-allegations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 09:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Tom Canavan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(NEWARK, N.J.) — Rutgers is standing by its incoming athletic director despite allegations she humiliated and verbally abused players during her coaching days, with the embattled president of the prominent university saying he is looking forward to her first day on the job. It&#8217;s the latest in a series of difficulties for the school, which lost its previous men&#8217;s basketball coach and chief athletic executive to an abuse scandal, and then had to acknowledge its new men&#8217;s coach had not graduated from Rutgers after it previously said he did. Julie Herrman officially takes over the athletic department on June 17, and on Monday she said she plans to be in the position on that date. And the university is standing behind her. &#8220;I never considered withdrawing because I feel very qualified to lead Rutgers into the future and into the transition into the Big Ten (Conference),&#8221; Hermann said during a conference call in response to a report in the Star-Ledger of Newark. &#8220;And I do feel the support of the Rutgers community.&#8221; President Robert Barchi said in a statement that the university looks forward to her running the athletic department. He added that she was the best of the 63 candidates interviewed for the job of succeeding Tim Pernetti. (VIDEO: Rutgers Coach Fired After Hurling Homophobic Slurs, Basketballs At Players) &#8220;Rutgers was deliberative at every stage of this process,&#8221; Barchi said. &#8220;Over the course of the search, Julie&#8217;s record established her as a proven leader in athletics administration with a strong commitment to academic success as well as athletic excellence, and a strong commitment to the well-being of student athletes. Despite the Star-Ledger report, Barchi said Hermann&#8217;s entire career is stellar. &#8220;We remain confident that we have selected an individual who will work in the best interests of all of our student athletes, our athletics teams, and the university.&#8221; Speaking to four reporters on a conference call in which each participant was allowed two questions, Hermann denied having knowledge of a letter written by the 15 players on Tennessee&#8216;s volleyball<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2346523&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Brittney Griner Kept Her Sexuality Quiet</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/05/20/why-brittney-griner-kept-her-sexuality-quiet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brittney Griner, the former Baylor University basketball star who now plays for the WNBA&#8217;s Phoenix Mercury, has been open about her sexuality around friends and family since her freshman year of high school. But in an interview with ESPN The Magazine and espnW, Griner says her coaches asked her not to come out publicly during her college playing career. &#8220;It was a recruiting thing,&#8221; said Griner, who told Sports Illustrated in an interview last month that she was gay. &#8220;The coaches thought that if it seemed like they condoned it, people wouldn&#8217;t let their kids come play for Baylor.&#8221; &#8220;It was more of an unwritten law [to not discuss your sexuality] &#8230; it was kind of, like, one of those things, you know, just don&#8217;t do it,&#8221; Griner told ESPN. &#8220;They tried to make it, like, &#8216;why put your business out on the street like that?&#8217;&#8221; (When asked to comment on Griner&#8217;s remarks, Baylor coach Kim Mulkey told ESPN, in a statement: &#8220;Brittney Griner represented Baylor University proudly on and off the basketball court, and she leaves behind an incredible legacy. I cannot comment on personal matters surrounding any of our student-athletes, but I can tell you Brittney will always be a celebrated member of the Baylor family.&#8221;) (MORE: Can A Woman Play In The NBA?) That the Baylor coaching staff would ask Griner to keep quiet isn&#8217;t surprising. For starters, ESPN notes that Baylor&#8217;s Student Policies and Procedures includes a &#8220;Statement on Human Sexuality.&#8221; It reads: Baylor University welcomes all students into a safe and supportive environment in which to discuss and learn about a variety of issues, including those of human sexuality. The University affirms the biblical understanding of sexuality as a gift from God. Christian churches across the ages and around the world have affirmed purity in singleness and fidelity in marriage between a man and a woman as the biblical norm. Temptations to deviate from this norm include both heterosexual sex outside of marriage and homosexual behavior. It is thus expected that Baylor students will not<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2346360&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Brittney Griner #42 of the Phoenix Mercury prepares to take a free throw shot against Japan during the preseason WNBA game at US Airways Center in Phoenix, on May 19, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>NCAA Title Game: How Louisville Refused To Lose</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/04/09/ncaa-title-game-how-louisville-refused-to-lose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 07:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory / Atlanta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Hancock, father of the Most Outstanding Player of this year’s Final Four, Luke Hancock, sat quietly in the first row of the thundering Georgia Dome after his son won the national championship. Bill has a serious ailment –- the family hasn’t disclosed the exact nature of it – but that couldn’t stop him from smiling. Luke had transferred from George Mason to Louisville, and had two shoulder surgeries; someone asked Bill and one of Luke’s brothers, Will, if they ever pictured the scene unfolding in front of them: Hancock and his teammates soaking up a national title after Louisville&#8217;s thrilling 82-76 win over Michigan. “I don’t think we ever imagined this,” says Will. He turned to his father. “Did we?” Bill shook his head. “No. No,” Will says. “I would say not.” (PHOTOS: 75 Years Of The Final Four) Hancock’s heroics – 22 points off the bench, including four three-pointers late in the first half that kept Louisville in the game – made him the first sub to ever win the most outstanding player trophy, and gave Louisville its first national title since 1986, and third in total. For the second consecutive year, the top overall seed won it all: the title also makes Louisville&#8217;s Rick Pitino the first coach to ever win championships with two different schools (he took Kentucky to the championship in 1996). What an electric night in Atlanta. College sports needed a game like this, a few hours to forget about all the ailments: a game-changing lawsuit, botched investigations, crazy coaching antics being parodied on Saturday Night Live, and conference realignments that are destroying rivalries and traditions. In a season marked by scoring declines, and some downright ugly play, the national title game featured some epic alley-oops, a ferocious Tim Hardaway Jr. dunk, fierce blocked shots, hustle that sent players thumping to the floor, and beautiful shooting – 16 three pointers in all. The effort was exhausting. The only thing the game was missing was a buzzer-beater, as Louisville pulled away down the stretch. (MORE:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2345667&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NCAA Title Game: Can Louisville Stop Michigan&#8217;s Monster?</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/04/08/ncaa-title-game-can-louisville-stop-michigans-monster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory / Atlanta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than four months and 20 pounds ago, Mitch McGary, the 6’10” Michigan freshman center now known as The Monster among coaches and teammates, was late for a bus in New York City. The Wolverines were playing in the preseason NIT tournament, and headed to a shootaround, sans Monster. Where’s Mitch, everyone wondered? Suddenly, the team saw two firemen headed into the Marriott Marquis. Turns out that McGary, and about 15 other hotel guests, were stuck in an elevator. After the firemen freed McGary from the trap, the team had even more reason to razzle the 275-pound freshman. “We joked about it for while,” says senior Michigan reserve guard Josh Bartelstein. “His weight caused it to stop.” (PHOTOS: 75 Years of the NCAA Final Four) At the time, McGary, one of the top-rated high school prospects in the county last year, wasn’t making much of an impression. But thanks to a disciplined diet that helped him shed the excess weight, McGary is now indeed a monster. McGary is averaging 16 points and 11.6 rebounds in this NCAA tournament. During Saturday night&#8217;s victory against Syracuse, he went for 10 points, 12 rebounds, and six assists; one of them was a no-look pass that led to a Glen Robinson III dunk. &#8220;It was one of those plays where Coach B [John Beilein of Michigan] was like &#8216;no, no, no … yeah,&#8217;&#8221; says McGary. Such skills have earned McGary comparisons to versatile NBA big men like Kevin Love and David Lee, a pair of All-Stars, though Lamar Odom was his favorite player growing up. “Though I’m not that much of a Kardashian fan,” says McGary. (MORE: How A Former Scrub Saved Louisville&#8217;s Season) Michigan, which faces Louisville in Monday&#8217;s national title game, is loaded; point guard Trey Burke, the college player of the year, and two sons of NBA stars – Tim Hardaway Jr. and Robinson III, suit up for the Wolverines. But more than any other player, a former pudgy-faced freshman is responsible for Michigan vying for its first national hoops title<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2345632&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How A Former Scrub Saved Louisville&#8217;s Season</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/04/07/how-a-former-scrub-saved-louisvilles-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 04:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory / Atlanta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three points. During this entire Big East season, Louisville guard Tim Henderson scored three points. Well, Henderson doubled his conference season output at the Final Four, and now Louisville is going to the title game. Louisville beat Wichita State 72-68 in the first national semifinal; the Cardinals face Michigan, who beat Syracuse 61-56 in the nightcap, for the national championship on Monday night. After Louisville lost reserve guard Kevin Ware to his now infamous leg fracture during last Sunday&#8217;s regional final against Duke, Louisville coach Rick Pitino mentioned that Henderson, a walk-on, would have to play some minutes, to give star guards Russ Smith and Peyton Siva a rest. Like most walk-ons, Henderson had spent most games barely getting off the bench. For the year, he played 88 minutes, and scored 16 points. And now Pitino would need him for the Final Four, in front of 75,000 fans at the Georgia Dome, and millions more on national television? Good luck with that one. (MORE: After Horrific Injury, What Now For Louisville’s Kevin Ware?) But Henderson, a Louisville native, more than delivered. He may have saved the season. With Louisville down 47-35 to Wichita State with almost 13 minutes left, Henderson hit three-pointers on back-to-back possessions to cut the lead in half, and completely change the feel of the game. Before Henderson&#8217;s big shots, the Shockers had total control. Afterwards, Louisville was energized, and brought a little buzz back to the building. &#8220;I felt it,&#8221; says Henderson. &#8220;I felt like they got back on their heels a little bit.&#8221; Now, a Louisville charge was all but assured.  &#8220;I think that was the big turning point right there,&#8221; says Louisville forward Wayne Blackshear. &#8220;After that, we started to get our press on.&#8221; Indeed, Louisville forced a few turnovers, and sixth man Luke Hancock got hot down the stretch. &#8220;Tim has to guard Russ every day in practice,&#8221; says Hancock. &#8220;A lot of times it&#8217;s not pretty. Russ kind of has his way with things. If you guard a guy like that every day,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2345609&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At Final Four, It&#8217;s Mike Rice On The Mind</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/04/06/at-final-four-its-mike-rice-on-the-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 09:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory / Atlanta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking around Atlanta this week, it’s not hard to figure out that the Final Four doubles as a college coaching convention. Just look at all the sweatsuits in town. And for all these men sporting school logos, one topic is at the top of the agenda: what do we do, post-Mike Rice? Rice, who was caught on videotape throwing balls, and hurling homophobic slurs, at his players, embarrassed his profession. (One of his assistants, Jimmy Martelli, resigned after he too was seen shoving players; on Friday, Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti, who suspended Rice for just three games in December after seeing the tape, also resigned).  Are coaches worried that parents and fans who don’t pay regular attention to college hoops will think this type of behavior is typical? “Absolutely,” says Jeff Price, head coach at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. “That’s all people have been seeing.” Coaches are now on the defensive. “I absolutely do not believe there’s that coaching style going on,” says Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim; his team plays Michigan in today’s second national semifinal. “I’ll go out where you probably shouldn’t go. I don’t think there’s a coach in the country that does that.” Boeheim says he has “thrown a ball, and it’s usually up in the stands. And the last time I hurt my arm, so I don’t throw them anymore.” (MORE &#8211; PHOTOS: 75 Years Of The Final Four) “This is an isolated incident that doesn&#8217;t happen in college basketball,” says Louisville coach Rick Pitino; Louisville plays Wichita St. in the first semifinal. “As a pro coach, I would go to every city and go see a college practice.  You know, I&#8217;ve seen some coaches that may use rough language.  But that just doesn&#8217;t go on.  It&#8217;s just an aberration that just doesn&#8217;t go on in college basketball.” Many coaches, like Rice, do yell, curse, and put their hands on players while doing drills or demonstrating strategy. If you put their worst 30 minutes videotape, some people might be calling for their jobs<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2345604&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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