More news on Bruce Pearl's cheating - now it's proven he's cheated and violated NCAA rules at four different schools - PLUS shoe news!

*** First - a reminder of the Chat Session with BU's Athletic Director Dr. Michael Cross --
it's at NOON on Thursday.......note the early time and set aside the time slot!!
http://twitter.com/#!/xb7/status/27852051957



Now the Bruce Pearl cheating news of the morning......
Maybe some people don't care, but there can't be many remaining that still support this slimebag...

This is a world record...now it's been proven that Bruce Pearl has cheated at FOUR different schools -- all four of the past four schools he's been at!!
....and to think there were people even up to just a few weeks ago saying Bruce Pearl is a good coach and that he is not a cheater...

Of course we know now that the NCAA also implicated Pearl in some of the cheating back in the 1980's with Deon Thomas when Pearl tried to rat on University of Illinois with lies that were later proven to be made up.

Then it's all over the news how he has been cheating at Tennessee since he got there and now even caught lying to NCAA investigators about it!!!

Then even tho some tried to hide it, it's now known he also cheated with illegal recruiting and tampering with players under scholarship elsewhere while he was at Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2010/10/report-bruce-pearl-invited-recruit-to-his-home-while-at-wis-milwaukee/1
http://msn.foxsports.com/collegebasketball/story/Wisconsin-Milwaukee-says-Bruce-Pearl-violated-NCAA-rules-in-2004-100410

So, that's THREE major cheating issues at THREE different schools....
OK -- so the big question....what's the 4th school.......

Well it doesn't take a genius to figure it out...he's only been at four different schools since he ratted on Illinois...Iowa, UW-M, Tennessee, and of course University of Southern Indiana.
It was at USI that he rebuilt his reputation by winning...but now we have proof that maybe he was winning there only because he cheated there as well....
read it and weep, Pearl fans...

The press in Tennessee now proves Pearl was cheating at USI as far back as 1992!!!
Whoa...that's the very first year he was there at Southern Indiana...
and Pearl stayed at USI all the way through the 2000-2001 season before moving on to cheat at UW-M.

So how did Pearl rack up all those good seasons at USI?? Well, likely because he cheated there also...and even the University of Southern Indiana is saying so...
They are only revealing a couple of impermissible benefits violations and use of ineligible players, but as time goes, on we'll see more evidence...it's just a matter of time as has been the pattern with Pearl all along.
As I said -- not many Pearl defenders left any more...wonder why??
http://www.govolsxtra.com/news/2010/oct/18/pearl-had-2-violations-at-southern-indiana/



Here's Reebok's new John Wall Signature shoe..the first product coming from a $25 million shoe deal between Reebok & John Wall..
Almost every single comment thus far from every observer is that they look hideous...but even worse...what's Reebok trying to portray??

A Spiderman effect in beige??
They are supposed to be "Gold" but they look like vomit-color tan or beige...
Maybe John Wall fans will be loyal enough to buy anything they shove at them or anything this horrid and ugly, but nobody else is gonna go for these....thus they'll be flops!
Makes you wonder just who did they test market these on?? Color blind people??
http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/22748484/25324241

Anyway -- they're called John Wall Signature shoes..but nowhere on the entire freaking shoe is either John Wall's name or anything resembling his signature..
http://dimemag.com/2010/10/reebok-zigtech-slash-limited-edition-gold-rush-colorway/

Just read some of the "Reader Comments"...virtually everyone says they are hideous and ugly!!

And, it only took 24 hours after the news and photos of this shoe were released by Reebok, for the business world to say that Reebok has "bricked" this one...
http://www.businessinsider.com/reebok-butchers-its-big-return-to-basketball-2010-10

This might be the Chinese footwear market's and Evan Turner's big opening to take over 2nd place in the shoe world behind Nike...Reebok has shot itself in the foot on this ugly product!



Speaking of shoes...is this a GREAT marketing strategy or what???
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101019006044/en/NBA-Bans-Basketball-Shoes-Athletic-Propulsion-Labs

this company had struck GOLD!!!

Check out this headline...

"NBA Bans Basketball Shoes by Athletic Propulsion Labs Based on League Rule against "Undue Competitive Advantage" That Increases a Player's Vertical Leap"

Now everyone will want this shoe if it is so good that it's banned by the NBA because players wearing it get an unfair advantage!!!

Here's more of what the story says...

"LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the first time in its 64-year history, the National Basketball Association (NBA) has banned a new line of shoes based on the league’s rule against an “unfair competitive advantage” that increases a player’s vertical leap.
..No professional player will be allowed to wear the product in games for the upcoming 2010-2011 NBA season.

“We were not exactly shocked to hear the NBA chose to ban our shoes”..
Athletic Propulsion Labs (APL) was notified by a senior NBA official who stated,
...Retailing for $300, the shoes continue to be sold primarily through APL’s website (www.athleticpropulsionlabs.com), and the company is exploring a potential expansion into select athletic footwear and sporting goods retailers.

Check out their web site...
www.AthleticPropulsionLabs.com

the front page of that site brags...
"BANNED BY THE NBA" -- buy now!!



#13 in the all time list of mid-majors and Legacy countdown is Dayton....so Bradley's ahead of Dayton as well!!
Where are those people claiming we should be like Dayton or should have hired the guy Dayton has as coach??
This guy doing the rating definitely isn't much of a Bradley fan but he's being forced to state the obvious...that BU is among the top dozen or so non-BCS programs in the nation!! It's about the only sensible and sane thing among the guy's recent rants...



Everyone hear about the OSF financial problems??
Check out these links -- something serious going on -- and when it all comes crashing down because of mismanagement and financial bumbling, it'll hurt a lot of people in Peoria and surrounding area...
http://www.pjstar.com/news/x1164158095/OSF-tries-to-quell-rumors-of-layoffs
http://www.pjstar.com/business/x540125341/OSF-Healthcare-System-employees-facing-wage-freeze
http://www.allbusiness.com/labor-employment/compensation-benefits-wages-salaries/12579109-1.html



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