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How Teams Stand After FBI Investigation

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     The conclusion of an FBI investigation charging four assistant college basketball coaches of bribery and fraud shocked the sports world last month, leading to four different schools firing assistant coaches for their involvement in the scandal as well as Louisville Head Coach Rick Pitino. Adidas paid big money to coaches to influence top recruits to play for schools affiliated with their brand, one of those schools being Louisville.      In this article, I want to look at the five schools affected by this investigation, and give you, the reader, a good look at what exactly to expect this season from these schools.  Louisville Cardinals How they were involved - Louisville was an Adidas sponsored school that paid families of top recruits over $150,000 to make sure that these players committed to Louisville. With the sanctions already laid on Louisville from the prostitutes scandal, the Cardinals Athletic Department felt it was time to ...

2017-18 NBA Preview

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This upcoming season show's a lot of promise as there appear to be contenders for a Championship besides Golden State and Cleveland for a fourth consecutive season. Trust me when I say that the world isn't ready to witness such an event and everyone is doing the best they can to prevent that from happening. Every season brings some new wrinkle to the NBA. At this point, everything is on paper. An entertaining pre-season has given us a good preview of the teams to beat in the NBA. TOP 5 OFFENSES  1. Golden State Warriors     Yet again, what team is more capable of scoring points then Golden State? They have four gold solid three point shooters in Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Kevin Durant and Andre Igoudala. When you put that many solid three point shooters on the team, you can guarantee that the rest of the team is trying to catch up in practice. Draymond Green, Zaza Pachulia and JaVale McGee are all solid contributers in the paint, and Golden State is, yet agai...