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Fox 10 talks with Former ASU coach Pat Murphy

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Fox 10 Phoenix recently sat down with former Arizona State baseball coach Pat Murphy to discuss his sudden departure from Tempe. Murphy spent the previous 15 seasons with the Sun Devils before abruptly resigning in November. You can check out the two part interview below.

FSU vacates four wins from 2006-2007 Season

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The Florida State baseball program has officially vacated four victories (including one NCAA win) from the 2006-2007 NCAA Baseball season. This comes from the investigation into the FSU athletic department which also sees the football team lose 12 wins and also affects over ten other sports in Tallahassee.

List of Arizona State’s Violations

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The Arizona Republic has been able to get the list of the NCAA Violations by the Arizona State program. You can check out the full allegations below.

NCAA accuses Arizona State Baseball of Rules Violations

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The Arizona Republic has obtained documents that Arizona State was sent a notice of allegations on November 19th the day before Pat Murphy abruptly resigned. This goes against what Lisa Love stated when the resignation became public on November 20th. The notice states that ASU is facing nine violations including a key one that [...]

ESPN talks about FSU’s Academic Scandal

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ESPN’s Outside the Lines recently looked into the Florida State Athletic program’s academic fraud case. Florida State is currently on four years of probation after it was found out that a learning specialist, an academic adviser and a tutor took tests and wrote papers for student-athletes. The baseball program was affected in the sanctions [...]

Kentucky’s James Paxton Case Update for December 4th

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UPDATED ON DECEMBER 5th AT 2:15AM

As I reported on early Thursday morning about senior Kentucky pitcher James Paxton and his lawsuit against the University of Kentucky. Here is a brief run down of the events in this case from the court documents which are linked below. I highly recommend reading the response from Kentucky [...]

James Paxton sues Kentucky

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Kentucky senior LHP James Paxton filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the University of Kentucky. According to a New York Times article, Paxton was told in October to meet with an NCAA investigator but was instructed to not tell his parents or his lawyers about the interview. Kentucky Athletic Director Mitch Barnhart told Paxton [...]

Andrew Oliver and NCAA settle Lawsuit

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Andrew Oliver and the NCAA have come to a settlement in their lawsuit for $750,000. Oliver had sued the NCAA for the right to have representation in his MLB contract negotiations out of high school. The NCAA became aware of him using a lawyer and suspended him at the beginning of the 2008 NCAA [...]

Cracking down on Advisers

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If you have been following this site for over a year, then you have heard me talk about the Andrew Oliver case at least a few times. The main issue in the case is whether or not drafted players could use legal counsel to help them negotiate a contract. The NCAA has been very [...]

NCAA looking into cracking down on “Advisors”

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The NCAA is currently looking into cracking down on the Advisers/Agents in the MLB Draft negotiations. The reason for this comes from the Andrew Oliver case where he was deemed ineligible because he had an advisor (agent) representing him out of high school during his negotiations. MLB is also not happy with the current [...]

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