NCAA has 'new' Mayo info

Sports Digest

May 14, 2008

Saying the NCAA has "new information," president Myles Brand promised to investigate former Southern California basketball star O.J. Mayo, who allegedly received thousands of dollars in gifts from money given to an event promoter by a sports agency.

On Sunday, ESPN reported that Bill Duffy Associates provided Rodney Guillory with about $200,000 before Mayo arrived at USC. Louis Johnson, a former associate of Mayo's, told Outside the Lines that Mayo received about $30,000 and other benefits from Guillory while in high school and during his one season at USC.

Mayo declared for the NBA draft after the season and hired BDA Sports' Calvin Andrews as his agent.

Brand, speaking yesterday in Houston to kick off this week's Division II National Championships Festival, said "our enforcement division has new information" about Mayo's case "and as a matter of fact, when we have new information on any case, we will investigate."

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He would not comment further on the specifics of Mayo's case.

Duffy denied any illegal activity involving Mayo on Monday.

NCAA rules prohibit giving college athletes money or other gifts.

• Horse racing // Two partial owners of last year's Preakness winner are on trial in northern Kentucky, accused of defrauding clients out of millions from a diet-drug settlement. Shirley Cunningham Jr. and William Gallion attended opening arguments in Covington, Ky. The two attorneys own 20 percent of Curlin, a Horse of Year who was successful in last year's Triple Crown events. But their share has been frozen and a judge has said he will order them to surrender that share of the $3.5 million colt to satisfy a $42 million civil judgment over the diet drug fen-phen.

• More horse racing // Storm Cat, one of the top stallions in thoroughbred racing history, has been retired as a breeder. Ric Waldman, a stallion consultant at Overbrook Farm in Lexington, Ky., where the 25-year-old horse was born and stood at stud, said owners made the decision because of a steep drop in Storm Cat's fertility rate.

• College basketball // Kojo Mensah, a junior guard who was one of five Duquesne players shot on campus in September 2006, is passing up his final season of eligibility to enter the NBA draft.

• Tennis // Nikolay Davydenko cruised into the third round of the ATP Hamburg Masters in Germany by defeating Ivan Ljubicic, 6-4, 6-1. Also, Andreas Seppi beat No. 8 seed Richard Gasquet, 6-3, 6-2. ... Unseeded teenager Victoria Azarenka routed Sybille Bammer, 6-1, 6-3, in the first round of the WTA Italian Open in Rome before rain suspended play.

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