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发帖数: 758 | 1 Miami Hurricanes booster put bounty on Florida's Tim Tebow
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Nevin Shapiro, a former Miami booster who is serving a 20-year prison
sentence for masterminding a $930 million Ponzi scheme, told Yahoo Sports he
provided impermissible benefits to 72 of the university's football players
and other athletes between 2002 and 2010.
Shapiro said he gave money, cars, yacht trips, jewelry, televisions and
other gifts to a list of players, including Broncos D.J. Williams, Willis
McGahee and Orlando Franklin as well as Vince Wilfork, Jon Beason, Antrel
Rolle, Devin Hester and the late Sean Taylor.
Shapiro also claimed he put out bounties on specific players, including
former Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, and paid for nightclub outings, sex
parties, restaurant meals and in one case, an abortion for a woman
impregnated by a player. One former Miami player, running back Tyrone Moss,
told Yahoo Sports he accepted $1,000 from Shapiro around the time he was
entering college.
"Hell yeah, I recruited a lot of kids for Miami," Shapiro told Yahoo Sports.
"With access to the clubs, access to the strip joints. My house. My boat.
We're talking about high school football players. Not anybody can just get
into the clubs or strip joints. Who is going to pay for it and make it
happen? That was me."
Shapiro has said multiple times in the past year, including in the Yahoo
Sports story posted Tuesday, that he is angry with several of the players he
claims to have helped when they were Hurricanes. Miami officials began
cooperating with NCAA investigators not long after Shapiro made claims about
his involvement with players last year. University president Donna Shalala
and athletic director Shawn Eichorst were questioned by the NCAA this week.
The school reiterated Tuesday it takes the allegations seriously.
"I can tell you what I think is going to happen," Shapiro told Miami
television station WFOR from federal prison in Atlanta. "Death penalty."
Yahoo Sports said it spent 100 hours interviewing Shapiro over the span of
11 months and audited thousands of pages of financial and business records
to try to substantiate his claims.
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