05-29-2008, 11:18 AM
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Why so serious?
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Don't pretend to care if O.J. Mayo got paid. You'll just encourage the NCAA (and the media).
by Stephen A. Smith
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The year was 1993. One day, the location was a park in Harlem. The next, a playground in Brooklyn or Queens. The subject was always basketball players and how easy it was for shady characters to funnel dollars to them behind the proverbial back of the NCAA.
I was covering high school sports in New York back then. At a time when the only O.J. who mattered was Simpson, everybody knew an O.J. Mayo. There have been O.J. Mayos all over this country for decades. Some of them we became aware of ? Marcus Camby, Chris Webber, Keith Lee ? but the vast majority we did not.
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