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Yahoo, Tattoos, and tOSU (1-year bowl ban, 82 scholly limit for 3 years)

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Gatorubet;1934776; said:
I hear that some of the athlete's mattresses had tags that were torn off - despite the legal warning on the tag not to remove it. And not just one mattress. Not just one tag. That's all I'm saying now until the next SI comes out.
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I just heard that some reporters left some pennies on the ground where the football players would find them coming out of their apartments/dorms. Not a single one of the pennies was picked up by a football player. Could it be that they make SO MUCH MONEY from boosters that they don't need the pennies? Or are they just so ready for the sting operation that they know not to pick up the pennies?

Edit - I just heard that one of the pennies was picked up. An extra 2-game suspension is expected to be announced later.
 
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Zurp;1934856; said:
I just heard that some reporters left some pennies on the ground where the football players would find them coming out of their apartments/dorms. Not a single one of the pennies was picked up by a football player. Could it be that they make SO MUCH MONEY from boosters that they don't need the pennies? Or are they just so ready for the sting operation that they know not to pick up the pennies?

Edit - I just heard that one of the pennies was picked up. An extra 2-game suspension is expected to be announced later.
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I heard they were tripping over dollars just to grab them pennies.....
 
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FOIA requests resulting in counting up phone calls and text messages.

The good news is that Gene Smith never exchanged a phone call or a message with either Cicero or Sarniak.

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Ohio State football: Details revealed on Tressel calls, texts

In the year since former Ohio State University coach Jim Tressel learned of NCAA violations by some of his football players, he had far more contact with his star quarterback's mentors than previously disclosed, records released yesterday show.

However, the university withheld records of about 5,000 phone calls and text messages made by Tressel and athletic director Gene Smith between April 2010 and March 2011. OSU said the calls and texts were personal and therefore not subject to disclosure.
Tressel resigned on Memorial Day after university officials encouraged him to quit amid growing controversy surrounding the football program. Tressel has been sanctioned for failing to report NCAA violations and faces a hearing on Aug. 12 that could lead to more punishment.

After Tressel received an April 2, 2010, email from a former player warning him of potential NCAA violations, the coach exchanged 77 calls and text messages with and spent a total of 4 1/2 hours talking on the phone with Ted Sarniak, the hometown mentor of quarterback Terrelle Pryor in Jeannette, Pa.

Their longest phone conversation - 18 minutes - happened on Dec. 21, two days before OSU announced Pryor and five others would be suspended for part of the 2011 season for violations.

The two also spoke for three minutes immediately after the Dec. 23 news conference benching Pryor, Daniel Herron, DeVier Posey, Solomon Thomas and Mike Adams for five games and Jordan Whiting for one game.

Tressel and Sarniak exchanged text messages on March 8, the day OSU announced that Tressel had known about the violations for months.

The NCAA has asked OSU to fully describe the relationship between Pryor and Sarniak. The matter is part of what the NCAA will review in August.

OSU said Sarniak served as a contact during recruiting and is not a booster. He has attended nearly every game since Pryor enrolled at OSU in 2008.

Tressel also sent 91 text messages to Roy Hall, the current Jeannette football coach and another of Pryor's mentors. Hall previously told The Dispatch that he was not aware of the investigation and had not talked with Tressel about it.

During their six-month investigation of NCAA violations, OSU officials have tried to keep key details and documents under wraps. They have blacked out names of athletes involved in selling or trading memorabilia for tattoos, citing the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
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Officials also have refused to make public all of the email exchanges between Tressel and Sarniak. The university released two emails between Tressel and Sarniak but refuse to release more, again citing the federal privacy law.

And now OSU officials are withholding some numbers from Tressel's and Smith's phone records.

Ohio State blacked out about 13 percent of the 22,858 calls or text messages Tressel made during the one-year period.

The university redacted nearly 20 percent of Smith's 11,628 phone calls and texts between April 2010 and March 2011.

Ohio State allowed both Tressel and Smith to identify which numbers from their office phones and cellphones were personal, relating to family and friends, before withholding those from public view.

Despite the redactions, this much is known from the records: There are no apparent phone calls between Smith's cell or office phones and either Sarniak or Cicero. Also over the past year, Smith communicated with Pryor twice on March 18. They exchanged one text message each one day after Tressel volunteered to increase his suspension from two to five games.

Records show that Tressel exchanged 31 text messages with Cicero on Christmas Eve. They represent the only known contacts between the two in emails and phone records after they exchanged numerous emails in April and in June 2010.

In explaining the redaction of the phone records, university attorneys cited Ohio Supreme Court rulings related to emails, jurors questionnaires and appointment books, to say personal phone calls are not considered public records.

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muffler dragon;1935347; said:
I realize that it's just outside my grasp, but I've got to ask: what is the Dispatch's schtick on this? Are you attempting to ruin the relationship with tOSU so badly that they're given dick to play with? I just don't understand what they're trying to do here.
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I had to wonder the same thing...are they trying to prove they are an unbiased and relevant media outlet....
 
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muffler dragon;1935347; said:
I realize that it's just outside my grasp, but I've got to ask: what is the Dispatch's schtick on this? Are you attempting to ruin the relationship with tOSU so badly that they're given dick to play with? I just don't understand what they're trying to do here.
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Act like real journalists? Real journalists don't care if the person or company they are investigating will have some bad consequences from an investigation, so long as the news released is true. You don't sit on a story about a politician because belongs to the same political party as you. You don't stifle a story about - say - financial wrong doing at a church - because the Minister is your denomination. And you don't sit on a HUGE story in college sports because it is embarrassing to your local football program.

Whether it is wise from a subscription/access to interviews standpoint is a different matter. And an FOI request is about the least speculative type of story you can run. It is all just fact based stuff. More "truthy" than stories speculating about things.
 
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Gatorubet;1935355; said:
Act like real journalists? Real journalists don't care if the person or company they are investigating will have some bad consequences from an investigation, so long as the news released is true. You don't sit on a story about a politician because belongs to the same political party as you. You don't stifle a story about - say - financial wrong doing at a church - because the Minister is your denomination. And you don't sit on a HUGE story in college sports because it is embarrassing to your local football program.

Whether it is wise from a subscription/access to interviews standpoint is a different matter.
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frienemies
 
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Gatorubet;1935355; said:
Act like real journalists? Real journalists don't care if the person or company they are investigating will have some bad consequences from an investigation, so long as the news released is true. You don't sit on a story about a politician because belongs to the same political party as you. You don't stifle a story about - say - financial wrong doing at a church - because the Minister is your denomination. And you don't sit on a HUGE story in college sports because it is embarrassing to your local football program.

Whether it is wise from a subscription/access to interviews standpoint is a different matter. And an FOI request is about the least speculative type of story you can run. It is all just fact based stuff. More "truthy" than stories speculating about things.
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Their claim to being "Real Journalists" went out the fucking window a few weeks ago. But thanks for the lecture, counselor.
 
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