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Caught Cheating - Crime Count: 26 - limited
Date	Team_Name	Sport	Category	Link	Points	Evidence
2010-08-26	The_Criminal	Marlins	Nuisance	Crime Link	3	Marlins’ catcher suspended Florida Marlins catcher Ronny Paulino was suspended for 50 games Friday after he tested positive for a performance-enhancing substance under Major League Baseball’s drug policy. Paulino’s suspension begins immediately, and since the Marlins have only 42 games remaining, will extend into the 2011 season. In a statement, Paulino said that a dietary pill he took to control his weight contained the banned substance. "I am ashamed and saddened for disappointing and distracting my family, my teammates, the entire Florida Marlins organization and baseball fans," he stated.
2010-06-10	The_Goons	Pac 10	Nuisance	Crime Link	3	The NCAA leveled Southern California with stinging penalties Thursday, issuing a two-year bowl ban and declaring Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush ineligible dating back to the Trojans’ 2004 national championship season. Citing USC for a lack of institutional control in its long-awaited report, the NCAA also put the entire athletic program on four years’ probation, took away a total of 30 football scholarships over three years and vacated every victory in which Bush participated in from December 2004 through the 2005 season.
2009-11-03	The_Criminal	Doug Barron	Nuisance	Crime Link	3	Our first doping bust for a golfer. Unheralded American Doug Barron has become the first player to be banned by the PGA Tour for taking performance-enhancing drugs. ... I would like to apologize for any negative perception of the Tour and its players resulting from my suspension," Barron said in a statement on the PGA Tour official Web site www.pgatour.com. "I want my fellow Tour members and the fans to know that I did not intend to gain an unfair competitive advantage or enhance my performance while on Tour.
2009-09-11	The_Goons	Track	Nuisance	Crime Link	3	THE controversy over gender row champion runner Caster Semenya deepened today – after reports claimed sex swap tests have shown she is a HERMAPHRODITE. South African gold-medallist Semenya, 18, has both male and female organs, it was claimed. And sources close to the International Association of Athletics Federations – who ordered extensive tests on the teen after her amazing 800m win at the World Athletics Championships last month – say the results mean she could still be stripped of her medal.
2009-08-20	The_Goons	CUSA	Nuisance	Crime Link	3	Memphis will be forced to vacate the NCAA-record 38 victories from its Final Four season of 2007-08 under former coach John Calipari because of NCAA violations, several sources told ESPN.com
2009-08-12	The_Criminal	Nationals	Nuisance	Crime Link	3	Nats minor leaguer busted for juicing
2009-07-16	The_Criminal	MAIAA	Nuisance	Crime Link	15	When the MAIAA decides to cheat, they don’t mess around --- NCAA sanctions Missouri Western women’s hoops By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, Associated Press Writer Jul 8, 6:18 pm EDT KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)–The NCAA put the women’s basketball program at Missouri Western on probation for two years and threw out some 50 victories Wednesday as punishment for allowing an ineligible athlete to play for two seasons that included a conference championship for the Division II program. Besides the ineligible athlete, whose play was deemed a major violation, the NCAA also found that a former student-athlete received extra benefits from a former coach, a secondary infraction. The school, in St. Joseph, also lost a scholarship to offer and was barred from recruiting abroad for approximately the next year. The probation expires in July 2011.
2009-07-14	Jail Break	SEC	Nuisance	Crime Link	15	My first bust! SCarolina reports 14 NCAA secondary violations Decrease font Decrease font Enlarge font Enlarge font COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina has reported 14 NCAA secondary violations from the past six months, including one for an improper text message to a recruit and another for "impermissible snacks.'' Five of the violations were from the first-year program of men's basketball coach Darrin Horn. The school's athletic department released the violations this week. It discloses secondary violations twice a year because of open records requests made by The Associated Press and other media outlets.
2008-10-26	IrvinSucks	Saints	Nuisance	Crime Link	9	Three Saints, Deuce McAllister, Will Smith, and Charles Grant have been confirmed to have tested positive under the NFL's steroid policy. Suspensions have not been handed out yet.
2008-09-22	Gold_Tooth	Independents	Nuisance	Crime Link	1	Charlie Weis insisted Notre Dame wasn't trying to break the rules by having a laptop computer in its coaching box during a 23-7 loss to Michigan State on Saturday.
2008-08-27	Perpetrators	Mariners	Nuisance	Crime Link	3	Seattle Mariners minor league pitcher, Jorge Sosa, was suspended 50 games for testing positive for using a performance enhancing substance.
2008-07-31	Gold_Tooth	swac	Nuisance	Crime Link	0	Alabama State chose not to contest any of the 23 alleged NCAA rules violations in the university's official response to the charges. The NCAA alleged widespread use of ineligible players, grade changes and recruiting misdeeds and charged the school with lack of institutional control.
2008-07-27	Trailer_Trash	Southland	Nuisance	Crime Link	5	***5 counts of cheating for the 43 unauthorized phone calls to recruits. ***2 counts of academic ineligible for the players who played despite being ineligible ***Improper benefits for the coach using his own funds for recruiting which is a violation. The NCAA has accused Texas A&M-Corpus Christi of nine rules violations, including use of ineligible players, recruiting violations in men's basketball and lack of institutional control. The alleged violations, eight of them major, occurred mainly between 2004 and 2008 in men's basketball, women's volleyball and men's tennis. The NCAA's notice of allegations, obtained Saturday by the Associated Press, also accuses athletic director Brian Teter of not reporting to the NCAA his knowledge of two ineligible players and later submitting a false self-report regarding one of those players. Teter failed to conduct himself in accordance with the association's "high standards of honesty and sportsmanship," the notice said. The NCAA charged the athletic department with a lack of institutional control, saying the school failed to monitor the eligibility of student-athletes, properly train staff in NCAA rules, police itself for rules violations and accurately report any violations. The school has to respond to the allegations by Oct. 29 and is scheduled to appear before the NCAA infractions committee on Dec. 5 in Indianapolis. In a statement, school President Flavius Killebrew said he does not want the school or its athletic department, which started in 1998, to be tarnished by the allegations. "We take the issues presented to us by the NCAA very seriously," Killebrew said. "Our intercollegiate athletic program must be transparent beyond any reproach." The report singles out two former compliance directors and Teter for failing to report ineligible players once they learned of them or for failing to withhold them from competition. A volleyball player was improperly given a sixth year of eligibility and a men's tennis player was given a partial athletic scholarship when he had not qualified academically and was later allowed to compete even after officials knew he was ineligible, according to the NCAA. Teter did not immediately respond to an e-mail or a phone message left at his office by the Associated Press on Saturday. School spokesman Marshall Collins said Teter remains the athletic director and that Killebrew will ultimately decide his job status. The school received notice of the allegations Thursday, and the president has not decided a course of action, Collins said. "He hasn't had time himself to read to see if there's anything that should be done at this time," Collins said. The men's basketball program, led by former Miami coach Perry Clark, is also a target of the report. The NCAA alleges an assistant coach made at least 43 impermissible phone calls to four recruits. A separate allegation involves the program providing impermissible recruiting inducements to a possible transfer, including transportation to the border town of Laredo so the player could renew his immigration documentation. Included among the allegations is a secondary violation involving men's basketball, in which the NCAA said Teter told Clark to use personal funds for recruiting and not program funds.
2008-06-26	Gold_Tooth	Big 10	Nuisance	Crime Link	3	Rick Greenspan will step down as Indiana’s athletic director at the end of December, the school announced in a news release Thursday. The news comes on the same day IU announced a sixth NCAA allegation for "failure to monitor."
2008-05-30	Gold_Tooth	Rockies	Nuisance	Crime Link	1	Major League Baseball announced Wednesday that Colorado Rockies minor-leaguer Humberto Cota has received a 50-game suspension for testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance.
2008-05-26	Trailer_Trash	Sun Belt	Nuisance	Crime Link	5	Florida International was placed on four years probation by the NCAA on Wednesday and will lose scholarships for a variety of infractions. More than 40 athletes who competed for the school from the 2002-03 through the 2006-07 academic years violated rules, said Josephine Potuto, chairwoman of the NCAA committee on infractions. The school, which jumped from NCAA Division I-AA to Division I-A, misapplied enrollment and financial aid rules, transfer requirements and eligibility rules, the NCAA found. "The institution acknowledges that it was not ready for the move, at least from a compliance standpoint," Potuto said. The men’s basketball program lost one scholarship and its baseball program lost 1.5. The football program was stripped of three scholarships. In all, 11 sports lost scholarships. The violations were self-reported. Records set during the years of the infractions were erased, and the probationary period is to end May 19, 2012, because the sanctions were added on top of other penalties. The school said the violations were not intentional. "Upon discovering these violations, we put in place new compliance procedures that are much more suited to the university FIU has become in the last 10 years," university president Modesto Maidique said. "We now have the level of staffing and the redundancies that will prevent these types of infractions from occurring again in the future." Rick Mello, the school’s former athletic director who became an associate commissioner with the Sun Belt Conference in 2006, declined comment through a Sun Belt spokesman.
2008-05-19	Gold_Tooth	Southern	Nuisance	Crime Link	5	The NCAA has accused Alabama State University of 24 rules violations, alleging widespread use of ineligible players, grade changes and recruiting misdeeds and charging the school with lack of institutional control. Head football coach L.C. Cole, who is charged in five of the allegations, was fired.
2008-05-19	The_Criminal	Big 12	Nuisance	Crime Link	3	Dallas TV station to report alleged high school grade change for KU player
2008-05-11	Perpetrators	Pac 10	Nuisance	Crime Link	3	USC freshman, OJ Mayo, has reportedly received about $30,000 and other benefits from an LA events promoter while he attended high school and college. They money was reportedly intended to ensure he would sign with a northern California sports agency. This is regarded ascheating by the NCAA.
2008-04-20	Trailer_Trash	MWC	Nuisance	Crime Link	15	New Mexico administrators presented their case to the NCAA infractions committee during a full-day hearing Friday in an academic fraud investigation involving two former assistant football coaches. The panel also heard from Lenny Rodriguez and Grady Stretz, the former assistants who are accused of improperly helping one New Mexico player and four recruits obtain fraudulent academic credits through correspondence courses at Fresno Pacific University. Members of the infractions committee advised the parties not to publicly discuss details of the meeting, but Krebs characterized it as productive. "It was a very fair hearing," he said in a brief telephone interview from Indianapolis. "A lot of information was disclosed by all sides and there was a full vetting of the issues. Now we await the outcome." The committee is expected to issue its findings in six to eight weeks. Head coach Rocky Long, who attended with Krebs and three university administrators, is not accused of any wrongdoing. New Mexico faces three rules violations in the case. No current players are tied to the investigation, which dates from the spring of 2004 and fall of 2005, and only two of the five played for the Lobos. New Mexico self-imposed penalties on the three counts, including two years' probation, the reduction of two scholarships for next season and cutting the number of coaches who can make off-campus visits over the next two seasons. The NCAA dropped a fourth charge. Rodriguez, who coached at New Mexico from 1998-2006, is an assistant at Mount San Antonio College in suburban Los Angeles. Stretz, an assistant at New Mexico from 1998-2005, coaches Arizona State's defensive line.
2008-04-10	Gold_Tooth	Big 10	Nuisance	Crime Link	3	Jordan Schafer, the Atlanta Braves’ prospect suspended for 50 games for human growth hormone use, did not test positive for HGH. Rather, he was suspended after major league baseball probed anecdotal evidence of HGH use by Schafer, two sources familiar with Schafer’s case told ESPN The Magazine’s Buster Olney.
2008-03-13	Perpetrators	Pac 10	Nuisance	Crime Link	3	Arizona State pitcher, Jason Jarvis, was ruled ineligible "per NCAA rules," and will miss the remainder of the season. He was also cited by the school for "academic dishonesty," that reulted in a grade being lowered for an online class.
2008-02-16	IrvinSucks	ACC	Nuisance	Crime Link	15	Clemson self-reported 13 NCAA second-degree violations, including a coach's father providing free chiropractic care to a student-athlete.
2008-02-15	Perpetrators	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	Nuisance	Crime Link	6	Dale Earnhardt's car was impounded by NASCAR after it was found that the spoiler was modified after a NASCAR inspection for Saturday's Daytona 500.
2008-02-13	Gold_Tooth	Big 10	Nuisance	Crime Link	15	Indiana hoops coach busted with lying about phone calls and other violations he tried to hide from the NCAA. Their is also the noncommital apology.
2008-01-05	Trailer_Trash	MWC	Nuisance	Crime Link	15	- 5 students were improperly helped w/ their grades and thus 5 counts of cheating University of New Mexico athletic director Paul Krebs says the school has begun self-imposed penalties after an NCAA investigation into four potential rules violations by the New Mexico football program. The NCAA in September began looking into alleged violations involving three members of New Mexico's coaching staff. None of the coaches was identified, but Krebs said at the time that two are no longer on staff. Head coach Rocky Long is not accused of any wrongdoing. New Mexico administrators on Friday submitted the school's response to the NCAA. Krebs would not discuss what was in it or what restrictions UNM imposed on the football program. "I think it's ill-advised that I talk about what's in the report before the NCAA receives it," he said. He called the response a "fairly lengthy and comprehensive document." The assistant coaches were accused of helping four prospective student athletes and one student athlete already enrolled at New Mexico improperly obtain academic credits through correspondence courses at Fresno Pacific University and instructor Fern Zahlen, who was an independent contractor with the school.