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ArtBest23
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 Posted: 08/27/14 9:51 pm ::: Strange start to the fall college sports season at USC |
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So, this isn't WBB, but which sport is basically irrelevant to the story.
Seems that on Sunday, a Southern Cal starting defensive back and team captain, Josh Shaw, told the coaches that he had injured both ankles jumping from a second story balcony to save his 7 year old nephew who was drowning in a swimming pool. His sister backed the story and provided details of the rescue.
Sounds great, right? USC athletic dept officials thought so too and went to work telling the story about the heroic act by this fine student athlete. The USC website had the story "Shaw Suffers Injury While Rescuing Nephew." Twitter and the media ran with the story.
Until Tuesday night, that is, when USC suddenly backed off, said they had received phone calls with conflicting information, and were "vetting" the story. And the LAPD said Shaw was related in some unspecified way to an investigation of some unspecified event, which the rumor mill said was a burglary.
All day today, ESPN talking heads, Twitter, and the blogosphere speculated about what was going on. With nothing more to go on, they wondered, is the kid a hero, a criminal, or something in between, and if the story turned out to be true, why was USC letting the kid twist in the breeze like this.
Well tonight, Shaw has retained a celebrity lawyer who admits the story was a total fabrication. No one is saying yet how he actually got hurt, but the lawyer of course says it was nothing criminal. The USC website now says "sorry this page does not exist".
USC has now suspended him indefinitely, evidently not because they know he commited a crime, but for making the athletic dept officials look foolish by hyping the original story.
Bizarre way to start the college year.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/usc/uscnow/la-sp-usc-josh-shaw-suspended-20140827-story.html
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dfineguy
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| Posted: 08/28/14 12:19 am ::: |
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| USC athletics is, and always has been, The PAC-10/12's longest running soap opera. The actors change but the story just keeps on going.
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| Posted: 08/28/14 7:39 am ::: |
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Been reading this and it so resembled the whole Manti T'eo thing.
Upstanding athlete (in football even), personal story (tragedy/near tragedy), the hold on, it's not quite like it seemed at first, and we will never know the whole story.
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ArtBest23
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| Posted: 08/28/14 7:58 am ::: |
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Been reading this and it so resembled the whole Manti T'eo thing.
Upstanding athlete (in football even), personal story (tragedy/near tragedy), the hold on, it's not quite like it seemed at first, and we will never know the whole story.
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Sorry, but I don't see a lot of resemblance or similarity between a player being the victim of a hoax and a player being the perpetrator of a hoax.
And we know the whole story in both situations. The perpetrator in both situations has confessed what they did.
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ArtBest23
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| Posted: 08/28/14 5:17 pm ::: |
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| dfineguy wrote: |
| USC athletics is, and always has been, The PAC-10/12's longest running soap opera. The actors change but the story just keeps on going. |
Speaking of soap opera, did you see that today some little used running back quit the team and went on Facebook to call the new head coach a racist?
The hits keep on coming.
And Sarkisian was brought in specifically to clean up the place and reduce the drama level that prevailed under Kiffin. Kiffin must be laughing his butt off.
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| Posted: 08/28/14 8:31 pm ::: |
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| Ahahahaha, clean up the drama level at USC, that's a good one.
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| Posted: 08/28/14 8:31 pm ::: |
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Been reading this and it so resembled the whole Manti T'eo thing.
Upstanding athlete (in football even), personal story (tragedy/near tragedy), the hold on, it's not quite like it seemed at first, and we will never know the whole story.
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Sorry, but I don't see a lot of resemblance or similarity between a player being the victim of a hoax and a player being the perpetrator of a hoax.
And we know the whole story in both situations. The perpetrator in both situations has confessed what they did. |
You listed one difference. I listed 5 similarities.
1. Upstanding athlete - do you deny that either was prior to their situations? You may not know both of them personally, but those that did all vouched for them and their character.
2. Both play football - obvious.
3. Both involved a tragedy (death) or near tragedy (supposed near drowning).
?. I have no idea what 'the hold on' is all about.
4. Not like it seemed at first - obvious.
5. Never knowing the whole story (someone outside of the inner-circle NEVER knows the whole story).
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Brinx
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| Posted: 08/28/14 9:51 pm ::: |
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Yeah, the whole thing is bizarre. Seems like Shaw isn't a suspect in the burglary after all, but they still don't know why he jumped (or fell) off a balcony. Sarkisian said he could be reinstated this year.
Sarkisian cleaning up USC's constant drama is laughable. He was on staff under Carroll, which turns out had a lot of it.
And I don't see the similarity between Shaw and T'eo. One got fooled the other created an elaborate story to cover something....right?
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PUmatty
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| Posted: 08/28/14 10:02 pm ::: |
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Been reading this and it so resembled the whole Manti T'eo thing.
Upstanding athlete (in football even), personal story (tragedy/near tragedy), the hold on, it's not quite like it seemed at first, and we will never know the whole story.
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Sorry, but I don't see a lot of resemblance or similarity between a player being the victim of a hoax and a player being the perpetrator of a hoax.
And we know the whole story in both situations. The perpetrator in both situations has confessed what they did. |
You listed one difference. I listed 5 similarities.
1. Upstanding athlete - do you deny that either was prior to their situations? You may not know both of them personally, but those that did all vouched for them and their character.
2. Both play football - obvious.
3. Both involved a tragedy (death) or near tragedy (supposed near drowning).
?. I have no idea what 'the hold on' is all about.
4. Not like it seemed at first - obvious.
5. Never knowing the whole story (someone outside of the inner-circle NEVER knows the whole story). |
Apparently you weren't the only one to make a connection:
http://www.tmz.com/2014/08/28/manti-teo-dragged-back-into-spotlight-thanks-to-josh-shaw/
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ArtBest23
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| Posted: 08/29/14 11:11 am ::: |
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Wow. This just gets more bizarre.
http://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-how-josh-shaw-fooled-usc-267425
A passage:
"The duplicity was pathological. Shaw enlisted others, and not just family members, to corroborate that lie. And when USC issued a press release on Monday afternoon proclaiming Shaw’s heroic (and fictitious) tale of rescuing his seven year-old nephew from drowning in a pool, he even phoned them to correct an inaccuracy in the story.
That’s correct: Josh Shaw noticed an error in USC’s account of his made-up story about saving his nephew from drowning."
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| Posted: 09/02/14 12:25 pm ::: Maybe |
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| They think that all publicity is good....
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