I hope to see this on a 1973 Impala sometime soon...

Kiss your bogus six game win streak over Alabama goodbye, Aubarn fans...

...as it DID NOT COUNT! In addition with the Sociology scandal, you just can't make this stuff up:

The segment contains explosive claims from former Auburn players Chaz Ramsey, Troy Reddick, Stanley McClover and Raven Gray.

• On McClover’s recruitment:

Kremer voiceover: “McClover said it wasn’t until he attended an all-star camp at Louisiana State University that he realized how the game is played. A game of money and influence.”

McClover: “Somebody came to me, I don’t even know this person and he was like, ‘we would love for you to come to LSU and he gave me a handshake and it had five hundred dollars in there. … that’s called a money handshake … I grabbed it and I’m like, ‘wow,’ hell I thought ten dollars was a lot of money back then. Five hundred dollars for doing nothing but what I was blessed to do. I was happy.”

Kremer to McClover: “What did you say to the guy when he hands you five hundred dollars?”

McClover: “Thank you and I’m seriously thinking about coming to LSU.”

Kremer voiceover: “But McClover says there were money handshakes from boosters at other football camps too. At Auburn for a couple hundred dollars and at Michigan State. All the schools denied any wrongdoing. And things really started heating up a few months later when he went to Ohio State for an official visit where schools get a chance for one weekend to host prospective athletes. McClover says there were money handshakes from alumni there too. About a thousand dollars. And something else to entice him.”

McClover: “They send girls my way. I partied. When I got there I met up with a couple guys from the team. We went to a party and they asked me to pick any girl I wanted.”

Kremer: “Did she offer sexual services?“

McClover: “Yes.”

Kremer: “Did you take them?”

McClover: “Yes.”

Kremer: “McClover committed to Ohio State right after that weekend. The recruiter at Ohio State who says he dealt with McClover that weekend denied the school was involved in any wrongdoing.”

• On what caused McClover to sign with Auburn over Ohio State:

Kremer voiceover: “McClover says what he asked for was money. A lot of it. And that he got it. Delivered in a bookbag, exact amount unknown.”

Kremer to McClover: “You opened it up, what are you thinking?”

McClover: “I almost passed out. I literally almost passed out I couldn’t believe it was true. I felt like I owed them.”

Kremer to McClover: “You felt obligated to them (Auburn)?”

McClover: “I felt totally obligated.”

Kremer to McClover: “Because of the money?”

McClover: “Yeah.”

• Troy Reddick talks about his recruitment by Auburn

Reddick: “I was contacted by a local alumni (of Auburn) and offered a large sum of money.

Kremer: “What are you thinking?”

Reddick: “That people are trying to take advantage of me. And I can’t give anybody any kind of power over me.”

Kremer voiceover: “He (Reddick) says he didn’t take the handout. …

• Reddick on why he was unhappy at Auburn - and the remedy for that unhappiness

Kremer voiceover: “Reddick was growing increasingly unhappy because he says the (Auburn) coaches wanted him to change his major. Why? Because his class schedule got in the way of football practice.”

Reddick: “I changed my major, so my classes didn’t interfere no more but I didn’t bother to go because I knew I was only there to play football.”

Kremer: “So what did you do?”

Reddick: “I started complaining and insinuating that I was ready to leave any day. They had to do something about that.”

Kremer voiceover: “The enticement to stay, Reddick says, became clear to him, when one of the coaches approached him after a team meeting.”

Reddick: “He (Auburn coach) said I got some mail for you up in my office.”

Kremer to Reddick: “Some mail for you?”

Reddick: “And I followed him up to his office and he gave me an envelope. I didn’t open there, I walked out to my truck, took off. … It was about 500 dollars.”

Kremer: “500 dollars in the envelope?”

Reddick: (nods yes)

Kremer: “How often did you get the money in the envelope?”

Reddick: “Over that season it happened like two or three more times. And it happened about six or seven times my senior year.”

Kremer: “So where do you think the money came from?”

Reddick: “I think that worry got back to alumni from my hometown. Or it may have been the coaches or the staff but everybody knew I didn’t want to be there.”

• On McClover being paid $4,000 for his performance in the Iron Bowl:

Kremer voiceover: “Stanley McClover says he was also paid while at school (Auburn). Paid by boosters. Like the time he had his eye on this 1973 Chevy Impala.”

McClover: “Private owner wanted seven thousand in cash so I went to my booster who I knew and he gave me the money the next day in a bookbag.”

Kremer voiceover: “McClover says eventually he didn’t have to ask for money, as long as he played well, he’d get paid.”

Kremer to McClover: “How much was a sack worth?”

McClover: “Anywhere between 300 and 400 dollars. For one.”

Kremer to McClover: “I think in one game you had four sacks, what did you earn in that game?”

McClover: “Four thousand. Against Alabama.”

Kremer: “Seriously?”

McClover: “Alabama, a rivalry game.”

Kremer: “More money because it’s Alabama?”

McClover: “Definitely. No other game matters.”

• Chaz Ramsey and Raven Gray are interviewed at same time together

Kremer voiceover: “Chaz Ramsey played for a year (for Auburn) in 2007, and says he too received money handshakes after games.”

Ramsey: “You walk out and all the fans are waiting for you to sign autographs and everything and some random guy just walks up to you and shakes your hand and there’s a wad full of money.”

Kremer: “How much are we talking about?”

Ramsey: “300 or 400 dollars a game.”

Kremer voiceover: “Raven Gray was a top (Auburn) recruit in 2007, he says people affiliated with Auburn would visit him at his junior college and press the flesh there too.”

Kremer to Gray: “How much do you think you got?”

Gray: “Twenty five-hundred to three thousand dollars. Loyalty is the key. This man give me money I’m going to be loyal to him and go to Auburn.”

Kremer voiceover: “And he did go to Auburn but got injured before he ever played a game.”

• On Ramsey’s motivation for coming forward

Kremer: “You have an axe to grind?” (Ramsey had a medical claim lawsuit against Auburn recently thrown out.)

Ramsey: “I’m not out to get anybody, I want high school athletes to know what they’re getting into. This is what college football is really about it, it’s a business.”

• Ramsey and Reddick on selling items made available to Auburn players by the school:

Ramsey: “I would sell tickets all the time, Iron Bowl you can make a thousand dollars a ticket.”

Kremer: “How much money did that get you during your time at Auburn?”

Ramsey: “Five-six thousand dollars probably.”

Reddick: “I sold my SEC Championship watch right off the stage as we were celebrating in Toomer’s Corner.”

Kremer: “Why did you sell it?”

Reddick: “Because it was useless to me. I had to sell all my championship rings to help my sister not go into debt as her house was about to be foreclosed on.”

At the end of Kremer’s segment, the host read Auburn’s official response to HBO regarding the allegations by its former players:

The NCAA turned down repeated interview requests to discuss anything to do with illegal payments, despite new NCAA President Mark Emmertrecently saying he wants to be more transparent with the media.

As for Auburn University, officials declined to comment on quote, “these alleged claims apparently made by a few former football players” and said, quote, “compliance with all NCAA and Southeastern Conference rules is a major emphasis and top priority for all of our athletic programs.

Via twitter:

@SPORTSbyBROOKS SPORTSbyBROOKS
HBO is on the record to me that it did not pay or compensate ex-Auburn players in any way for interviews.

And the Aubarn racism continues...

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Ten of the 11 employees who lost their jobs in the athletic department were black, according to the lawsuit.

T-Town Photo of the day: Veterans Memorial Park near Midtown Tuscaloosa

At the end of WWII, the U.S. Army Northington General Hospital in Tuscaloosa was one of the largest military hospitals in the world.

The Tuscaloosa Veterans Memorial Park is located on McFarland Boulevard at the site of the hospital chapel. The one-acre site where the chapel stood has been retained in public ownership, with oversight by Tuscaloosa County Park & Recreation Authority.

Spring is in the air...

Ironic?

You be the judge...

Take a virtual tour of The University of Alabama's campus...

By clicking here.

Needless to say, this just intensified my UA/T-Town withdrawals. A-Day you couldn't get here soon enough.

10 most corrupt college athletic programs

And you'll never guess who number 3 is...

Auburn — Seven Major Infractions: Seven major infractions for now, anyway. The Cam Newton situation aside, Auburn has had a difficult time playing by the rules over the years. Its most embarrassing incident occurred in 1991, when 60 Minutes aired recordings of head football coach Pat Dye arranging a loan for a player. The series of incriminating tapes were provided by former star defensive back Eric Ramsey and unveiled a player payment scheme involving the coaching staff and prominent booster "Corky" Frost. For its wrongdoing, Auburn received a two-year bowl ban, a one-year television and ban and lost 13 scholarships over a four-year period. Dye was replaced by Terry Bowden, who became the first Division 1 coach to go undefeated in his first season but had nothing to show for it.

Of course, this doesn't include the fact that in 2004, their players remained eligible without attending a singe class; or the fact that their corruption and mismanagement landed them on academic probation around the earlier years of the last decade.

Don't forget about what Terry Bowden said, after his "non-disclosure agreement" expired:

Former Auburn University football coach Terry Bowden says the program he inherited in 1993 included an elaborate system of paying star high school players up to $15,000 to sign with Auburn and $600 per month while on the team

Or what former OC Tony Franklin had to say following his termination:

People would be shocked at the stuff that goes on at Auburn - it would make headlines for the National Enquirer.

Today, you've got allegations surfacing left and right concerning the corruption behind that measly little backwoods program. I've said it once and I'll say it again: they pay players simply because no young person in their right mind would elect to live in that boring, backwoods town without being paid for it.

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Aubarn players rob trailer park...

The incident occurred at the Conway Acres Trailer Park on Lee Road in Auburn.

And here I thought all of the trailer parks were on Wire Road? Color me corrected... anyway, what else is there to do in that one horse town besides rob trailer parks, party with the KKK at fraternity houses and sexually assault a sheep at Aubarn endorsed rodeos?

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T-Town Photo of the day: Tuscaloosa News HeadQuarters

Located in downtown near the Hugh Thomas Bridge and the Tuscaloosa Riverwalk, you'll find the Tuscaloosa News Headquarters. The Tuscaloosa News is a daily newspaper serving Tuscaloosa County and parts of the western region of Alabama.

The newspaper is a member of the New York Times Regional Media Group, a subsidiary of the New York Times Company, through the corporate entity of NYT Holdings, Inc., an Alabama corporation

MLB Spring Training Update...

And my Rays aren't exactly lighting up the current standings. Lucky spring training games are merely exhibition games.

American League

Team	W	L	PCT	GB
Seattle	10	4	.714	-
Detroit	13	7	.650	-
Kansas City	10	6	.625	1.0
Texas	9	7	.563	2.0
Boston	10	8	.556	2.0
Baltimore	8	7	.533	2.5
Minnesota	9	8	.529	2.5
Toronto	8	8	.500	3.0
LA Angels	8	10	.444	4.0
Oakland	7	10	.412	4.5
Cleveland	6	9	.400	4.5
Tampa Bay	6	9	.400	4.5
Chi White Sox	6	10	.375	5.0
NY Yankees	6	11	.353	5.5

National League

Team	W	L	PCT	GB
San Francisco	14	5	.737	-
Atlanta	11	5	.688	1.5
Colorado	12	6	.667	1.5
Milwaukee	11	6	.647	2.0
Philadelphia	12	7	.632	2.0
Washington	10	6	.625	2.5
Cincinnati	10	7	.588	3.0
St. Louis	8	7	.533	4.0
San Diego	8	8	.500	4.5
NY Mets	8	9	.471	5.0
Chi Cubs	8	11	.421	6.0
Pittsburgh	8	11	.421	6.0
Florida	5	11	.313	7.5
Houston	6	14	.300	8.5
Arizona	5	15	.250	9.5
LA Dodgers	5	15	.250	9.5

Scott Moore update...

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A special note to all of you inbred Aubarn fans...

For those of you who have been personally attacking me by calling up my businesses threatening me and my fellow employees, if you inbreds with your incoherent southern drawls have something to say to me, say it to my face and not over the phone line. It can be arranged.

If you don't like what I have to write, deal with it, and furthermore, stop giving people material to write about, you delusional sheep-humping rednecks. Tim Brando said it best when he said you guys were the worst fanbase in the country simply because you carry the biggest chip on your shoulder. Now I'm actually starting to believe him.

I'll gladly stop by your trailer park on Wire Road and have a one on one discussion while I'm en route to T-Town... a city that puts your little backwoods wannabe town to shame.

You guys are literally an embarrassment to humanity and my advice to you all is to put a gun to your head and pull the trigger. You'd be doing the world a huge favor.

This is not Bleacher Report, nor is it Yahoo or Fox Sports. This is merely a blogspace created by an average Joe. Knowing that, I'd hate to know what you guys must've said and did to Thayer Evans.

Like I said, stop calling my businesses and if you want to speak to me, we can do this face to face. Otherwise, go back to your double-wides and fry a possum. If you want to troll this site, that's fine. But don't attack me personally unless you have a way to back it up.