The NEW YORK TIMES has a piece today on Tommy Amaker as he plumbs the depths of the bowels of college basketball at Harvard. Amaker is in his first year coaching the astonishingly, historically-inept Crimson (they’ve never won an Ivy League title?) .

Now, we know what a wonderfully mediocre head coach T.A. was in his previous stops at Michigan and Seton Hall. But Pete Thamel of the NEW YORK TIMES reports that he may have somehow eclipsed that futility at Harvard, by committing NCAA recruiting violations at the scholarship-free institution. Read more…

Raise your hand if you figured Kevin Hart would pretty much be doomed once he set foot back in his high school. I mean, you don’t fake a Division I football signing and get off clean, right? Right?

Wrong. Go ahead and check out this local TV report.

The upshot? Well, it certainly could have been worse for Kevin Hart. He could be his coach, after all, who might lose his job over the whole thing.

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Remember our first post yesterday about the weird story of Nevada high school football recruit Kevin Hart? When we suggested (in the headline, no less) that he may have made up the story of how he was scammed?

(What we posted yesterday)

Turns out we were exactly right. Read more…