When news broke this week that Tim Floyd personally handed money over to O.J. Mayo’s handler to help seal the deal to make him a Trojan, no one really batted an eye. Because, after all, it’s USC. Any hints of shady business are just taken as gospel.

But shouldn’t more people be questioning the latest allegations, when the motives of the source — to say nothing of the facts themselves — are more than a little dodgy? One of Mayo’s USC teammates has some serious questions.

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We heard something about O.J. Mayo possibly accepting gifts bought with money sent through some kind of sickle cell anemia charitable front a few weeks ago, but we didn’t pay much attention to it. Why? We’re recently adopted the USC Athletics method of journalism. This means we don’t look at any news that might or might not be happening so we can’t be accountable for it later.

Instead, we looked at LOLcats all day. Aren’t they precious?

So we’re sure we didn’t hear anything from the L.A. TIMES today about the California attorney general’s office looking into posssible charges as part of this case. That would certainly be well outside of our new policy. After all, O.J. Mayo could not have willingly accepted money from Rodney Guillory illegally as long as this amount of cuteness exists in the world:

OMG that is soooooo true.
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NCAA Commissar Myles Brand has announced that former USC star O.J. Mayo will be investigated after learning of “new information” about Mayo’s alleged acceptance of cash and gifts while still enrolled in school.

It is presumed that Brand shouted his intention to investigate from a very tall window overlooking the NCAA parking lot, while holding his outstretched arm at a 45-degree angle. Read more…