Friday, February 22, 2008

In The Wake Of Kelvin Sampson

According to sources, Indiana Basketball head coach Kelvin Sampson will wake up Saturday morning without a job. Sampson has been under fire because he committed recruiting violations while and then lied about them to investigators from the NCAA and Indiana University. The official announcement will be made sometime Friday and school officials say no decision has been reached, however several sources close to the team are saying that Sampson will be out.

It's not been announced yet whether Sampson will be suspended for the remainder of the season or fired. Athletic Director, Rick Greenspan, broke the news to the team Thursday night that Sampson would be gone for at least the rest of the season. After the team meeting, players were visibly upset by the decision.

All signs point to Indiana assistant Dan Dakich, a former Hoosier player and assistant coach under Bob Knight, taking the reins for the remainder of the season. The move comes just eight days after the NCAA announced its findings that Sampson had committed five major rules violations.

A school investigation last year revealed that Sampson and his assistants had made more than 100 impermissible calls, but the school had previously contended that the violations were secondary in nature. Sampson was already on NCAA probation when he took the Indiana job for making 577 improper phone calls between 2000 and 2004 while the coach at Oklahoma.

Sampson's deal includes termination clauses for violations of university or NCAA rules that eliminate the payments, but two Indianapolis attorneys have told The Associated Press that firing Sampson now may not be enough to prevent the school from paying out at least $2.5 million.

Lisa Lynette Clark Free To Molest Again

Lisa Lynette Clark, the Georgia gigolette, who went to jail for playing with jail bait is free to play again. (Fox News)A Georgia woman who married a 15-year-old boy and later had his child has been released from prison after serving two years for helping her teenage husband flee from authorities.


Lisa Lynette Clark was released from the Metro State Prison in south DeKalb County, Ga., before 10 a.m. Friday.


Officials with the state Department of Corrections said Clark was to report immediately to the probation office in Douglas County. That's where she pleaded guilty to aiding her teenage husband's flight out of state in February 2006. The teen had been on probation for a burglary. Authorities caught him within two weeks and brought him back to Georgia.


Officials said she is banned from Hall and Dawson counties.


On Nov. 8, 2005, Clark, who was then 37, and her teenage lover were married by a retired Dawson County probate judge in the driveway of his home. They took advantage of a legal loophole that allowed a minor to marry without permission from a parent or guardian if the bride is pregnant.


Georgia's state law sets the marrying age at 16, but had allowed an exception for younger people to marry if the bride was pregnant. The law was changed in 2006, and now 16- and 17-year-olds can wed only with the approval of a parent or guardian and a probate judge.

Hall County authorities arrested Clark the next day on charges of sexually molesting a minor.


Clark gave birth while behind bars and agreed to leave the child with foster parents in Douglas County.


Governor Perdue signed legislation in April 2006 closing a loophole in state law that allowed couples of any age to get married without parental consent in the case of a pregnancy.