News came out late last night that Anthony Davis Sr will in fact be suing the Chicago Sun Times and reporter Michael O’Brien for their story insinuating that Davis Sr attempted to sell his son’s college recruitment. he Chicago Tribune is reporting that a suit will be filed next week and had this quote from Davis’s lawyer Georgette L Greenlee:
"“It boggles our mind where (O’Brien) got his information from. We did advise (the Sun-Times) that publishing anything like the story they published today was going to put us in position to have to clarify and put the truth out and be litigious.”"
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I have to give a hat tip to A Sea of Blue for finding this, but what makes this Michael O’Brien story even crazier is the fact that the last reporter to do a hatchet job on Kentucky, Pete Thamel of the New York Times, is apparently cheering on Michael O’Brien. Thamel sent this tweet out yesterday:
"The Chicago Sun-Times doesn’t back down to Kentucky and Calipari, cites 3 sources Davis family asked for 100K+."
Whaaaaaa?
Earth to Pete. It just makes you look crazy cheering from the sidelines on another anti Kentucky story and kind of makes it look like you are obsessed with Kentucky and Calipari. Just saying. You had your chance and looked like a tool, so move on.
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Speaking of Michael O’Brien … have you wondered what his email has been like since Wednesday’s story. I am sure his email folder has been filled beyond capacity, but one of the readers of the Wildcat Blue Nation from Louisville sent us a copy of the email he sent Mr. O’Brien. It must suck sorting through oh, 10,000 of these a day…
"Mr. O’Brien, How do you face yourself, your wife, your kids, your friends and co-workers after purposefully publicly humiliating a 17 year old kid? Do you not have an ounce of conscience or moral dignity? Are you so intellectually bankrupt that you have to make up rumors and lies about the Father of a 17 year old kid? Where did you graduate from college that you harbor that much foul disgust in your heart for UK? Or is it JC that just makes you want to puke everytime you read about another top 10 recruit considering Kentucky? Or is it that the most historic program in the history of college basketball and his style of play make a killer combination for exhibiting top level talent that chaps your ass so much you have risked what ever level of credibility you have managed to cobble together in the cesspool of a news agency you work for to put out a story based on a total fabrication? Did it ever occur to you that Kentucky doesn’t have to pay or even entertain the idea of recruiting a player demanding money? This is not the era of Eddie Sutton and his two-points-in-a-cloud-of-dust offense. Do they not have the attention of EVERY top 1-25 player in the country? Hell they are recruiting THEMSELVES to KY because of that style of play and the size of the stage when you play at KY! You know what…if you have sources for any of this bilge you are spewing, put them out there. Because if any of it IS true, it is the biggest story in sports in 2010 and you are missing out on your Pulitzer dude. It doesn’t deserve to be buried on your obscure little blog or page two in the Sports section of the bird cage liner you write for. Heck no…that should be and would be if it were true, front page news at the NY Times…item one on Sports Center…lead story on CNN (aka; Communist News Network) man you would be a star! so what are you waiting for?? Either put up or SHUT UP!!! Well maybe, just maybe the more credible members of the sports reporting community have taken all this with the bolder size grain of salt it deserves. Maybe that’s what is keeping you from laying those “sources” out there for the world to marvel at and landing that Pulitzer. But…maybe, just maybe, sadly, you and your rag management staff see this as an opportunity to squeeze out some free press. Bad publicity is better than no publicity right? Might cost a mil or two to placate the family of this kid, but that is cheaper than what it would cost for the parent company/owners to buy all of the press that has been out there the past couple of days isn’t it? Unbelievable…you are a disgrace to your, dare I say it, profession. Please…crawl back under the rock of mediocrity you have been languishing under for… hell I’ve never heard of you so you must have been there forever. Just go back to being nothing like you were before you had the brainstorm to try and destroy a kids life before it even really gets started. Because you will not stop Big Blue!! Go CATS!!"
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