Convicted felon and former University of Miami booster Nevin Shapiro claims he made more than $1 million when N.C. State upset Miami 19-16 in 2007, he recently told Sports Illustrated in a series of wide-ranging interviews from prison.

Shapiro, who was interviewed by SI at the Federal Correctional Institution in Oakdale, La., before being moved to a facility in Butner, was convicted in a $930 million Ponzi scheme, and is at the heart of Miami’s troubles with the NCAA. Shapiro claims to have paid players and provided other improper benefits to primarily the football program for nearly a decade.

The University of North Carolina will host the NCAA Regionals, Friday, May 31, through Monday, June 3 -- and that's likely to cause a huge surge in traffic along South Road and Ridge Road in Chapel Hill.
To facilitate the hosting of NCAA baseball, several parking lots plus Ridge Road will be impacted.
Tow officials note that, while Stadium Drive will be re-opening to through traffic by Friday, May 31, other roadways-including South Columbia Street (one-way northbound) and Cameron Avenue (no through traffic)-are currently impacted by construction.
For more information, visit the "Breaking News" link through the Public Safety website at http://www.dps.unc.edu.

According to a press release issued today from Turner Sports, the 2014 and 2015 NCAA basketball Final Four games will not air on CBS but on Turner's cable network, TBS. The championship game will still air on CBS in those years, but both the Final Four and Championship games will air on TBS in 2016. Those games rotate back to CBS the following year and they will alternate in that way until the end of time. Actually, until Turner's contract is up in 2024.

Go head and freak out.

(Street and Smith's Sports Business Journal reported the likelihood of this -- and the financial reasons behind it -- back in March.)

Read the full press release from Turner after the jump.

Former UNC-Chapel Hill football player Michael McAdoo is asking the state's highest court to take up his claim that the NCAA improperly banned him from the team in 2010.
McAdoo's attorney, Noah Huffstetler, filed papers this week to petition the N.C. Supreme Court to order the case be reinstated for a trial. McAdoo, who now plays for the Baltimore Ravens in the NFL, contends the NCAA and UNC-CH did not follow proper procedures in kicking him off the team for receiving improper help from a tutor. The NCAA, for example, found McAdoo had received improper help in three classes, but the school's honor court found it only happened in one.
The honor court's ruling cost McAdoo his junior year on the team, a penalty he accepted, but he would have been allowed to come back for his senior season. He contends missing out on that season hurt his market value in going pro. He ended up signing with the Ravens as a free agent for the league minimum.
Last month, a three-judge panel with the N.C. Court of Appeals sided with a Superior Court judge's dismissal of McAdoo's case, finding he didn't have a claim because he achieved his goal of making the NFL and UNC-CH had not relinquished his scholarship. McAdoo does not have an automatic right to an appeal because the appellate court's decision was unanimous.
It is a case that could shine more light on the long-running academic fraud scandal at UNC-CH. All three of McAdoo's classes in the NCAA investigation were among the more than 200 that have been found to be lecture classes that never met, in which a paper was assigned and given a good grade with little evidence it was actually read by a professor. There is nothing in the court record to show the NCAA or UNC-CH's honor court were aware of the bogus classes, in which athletes were enrolled in significant numbers.
UNC-CH academic officials say they did not become aware of the bogus classes until after the NCAA had finished its investigation into improper financial benefits to football players from agents and improper help from the tutor and had sent a notice of allegations to the school.
Huffstetler's court papers make note of the academic fraud scandal in contending that the court should take up McAdoo's case.

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Roy Williams is not a fan of some aspects of the NCAA's APR rules. ROBERT WILLETT

CHAPEL HILL — Reports have emerged that the NCAA is considering significant changes to its transfer rules. One proposal would allow athletes with at least a 2.6 GPA to transfer and be able to play immediately, without having to sit out a year.

North Carolina coach Roy Williams said he wasn’t informed enough to offer an opinion on the potential new rule, but he did offer some general thoughts on transferring, and on the APR, which is a tool the NCAA uses to track academic progress.

John Blake.

Butch Davis.

Dick Baddour.

Holden Thorp.

Thorp was always going to be the next domino to fall. It was just a matter of time. You can’t fire Davis for not knowing what was going on within his own football program, then expect the chancellor to skate for not knowing what was going on within his own university.

And so the football scandal at North Carolina, which is now a full-fledged athletic and academic scandal of unknown scope -- encompassing NCAA sanctions, academic shenanigans in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies and alleged financial improprieties by a pair of fundraisers who happen to be a former UNC quarterback and Tyler Hansbrough’s mom -- claimed another victim Monday when Thorp announced he would step down in June.

The Dental Foundation of North Carolina declined Thursday to make public the report that details some of the travel spending that Tami Hansbrough did while working there.

The foundation's executive director, Paul Gardner, provided a synopsis of her time there that included details from the report. But he said the foundation did not have to produce the report because it is a nonprofit and not a governmental entity, and therefore not covered by the state's public records law.

The foundation raises money for UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Dentistry. Hansbrough worked for two years as a fundraiser for the foundation before being hired to raise money for UNC-CH's student affairs office.

She resigned Wednesday after we reported that Chancellor Holden Thorp had found questionable travel she and the vice chancellor for university advancement, Matt Kupec, took at university expense. She and Kupec were in a relationship. Kupec resigned Sunday.

The synopsis said Hansbrough, the divorced mother of former UNC-CH basketball star Tyler Hansbrough, was hired Dec. 8, 2008, just as her son was beginning his senior year and final season on the team, one that would bring the university a national championship. She won the job after a search that included 40 other applicants.

Hansbrough took fundraising trips to the ACC Tournament in Atlanta and the NCAA Tournament in Memphis in 2009. The synopsis only listed expenses related to the Memphis trip of roughly $1,100. There were no expenses listed for the ACC trip.

The synopsis said Hansbrough met with donors and prospective donors on both trips, and did not charge the foundation for game tickets. The information was shared with UNC-CH's athletic department.

The synopsis said Hansbrough raised nearly $5 million while with the dental foundation.

Updated: 2:30 p.m.

The NCAA has cleared Rodney Purvis to go to class at N.C. State but his eligibility for the upcoming basketball season is still in question.

Purvis confirmed the NCAA's decision on his Twitter account on Tuesday. He will be on scholarship for the academic year, according to coach Mark Gottfried, but there's still a chance he won't be eligible to play during the 2012-13 season.

Here's a letter about the Penn State scandal that puts what N.C. lawmakers have done with budget cuts to our at-risk children in the same ballpark. What do you think?

In case you missed this when we posted the story on Monday night, the NCAA (as well as the University of North Carolina) supports the dismissal of the lawsuit that former Tar Heels football player Michael McAdoo (pictured, left) filed against the university, the NCAA and UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp.

You can read that story here.

And, here, you can read the brief that lawyers for the NCAA filed on Monday.

So what does this mean, in the grand scheme? Not too terribly much. As you remember, McAdoo in July 2011 sued the NCAA, UNC and Thorp after the NCAA declared him permanently ineligible. He sought monetary damages and the restoration of his eligibility, after it was stripped because of his involving in UNC’s academic fraud case.