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09:50 AM ET 06.16 | New Charlotte Bobcats assistant coach Patrick Ewing joined the Dan Patrick show to talk about getting a new job and more. Ewing said that he didn't talk to Michael Jordan directly about the job before he got it. Ewing said Jordan stayed out of it. Ewing said that he will say "no" to Jordan. "[Head coach] Steve Clifford will do all the parlaying with Michael," Ewing said. "When I parlay with Michael it will be on a friendship basis." Ewing said he was surprised that Jason Kidd got a head-coaching job so quickly. "I was very surprised they gave it to him so early," Ewing said. "I wish him well and nothing but success. -- I was very shocked." He thinks that he'll need assistants who help make up for his shortcomings, which is always how it works with a support staff. Ewing also told a story about why he chose Georgetown over UCLA and North Carolina. He said that the Ku Klux Klan's presence near North Carolina bothered him.

Dan Patrick Show

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08:54 AM ET 06.15 | What some originally thought might take three days to hash out didn't take that long after all. The University of Miami wrapped up its hearings with the NCAA Committee of Infractions on Friday afternoon after 16-1/2 hours of talks over two days -- less than it took the same committee to sort through the USC case in February 2010. The scene inside the well-guarded, second-floor conference room at the downtown Westin Hotel was described by one person as "an intense process that covered a lot of material" -- one that "didn't include any surprises, just all of the same stuff we've talked about for months and months and months." The next step? A decision on penalties from the eight-person panel headed by Conference USA commissioner Britton Banowsky will take at least six weeks. It will deliberate in private and weigh whether the findings made by the NCAA's enforcement committee or the arguments made over the past 48 hours by UM and others accused by former booster Nevin Shapiro of breaking NCAA rules are right. "I don't think there's any exact time frame that the committee has [to reach a decision], but we certainly hope we would be done prior to the beginning of the football season," said Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner John Swofford, who attended both days of hearings in support of Miami.

Miami Herald

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11:13 AM ET 06.15 | Jerry Rice Jr. announced he is leaving UCLA for UNLV via Twitter: "Well it's been real Ucla... Ended a little sooner than I thought but will always be a bruin..That said I'm bout to be a rebel bruin at #UNLV"

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09:46 AM ET 06.15 | When former Rutgers coach Mike Rice hired Eric Murdock, the former Providence star and NBA journeyman should have been thrilled. Sources tell us Murdock was not the hardest of workers. He thought he was better than the position of director of basketball operations and was owed something more than the $70,000 Rutgers was paying. He was going to try to get it. One way or another, Murdock was going to get his. So in December 2012, about six months after his contract at Rutgers was not renewed, Murdock, according to an ESPN report, tried to pry a $950,000 wrongful termination settlement out of the State University of New Jersey. Murdock had a tape, a damning tape, showing Rice and assistant coach Jimmy Martelli physically and verbally abusing players. It wasn't a smoking gun, it was a smoking grenade launcher. Rutgers stood its ground. It wasn't going to get taken by Murdock. As it turns out, no one won. The tape was made public. Rice was fired. Former athletic director Tim Pernetti was forced to resign. The FBI, reportedly, is investigating if Murdock tried to extort money from Rutgers before filing the suit. Yesterday, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported it had obtained an 11-minute audio recording made on June 29, 2012, several days after Murdock was told his second, one-year contract would not be renewed. On that date, Murdock stormed into the Rutgers basketball offices and delivered a rant only Kanye West might envy. He bellowed that Rice treated his players like slaves. Murdock raged that Rice was always "cracking the whip" and when a player, "can't deliver you cut his toe off like ... Kunta Kinte."

New York Post

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04:08 PM ET 06.14 | Texas A&M may have only been in the SEC for one season, but they're already building up a rivalry with Alabama.

After Johnny Manziel and the Aggies went into Tuscaloosa and knocked off the Crimson Tide -- their only loss in a season where they won their second straight national championship -- the stage is set for this year's Week 2 matchup, a game that could decide quite a bit about the makeup of this college football season. At a dinner for A&M boosters, Aggie Athletic director Eric Hyman asked the crowd what Texas A&M and the moon have in common. The answer? They "both control the Tide." Aaaaaaaand scene.

SB Nation

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