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OSU assistant coach Lamont Evans charged in nationwide corruption scandal M ar s hall S c ott O pi nion Editor @M ar shal l _On c e

Federal prosecutors announced charges for Lamont Evans, associate head coach for the Oklahoma State men’s basketball team, Tuesday after Evans allegedly took cash bribes to deliver athletes to an adviser or agent.

Evans was one of four NCAA basketball coaches charged in the FBI’s report.

The report included 10 people in total, which included financial advisers, representatives of a major international sportswear company and team managers.

“We were surprised to learn this morning of potential actions against one of our assistant basketball coaches by federal officials,” OSU said a statement. “We are reviewing and investigating the allegations. We are cooperating fully with officials. Let it be clear we take very seriously the high standards of conduct expected in our athletic department. We US Attorney SDNY/Twitter will not tolerate any devia- This flowchart was used during Tuesday’s press conference to give an overview of the bribery tion from those standards.” scheme Lamont Evans and several other collegiate basketball coaches illegally participated in.

OSU announced later OSU takes seriously the wood’s staff. operation was covert until student-athletes and their Tuesday that Evans has high standards of conduct When Underwood left Tuesday and he didn’t think families and these bribery been suspended indefiexpected in our athletic OSU after last season, the NCAA was aware of allegations, if true, sugnitely. department and does not Evans stayed on staff with the investigation. Kim also gest an extraordinary and “Based on the serious tolerate any deviation from new coach Mike Boynton, said the investigation was despicable breach of that and troubling allegations those standards.” who was promoted from ongoing. trust. We learned of these in the complaint, OklaEvans’ investigation assistant coach.

Evans was “The nature of the charges this morning and homa State University has ranges from his time as an given the title of associate charges brought by the fedof course will support the suspended assistant coach assistant at South Carolina head coach and remained eral government are deeply ongoing criminal federal Lamont Evans,” the stateto last season.

Evans joined the team’s recruiting coordisturbing,” the NCAA said investigation.” ment said. “We are cooperthe OSU coaching staff bedinator. in a statement.

“We have Jessica Rice, the Public ating with federal officials. fore the the 2016-17 season In a press conference at no tolerance whatsoever Information Officer for the We have been in contact as an assistant coach and 11 a.m. Tuesday, Joon Kim, for this alleged behavior.

FBI in Oklahoma City, told with the NCAA and will recruiting coordinator on the acting U.S. attorney Coaches hold a unique the O’Colly Evans had not provide additional information as it becomes available. then-coach Brad Underin Manhattan, said the position of trust with been arrested as of 8 p.m.

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Tuesday.

The court document states Evans “steered” a player on the 2016-17 OSU basketball team to a cooperating witness in exchange for a bribe.

Evans set up a meeting between the cooperating witness and the player in West Virginia before OSU’s game on Feb. 4, according to the document.

Evans described the player as “one of the best (NBA) prospects,” according to the court documents.

Evans received $2,000 for the meeting, according to the documents.

Later in the document, it states Evans said the player is “going to come back to school. He’s not going to the draft. That’s what he says. He got advice from the NBA to come back for the year.”

In March, OSU guard Jeffrey Carroll announced he would seek an NBA evaluation without hiring an agent. However, in April, Carroll announced his intentions to return for his senior season.

Apart from Evans, Chuck Person, an associate coach from Auburn, Emanuel Richardson, an assistant coach at Arizona, and Tony Bland, an associate coach at USC, were mentioned in the report.

Cameron Jourdan and Dekota Gregory contributed to this report.

Marshall Scott is a sports media senior from Madill. He can be reached at opinion.ed@ocolly.com.

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OSU head basketball coach Mike Boynton (left) sits alongside assistant coach Lamont Evans.

Who is Lamont Evans?

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Lamont Evans’ name became known Tuesday.

Evans, associate head

coach for the Oklahoma State men’s basketball team, was reportedly arrested Tuesday after allegedly taking cash bribes to deliver athletes

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to an adviser or agent.

Federal prosecutors announced the charges Tuesday.

Before he was known as one of four college

basketball coaches involved in the investigation, Evans joined OSU in April of 2016 as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator under Brad Underwood.

“We’re very fortunate to have Lamont join the Cowboy family,” Underwood said in a statement when Evans was hired. “I take tremendous comfort with Lamont in terms of who he is and what he stands for. His ability to work and interact with our players is second to none. He has established recruiting ties all over the country, and I consider him one of the top recruiters in the country.

There’s no doubt he’ll benefit our program and our student-athletes for

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years to come.”

Evans was promoted to associate head coach, and kept his position as recruiting coordinator, under Mike Boynton when Underwood took the coaching position at Illinois at the end of last season.

The room applauded when Boynton announced that Evans would be staying on the coaching staff during his introductory press conference.

“He could just as easily be standing right here,” Boynton said.

“He’s a brother that I never had, a great friend, a tremendous coach. And he will be standing here some day. And I love him.”

Before he started a coaching career, Evans played two seasons at Drake, starting in 1999, after transferring from St. Catharine College in St. Catharine, Kentucky.

He eventually earned a degree in social sciences from Kansas State.

Evans started his coaching career at KState in 2009. He became an assistant coach at South Carolina in 2012 and was there until he accepted a job at OSU in 2016.

Dekota Gregory is a university studies senior from Locust Grove.

He can be reached at sports.ed@ocolly.ed.

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Who Else is involved in the Bribery Scandal? money laundering conspiracy.

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Christian Dawkins

Along with Oklahoma State University assistant coach Lamont Evans, nine people were charged with bribery, fraud and corruption in college basketball on Tuesday. Three of these individuals are, like Evans, NCAA basketball associate coaches. These coaches were accused of accepting “bribes of between $13,000 and $100,000,” NBC News’ Tom Winter and Tracy Connor are reporting.

Emanuel “Book” Richardson Richardson has been associate head coach of Arizona University’s men’s basketball team since the 2009-10 season. He was a point guard at Florida Atlantic from 1992-93, Monroe College from 1994-95 and University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown from 1996-98.

Richardson has also served as assistant coach at Xavier, Marist College, Monroe College and the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, where he obtained a business marketing and management degree in 1998. The University of Arizona Athletics website refers to Richardson as “one of the finest recruiters in college basketball.”

Richardson faces charges of bribery conspiracy, solicitation of bribes, honest services fraud conspiracy, honest services fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and up to 80 years of

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imprisonment for Travel Act conspiracy.

A $50,000 bond released Richardson from federal custody on Tuesday, Bruce Pascoe, Caitlin Schmidt and Curt Prendergast of the Arizona Daily Star reported.

Tony Bland Bland is in his fifth season as associate head coach for University of Southern California’s men’s basketball team. Bland played collegiate basketball at Syracuse from 1998-00 and transferred to San Diego State, where he played basketball from 2001-03. Before Bland joined USC’s coaching staff, he was San Diego State’s general manager.

The USC official athletic website describes Bland as “an elite recruiter” and says USC has recruited “top 20 classes nationally since his

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arrival.”

Bland faces up to 80 years of imprisonment on charges of bribery conspiracy, solicitation of bribes, honest services fraud conspiracy, honest services fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and Travel Act conspiracy.

Person faces up to 80 years of imprisonment on charges of bribery conspiracy, solicitation of bribes, honest services fraud conspiracy, honest services fraud, wire fraud conspiracy and Travel Act conspiracy.

Chuck Person

Gatto, from Wilsonville, Oregon, is director of global marketing for Adidas basketball. Gatto reportedly “conspired to pay high school basketball players or their families for commitments by those players to attend and play for a Company-1-sponsored university,” according to a press release on the United States Department of Justice website.

Gatto faces up to 80 years of imprisonment on charges of wire fraud conspiracy, two counts of wire fraud and

Person has served as associate head coach for the men’s basketball team at Auburn, his alma mater, since April 2014. Person was a small forward on Auburn’s basketball team from 1982-86. He then played in the NBA for 14 years with five different teams, according to the Auburn University Official Athletic Site.

He then served as associate to the head coach with the Cleveland Cavaliers from 2001-02.

James Gatto

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Dawkins is a former NBA agent from Atlanta.

Dawkins reportedly offered bribes to the coaches to persuade them to allow Dawkins to “direct players under their control.”

Dawkins was previously fired from ASM Sports for accumulating $42,000 in Uber charges on an unidentified NBA player’s credit card, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported on May 4.

Dawkins faces up to 200 years of imprisonment on charges of bribery conspiracy, payments of bribes, honest services fraud conspiracy, three counts of honest services fraud, two counts of wire fraud conspiracy, two counts of wire fraud, travel act conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy.

Jonathan Brad Augustine Augustine is an Adidas affiliate from Winter Garden, Florida. He reportedly worked with Gatto in the bribery scandal. Augustine faces up to 80 years of imprisonment on charges of wire fraud conspiracy, two counts of wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy.

Munish Sood Munish Sood is a financial adviser at Princeton Advisory Group Inc. in New Jersey. Like Dawkins, Sood

reportedly offered bribes to the coaches.

Sood faces up to 200 years of imprisonment for bribery conspiracy, payments of bribes, honest services fraud conspiracy, three counts of honest services fraud, two counts of wire fraud conspiracy, two counts of wire fraud, Travel Act conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy.

Merl Code Merl Code is from Greer, South Carolina, and is reportedly involved with or has been involved with Adidas and Nike, NPR’s Bill Chappell said. Code faces up to 80 years of imprisonment for wire fraud conspiracy, two counts of wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy.

Rashan Michel Michel is from Smyrna, Georgia, and is the founder and operator of an Atlanta clothing company, according to court papers. Michel faces up to 80 years of imprisonment for bribery conspiracy, solicitation of bribes, honest services fraud conspiracy, honest services fraud, wire fraud conspiracy and Travel Act conspiracy.

Hallie Hart is a sports media sophomore from Chandler. She can be reached at news.ed@ ocolly.com.

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Federal court filing outlines contacts between Evans, FBI witness S te tso n Payn e Editor-In-Chief @ Stetso n __Payn e

Oklahoma State University men’s basketball associate head coach Lamont Evans is facing federal bribery, fraud and corruption charges after an ongoing FBI investigation spanning more than two years.

FBI special agents, with the help of a cooperating witness, started investigating bribery in college basketball in the spring of 2015. The cooperating witness, whom CNBC.com identified as Louis Martin “Marty” Blazer III, was reportedly introduced to Christian Dawkins, an employee at a sports management company.

Rashan Michel, a former NBA official and owner of an Atlantabased clothing company according to AL.com, introduced Blazer to Dawkins, according to Tuesday’s filing in New York’s Southern District federal court. Both in 2015 and before Blazer reportedly started working with law enforcement, he and Michel discussed how Dawkins had allegedly previously bribed college coaches and student athletes.

After Blazer started cooperating with the FBI, he reportedly asked Dawkins if he knew of any coaches who would be willing to take bribes to push their players to Blazer’s financial advisory company. Dawkins

then reportedly suggested Evans, then an assistant coach at the University of South Carolina.

The filing states that Evans, who was hired by former OSU coach Brad Underwood, was initially offered $25,000 in $8,000 installments to push his players to Blazer’s advisory company. Hawkins, Evans and Blazer reportedly talked on the phone in February 2016 and later met in person at a restaurant near South Carolina’s campus to discuss several of Evans’ players as Blazer’s future clients in exchange for bribes.

All of them had the trust of the young players they coached and recruited. Young men who looked up to them and believed they had their best interests at heart.”

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During the meeting, which was reportedly captured on audio and video recordings, Dawkins reportedly advised Munish Sood, another financial adviser, and Blazer to partner with Evans early to secure future clients

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later in Evans’ coaching career.

In March 2016, Blazer reportedly received a text message from and called Evans’ personal cell phone. In the call, which was recorded, Evans reportedly told Blazer he hoped they “can get together in the future and do some things” and that he was “on board with everything.”

OSU announced Evans’ hiring as associate head coach under new coach Brad Underwood on April 4, 2016. In a recorded call after his hiring at OSU, Evans reportedly told Blazer that OSU was a “better job” that meant “better players, more, more, more business.”

Over the course of multiple recorded meetings, phone calls and text messages, Evans tried to confirm payment details for both himself and to use in recruiting players for OSU. In a May 3, 2016 phone call, Evans reportedly informed Blazer he had received a pair of “high end” headphones he had requested and then both agreed to a $2,000 per month payment schedule. Evans also reportedly told Blazer on the call he wanted to introduce an OSU player to Blazer to include in his financial advisory firm.

Throughout July 2016, Evans and Blazer reportedly discussed the payments’ logistics over

multiple phone calls, and Evans asked for separate payments to give to high school prospects he hoped to recruit to OSU. During an August 2016 meeting with Blazer in Miami, Evans reportedly accepted a $1,000 bribe to steer an OSU player to Blazer and Sood’s firms.

They also reportedly discussed specific players Evans hoped to sign for the 2017-18 season.

The filing claims that Evans accepted bribes throughout the 201617 basketball season and arranged a meeting between Blazer and an OSU player, identified in the filing as Player-4. Evans set up a meeting for Feb. 3 in West Virginia, the day before OSU’s game against West Virginia University.

On Feb. 3, Evans, Blazer and Player-4 met in Evans’ hotel room under audio and video surveillance, according to the filing. In the meeting, Evans reportedly touted Blazer’s service and pressured Player-4 to use them. After Player-4 left the room, Blazer gave Evans $2,000 in cash, according to the filing.

Before Player-4 entered the hotel room, Evans reportedly asked Blazer for money to get a commitment from an OSU recruit’s mother. The recruit, who isn’t identified in the filing, reportedly committed to Evans and OSU but wanted a commitment from the

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recruit’s mother because the recruit would “be thinking about business.”

Evans is suspended with pay, according to a statement from OSU. “Based on the serious and troubling allegations in the complaint, Oklahoma State University has suspended assistant coach Lamont Evans,” OSU Communications Director Gary Shutt said in a statement. “We are cooperating with federal officials. We have been in contact with the NCAA and will provide additional information as it becomes available.

“OSU takes seriously the high standards of conduct expected in our athletic department and does not tolerate any deviation from those standards.”

An earlier statement Tuesday morning stated the university was “surprised” to hear of the allegations, which have their roots months before anyone at OSU knew about Evans.

Stetson Payne is a multimedia journalism senior from Broken Arrow. He can be reached at editorinchief@ocolly.com.

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Mason Rudolph hangs his head after throwing an incompletion in OSU’s loss to TCU.

OSU moving past TCU loss De kota Gregory Sports Editor @ D e kotaG r egory

Mason Rudolph didn’t give a speech.

Oklahoma State suffered its first loss of the season Saturday against TCU, 44-31. When Rudolph, OSU’s quarterback, and the Cowboys returned to practice Sunday, Rudolph didn’t say anything. He went about his business as usual, watching film, lifting weights, preparing for No. 15 OSU’s next game against Texas Tech at 7 p.m. Saturday.

“It’s not necessarily a ‘Rudy speech’ in front of the locker room,” Rudolph said. “You’re not jumping up in the chair. It’s just the way you carry yourself and make sure guys believe in you and believing in our team and what we can do.

“You gotta set the record straight going into the week, and I think I did that Sunday morning. It’s consistent effort, and not only me, it’s a lot of guys, just positivity. We turned this thing around just as soon as we got back into the weight room Sunday morning.”

By Tuesday, when OSU players and coordinators met with media, it was obvious the team was looking forward. It’s been a common occurrence for offensive coordinator Mike

Yurcich to refuse to answer questions about the Cowboys’ last game. He did so after wins, as well, and Tuesday, he answered questions only about the Cowboys’ upcoming game.

“It’s Tuesday of Texas Tech,” Yurcich said. “It’s like the same thing I told y’all last week. I’m focused on Texas Tech, our players are focused on beating Texas Tech. That’s where our mind is right now.”

Questions about the loss were still asked. Yurcich refused to answer, reiterating he is focused on the next game.

Rudolph answered but emphasized the future. The only thing he mentioned from the past were goals the team set before the season started. Goals he said are still achievable.

“We’ve always kind of had just the sense that our back’s always against the wall, even before last week when we played TCU,” Rudolph said. “I think that urgency has always been there for us, even going back to last year when we did lose a couple. We said, ‘Hey, we gotta get back on our horse and get these things straight quick.’ We’re very goal-driven and we know those things are still out there. We gotta take it one week at a time and win-out. If we keep this thing rolling I think we will.”

OSU lost two games within three weeks early last season.

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The Cowboys recovered from their second loss to Baylor with seven-consecutive wins before losing to Oklahoma in the last game of the regular season.

The past was brought up again. A reporter reminded Rudolph that the team bounced back last year after losing “a couple of games” last season.

“We don’t plan on losing another one so it won’t be a couple (of losses)” Rudolph said. “There’s a lot of guys on this team that were there last year and understand being able to finish, continue to fight, even after a hiccup early in the season.

“There’s experience, there’s leadership. There’s carryover from last year, which I guess you could pull from that a little bit, but it’s a new season, it’s a new team. I think the leadership we have this year and the approach is 10-times better than it was last year. Guys have already shown me that we’re fired up to get back after these guys.”

Dekota Gregory is a university studies senior from Locust Grove.

He can be reached at sports.ed@ocolly.com.

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Donald Lee Boswell April 29, 1949 September 23, 2017 Dr. Donald Lee Boswell, 68, passed away Saturday, September 23 at Stillwater Medical Center in Stillwater, Oklahoma. His life’s journey began April 29, 1949, when he was born to Donald Lee Boswell, Sr. and Eva Louise Crow. After his graduation from Danville High School in 1967, Don went on to earn a Bachelor of Psychology degree at the University of Central Florida followed by his Master’s degree and PhD at Indiana State University.

Don served as the Training Director of the Doctoral Program in Counseling Psychology at Oklahoma State University. He helped establish and was the first Director of the Counseling and Counseling Psychology Clinic in 1999.

The clinic provided a variety of services to families and individuals. In 2000 graduate students in Counseling Psychology began their training there. Don also helped to create the Lemon Distinguished Faculty Fellowship award.

He presented and published his research at professional conferences and in respected, peer reviewed journals. Don retired from Oklahoma State University in 2015.

Before beginning his work at Oklahoma State University, Don was a professor at Eastern Illinois University. Additionally, Don worked as an air traffic controller and a pilot instructor.

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A visitation at Strode Funeral Home in Stillwater, OK, will be held on Saturday, September 30th, from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m., with a memorial service to follow. In lieu of flowers the family asks that you make a donation in his name to the American Cancer Society at cancer.org.

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