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From the same guy that broke the news on the Pac 10′s plans to expand and invite six teams from the Big 12 to join comes word that “”Scott (the Pac 10 commissioner) will start extending invitations formally to six Big 12 schools this week.”

The invitations we know that will be handed out will be to Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State with the sixth one is down to either Colorado or Baylor (we’ll be discussing who we think will get it later). Now once invitations are extended that’s when all hell is going to break loose. Stay tuned for updates.

There’s something real big going down in college football and it’s centered around yesterday’s report that the Pac 10 soon will or already has invited Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Colorado to join them. Really you can’t even call it a rumor anymore because all the signs point to it happening.

• A handful of Big 12 and Pac-10 officials met several few weeks ago to discuss a possible scheduling and television alliance between the leagues.
• Yesterday both Big 12 commissioner and Texas president had press conferences scheduled, but canceled them just a few hours after reports were published that the Pac 10 was going to try and steal six teams.
• Brian Christopherson of the Lincoln Journal Star described the mood at the Kansas City hotel where the Big 12 meetings are being held as, “Very weird.“
• Colorado AD Mike Bohn was quoted as saying, ”The longer that we were together in Kansas City it appeared that that rumor or speculation did have some validity to it…”
• Cal chancellor Robert Birgeneau said Monday that Pac 10 presidents and chancellors will be meeting in San Francisco on Saturday and that he’d be ”surprised if something did not happen that revolutionized college athletics.”

Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe is expected to address the media today once the meetings have finished. We’ll be having breaking news on this all day.

The USA Today has dubbed this “The Summer of Scandal” for NCAA sports and they’re right. Never if my life have have I seen this many big time schools under investigation by the NCAA at once. The USC sanctions announcement supposedly coming tomorrow. Michigan and UConn addressed the the violations they committed last week. While Oklahoma, Kansas, and Kentucky are all under investigation right now.

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Super Regional Recap: Oklahoma stuns Washington 6-1
If you would have told me that Washington was going to lose their first game against Oklahoma I would have believed you. In the first round they only managed 14 hits and 6 runs, the lowest amounts of all the teams that moved onto the Super Regionals. So they were due for a loss. But would I wouldn’t have believed is that the Sooners would rock Daneille Lawrie like they did. 5 homeruns in 5 innings. GTFO!

If you’re a Huskies be very afraid. I have no doubt that Lawrie will bounce back and pitch better tonight, but if the offense continues to suck as they have been all tournament (only getting 2 hits last game) I don’t care how good Lawrie is…they aren’t going to win.

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Basketball player Tiny Gallon has finally answered questions about the $3,000 he was given by a a Merrill Lynch financial advisor while at Oklahoma. His side of the story is:

“Oak Hill wouldn’t release my transcript under no circumstances and my mother had to do what she had to do. It wasn’t an agent, it was a financial adviser. She got the money from him, got my transcript out of Oak Hill HS. I got a single mother. When she got the money, she paid the financial adviser back through my freshmen year.”

That’s not that bad. The money went towards a good cause and he wouldn’t have been able to enroll at OU without those transcripts, so actually he was taking the money to help the school out. Still a rule is a rule, you can’t accept any money as an amateur athlete. It doesn’t matter now, he’s pro. OU is going to dinged for it by the NCAA though.

Super Regional Matchup #5: Oklahoma vs Washington/UNC
Oklahoma Sooners – OU pitcher Keilani Ricketts pitched all 3 games in the College Park Regional and the Sooners walked away with three shutout wins. In the Regional they outscored opponents 13-0 never allowing a run. But after a 10-0 victory against Syracuse in the first game, Fordham made them earn their next two wins of 1-0 and 2-0.
Washington Huskies – If the Huskies rode Danielle Lawrie’s arm for three games and she was good enough to get them three wins without much help from her offense. She pitched every inning allowing only nine hits and one earned run while striking out 39. The offense meanwhile struggled scoring 3, 1, and 2 runs over their three games.

Super Regional Matchup #6: Georgia vs Cal
Georgia Bulldogs – Georgia easily advanced from the Athens Region by going 3-0 defeating Elon 10-4, Florida State 5-2, and Radford 8-1. The Bulldogs will now be advancing to their third straight Super Regional after hammering 13 hits against Radford.
Cal Bears – Cal’s pithing, defense, and offense were steeler in the first round shutting out the teams in each of their three victories, while scoring 5 runs a game. Bucknell got it first 10-0, then Kentucky 1-0, before the Bears cruised by Ohio State today 7-0 today.

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One of Oklahoma’s basketball assistant coaches, Oronde Taliaferro, resigned back in April for what we thought at the time was to “focus on other employment opportunities”. But as it turns out that was bullshit, the real reason Taliaferro left was because the heat was on him for arranging for players Willie Warren and Keith Gallon to be paid.

In March TMZ got a hold of a copy of a wire transfer that showed Gallon received $3,000 from Jeffrey Hausinger, a Merrill Lynch financial advisor/agent. Now thanks to an internal investigation by Oklahoma we know Coach Taliaferro exchanged at least 41 phone calls and 25 text messages with Hausinger between May 2009 and March 2010…and odds are they weren’t talking about a recipe for the world best chocolate chips cookies.

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