COLUMBUS, Ohio — The lawyer for Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor has questioned the facts in a Sports Illustrated report on the Buckeyes’ NCAA problems, saying the story is “90 percent wrong.”
Columbus attorney Larry James also said there is nothing out of the ordinary about the cars Pryor has driven or purchased.
“I think there’s a misperception about Terrelle. There’s a misperception about the overall program as brought about in part by the Sports Illustrated article that everybody’s just taken to the bank,” James said Thursday.
James provided the purchase agreement for the 2007 Nissan 350Z with more than 80,000 miles Pryor has been driving to workouts this week. Pryor’s mother signed for the car, which cost $18,401.56. The Pryors traded in a Dodge Charger valued at $7,253, lowering the cost to $11,435.06 with the addition of all taxes, fees and ancillary charges.
James said Pryor’s car situation has been blown out of proportion.
“Over that time period, he may have had three or four loaner cars, period,” he said. “So you take the three cars that the mom purchased over that time period, and the loaner cars, and this is how the story gets turned into a tornado.”
• Former Notre Dame offensive tackle Matt Romine transferred to Tulsa and will use his final year of eligibility with the Golden Hurricane.
Erstad named Nebraska skipper
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska hired Darin Erstad to lead his alma mater’s baseball program into the Big Ten.
“Win the Big Ten championship, go to a regional, super regional and on to the College World Series,” Erstad said of his immediate goals. “There are no points for second place in my book.”
Erstad, who turns 37 on Saturday, was the punter on Nebraska’s 1994 national championship football team and the first pick of the 1995 major- league draft. He replaces Mike Anderson, who was fired May 22.
Everhart to remain at Duquesne
PITTSBURGH — Duquesne basketball coach Ron Everhart withdrew his name from consideration for the same job at Penn State.
Everhart, 49, was in the mix, along with Milwaukee’s Rob Jeter and Boston University’s Pat Chambers for the position vacated by Ed DeChellis, who took the same job at Navy last week.
• Dalton Pepper, a small forward who averaged 3.5 points and 10.1 minutes per game the last two seasons at West Virginia, said he will transfer to Temple.
• The Southeastern Conference is expected to eliminate divisions today, a move that would make seeding the postseason basketball tournament more fair but could create some scheduling issues.
Footnotes.
The New York Liberty suspended center Janel McCarville for the WNBA season because she didn’t join the team for training camp.
• Tennis Hall of Famer Pauline Betz Addie, the top women’s player in the United States in the 1940s, died Tuesday in Potomac, Md. She was 91.
• Chris Evert will serve as an analyst for ESPN at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.
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