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How's this for some Alabama football related news totally out of the blue:
According to the Daily Press of Newport News, Va., Raymond Lee Savage Jr. last week became the second Virginia-based sports agent arrested in a 2005 case involving former Alabama star Tyrone Prothro.
Prosecutors contend that Jason Goggins, an agent from Savage's company, Savage Sports Management, visited Prothro in his hospital room shortly after Prothro suffered a severely broken left leg in a 2005 game against Florida. Goggins, 33, allegedly left behind some brochures for his company, thereby violating NCAA rules and Alabama state law. He was arrested in May of 2006.
Savage, 40, was arrested on Thursday in Oyster Point, Va. The Alabama attorney general's office contends that it was Savage who sent Goggins to Prothro's hospital room.
An Alabama state law passed in the late 1990s — stemming from similar cases whereby Crimson Tide players Antonio Langham and Michael Myers were stripped of eligibility for dealings with agents — prohibits agents from soliciting college athletes at any time. (In case you were wondering, Alabama was cleared of any wrongdoing in the Prothro case because no money was involved and the school immediately reported the incident to the NCAA and Southeastern Conference offices).
http://www.crimsonconfidential.com/news/articles/2008/10/11/crimson-clubhouse-prep-rewind
According to the Daily Press of Newport News, Va., Raymond Lee Savage Jr. last week became the second Virginia-based sports agent arrested in a 2005 case involving former Alabama star Tyrone Prothro.
Prosecutors contend that Jason Goggins, an agent from Savage's company, Savage Sports Management, visited Prothro in his hospital room shortly after Prothro suffered a severely broken left leg in a 2005 game against Florida. Goggins, 33, allegedly left behind some brochures for his company, thereby violating NCAA rules and Alabama state law. He was arrested in May of 2006.
Savage, 40, was arrested on Thursday in Oyster Point, Va. The Alabama attorney general's office contends that it was Savage who sent Goggins to Prothro's hospital room.
An Alabama state law passed in the late 1990s — stemming from similar cases whereby Crimson Tide players Antonio Langham and Michael Myers were stripped of eligibility for dealings with agents — prohibits agents from soliciting college athletes at any time. (In case you were wondering, Alabama was cleared of any wrongdoing in the Prothro case because no money was involved and the school immediately reported the incident to the NCAA and Southeastern Conference offices).
http://www.crimsonconfidential.com/news/articles/2008/10/11/crimson-clubhouse-prep-rewind
