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College basketball has another failed extortion scandal and Louisville is involved… againAt this point, the FBI should just set up office space in Louisville’s athletic department. That way, taxpayers would know that their money wasn’t being used on unnecessary travel expenses....

Adidas allegedly paid Zion's family a few Gs when he was in high school. Who cares?In a time in which we should be getting closer to college athletes making money off their name, image, and likeness (NIL), some folks are still fixated on the wrong things....

Report: Michael Avenatti Paid For A Jet With $2.5M He Embezzled From A Settlement Hassan Whiteside Paid To His Ex-GirlfriendThe federal indictment against Michael Avenatti that accused the lawyer of stealing millions of dollars from his clients referred to the victims of his alleged financial crimes with numerical monikers (Client 1, 2, etc.). But thanks to a report from the Los Angeles Times, the identity of Client 2—wh...

Did Michael Avenatti Fall For A Hoax Invoice Claiming That Nike Paid Zion Williamson's Mom?

Two weeks ago, before he was indicted in United States District Court for a wide variety of crimes, lawyer Michael Avenatti intimated that he had proof of Nike paying Zion Williamson to attend Duke, and doing so by paying Williamson’s mother for bogus consulting services. His threats were quite spe...

Michael Avenatti Did Everything Wrong

You wouldn’t want a news cycle to pass without something to read about Michael Avenatti, and lord knows he wouldn’t either. Because he cares, and because he’s apparently been on an IRS watch list for a decade, that will never happen....

Whatever Michael Avenatti Has On Nike, No One Really Gives A Shit

Michael Avenatti wanted money, it appears. Maybe he thought he needed it. That much is clear from the two sets of federal charging documents filed against him Monday, one in New York and another in California. In the California case, a 197-page document outlines how authorities believe Avenatti misr...

Michael Avenatti Charged With Trying To Extort Nike, And, Separately, Wire And Bank Fraud [Updated]

This morning, lawyer Michael Avenatti had an announcement....

Stormy Daniels's Lawyer Once Handed Jerry Jones His Own Ass In Open Court

Last week Jack Dickey of Sports Illustrated published a neat look at the history of Michael Avenatti, the lawyer representing porn actress Stormy Daniels in her suit against President Trump. I recommend reading it, as it’s been a strange route to this moment of sudden cultural prominence for Avenatt...