List of Sporting Scandals - Scandals in College Sports

Scandals in College Sports

• College basketball point shaving scandals (many times, especially in the 1950s and 1960s, with more recent scandals in 1978-79, 1984, and 1994)
• Southern Methodist University football scandal: In 1986, it was revealed that Southern Methodist University boosters gave football players thousands of dollars from a "slush fund" with the knowledge of university administrators. Along with a string of prior NCAA violations, this led the NCAA to level the "death penalty" on the school's football team.
• George O'Leary resume fabrication (2001), which forced him to resign as head football coach at Notre Dame.
• University of Michigan basketball scandal: Four players, most notably Chris Webber, were paid by a booster to launder money from his gambling operations. In some cases, the payments extended to their high school days.
• Jim Harrick resigned as head basketball coach at the University of Georgia in 2002 after his son, Jim Harrick Jr., provided an easy exam to Georgia basketball players and other students in a basketball coaching class that he taught and paid a $300 phone bill for a player (Tony Cole).
• Baylor University basketball scandal (2003) - player Patrick Dennehy was murdered by teammate Carlton Dotson. Later, coach Dave Bliss instructed his players to lie to NCAA investigators that Dennehy dealt drugs. In the wake of these events, numerous violations of NCAA rules were discovered.
• Duke lacrosse case - a stripper hired by members of the Duke University men's lacrosse team for an informal team party in 2006 falsely accused three players of rape.
• 2011 University of Miami athletics scandal – Yahoo! Sports broke a story in which former Miami booster Nevin Shapiro, currently imprisoned for running a Ponzi scheme, indicated he had provided massive amounts of improper benefits to Miami players and coaches, mostly in football but also in men's basketball.
• Penn State child sex abuse scandal - In November 2011, former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, is arrested on 40 counts of sexually abusing eight boys over a 15-year period including incidents in Penn State's football facilities. Subsequently, the university's athletic director, Tim Curley, and a Senior Vice President, Gary Schultz, were arrested on perjury charges and for failing to report the incidents thereby fueling speculation of a university coverup. In June 2012, Sandusky was convicted on 45 charges related to the scandal.
• Bobby Petrino (University of Arkansas football, 2012) – On April 1, Petrino was injured in a motorcycle accident, initially claiming to have been riding alone. Within days, it emerged that he had been riding with Jessica Dorrell, a former Arkansas volleyball player. Petrino later admitted to having had an extramarital affair with Dorrell, who had been hired less than a week before the accident to a staff position within the football program. In firing Petrino, Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long specifically cited Petrino's attempts to cover up the circumstances of the accident, the hiring of his mistress, and failure to come clean about his relationship with Dorrell.