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Examples Of Cheating

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Cheating, people do it, but what about the penalties that are given to the people who are caught? People cheat on many things: school, sports, and, but not limited to, relationships. But there are many ways to cheat in those multiple examples, like in sports cheating can happen with: drugs, academic eligibility, or even through recruiting. With all the sports the focus could be on, college basketball seems to have the easiest examples of cheating. What makes college basketball coaches break the rules, is it worth the penalty?
Roy Williams has had an unproven history of not obeying the academic rules, but he was actually caught in 2004. One of his players, Rashad McCants, recently came out and said Roy did cheat. Rashad McCants, a North Carolina basketball player from 2002-2005 was one of the leading scores on the 2005 National Champion UNC team, who said he participated in Roy Williams' academic scandal. He was drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves and then ended up being unsigned in the league by the year 2009, admitted to taking bogus classes designed to help athletes stay academically eligible (Delsohn). Rashad McCants is the only person who came out against Roy Williams in the academic scandal. The classes Rashad McCants referred to recently were exposed in his interview with Steve Delsohn, a writer for ESPN. The class was a “paper class,” that did not require attendance to the class at all, but rather to turn in a term paper at the end of the semester to receive a

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