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Incorrect. If he doesn't follow these court orders he could face jail time. The article does not specify when these orders were issued. The charges may stem from 10 years ago but the petition for support for those years could've been filed last week for all we know. I'm not defending Bonner or anyone simply because I don't know enough about the case. I am saying that regularly males are screwed in these types of situations and jumping the gun saying AB is a deadbeat dad and SLU therefore cannot hire him is out of line.

Yeah take a look at those jerseys in the rafters. Even if Bonner was a huge deadbeat dad which I doubt he was/is he can at least say he's never been incarcerated. Dick Bouscka can't say that.

None of us know the particuliars of the case. At face value it may sound terrible but you have to realize that the legal system is slighted heavily against men in these situations. There was nothing in the article that said Bonner was negligent in paying court ordered child support. A person like Bonner, in the public eye, whose salaries are most likely a matter of public record would not be hard for any decent lawyer to track down and get something like this done within a few months of the greivance. This took 10 years which makes it sound a little more than fishy. Not saying this is what happened but in a lot of cases where there is no marriage between the two arguing parties there can be a lot of questions regarding the amount of support. It is common for women to circumvent previous arrangements after a great deal of time and then demand back pay for child support, alimony, etc. I saw examples many times when I clerked in a law office in college. Women can demand as much money as they want, at any time. Bonner could have very easily been paying support this entire time, whether formally in a court ordered situation or informally and the woman decides she wasn't getting enough of her cut so she sues him for back support. From the little information in the article it says the daughter is 15 and lives out of state. If the mother lived with the daughter ie had custody of the daughter the suit would have been filed in that state not here. Therefore it leads me to believe the mother doesn't have custody or doesn't actually support the child herself. If she did or wasn't receiving any support from Bonner (or the child not recieving any support) this case would have been decided many years ago. It doesn't take a decade to do these things. As far as the threat of jail goes, it could have been very real. Women can have men locked up in these circumstances very easily. He could have been paying a set part of his wages that was agreed upon at one time and still go to jail for not being able to cough up the amount that the woman now wants. I've seen men have to sign over houses, cars, and their businesses to women when they've been paying support faithfully for years just because the woman wanted more and the judge was willing to do whatever the woman demanded. There certainly are men who cheat the system and get out of paying enough or any support, but I'm afraid there are many more circumstances of women cheating the system, taking way too much of the father's earnings, and then not earmarking any of it for the child. Unfortunately judges have given women carte blanche in these proceedings. There is very little protection for men in this situation, they have to fight it tooth and nail or else sign over all of their possessions and future earnings to a person who may or may not use it to support the child. So this isn't just a black and white issue.

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What a disgrace. Greece doesn't have an NBA player on the team. Shortsianitis, who was 6-7, was run out of the league 2 years ago. The problem was defense. Meanwhile the best shot blocker on the team plays 12 minutes.

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More Kool Aid for me. GW would have had a 3 or 4 seed if their top player Pops Mensah Bonsu didn't have rumors of injuries. They were downgraded because of that. At least pay a little attention to college game if you are going to post here.

If you can't get reception from 590 try 100.7 on the FM dial. traveling the st louis metro area there are many times when 590 cuts out and 100.7 gets better reception.

KTRS has only idiots working at their station. I bet these comments by Monty have been the first and last time SLU will be mentioned on air by that station. Claiborne will be replacing Monty on alot of his shows soon, so Monty may be out of work. Still they have Hadley there, so the staion continues to be unlistenable. That said SLU got even less love from the "voice of the Billikens" KFNS. On the grind yesterday Tiger Timmy was commenting on how there would be no alcohol at our new arena, and commented to the effect that without alcohol what reason is there to attend a SLU game. I called in and informed the producer of the inaccuracy of his comments but it was never brought up on air. Slaten and Claiborne shared a chuckle over how they won't believe construction of the arena will ever commence and it was their belief SLU will never play a game in the new building. I don't know where SLU can get any coverage in this town, favorable or unfavorable. Biondi may have to copy Dewitt and buy his own radio station and hire pro SLU talent to get anyone in this city to remark on his teams. The day of the groundbreaking Timmermann writes a huge article on women's soccer at SLU, while arena groundbreaking is left to a 1 paragraph blurb on page 7.

IMO he should've been gone already. The requisite excuse of his players leaving early for the pros doesn't explain his lack of any game planning. Not making the tourney this year could be a deathknell for the program. Unfortunately the team is not as talented as we were led to believe, losing our next 4 games is a very real possibility. Even with a poor showing in the non con SLU should still contend for the A-10 championship. That is not nearly good enough though, we should be contending for NCAA titles.

Pass me some of that Blue Kool-Aid. Tatum has been arrested twice as a Saluki. Once while breaking an interior window in a police station while being questioned and just this march for DWI. I can't remember the last time a player from SLU was arrested, save for Pee Wee and Boushka, and those were decades after their playing careers were over. I don't know what you call a headcase but I say being arrested twice in less than two years certainly qualifies. He had a reputation as a headcase in high school and that reputation has been bourne out in his college career. Certainly he is a nice talent but the SLU coaches were smart to not take a flyer on him. Soderberg did recruit Ahearn and I believe an offer was extended to him, but Soderberg was an asst to Romar at the time and was acting at his behest. Contact was called off after Romar left the program and Soderberg took over.

Tatum is a good player but a proven headcase. He would have lasted at SLU about as long as Randy Pulley did. I think recruiting him says more about what type of mistakes Romar was making in regards to offering players than Brad was. Romar had offers on the table to Ahearn, Kern and Tatum. I cannot imagine what those three would be like on a team together. All of em have their heads in the wrong place and would not have fit with Brad.

SLU has Mens soccer Mens Basketball Mens Swimming Mens track Baseball Mens tennis Mens cross country Womens soccer Womens basketball Womens swimming Womens cross country Womens track Womens softball Womens Volleyball Womens field hockey 7 mens sports and 8 womens sports. To have a football team we would have to add several more womens programs and right now we can't support programs like golf even. Mizzou for instance has Football Baseball Track Cross country Golf Swimming Wrestling for men Women have Basketball Volleyball Cross country Track Gymnastics swimming tennis soccer golf softball Because they have football they have to have 10 womens teams to 7 mens teams and I doubt every male athlete at Mizzou has a full ride, unlike the women for the most part surely do. That situation exists also at SLU to a smaller degree. And a couple thousand at Lindenwood does not make for a D-1 program that a town would support. To be a decent football team you have to ahve a 20,000 seat stadium even at D1AA school.

Look up title 9 VTIME. Scholarships for men and women must be equal. You want to add a sport for men with 80 scholarships? Where are you going to get 80 scholarships for women? The Ivy league has football because of 1.Century long tradition 2.Wealthy benefactors. There is no way a school in the Ivy league could just create a football team out of the blue today. Impossible. St Louis already has a pro football team. You think people would show up for a D-2 or 1AA football program? C'mon don't be so dense.

Their website listed those players as alumni of the academy.

Kevin Garnett Al Harrington Jamaal Tinsley Jeff Foster Primoz Brevec Ron Mercer Jonathan Bender Brad Miller Tyronn Lue Kwame Brown Brendan Haywood Etan Thomas Erick Dampier Adonal Foyle Chauncey Billups Steven Hunter Harold Jamison Erick Barkley Lawrence Funderburke John Wallace P. J. Brown Travis Hansen Matt Bonner Chris Bosh Rick Rickert Reece Gaines Jared Jeffries Dahntay Jones Melvin Ely Travis Outlaw Fred Jones Ndudi Ebi Tito Maddox Randy Holcomb Koko Archibong Stephane Pelle Maceo Baston Vince Carter Michael Bradley Antonio Davis Anthony Carter Chris Jeffries Larry Hughes Dermarr Johnson Lindsey Hunter Jelani McCoy Mamadou N'diaye Morris Peterson Milt Palacio Jerome Williams Lavor Postell Jahidi White Tayshaun Prince Zendon Hamilton Michael Stewart 2004 NBA Draft Picks: #13 Sebastian Telfair – Portland Trailblazers #14 Kris Humphries – Utah Jazz #33 Lionel Chalmers – LA Clippers #38 Chris Duhon – Chicago Bulls #52 Romain Sato – San Antonio Spurs Free Agents: Erick Barkley (#28 ’00) – Blazers/Spurs Cookie Belcher – Hawks/Italy Matt Carroll – Notre Dame/Knicks/Spurs Noel Felix – Fresno St./Suns Marlon Garnett – Santa Clara/Spain Venson Hamilton (#50 ’99) – Rockets/Italy Zendon Hamilton – St. John’s/Europe/76ers Chris Haslem – Wyoming/Belgium Harold Jamison – Heat/Clippers/Cavs Lorenzo Johnson – Colorado St./Europe Quincy Lewis (#19 ’99) – Jazz/Israel Kevin Lyde – Temple/NBDL Will McDonald – USF Michael Ruffin (#32 ’99) – Sixers/Spain Kenny Satterfield – Nuggets/Sixers Damon Thorton – NC State/Europe Ugonna Onyekwe – Penn John Wallace (#18 ’96) – Knicks/Raptors/Suns I don't believe all of these guys attended the academy full time for a whole year. Still from this list it doesn't appear that attending this academy is a sure bet to NBA stardom. There are a couple all stars and a few starters but a lot of these guys suffered from ideas of granduer and went NBA way too early, now I see why, they attended this academy.

Gerald Wallace was a straight from HS to the NBA player. He never played college ball.

boy toy j/k

This kid sounds alot like Suggs, a big PG. Can he shoot better than Suggs?

Don't have to hit treys to be a 2. Dwayne Wade????? But your right you do on our team and thats why he isn't playing for us.

I thought it was a question of not recruiting anyone at Macguire's position not the "wing." Bobby Hill with his size should be a 2, Macguire is a 3, not mobile enough to guard the 2.

still no pee wee lenard throwbacks

A joke that must be explained is a poor joke. I don't even see the the point you are trying to make. The respect you recieve on this board is determined by only a few variables, your demeanor, your knowledge of the program, and your knowledge of hoops in general. If you are acting like a jerk and then failing to contribute pertinent info than you will most likely be disliked by fellow posters. No one is forcing you to post here, if you find it amateurish then don't post or read it anymore. Your posts you have contributed that I have read have hardly added to an atmosphere of spirited knowledgable discussion of Billiken hoops. If anything your presence is dragging the board down. You have a choice, continue with your nonsensical postings and continue to be berated and ignored or add some tangible information to the forum. But please don't complain when posters fail to grasp your "advanced" sense of humor between your cheap digs at the program and players and your supposed vast knowledge of area hoops.

Duquesne recieved votes but was not ranked. No other A-10 teams listed. CSN ranks the Bills recruiting class as 20th. Jimmy Holmes, Tim Ream, and Scott Wisnieski are among their 100 freshman to watch list.

AB was a candidate for All American, I think they nominate 50 players maybe but only a few make true all america status. I think the combination of this and leading the nation in a major statistical category is why he has his number retired.