Leroy Lizard
11/15/2009, 11:19 AM
What a scumbag. USC has really turned out some real winners over the years, with OJ and Charles White. Now this:
http://www.latimes.com/sports/college/usc/la-sp-simers15-2009nov15,0,3010229.column
THERE WAS a small table set up in front of the Coliseum, a cover from a new book to be released by Anthony Davis, and Davis nearby signing autographs. This time he wasn't charging for them.
A year ago he was offering his autograph to Trojans fans at $10 a signature, turning away a youngster who had no cash.
It was a pathetic scene, Davis dressed in a loud suit with a huge Nike swoosh across his back, still trying to make hay from his exploits against Notre Dame more than 30 years ago.
At the time he claimed all the money he was making from his autograph was going to the "Anthony Davis Foundation."
"I put six kids through school who otherwise couldn't afford to go to school," Davis claimed a year ago, while even producing a picture of the kids. "I wouldn't be out here without a reason."
None of those kids ever stepped forward after challenged to do so by Page 2, and now one year later Davis says it's come to his attention the Anthony Davis Foundation was bogus.
He also says he has no idea what happened to all the money he raised while hawking his autograph.
"What I was doing was right," he maintains, "but I didn't know about the other side. That was bad. That was my mistake."
Leonard Wayne is publisher and financier of "If My Nike's Could Talk," Davis' book to be released Dec. 5. (Apparently, according to the title, only one of AD's shoes talks to him.) Wayne says he recently sent a letter to the foundation operator asking that Davis' name no longer be used.
"No more selling autographs," Wayne says. "We have [Davis] doing things the right way now."
I was going to ask where the proceeds from the new book will be going, but I have a pretty good idea.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/college/usc/la-sp-simers15-2009nov15,0,3010229.column
THERE WAS a small table set up in front of the Coliseum, a cover from a new book to be released by Anthony Davis, and Davis nearby signing autographs. This time he wasn't charging for them.
A year ago he was offering his autograph to Trojans fans at $10 a signature, turning away a youngster who had no cash.
It was a pathetic scene, Davis dressed in a loud suit with a huge Nike swoosh across his back, still trying to make hay from his exploits against Notre Dame more than 30 years ago.
At the time he claimed all the money he was making from his autograph was going to the "Anthony Davis Foundation."
"I put six kids through school who otherwise couldn't afford to go to school," Davis claimed a year ago, while even producing a picture of the kids. "I wouldn't be out here without a reason."
None of those kids ever stepped forward after challenged to do so by Page 2, and now one year later Davis says it's come to his attention the Anthony Davis Foundation was bogus.
He also says he has no idea what happened to all the money he raised while hawking his autograph.
"What I was doing was right," he maintains, "but I didn't know about the other side. That was bad. That was my mistake."
Leonard Wayne is publisher and financier of "If My Nike's Could Talk," Davis' book to be released Dec. 5. (Apparently, according to the title, only one of AD's shoes talks to him.) Wayne says he recently sent a letter to the foundation operator asking that Davis' name no longer be used.
"No more selling autographs," Wayne says. "We have [Davis] doing things the right way now."
I was going to ask where the proceeds from the new book will be going, but I have a pretty good idea.