Lamont Bryant, who was fired as Marshall's boys basketball coach just before the 2007-08 season, was awarded $500,000 Wednesday in a settlement with Chicago Public Schools that could also spell trouble for the official who had him removed.Bryant, who had been the boys coach at Marshall for four years, filed a wrongful-termination lawsuit Oct. 18, 2007, in U.S. District Court against Marshall Principal Juan Gardner, athletic director Dorothy Gaters and the Chicago Board of Education.
He claimed the defendants had violated Bryant's 1st and 14th Amendment rights and violated Title IX, the education act that led to gender equity in athletics.
Gardner fired Bryant on Oct. 2, 2007, claiming Bryant had violated the school's code of conduct for coaches.
A CPS spokesman said the Board of Education unanimously approved Wednesday the recommended settlement from mediation by Magistrate Susan Cox. The district refused further comment.
Filthy Cop and Wannabe Producer, Going To Jail...
A Memphis officer is facing life in prison for robbing local drug dealers to finance his career as a producer in the rap industry.
According to The Commercial Appeal, 31-year-old Arthur Sease IV is currently on trial for sixteen incidents where he is accused of robbing money, drugs and property from local drug dealers to pursue his dream as a rap producer.
Reginald Brown, a Nebraska man who drove to Memphis to buy cocaine in 2004, testified in court today (January 28) that Sease stole $32,000 of drug money from his van after pulling him over.
Brown claimed that Sease put him and a companion in the back of a squad car when he took the money. Brown also claimed that when he confronted Sease about the money, the officer threatened him.
"The safe was gone and the money was gone and I told him 'Officer, you took my money,'" Brown testified. "He pulled his gun half way out and said 'You've got five seconds to get on up the road.'"
Sease is the first of 40 Memphis police officers who are facing charges of public corruption. Sease was fired in 2005 but he continued to rob local drug dealers with fellow officers.
T.I. x Amare....
According to Vibe, Stoudemire and T.I. have struck a collaborative deal between their respective record labels. Breaking the cycle of baller-turned-rapper, Stoudemire is pursuing a side-career as a manager. “What we are doing is collaborating as far as managing players…That's something I have a special interest in; with me being an athlete I know what it takes and how important it is to have a great management team.”
“T.I. and Grand Hustle are great from a music standpoint,” Stoudemire explained. “I got a record label out called Hypocalypto Records. My artist Juice is the next project for me. T.I. wants to get into sports management, and I'm already involved with that so we are just going to collaborate with both companies. We've been talking the past two weeks about making something happen. We are finally starting to get the ball rolling.”
Sounds like a promising idea. Hustler's coming together is always a good look.
Via: CNN, globalgrind, chicagobreakingnews, hiphopdx
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