Renardo Sidney and his lawyer, Don Jackson, have been battling with the NCAA over information requests for months now. On one side is Jackson, who believes the NCAA is playing the race card when it asks the Sidney family to prove how they lived in a nice place in Southern California with no apparent income while Renardo was doing the AAU circuit. On the other side is the NCAA, which wants income tax papers and bank account slips, and yeah, asking anyone for that sort of information is a little touchy, no matter how you frame it.

But there is good news this week. At least, according to Jackson, there's good news, as Sidney seems nearer to crossing the clearance threshold:

"We expect it could happen as soon as tomorrow or in the next week," Alabama-based attorney Don Jackson told FOXSports.com. "We've given the NCAA everything they've asked for.

"We didn't turn over bank statements," Jackson told FOXSports.com. "But they reviewed bank deposit information. They have all the information they need. In fact, I think they had enough before last Friday."

I'm not sure what the difference between turning over bank statements and bank deposit information is, unless you just want to hide what you had in your bank account initially, which, again, why? But Sidney's situation, and Jackson's handling of it, are long past the point of reason. Here's hoping what Jackson is saying is actually true. After all, this is a man insane enough to try to get a congressional hearing on his college basketball recruit's eligibility situation. I'm not sure he's proven his handle on reality quite yet.

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