Mother's Day can be a special time for a mom. Maybe your kids take you out to Olive Garden for a lovely meal. Maybe you get a special gift as a token of a child's appreciation. Maybe you relax and reminisce about the zany misadventures of your children when they were young.

Or, maybe you turn on ESPN and watch Kelly Naqi go to work on your son with her menacing journalistic hammer.

Outside the Lines aired a thorough and scathing report yesterday about thousands of dollars that were allegedly funneled to Mayo through his high school and college days. It's a long and complex story (and I'd encourage you to read about it/watch it here), but Naqi reported the hell out of it, has plenty of evidence to support her claims, and it all seems very, very convincing.

A fellow named Rodney Guillory, working on behalf of Bill Duffy Associates Sports Management (BDA), is the main focus of the investigation. According to the report, BDA was providing Guillory with a lot of money, and he, in turn, provided a portion of that money to Mayo, in return for Mayo agreeing to hire BDA to represent him as a pro.

Everyone's in denial mode. Mayo denies receiving anything, BDA denies doing anything illegal, and USC says they knew nothing about it. But that isn't stopping Pat Forde from calling for USC, with this on top of the accusations about Reggie Bush receiving improper benefits, to get the death penalty from the NCAA.

That won't be happening, though. USC and the Pac-10 both investigated Mayo's eligibility while he was in school, and neither of them found anything amiss. USC may get a slap on the wrist, but I wouldn't think it would go much further than that. Mayo's now a pro and beyond the reach of the NCAA, so there's not a lot they can do to him, either.

Of course, the NCAA does have the option of pointing the finger at themselves and acknowledging that there are problems in a system that allows this to happen, but they don't ever seem inclined to do that sort of thing.

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