The wondrous life of Renardo Sidney rolls on, and if the Mississippi State Bulldogs were planning on having Renardo show off his basketball skills this fall, things aren't looking very good.

Last time we checked in on Sidney the NCAA had ruled him academically eligible, but was still requesting tax documents and income statements from the Sidney family to verify the family's income while they lived in relatively posh arrangements in Southern California. The Sidneys' attorney, the ever-flamboyant Don Jackson, said he sent documents to the NCAA. The NCAA isn't having it. They've declared Sidney 'not certified.' Though the case isn't over yet, it's not exactly sunshine and lollipops over here, either:

"We've asked for additional information and have not received it," NCAA spokeswoman Stacey Osburn said. "When and if we get it, we'll review those documents. If we don't, he remains not certified."

Sidney's attorney told the Clarion-Ledger newspaper in Jackson, Miss., earlier this month that he had forwarded a third set of documents to the NCAA, but Osburn said that paperwork did not fulfill the NCAA's request. "Just because we receive documents doesn't mean we've received what we've asked for," she said. "Receiving documents is one of several steps before a verification decision is made."

In other words, the NCAA still wants tax and income statements from the family. Jackson isn't prepared to give those up. He'd prefer to take the case to court, and emphatically so:

[Donald] Jackson's reaction: "The bottom line is, they are not going to get income tax returns or bank statements, and if this ultimately means that this case has to wind up in court, it will just have to wind up in court. Because their position is that they have the right, in effect, they don't have to establish the existence of violation, that the Sidney family has to establish the existence of non-violations, and that is not how every other case in their initial eligibility process originates."

Fun! Hopefully by December, this is all settled down. Until then, grab your popcorn and tune in to Court TV. (That's still a channel, right?) I smell a trial a'bloomin'.

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