Nevin Shapiro

Nevin Shapiro's New Gambling Claims Won't Be Part of NCAA Investigation

Sports Illustrated is dropping a massive report on the NCAA's investigation into the University of Miami's football program this week, and the juiciest part includes claims by Nevin Shapiro, the convicted Ponzi schemer at the center of the scandals, that he had used inside information to bet on Hurr ... More >>

Here's the University of Miami's 45-Page Demand to Dismiss the Nevin Shapiro Case

Donna Shalala is done messing around. This morning, the University of Miami dropped a 45-page bomb on the NCAA, detailing the dozens of reasons why the school believes the Nevin Shapiro case should be dropped. You've already heard most of the juicy parts: Nevin's attorney getting paid by the NCAA to ... More >>

Fired NCAA Investigator Complained and Apologized to Nevin Shapiro

Ameen Najjar, the former NCAA investigator who botched the investigation into the University of Miami in the first place, kept in contact with Nevin Shapiro even after he was fired. In e-mails sent to Shapiro win prison, Najjar theorized that NCAA higher ups were trying to save Miami and apologized ... More >>

UM Will Accuse NCAA of Acting Even Shadier in Botched Nevin Shapiro Probe

On Friday, the University of Miami will file a motion asking the NCAA to dismiss its Nevin Shapiro investigation, which was tainted when a now-fired investigator paid Shapiro's attorney to grill witnesses. New Times poured fuel on that fire last week by reporting on the questionable history of anoth ... More >>

NCAA Claims Nevin Shapiro Gave Out $170,000 to University of Miami Athletes

So how much did convicted Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro dole out in impermissible benefits to University of Miami athletes, recruits and coaches? About $170,000, says the NCAA.It sure is easy spending money when it's not really your own, but it's notable that the approximate amount listed by the NCAA ... More >>

University of Miami Abandoning Florida's High School Football Stars

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke analyzes the Miami Hurricanes' sudden aversion to Florida high school football players.The University of Miami football program r ... More >>

UM Sanctions: Goodbye, Nevin Shapiro

The University of Miami NCAA Investigation Is a Witch Hunt

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke gives his take on the latest developments in the NCAA probe of the Miami Hurricanes.The NCAA is finally wrapping up its investiga ... More >>

Frank Haith and Former Miami Hurricanes Coaches to to Be Charged with Unethical Conduct, Reports Say

Though, the NCAA still has not delivered the official notice of allegations to the University of Miami, several details have started to leak out.Frank Haith, the former men's basketball coach who is now at the Missouri, in particular is said to be charged with "unethical conduct and failure to promo ... More >>

How the Miami Hurricanes' Nevin Shapiro Scandal Became the Most Boring in College Sports

When Yahoo! Sports reporter Charles Robinson first hinted to the world that he was working on a story that became the Miami Hurricane's scandal, he promised on ESPN Radio that on the outrage meter, it would merit a ten.Yeah, in retrospect he might have wanted to dial that back to a seven or an eight ... More >>

Donna Shalala Is Running Hurricanes Football Into the Ground

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke assesses the sorry state of Hurricanes football.It is University of Miami Coach Al Golden's second year on the job, and he's on h ... More >>

Uncle Luke: Nevin Shapiro's Assistant Sean Allen Needs to Stop Spinning His Story

Nevin Shapiro Scandal Nabs a Gator: Florida Wide Receivers Coach Aubrey Hill Resigns

The University of Miami may be at the center of the Nevin Shapiro scandal, but it's not the only school that has had to deal with the fallout. That's because several coaches and staffers have since moved on to other programs.Today, University of Florida wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinato ... More >>

Hurricanes Coach Al Golden Will Not Let These New Yahoo! Sports Allegations Sully His Good Name

Another summer, another report from Yahoo! Sports making allegations about the University of Miami football program. The latest, which hit the web late Friday, are decidedly less dramatic than last summer's stories of hooker yacht parties and such. However, the newest allegations do implicate curren ... More >>

Reader mail: Jeremy Lin could get laid anytime

Nevin Shapiro assistant Sean Allen clears Canes football

Nevin Shapiro Going a Bit Mad in Prison: "I'm Taking That Program Down to Chinatown"

​Apparently all that time behind bars is getting to convicted Ponzi schemer and allegation-throwing former booster Nevin Shapiro, because the Miami Herald got a hold of several bonkers emails the would-be-destroyer of Hurricanes football is typing up in prison. They do little to detract from Shapi ... More >>

UM Athletes Won't Have To Testify About Nevin Shapiro's Gifts As School Pays Back $83,000

Donna Shalala may have just averted her worst nightmare. Ever since Napoleonic Ponzi booster Nevin Shapiro spilled his guts to Yahoo Sports this summer with allegations that he'd rained gifts on student-athletes -- from cars to hookers to piles of cash -- the worst-case scenario for the Canes would ... More >>

Hurricanes Player DeQuan Jones Can Return to Hardcourt Immediately

On the day that sanctions were officially handed out to Ohio State, the University of Miami got the tiniest sliver of good news after talking to the NCAA. Basketball player DeQuan Jones can return to action immediately. He was suspended by the school for the entire season after his name su ... More >>

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Hurricanes Basketball Player DeQuan Jones Will Sit Out Entire Season for Part in Shapiro Scandal

​DeQuan Jones, a University of Miami men's basketball player, will sit out the entire 2011-2012 season for his part in the Nevin Shapiro scandal. Jones was the only current basketball player named in the Yahoo! Sports investigation. Shapiro, a convicted Ponzi schemer, says that he gave an assistan ... More >>

Adam Meyer: Florida's gambling king shouldn't have bet on Nevin Shapiro

Luther Campbell Sues Nevin Shapiro

Don't call him "Lil Luke."​Uncle Luke is going after the convicted Ponzi schemer who proclaimed himself "Lil Luke." Today, Luther Campbell followed through on his promise to sue Nevin Shapiro for defamation.In Yahoo! Sports' investigative report on rampant booster violations he committed at the Un ... More >>

MBPD Chief Carlos Noriega erupts at resident's questions about Nevin Shapiro

Nevin Shapiro Sent Miami Beach Police Chief Carlos Noriega a Photo of His Bloody Head

​Miami Beach Police Chief Carlos Noriega sure is tired of answering questions about Nevin Shapiro. We reported yesterday that Noriega blew a digital fuse when a resident repeatedly questioned him via email about the since-convicted Ponzi schemer's role on the Police Athletic League board. ... More >>

Kirby Hocutt: UM's real villain

Nevin Shapiro Laundered Drug Money For Turkish Terrorists, Woman Claims In Court

via Yahoo Sports​It seems Nevin Shapiro, the scrawny, debauched Ponzi schemer currently trying to dynamite University of Miami athletics, is even slimier than we thought. A woman now claims that Shapiro, along with his convicted felon stepdad, once helped launder drug profits for the PKK, a notori ... More >>

Kirby Hocutt: The UM Scandal's Real Villain

​Luther Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke wonders when the NCAA will drop the hammer on former University of Miami athletic director Kirby Hocutt. Now that the NCA ... More >>

Nevin Shapiro's pal Donald DeLucca named Golden Beach Police chief

Reader mail: Nevin Shapiro is a "little Napoleon"

Luther Campbell First to Break Randy Shannon Hates Nevin Shapiro Angle

​When it comes to the University of Miami football program, Luther Campbell is like E.F. Hutton. When he speaks, everybody needs to listen.Campbell's weekly Miami New Times column, "Luke's Gospel," was the first to report the rift between former Hurricanes football head coach Randy Shannon and Nev ... More >>

Nevin Shapiro and More: NCAA Is a Petri Dish of Modern-Day Slavery

​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for Free Speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. In this special edition, Luke calls for an end to NCAA rules prohibiting athletes from making money.Since it was founded in 1905, the National ... More >>

Nevin Shapiro and His Attorney Threatened New Times With World's Silliest Lawsuit

via Yahoo SportsNevin ShapiroNevin Shapiro and his Coral Gables attorney, Maria Elena Perez, have the national media eating out of their hands these days. Shapiro is trying to bring down UM's football program, and Perez -- who's not in jail -- has helped him by making TV appearances. But the pair wa ... More >>

Pro-Lifers Respond to Nevin Shapiro Abortion Controversy

​Among the claims made by Nevin Shapiro that Yahoo! Sports journalist Charles Robinson really had no business including in his story: allegations that Shapiro funded an abortion for a woman impregnated by a University of Miami football player. That aspect really has no impact on the school. It nei ... More >>

Nevin Shapiro: Who Is This Ponzi Dirtbag Exploding Canes Football?

photo by Tim ElfrinkThe view from Shapiro's pool.​So Yahoo Sports dropped an ass-seeking clusterbomb all over The U last night with a mammoth expose on Nevin Shapiro's (allegedly) hooker-buying, yacht-lending, abortion-providing services for Hurricanes athletes. Their story doesn't spend much spac ... More >>

Nevin Shapiro Can Kiss My Ass

Nevin Shapiro wishes he could wear my shorts for one day. The New Jersey-born Napoleon dubbed himself "Little Luke" in a so-called investigative report by Yahoo! Sports claiming all sorts of corrupt shit Shapiro committed while he was a booster of the University of Miami athletics program.The claim ... More >>

Nevin Shapiro: Don't Believe a Word

​Scam artist Nevin Shapiro's allegations detailed in Yahoo! Sports might end the University of Miami football program. Or maybe not. As New Times showed this past December in a lengthy magazine-style piece, Shapiro is "the epitome of a Magic City con artist: a hard-partying, tasteless, statu ... More >>

Al Golden Feels Duped by University of Miami

​When Al Golden was plucked from college football obscurity as head coach of the Temple Owls to take over the Miami Hurricanes, a storied program that needed just a bit of fine tuning to be competitive again, it seemed like -- pardon the pun -- a Golden opportunity. Now, if an NCAA investigation p ... More >>

Dan Wetzel Talks Nevin Shapiro With Michael Irvin

via Yahoo SportsEx-UM standout tight end Kellen Winslow Jr. balling with Nevin Shapiro.During the early segment of 560 WQAM's Michael Irvin show, Yahoo Sports investigative reporter Dan Wetzel gave his take on convicted Ponzi schemer and former University of Miami athletic booster Nevin Shapiro, who ... More >>

Michael Huyghue Denies Paying Hurricanes Players

​How truthful was Nevin Shapiro in his bombshell allegations about the University of Miami football program? At least one person implicated by Shapiro in the story has come out to strongly deny any wrong doing on his part.Michael Huyghue, now the commissioner of the United Football League, and for ... More >>

Al Golden on Hurricanes NCAA Probe: Players Might Have Made Mistakes

​After news broke yesterday that the NCAA would question the University of Miami about gifting allegations made by convicted Ponzi schemer Nevin Shaprio, initial reports indicated the school didn't think the NCAA would be able to find enough evidence to prove anything. Well, now coach Al Gold ... More >>

Nevin Shapiro Just Screwed University of Miami Football: Join Us in the Seven Stages of Grief

​Convicted Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro may have just killed the University of Miami football program. (And men's basketball program, but, really, who cares about that?) Yahoo! Sports reporter Charles Robinson just published a report detailing Shapiro's involvement in paying and providing impermiss ... More >>

NCAA to Investigate Claims That Miami Hurricanes Players Took Cash From Convicted Ponzi Schemer

A signed helmet that was once on display at Shapiro's $6 million Miami Beach mansion. ​Last year, New Times chronicled the rise and fall of flashy Miami Beach Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro.  The man who had donated more than $150,000 to the University of Miami football program now sits in jail ... More >>

Miami Beach Ponzi Schemer Nevin Shaprio Gets 20 Years in Jail

​Nevin Shapiro lived like a modern-day Caligula. He seemed to have it all: a luxurious Miami Beach mansion on the bay, parties that attracted local notables and sports superstars, fast cars, big yacht, women and the athlete's lounge at the University of Miami named after him. It all came tumbling ... More >>

Nevin Shapiro's Sentencing Postponed Until Valentine's Day

photo by Tim ElfrinkShapiro's autographed UM helmet inside his palatial Miami Beach mansion.​Nevin Shapiro, the South Beach architect of a $880 million Ponzi scheme, will have to endure another few weeks of Jersey lockup before learning his punishment. His sentencing, which was originally schedule ... More >>

Nevin Shapiro: Miami's Caligula

Pictures of Nevin Shapiro's Mansion: This Is What An $880 Million Ponzi Scheme Buys You

photo by Tim ElfrinkThe view is fantastic -- until the feds show up.​You've got a steamrolling Ponzi scheme churning out cash so fast that you can't spend it all. You've already leased the $4,700-per-month Mercedes-Benz S65 AMG with rims fatter than Fat Joe and dropped $1.5 million on a Riviera ya ... More >>

Nevin Shapiro, Miami Beach Ponzi Schemer, Pleads Guilty

Nevin Shapiro, the colorful Miami Beach businessman who claims to have written a tell all book about the Miami Hurricanes from his jail cell, admitted the he was guilty of charges that he ran an $880 million Ponzi scheme. Shapiro used the money to fuel a lavish lifestyle, make donation to the Univer ... More >>

Nevin K. Shapiro's Beautiful Asian Babes and $900 Million Ponzi Scheme

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court< stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. In this special edition of Luke's Gospel, the former 2 Live Crew frontman discusses Nevin K. Shapiro, a University of Miami booster who ... More >>

Nevin K. Shapiro, Miami Beach Businessman, Accused of Running $900 Million Grocery Ponzi Scheme

via Budget Insight​"Will that be paper or plastic?" Despite the fact Nevin K. Shapiro ran a grocery diverting business, when he was asking that he was most likely wondering how victims of his alleged $900 million ponzi scheme wanted to pay up. The SEC has charged Shapiro with running the sche ... More >>