Sunday, September 17, 2006

Is The Case Closed?

Star football recruit Jerrell Powe intends to withdraw from the University of Mississippi next week and drop his lawsuit against the school and the NCAA.
"Although my attorneys are convinced I have met NCAA requirements, and that we would win the lawsuit, I do not want to enter and attend Ole Miss under a cloud of controversy," Powe said in a statement read by his attorney, Jim Carroll, on Saturday.

In his statement, Powe said he has improved his reading and writing skills. "By the way, I can read and I can write," Powe said. "My writing may not be perfect, but I am told most medical doctors' writing is hard to read, too. I have read all the articles written about me. The assertions that I cannot read or write are false."
(Clarion Ledger)