Shot-blocking enthusiast Alonzo Mourning's new book is going to get the attention of the NCAA. His 231-page memoir chronicles his comeback from kidney disease, but the juiciest tidbits involve alleged shady recruiting practices.
""Resilience" also touches on how Mourning was recruited as a star high school player. He writes that Maryland, Syracuse, Virginia and Georgia Tech all recruited him intensely and courted him with clothes, shoes, dinners at ritzy restaurants and a trip to a strip club.
"Everyone understood I could have gotten money at any of these places. The message was sent," Mourning writes.
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