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			    <title>Julius Peppers | NFC North | Chicago Bears | NFL | Juiced Sports News</title> 
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			<title>Doh Defends Peppers</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/doh-defends-peppers</link>
			<description><![CDATA[You know, while we know that poor grades doesn’t necessarily equate to poor intelligence, we’re still not sure that having Matt Doherty ride to your defense is something to be all that happy about.
But ride he did to the defense of Julius Peppers, calling him one of the smartest players he ever coached.
And then, just to stir the ACC waters a bit, he took after State fans, tossing out several Twitter insults, including Charles Shackleford’s legendary amphibious line, which Doherty mangled a bit: he said: “A famous NC State player once said, I can go left, I can go right. I be amphibious!”
Well, not exactly. We could be wrong, but we’re pretty sure he said “I guess I’m amphibious.” But we’re 99% positive he didn’t say “I be amphibious.”
Speaking of Doherty, there is an odd picture of him on this page with a cigar, a fish and a full white beard. And just below that is one of those re-dubbed scenes from “Downfall.” Normally we just don’t find Hitler all that funny, but whoever put this together had a good time poking fun at UNC.
In a related note, Robert Mercer, who was head of the academic support program, no longer is: he’s been transferred to a different job.



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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 02:00:07 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Peppers donates $250,000 to alma mater UNC</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/peppers-donates-250000-to-alma-mater-unc</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Former North Carolina football/basketball standout Julius Peppers has donated $250,000 to UNC&#039;s Light on the Hill Society Scholarship fund, which supports African-American students, the school announced Monday.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:00:04 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Peppers confirms transcript posted to UNC site</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/peppers-confirms-transcript-posted-to-unc-site</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Former North Carolina football star Julius Peppers confirms it was his academic transcript that was posted on the university&#039;s website and insists there was &quot;no academic fraud&quot; with it.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2012 18:30:01 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Peppers Makes Statement About UNC Transcript, Denies Fraud</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/peppers-makes-statement-about-unc-transcript-denies-fraud</link>
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Julius Peppers has issued the following statement about his transcript controversy. Among other things, he acknowledges that what was posted is in fact his:
This statement is in response to false allegations regarding my connection to an academic scandal within the University of North Carolina athletic and African-American Studies departments. This week has been an upsetting and challenging week for me, as one of my most private academic documents appeared on the university’s website for public examination. I’m terribly disappointed in the fact that my privacy has been violated, as well as frustrated with whoever negligently and carelessly committed such a flagrant error.
However, it has caused me to have an important moment of reflection over the time that I was a student in Chapel Hill. During my undergraduate years, I, like many other students was trying to find direction and adjust to being independent for the first time as a young adult. With this new freedom and unfamiliar environment, I will admit that, at times some of my priorities were not always aligned properly. Luckily, I had a great support system, including Dr. Carl Carey and the athletic academic department, who gave me much needed counsel.
I can assure everyone that there is no academic fraud as it relates to my college transcript. I took every course with qualified members of the UNC faculty and I earned every grade whether it was good or bad. I was never given unapproved assistance or preferential treatment in terms of my academic career because I was a student-athlete. I was also never deemed ineligible to compete on any of the football or basketball teams. In hindsight, I am pleased with my undergraduate experience. UNC gave me the exposure and foundation I needed to follow my dream, which ultimately led to my chosen career path. Isn’t that what college is supposed to be for? Going forward, a decade later, I can honestly say that I now understand the importance of supporting students early in their college career. Presently, I’m thinking of ways that I can use my experiences and resources to help assist them. Thanks and Go Heels.


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			<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2012 17:30:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Latest On UNC Scandal</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/latest-on-unc-scandal</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In the N&amp;O’s latest foray into the UNC mess, the paper shows how Julius Peppers essentially used AFAM classes to balance out his poor classwork elsewhere.
Peppers carried a 1.41 GPA when AFAM classes are excluded; in those, he pulled a 2.16. A 53% difference would tend to raise some eyebrows.
The article goes on to imply that UNC used the AFAM classes to goose GPAs and did so to keep players eligible.
Meanwhile, Jim Martin says that he will “go where the evidence takes us” as he begins to investigate the whole stinky mess. WRAL has this magnificent construct in their story: “The mounting evidence of no-show classes, altered grades, forged signatures and transcripts made public prompted the university to ask the former governor to lead the review in coordination with an outside consulting group.”]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2012 03:30:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>UNC’s Woes Deepen</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/unc’s-woes-deepen</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The N&amp;O, which has generally done really solid work in the UNC investigation, has another good article up, this time on the Julius Peppers situation. In case you missed it, what appears to be his transcript shows an athlete who barely remained eligible and did so only because of several classes from the then-nascent Department of African and Afro-American Studies, which suggests that the problems may run much deeper than previously suspected.
As a matter of fact, a point of interest: we were told at roughly the same time, certainly during the time Peppers was at UNC, that (unspecified) people at UNC knew full well that athletes could get easy grades in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies. We certainly weren’t going to print it then, and we wouldn’t now either had events not caught up to that rumor.
That’s not to say that the rumor we heard then is verified, but it is certainly interesting that the story is roughly the same as what’s being exposed now.

AFAM-loaded ‘test transcript’ appears to be Julius Peppers’
Policies don’t ﬁx problems: New policies do nothing to fix the influence of athletics on academics.
Time to tell the whole truth: Redactions show lack of transparency with public and media.
Athletic culture needs change: Athletic success should not come at the expense of academic rigor
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			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 02:30:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>UNC probes possible Peppers transcript posting</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/unc-probes-possible-peppers-transcript-posting</link>
			<description><![CDATA[North Carolina is investigating how what appears to be a transcript for former football star Julius Peppers surfaced on the university&#039;s website.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:00:06 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>UNC probes online posting of Peppers transcript</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/unc-probes-online-posting-of-peppers-transcript</link>
			<description><![CDATA[North Carolina says it is investigating how what appears to be a transcript for former football star Julius Peppers surfaced on the university&#039;s website.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:00:05 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Julius Peppers Transcript Accidentally Posted?</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/julius-peppers-transcript-accidentally-posted</link>
			<description><![CDATA[We were sent this apparent Julius Peppers transcript Sunday and weren’t sure what to make of it, if it were real and so forth. Then we learned, as Paul Harvey said back in the day, the REST of the story. Or possible explanations anyway.
We should remind you that Peppers was also a basketball player and the first to be potentially identified by name in this scandal.
It’s just another brick in the wall, which is possibly an unfortunate reference point for this scandal: Hey! Teacher! Leave those kids alone!
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			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 04:00:06 EDT</pubDate>
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