MSU's Dion Sims Charged with Theft

Submitted by gater on

It appears we have an answer on why Dion Sims hasn't been playing for Michigan State. Wayne County prosecutors just revealed that he has allegedly been involved in a Detroit Public Schools computer theft ring involving 988 stolen laptops valued at around $800,000.

 

http://noise.typepad.com/hey_joe/2010/09/dion-sims-in-trouble.html

 

Nothing to really say other than for his sake, I hope it's not true.

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September 21st, 2010 at 4:12 PM ^

Drew Sharp?

When Forcier publically acknowledged that Denard Robinson took most of the practice reps with the first unit, he basically threw his fellow freshman under the bus when Robinson played little at Wisconsin.
Drew Sharp in the Free Press, November 17, 2009.

Iverson didn't call out president Joe Dumars, but he definitely threw Curry under the bus... Drew Sharp in the Free Press, October 4, 2009.

But he needs a shrewder, less reactionary approach with the Tigers. A good first step was not giving the jackals what they want -- his general manager and manager under the bus.  Drew Sharp in the Free Press, August 13, 2010

Donaghy is a snake. He's pitching a book and that requires throwing people under the bus for the sake of commerce.  Drew Sharp in the Free Press, December 23, 2009

Clausen got into a bar fight at Notre Dame because somebody criticized his play. He also threw a teammate under the bus for his mistakes while reviewing some game film...  Drew Sharp in the Free Press, April 25, 2010

The biggest mistake was perpetuating a climate so volatile that teammates didn’t mind openly throwing him under the bus. That’s what Troy Woolfolk did when he told the Michigan Daily earlier this month that Forcier didn’t participate in the summer voluntary workouts as regularly and passionately as Robinson.  Drew Sharp in the Free Press, August 22, 2010
 





 

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September 21st, 2010 at 4:42 PM ^

Naturally.  It's amazing the people you meet, courtesy of  Drew Sharp, under the bus.  It's like the Polo Grill at the Beverly Hills Hotel, or the Oak Room at The Plaza.  Or Grand Central Station.

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September 21st, 2010 at 8:18 PM ^

As you know, there are the ordinary douchebags in the world of sports media. There are the yakkers on sportstalk radio.  There are the cleaner, hairsprayed guys (and Twittering hotties) at ESPN, ABC, BTN, etc.  And there are the print media guys; a highly uneven group, with some wonderful and some awuful writers.

For the most part, as we both know, yelling at those guys is like pissing into the wind.  And indeed for the sportstalk radio guys, the act of flaming them on-air or on the internet is actually one of their success metrics.  Yelling about how wrong they are, is actually a part of their business model.

And, in addition to the media, there are our rivals -- the opposing teams and their fan bases.  If we worry too much about them, we are headed straight for a cardiac cath lab like Coach Dantonio.

None of those people are much worth shouting about, except in fun.  Our rivals our just that; rivals.  It wouldn't be much fun without them, would it?  And the vast mosh-pit of garbage sportstalk opinion you find at places like 97.1 and WDFN is not worth worrying about.  I can't remember when you might have seen me post about any of that.

The Free Press stands alone, however.  The Free Press, by dint of Rosenberg's vendetta, and the supposed credibility and moral authority that goes with being a major city newspspaper, managed to provoke an NCAA investigation of Michigan. 

No Freep, no Rosenberg = No NCAA investigation. 

And that makes the Free Press very, very different from those other media garbage-pits.  I don't think there will ever be a day when we'll see some hard-hitting investigative journalism come from a Valenti or Shepard or any of the others.  It's just not what they do.  And it is an open question, what exactly the Free Press was doing back in August of 2009.  In the midst of its "grossly exaggerated if not flatly incorrect" front-page story.  That has, ever since, comprised a kind of special investigative section of the online edition's webpages. 

For that act of jounalistic malpractice, Free Press deserves to lose every shred of credibility that is still stuck to its outer hull, like barnacles on an old rusting slow-moving freighter.

And in all of that, it is probably a bit of pointless overkill to pick on Drew Sharp, since Sharp is hardly qualified to hold Michael Rosenberg's evil little Blackberry.  Sharp is the same kind of shit-headed waste of time as are his other sportstalk radio colleagues.  But since Sharp is one of the Freep's main voices, I simply can't help picking on him.  He's a one-man "target rich environment."

I think I just threw drew Sharp under the bus.

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TIMMMAAY

September 21st, 2010 at 9:05 PM ^

I agree with you man, and I was specifically talking about Sharp and the Freep, not 97.1 et al. And you're pretty much dead-on about the NCAA investigation too, and for that I will never trust or consume their product again. I just don't let it bother me as much anymore. I do try to raise people's awareness about these issues in my own small circle of the world, but that's all I can do.

And yes, Sharp is a total hack, and a worthless tool. I doubt he even realizes it honestly. I used to get so frustrated reading his blathering columns that I'd want to scream, but that's the point I guess. Which is an indictment on our whole mass media culture, but what do you do? Really, I don't know...

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Geaux_Blue

September 21st, 2010 at 3:34 PM ^

It appears tied to similar fraud his male relative was pulling as an employee of UM. I find little humor in a kids poor choices when they're guided/derived from a relative who is supposed to be a mentor

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KCWolverine

September 21st, 2010 at 6:51 PM ^

I think it's all the same story/crime: Daddy was buying and selling stolen laptops as part of his job at UM AA and embezzling profits and probably had Dion try to sell some around campus or something.  My guess is the cops asked him to testify and he said no so they charged him with receiving stolen property.  Seems like the real criminal is daddy...nice example! 

 

have to be glad we didn't land this kid though at this point...can you imagine how much worse it would look with his dad stealing from U of M? 

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KevbosLastingLessons

September 21st, 2010 at 3:51 PM ^

how can someone do something like that to their own city, especially when he of all people should know how bad it is? plus he had a chance of making a better life for himself with a college degree and a chance at the nfl. i dont get it. it's depressing. 

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Feat of Clay

September 22nd, 2010 at 10:11 PM ^

Yes, it's hard to wrap your mind around.   I mean, it's nasty enough when you're swiping crap from some wealthy person who is going to replace it via insurance.  That's still low but I can kind of see how a slimy little hard-up crook might "justify" that kind of theft in his own mind.

But stealing from your own broke-ass school system, where kids already are getting screwed over from lack of resources?  Disgusting. 

I was in a DPS school this summer and had to take photos of some of the nasty, outdated furniture and equipment I saw--I didn't think anyone would believe me otherwise.

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patol8

September 21st, 2010 at 3:59 PM ^

My favorite part of the Detroit News article:

 

"This is about stealing educational opportunity directly from our students and we aren't going to stand for it," he said. Some of the thieves, captured on videotape wearing ski masks, were former DPS students and some were gang members, he said.

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20100921/SCHOOLS/9210415/MSU-player-among-10-implicated-in-scheme-to-steal--sell-DPS-computers#ixzz10CD8lBEQ

 

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goblue418

September 21st, 2010 at 4:53 PM ^

seriously tho, this shows more problems with dps than dion. How do you not notice 900 f****** laptops are missing? that money could have kept entire schools open. just wasted. i have almost completely lost faith in Detroit..

 

Sparty on, Dion.

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Happyshooter

September 22nd, 2010 at 1:34 PM ^

Here is another question...How does U of M not notice a department business admin spending 75k on computers, and the computers not being in the department?

Every year or so any business does an cross inventory on equipment and purchase checks. In fact, invoices are the most common way for employee to commit embezzlement.

That isn't some big secret. Number one rule in business counter embezzlement is to have the accounts payable and receivable have different staff in different physical offices with excluded computer access. Number two rule is to cross check invoices and paid checks with physical inventory and physical equipment inventories.

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