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Tressel's Tipster Revealed

By 11W Staff - 09 March 2011
20 Comments

Attorney Chris Cicero. The kicker: He was a walk-on LB under Earle Bruce. (Dispatch)

Source dispatch.com/live/content/sports/stories/2011/03/09/tressel-attorney-n...

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Comments

ERIC OSU on 9 Mar 2011 - 8:42pm #

the extra kicker: yesterday was Earle's birthday..

Bobcat04 on 9 Mar 2011 - 9:00pm #

Someone needs to go and light this guy's house on fire.

blazers34 on 9 Mar 2011 - 9:20pm #

the tipster? i think he was trying to help

Normal Buck on 10 Mar 2011 - 9:03am #

Absolutely agree.

Denny on 9 Mar 2011 - 10:00pm #

No, nobody needs to do that.

Dipshit.

Taquitos.

Bobcat04 on 10 Mar 2011 - 12:46pm #

Thanks douchebag. Obviously, everything on the net is to be taken at face value.

JakeBuckeye on 9 Mar 2011 - 10:08pm #

Wow. C'mon now.

October 20th: National Kenneth Guiton Day

omahabeef1337 on 9 Mar 2011 - 10:47pm #

As already said, you're an idiot. That kind of language, even in jest, has no place on this website.

Buckeye Black on 9 Mar 2011 - 9:22pm #

Well he was trying to help the team out. Man these e-mails make Tressel look guilty as sin. Not so sure the NCAA will keep the punishment just "as is" anymore.

M Man on 9 Mar 2011 - 9:23pm #

I don't wish to provoke; but what did attorney/tipster Cicero do, apart from try to let the Program, through Tressel, know about some bad news before it got worse? I think Cicero was genuinely trying to help out OSU football, even at personal risk of breaking (?) the Ohio Rules of Professional Conduct relating to attorneys. I don't know.

What does seem clear is that at the bottom of this mess is Pryor, and his other involved teammates.

And for yet another countless time, the old adage that the coverup is way worse than the crime.

Buckeye Black on 9 Mar 2011 - 9:27pm #

Yep, they should have came out with it in the spring. The players would have sat the first 4 games more than likely, then all would be well. Now we are at the mercy of the NCAA.

BuckeyeChief Mod on 9 Mar 2011 - 9:30pm #

Maybe Tressel just really wanted to beat Miami. Shut everyone up and so forth.

"Don't put syrup on shit, and tell me it's pancakes"

No matter how sh*tty the tour is, it's always tough to leave.

Buckeye in Athens on 9 Mar 2011 - 10:13pm #

+ 1

O-H Kee Pa on 9 Mar 2011 - 10:21pm #

If anyone's house should be burnt down, it's the mf'ing leak in the athletics department.

Kurt on 10 Mar 2011 - 12:36am #

Wonder where we'd be if Cicero had simply CC'd Smith on the email?

O-H Kee Pa on 10 Mar 2011 - 1:13am #

Great point.

Dean on 10 Mar 2011 - 1:03am #

Dude's probably going to be disbarred for breaching confidentiality - it's not completely clear from the e-mails, but it sounds like this memorabilia dealer was his client, in which case he screwed up big time.

Edit to add: His website's down...

http://chrisero.com/

[Google cached version]

Normal Buck on 10 Mar 2011 - 9:06am #

My thought as well. He said in one of those emails that the guy came to him to discuss his options -- sounds like he was seeking legal advice to me, and thus privileged.