Mo'Ne Davis, the girl pitcher who dominated boys and became the coolest thing to ever happen in the Little League World Series, is one of the year's best stories.
Of course, the archaic, bureaucratic behemoth is now here to ruin it for us.
The NCAA has cited UConn for a secondary violation of rules after reviewing Geno Auriemma's congratulatory phone call to Little League star Mo'ne Davis last month.
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"Over the last 24 hours, the University of Connecticut, the American Athletic Conference and the NCAA have been working together to determine whether a violation occurred when head women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma spoke with Mo'ne Davis over the phone during the 2014 Little League World Series," [UConn athletic director Warde] Manuel said in a statement. "The NCAA has determined a secondary rules violation of bylaw 13.1.3.1 did occur and while UConn accepts this decision, we do not agree with it.
"Prior to attempting to reach Davis, Coach Auriemma checked with the UConn compliance department and was advised such a call would be permissible since Davis is not considered a prospective student-athlete by the NCAA and the call was to be congratulatory rather than recruiting in nature.
This is actual a double-edged sword from the NCAA: Not only trying to tarnish Mo'Ne Davis' good name, but making me sympathize with freakin' Geno Auriemma.
I didn't even think something like this would be possible. But if there were an organization who could pull it off, it would be the NCAA.
Source: @TomOrr4
