Fear the power of Alabama fans...

[GrantDawg]

http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sp...0412young.html

Convicted Alabama booster found murdered

The Associated Press
Published on: 04/11/06
Nashville — Logan Young, the booster convicted of bribing a high school coach to get a top recruit for Alabama, was found dead Tuesday in his Memphis home, and police said they are investigating it as a homicide.
Memphis Police Sgt. Vince Higgins said in a telephone interview that the medical examiner was at Young's upscale home near a Memphis country club trying to determine the cause of death.

"We're treating it as a mystery homicide," Higgins said.
He said officials assume the victim was Youngbut needed to use fingerprints and dental records to confirm the identity.
"Suffice it to say, there was quite a physical struggle in this and this individual was injured severely," the police spokesman said.
Defense attorney Jim Neal of Nashville said the victim was Young.
"I've had two or three calls about it, all to the same end, found killed in his home. ... I heard that there was blood everywhere. That is all I know," Neal said.
Higgins said Young's housekeeper found a man dead in the home after she arrived for work shortly before 9 a.m. CDT.
Young, 65, was convicted under federal law of money laundering and racketeering conspiracy in the case involving the peddling of defensive lineman Albert Means.
Young was free pending his appeal of that conviction. Final briefs in Young's appeal were to be filed by July 14, court records show.
Young was sentenced last June to six months in prison, although his attorneys had argued that he needed a kidney transplant and could not get proper medical care in prison.
Former high school coach Lynn Lang, who avoided jail time after pleading guilty to taking part in a racketeering conspiracy, testified against Young, saying the booster paid $150,000 to get defensive Means to sign with Alabama in 2000.
The NCAA has said it believed Means was unaware his football talents were being brokered. The player later transferred to Memphis, where he finished his college career.
Lang testified at Young's trial that other universities, including Georgia, Kentucky, Arkansas, Memphis, Mississippi, Michigan State and Tennessee, offered him money or jobs to get Means.
No charges were filed against anyone with those schools. Three former coaches, Rip Scherer of Memphis, Jim Donnan of Georgia and Ivy Williams, an Alabama assistant, testified Lang was lying.
Means' recruitment became part of an NCAA investigation that led to sanctions against Alabama in 2002, costing the Crimson Tide scholarships and bowl appearances.
Attorney Tommy Gallion, who represented former Alabama assistants Williams and Ronnie Cottrell in a defamation suit against the NCAA and others, called the news tragic.
"I have no idea who could be behind this. I was shocked that Phillip Shanks was beaten and this was more shocking," Gallion said in a statement read by his secretary.
Shanks was assisting Gallion on the lawsuit in May 2004 when he was attacked in his office and left unconscious. Key case documents were stolen, he said. No one was ever charged in the case.
Defense attorney Robert Hutton said he last talked with Young last week and called his death a total shock and a real loss.
"He was very generous man. He was generous with people around him. A pastor of a Catholic Church, he asked for money for some program, for the roof or something, and he gave him the money. Logan wasn't even Catholic," Hutton said.
"He was a wonderful character. I really enjoyed him as a person. It's just a horrible tragedy."

[Crapshoot]

I fear the state of Alabama, so we're good on that already.

[SackAttack]

Not sure what that has to do with Alabama fans, as the deceased apparently paid bribe money to get a recruit FOR Alabama.

[digamma]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

Not sure what that has to do with Alabama fans, as the deceased apparently paid bribe money to get a recruit FOR Alabama.

And landed the Tide on probation for it (very close to the death penalty).

Then, of course, he got convicted.

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

Not sure what that has to do with Alabama fans, as the deceased apparently paid bribe money to get a recruit FOR Alabama.

I promise you, he is not loved in Alabama.

[Fonzie]

I assumed this thread was going to be about unruly country music fans.

[JonInMiddleGA]

I guess he just fell down the stairs ... and up the stairs ... and down the stairs ... and up the stairs ... and ...

http://www.ajc.com/hp/content/shared...ster_Dead.html

Investigators: Booster Death Was Accident
By WOODY BAIRD
Associated Press Writer

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — An Alabama booster died in an accident at his home, rather than being slain as first thought, the police director said Thursday.

Police initially described the death of 65-year-old Logan Young as a bloody slaying after a fierce struggle but quit calling it a homicide a day later.

"He fell in his house, hit his head on a metal stair railing and died from that injury," Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin said at a news conference.

Young, who was convicted last year of bribing a high school football coach to steer a top recruit to Alabama, was found dead at his Memphis home Tuesday. No arrests had been made and no suspects had been identified although family members and friends had been questioned.

Crime scene crews spent most of two days in Young's house, where police said blood or traces of blood were found in several rooms.

Lt. Joe Scott said Thursday that investigators determined that after Young fell, he lay on the floor awhile before getting up and walking into several rooms and then upstairs to his bedroom.

Young's body was found on the floor beside his bed Tuesday morning by his housekeeper. Scott said police still aren't sure when Young died but he was seen Monday evening by his pool boy.

Young, who was divorced, lived alone much of the time in his stone Tudor home. His son, Logan Young III, an only child, apparently had been staying with him off and on recently, police said.

Logan Young III was not at the residence when his father's body was found by a housekeeper. He was located several hours later and taken to police headquarters for questioning. There, he voluntarily gave DNA samples to investigators, including fingernail scrapings, his lawyer, Steve Farese, said.

The elder Young's conviction for money laundering and racketeering conspiracy capped a scandal that put Alabama on NCAA probation and cost Young his favored standing among the university's big-money boosters.

[Huckleberry]

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Worst. Coverup. Explanation. Ever.

[GrantDawg]

Again, fear the power of Alabama fans. They make the Mafia look like the Shiners.

[John Galt]

Originally Posted by GrantDawg

They make the Mafia look like the Shiners.

Is that like a gang of Mr. Clean, Terry O'Quinn, and CamEdwards?

[BishopMVP]

Kinda like that apocryphal Mafia informant that accidentaly got run over by a truck.... twice.

[Franklinnoble]

Originally Posted by Huckleberry

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Worst. Coverup. Explanation. Ever.

Agreed. I can't believe they expect anyone to buy that... but, then again... it sounds like this guy had NOBODY who was really upset that he was dead in the first place... so probably nothing will come of it.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

I got a great laugh at this. Yup. Sure. He hit his head and proceded to trash the place, bleading all over everything before expiring. Sure. Did he make cappuccino in the process?

[King of New York]

Gee, you think the police might come up something a bit more plausible, maybe along the lines of, "we believe the victim to have been killed by the ghost of Bear Bryant."