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   From: basil@orvitch.com   
      
   A negro lied?  Say it ain't so.   
      
   USC cornerback Josh Shaw confessed that he lied to school   
   officials about how he sprained his ankles last weekend,   
   retracting his story about jumping off a balcony to save his   
   drowning nephew.   
      
   The school swiftly suspended him Wednesday from all team   
   activities and acknowledged his heroic tale was "a complete   
   fabrication."   
      
   The tale began to unravel soon after the team captain was lauded   
   for his heroics in a story on the team's website Monday. In the   
   account, Shaw described how he instinctively jumped from a   
   balcony, with no one around, to rescue his 7-year-old nephew in   
   a pool in his hometown of Palmdale (Los Angeles County). USC   
   said callers questioned the story a day later, and the school   
   began vetting it.   
      
   The biggest questions remain unanswered: What was Shaw doing,   
   and how did he injure his ankles?   
      
   "We are extremely disappointed in Josh," USC coach Steve   
   Sarkisian said. "He let us all down."   
      
   The Los Angeles Police Department has confirmed that a man named   
   Joshua Shaw was mentioned - but not as a suspect - in a report   
   involving a break-in at a downtown apartment building Saturday   
   night.   
      
   The department has not made the report public.   
      
   http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/USC-s-Shaw-admits-to-lying-   
   5717278.php   
      
       
      
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