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UNC Tar Heel football player, former Gaston prep star faces DWI charge

February 03, 2011 1:22 PM
Staff reports

A North Gaston High graduate now playing football for the University of North Carolina Tar Heels faces a driving while impaired charge related to an early morning traffic stop in Alamance County.

Anthony “A.J.” Jerwade Blue, 21, was stopped at 2:31 a.m. Sunday in Burlington, according to a report in The Daily Tar Heel.

Team spokesman Kevin Best said Blue was the first to tell the UNC football coaching staff of the arrest. Best said the team will handle the matter internally.

In addition to the drunken driving charge, Blue faces an open container charge and charges of following too close and failure to maintain lane control.

Blue graduated from North Gaston High in 2008 and led the Wildcats to a state final appearance in his senior season. He was the Gazette player of the year that season.

Blue spent a year at Hargrave Military Academy in Virginia before arriving in Chapel Hill.

In 2007, a resisting a public officer charge against Blue was dismissed at the request of the arresting Dallas police officer

 

You never see this type of thuggery at NC State.

 

I'm sure they will make his tutor write a paper for him as his punishment!

 

Agent paid for UNC's Austin's trips, search warrant alleges

A search warrant filed by the North Carolina Secretary of State’s office alleges that sports agent Gary Wichard paid for former North Carolina football player Marvin Austin to travel to California, in apparent violation of North Carolina’s Uniform Athlete Agents Act.

The warrant, filed by Sam Cabrera, a special agent with the Department of the Secretary of State of North Carolina, seeks Bank of America records for an account belonging to Wichard. It alleges that Todd Amis, Austin’s former high school assistant coach, paid for Austin to travel to California in March 2009 and July 2009.

According to the warrant, Amis said Wichard then reimbursed him $1,000 for Austin’s March 2009 flight to California, where he trained at a facility called Pro Active Sports with former teammate Kentwan Balmer.


Amis provided N.C. Secretary of State investigators a canceled check from Pro Tect Management – Wichard’s company – dated March 3, 2009 in the amount of $1,000, according to the warrant. The check was signed by Wichard.

North Carolina’s Uniform Athlete Agents Act prohibits agents from furnishing anything of value to a student-athlete before the student-athlete enters into an agency contract.

In December, the NFL Players Association suspended Wichard’s contract adviser status for nine months for having impermissible communications with Austin.

North Carolina dismissed Austin from the team for the 2010 season for accepting impermissible benefits.

 

I'd like to personally welcome the NC SOS office to what Yahoo! Sports discovered months ago!

 

Marc James says this will cost the Tar Heels scholarships and bowl appearences. OH MY!

 

So, no real penalties here beyond the scholarships and UNC-CH will probably find these brain surgeons an academic scholarship instead. Being able to stay in the lines while coloring has to be worth something.

 

Four players leave UNC football program

Defensive lineman Jared McAdoo is dismissed for violating a team rule.

By J.P. Giglio

Four players are leaving North Carolina's football program, the school announced Monday.

Defensive lineman Jared McAdoo was dismissed for violating an unspecified team rule, and receiver Brendon Felder and linebacker Herman Davidson have decided to transfer. A fourth player, linebacker Shane Mularkey, has decided to end his college football career.

McAdoo has been arrested twice, once in high school at Chapel Hill, since 2008. He started three games for the Tar Heels last season and finished with 19 tackles.

McAdoo was charged with a felony drug count in June 2008 for selling a prescription painkiller. He enrolled at UNC the following year and redshirted his freshman season. He was charged for a misdemeanor in June 2010 for having a BB gun on the UNC campus. In both cases, the charges were dismissed.

Felder, who redshirted as a freshman last season, has decided to transfer to Pittsburgh, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, to be closer to his family in western Pennsylvania for family medical reasons and will petition the NCAA to be eligible for the 2011 season.

Davidson, a backup linebacker, had 14 tackles in 13 games as a junior last season.

Mularkey played in the first two games as a sophomore last season before undergoing season-ending shoulder surgery. Mularkey, whose father is an assistant coach in the NFL, "has elected to discontinue playing football," according to the UNC release.

A school spokesman said Mularkey will remain in school.

 

Good job McAdoo.

 

Honestly not really a big deal. Scholarships happen.

I only have issue with the 1 guy because he left a black eye. (McAdoo)

The others, 1 went home to be with family, 1 was injured and didn't have a "real" football future, and the last realized after spring ball that he was gonna be a senior and be 3rd string and wanted a chance to do more. So to me this is a nonissue.