Whitlock has one MO, especially when it comes to college hoops and anything NCAA related, play the race card regardless of the actual facts. He's right to call out the shoe companies for exploiting AAU players for all they can get, but trying to paint Marion Piggie as some helps victim caught between the evil mechanations of Shoe contracts and NCAA witch hunts is laughable. Whitlock is a great NFL beat writer and analyst, he really out to just stick with that. Anything else, particularly dealing with the NCAA, his motives are way too transparent. He's one of those guys thats convinced something really happened in the Duke lacrosse case, simply because the victim was black and the accused were white. Facts? Not needed for opinion pieces fishing for hits.