OTL probe: Mayo received money, perks from agent reps

By Kelly Naqi
ESPN

Friday, May 9, 2008

In August 2007, a few days before the fall semester began at the University of Southern California, freshman basketball guard O.J. Mayo decided he needed some new clothes for school. His friends, Louis Johnson and Rodney Guillory, picked him up in Guillory's black Infiniti SUV and soon they were at a mall in Carson, Calif., picking out thousands of dollars of clothing. In the college basketball world, Guillory and Johnson are what's known as "runners" -- middlemen who develop relationships w ...

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