Player's Prison History Doesn't Deter Recruiters

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Less than a week after a Sports Illustrated/CBS News study shed light on the criminal histories of college football players, student-athlete background checks are back in the news. According to HawkeyeInsider.com, University of Iowa men's basketball coach Fran McCaffery has offered a scholarship to junior-college basketball recruit Anthony Hubbard, despite the 25-year-old's criminal record.

Hubbard served 37 months in prison after pleading guilty to a December 2003 robbery that also involved felony charges of malicious wounding and use of a firearm. He was 18 at the time.

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