Quick Notes: IU pushing Sampson out of the door; Photo of Clemens at Canseco’s

IU pushing Sampson out of the door

Indiana University was to announce their decision on Kelvin Sampson at 2 p.m.. According to ESPN’s And Katz in a televised interview, the university is more than likely going to suspend Sampson without pay for the remainder of the season. The  decision is being pushed back because IU is reviewing all considerations as to who to elevate to the interim job of head coach. Katz said that the pervasive thought was that Dan Dakich would take over the IU job, but that is no necessarily true because there are other assistant coaches on the staff with head coaching experience, especially Ray McCallum.

Katz says the rumored threat of a mutiny is not true.

However, according to Sports Illustrated‘s Luke Winn, the senior leadership of the Hoosier basketball team, undoubtedly led by D.J. White, will quit if Dakich is named head coach. The team prefers McCallum over Dakich:

The source also told SI.com select players have indicated they might be willing to soften their stance on quitting if a key change was made to Greenspan’s proposed plan of succession. The school reportedly wants to anoint IU assistant Dan Dakich as interim head coach for the remainder of the season, but the players’ preferred choice is assistant Ray McCallum, who played a significant role in recruiting much of IU’s current roster. Dakich was named an assistant coach on Oct. 31 — days after former IU assistant Rob Senderoff resigned his post as a result of the NCAA’s investigation on Sampson and his staff — and did not recruit any current IU players.

(I’ll have an article on this later today or early tomorrow morning)

Photo evidence and the Rocket

So there’s a picture of Roger Clemens at Jose Canseco’s house. and the person who owns the photo was 11 years old when the picture was taken:

“…leads could include new photographic evidence that has emerged to potentially undermine Clemens’ sworn testimony that he did not attend a 1998 party at the home of his then-teammate Jose Canseco – a party that figured both in the Mitchell Report and the Feb.13 public hearing in Washington.

The photo is owned by a young man who attended the party when he was 11 years old and took photos of his baseball heroes, including Clemens. Richard Emery, one of the lawyers for Clemens accuser Brian McNamee, was aware that such evidence had been circulating this week.

“We have reason to believe it’s reliable evidence,” Emery told the Daily News on Thursday. “We believe there’s photographic evidence that shows Clemens was at a party he says he wasn’t at.”…

A Justice Department investigation could lead Clemens into the kind of lengthy, expensive and serious criminal investigation that Bonds has undergone, opening the door to the government to examine the pitcher’s claims with much broader investigative power than the committee’s attorneys used.

We’ll be watching this closely.