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The coming weekend could decide whether Keith DeWitt — a 6-foot-10 forward out of Charis Prep in Wilson, N.C. — will be able to join the Missouri basketball program this fall.
“We’re still waiting,” MU coach Mike Anderson said Tuesday at the Kansas City Tiger Club golf gathering when asked about DeWitt’s status. “He has a test to take this weekend.”
In March, the NCAA upheld a previous decision to “not clear” grades or graduation from Charis Prep in determining college eligibility.
At the same time, the NCAA announced it would be open to consider the cases of individual athletes.
Carroll speculation
Despite speculation on Draftexpress.com, former Tigers hoops star DeMarre Carroll doesn’t need a liver transplant.
Anderson — Carroll’s uncle as well as the MU basketball coach — said Tuesday that speculation was based on “misinformation.”
Carroll has been under a doctor’s care for a liver-related condition for at least two years, but the condition is apparently well under control.
Carroll’s agent told The Columbia Daily Tribune that the physician who has overseen Carroll’s treatment is willing to provide NBA officials with a letter of assurance on Carroll’s ability to play in the NBA.
Recent draft rankings have suggested Carroll could be a late first-round NBA draft choice. Leo Lyons, another former MU player, is projected as a second-round pick.
Football camp
Several months ago, former Missouri defensive lineman Lorenzo Williams decided to tag along when a charity group called Athletes of the Ozarks gave Williams’ father-in-law an award for putting on softball and baseball camps every summer in Springfield.
“I was really touched by the foundation and what they were doing involving the kids with disabilities and sports,” Williams said. “So I put two and two together, and now I’m trying to make four. I figured I could get some guys involved and get a chance to help this charity.”
Williams, who is on the Carolina Panthers’ roster, found a bunch of former and current football players at Mizzou willing to help.
NFL players Martin Rucker (tight end, Cleveland), Jeremy Maclin (wide receiver, Philadelphia), defensive lineman Ziggy Hood (Pittsburgh), and receiver Will Franklin (Oakland) and defensive end Stryker Sulak (Oakland) have agreed to help instruct campers — kindergarten through fifth grade in the morning session and sixth grade through high school seniors in the afternoon — Thursday in the First Annual Lorenzo Williams and Friends Springfield Football camp at Missouri State.
Also agreeing to take part in the July 11 camp on the football field at Missouri State are former Tigers Pig Brown and Brandon Coleman and current MU players Jaron Baston, Blaine Gabbert, Sean Weatherspoon and Derrick Washington. On Tuesday, former MU receiver Brad Ekwerekwu said he planned on helping as well.
Cost for the camp is $25 per camper.
More information can be obtained by emailing SpringfieldFootballCamp@yahoo.com or calling Brittney Williams at 417-880-7760.
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