Photos Show Three UNLV Players With Convicted Sports Fixer

More problems surfaced for the troubled Nevada Las Vegas basketball program Sunday when the Las Vegas Review Journal published photos of three members of the 1990 championship team with a convicted sports-event fixer.

UNLV President Robert Maxson responded angrily Sunday, saying continuing problems with the Runnin’ Rebels are tarnishing the basketball program and the university. He said Coach Jerry Tarkanian had warned his players to stay away from Richard (The Fixer) Perry, who is part of an ongoing NCAA investigation.

The photos were of Perry with David Butler, Anderson Hunt and Moses Scurry at Perry’s Las Vegas home. The newspaper, which bought negatives from a person who did not take the pictures, said they were taken near the start of the 1989-90 season. One photo shows the players in a hot tub with Perry, Hunt and Scurry holding beers. In another, they are playing basketball with Perry on his backyard basketball court.

Perry pleaded guilty in 1984 to conspiring to commit sports bribery in the Boston College point-shaving scandal. He was sentenced to a year in prison.