Ex-Georgia Player Is Arrested Again
A former Georgia point guard who sparked an investigation into academic fraud at the school two years ago was arrested again.
Tony Cole is charged with violating his probation on a bad-check charge. He was arrested Sunday after he was pulled over for a traffic violation. The arrest is at least Cole’s seventh in four years.
Cole will remain in jail until a hearing is set.
His brief career at Georgia ended in 2002 after he and two other university athletes were charged with rape. Prosecutors dropped the charges against Cole, but he was thrown off the team.
In 2003, Cole told ESPN that former Georgia coaches Jim Harrick and Jim Harrick Jr. paid his expenses and gave him credit for academic work he didn’t do. The scandal ended the Georgia careers of both Harricks and brought NCAA sanctions.
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