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...never used to deposit the money in a checking account. I always put it in safe-deposit boxes because of the IRS. I always paid cash for everything." Another athlete admits that he did not file tax returns on his track earnings. Says he: "I felt the AAU would find out that I was paying income tax on money I shouldn't have had in the first place and would try to nail me. I didn't know how to pay taxes without jeopardizing my track career...
...those already tainted by a corrupt system. Discus Thrower John Powell, for one, is worried that the IRS will put pressure on Stones to tell all he knows about other athletes. Says Powell: "Stones could turn out to be the John Dean of amateur track." Others cynically predict that AAU reprisals will be selective and merely cosmetic-barring a few scapegoat athletes from competition while resisting fundamental change in the conditions that gave rise to the scandal...
Returning from this weekend's IC4As in Philadelphia, several members of the track team went down to Braintree High School to compete in the New England AAU contest, where they placed second behind the Greater Boston Track Club...
First of all, there was Joe Pellagrini, who broke four records with one discus heave. At 183 ft. 3 in., Pellagrini's throw set new University, New England AAU, New England Collegiate, and stadium records--not bad for a muggy...
Bernal now coaches the swim team at Fordham University and the Gator Club in New York which finished ninth in the recent AAU championships...