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By Charlie Zegers, About.com Guide to Basketball

What do Al Capone and Chris Webber Have in Common?

Monday May 19, 2008
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, writing on his personal blog, has a wonderfully simple proposal to address the huge amounts of money being thrown around in the recruiting biz:

Sic the IRS on 'em.

As anyone who's ever seen The Untouchables knows... that's how the feds got Al Capone. And -- as one of the comments on Cuban's post points out -- it's also how they got Ed Martin, the Michigan booster who paid off Chris Webber and others.

Can it work? Join the discussion on the college basketball forum.

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