http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/news;_ylt=Ak3xb0UCNKRKLWInem2kKV45nYcB?slug=ap-lilromeo&prov=ap&type=lgns

Quote :

"LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Lil' Romeo says he's bound for Southern California, where if all goes according to plan, he could be Romeo Miller, Trojans' basketball player. The teenage hip-hop star, a high school junior, has committed to play basketball for the Trojans, Dave Lindsay, a spokesman for Lil' Romeo's online label, UrbanDigital Records, said Friday. USC spokesman Dave Tuttle declined to confirm or deny the report, but said the university hasn't received a signed letter of intent from the rapper, who is just a high school junior. "We can't comment on any recruits or potential recruits until we have a signed letter. That's an NCAA rule," Tuttle said. Lil' Romeo, whose full name is Percy Romeo Miller, is currently a guard on his Beverly Hills High School team. "Basketball has run in the family," Lindsay said, noting the rapper's father, hip-hop mogul Master P, had tryouts with two NBA teams in the 1990s. "In the future, I want to be an NBA player. That's my goal," Lil' Romeo told The Associated Press in a 2003 interview. At the time he was 14 and just 5-foot-6. He acknowledged then that his goal might go unrealized if he didn't add another 12 inches of height. He's 17 now and 6-1, a little more than halfway toward that goal."

should be interesting to see if true.

[Edited on April 21, 2007 at 5:09 PM. Reason : couldn't decide between Entertainment and Sports Talk...move wherever you deem appropriate]

4/21/2007 5:08:50 PM

Yeah there is already a thread on this....

Just a publicity stunt, he will never play meaningful minutes.

4/21/2007 5:15:16 PM

my bad...missed the thread..

ibtl twice...

4/21/2007 5:17:55 PM

apparently he's actually not a bad player. i wouldn't be surprised to see him starting by his junior year

4/21/2007 5:17:59 PM

if he doesn't get this program at least under investigation with all his money, it's b/c the ncaa turns a blind eye to it.

4/21/2007 6:40:01 PM

wasnt he raped by his bodyguard?

4/21/2007 6:50:34 PM

I think that was Bow Wow



[Edited on April 21, 2007 at 7:26 PM. Reason : I wish I didn't know that]

4/21/2007 7:26:08 PM

lol, that was bow wow. snopes.com says that's a rumor, though.

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/bowwow.htm

4/21/2007 8:44:50 PM