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Tate: Just the tip of the iceberg

What we're seeing is an old World War I bombshell.

The hydrogen explosion is coming later. Yahoo's revelations on cheating in major college basketball are the tip of the greater iceberg looming under the surface. It's one tiny corner of basketball's underworld.

The revealing documents stem from a single — just one — former NBA agent, Andy Miller, who kept records in his ASM Sports agency of his cash outlays to prep and college prospects and their families. At this point, we've been told about 25 players and 20 mostly blue-blood schools.

By recognized standards, meal payments and a $400 payment to Miles Bridges' mother would be regarded as peanuts.