you can see in the video, several incidents of rice's behavior, martelli, and martelli seen aggressivelyrs and one instance where he called a player a derogatory name. he was hired at rutgers back in 2010 after three seasons as an assistant under rice at another university. in fact, players tell espn martelli commonly referred to as baby rice. in a statement obtained by cnn, martelli says i am sickened that as ab assistant coach i contributed in any way to an unacceptable culture. wednesday i resigned from rutgers and i hope that coaches on all levels will learn something important about these events. for my actions, i am deeply sorry and i apologize to the players from the bottom of my heart. rutgers gave no reason for martelli's resignation. >> wow, remarkable stuff. pamela brown, thank you so much. >>> support of getting high at an all-time high for the first time ever, a majority of people say it's time to legalize pot. straight ahead in the "newsroom." i think ford service is great, but i wondered what a customer thought? hi nia... nice to meet you nia, i'm mike. what do you drive?

this comes after the resignation of the assistant coach, jimmy martelli. for martelli this all is a result of what you have on your screen, a video broadcast by espn showing coaches, at least one in particular, physically and verbally abusing the players. our pamela brown joins us now on the telephone. pamela, what more do you know about this decision? is this whiplash? is this strategic? or is there nothing to read into it because it's just too early? >> reporter: right now, it is too early. we have been reaching out to the university today. so far, officials they are staying tight-lipped. there is a press conference at 1:00 today at rutgers university, so we hope to learn more then. but right now, according to espn and other reports, a decision was reached thursday that tim pernetti, the athletic director at rutgers will go as well. per nettie took responsibility for the decision back in december to suspend mike rice after he became aware of the video that we saw. and that video was released to the public on tuesday. from there there was major public out

jimmy martelli also reportedly yelled at players and threw basketballs at them. >>> in the finals of the national invitation tournament, number two seed baylor rolled over three-seed iowa 71-54 for its first ever nit victory. >>> the ncaa final four is tomorrow at the georgia dome in atlanta. louisville faces wichita state and michigan takes on syracuse. the national championship game is on monday. >>> and two mayors are betting on tomorrow's game with greg fischer of louisville putting up a fully stocked bar of kentucky bourbon, and wichita mayor carl brewer betting some nice steaks and plenty of kansas barbecue on the game. i'm hungry. >>> well, you won't see lance armstrong competing this weekend in swimming races. after learning the banned athlete was signed up, the international swimming federation put a stop to those plans. >>> and nba star chris bosh of the miami heat came home from celebrating his birthday to find out that he had been robbed of about $340,000 worth of valuables. bosh's children and two babysitters were in the house when someone stole watches, rings and cash.

rice's assistant jimmy martelli has also resigned after video of him surfaced showing him shoving a player. we learned rice is entitled to a $100,000 bonus that he would not have been eligible for if he had been removed back in december when the tapes were first reviewed by the school. >>> in fargo, north dakota tonight they have asked all folks with free time to help out in a big effort to fill millions of sandbags to head off what they fear is coming. that's a devastating flood. nbc's kevin tibbles is with us from fargo tonight. kevin, good evening. >> reporter: brian, it's become a rite of spring, albeit an unwelcome one, as folks in fargo are once again bracing for the red river to overflow its banks. they simply call it sandbag central. >> this is a part of life in fargo. >> reporter: here every spring hundreds of school kids and volunteers spend countless back-breaking hours. >> you have fun making the sandbags because you can talk to your friends. >> to help out the community is good. >> reporter: this contraption is the spider. it doubles and redoubles the number of sandbags that c

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we saw that with the assistant jimmy martelli. you can't physically hit someone and -- >> agreed. >> we're in a different era. >> absolutely you cannot. let me bust in with a last question. after the three-game suspension the new jersey press didn't get to the bottom of what had happened. for example, the anti-gay slurs and the extent of the abuse. steve politi writing, how did we miss it? he had been told that mike rice had thrown a plate of alfredo on the bus after a team loss. why didn't they go after this more aggressively at the top? >> i can't defend that. should we have gone further when he had the three-game suspension and $50,000 fine. that is a lot for a coach that wasn't making $3 million, $4 million. i think we're all a little guilty of not pushing a little further at the time. but these practices. this is not a school where the practices are completely closed and other sources much earlier that would have exposed this. harder to get the tape, but would have had people on the record or sources saying this really was oc

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serious scandal at rutgers university as you may have heard athletic direct or tim resigned and jimmy martelliecause of the video broadcast of coaches physically and verbally abusing players. andy, what is the latest here? >> the latest is fpernetti is out. over 50 members of the faculty signed letters asking him to resign or step down and be fired. state senate, president, asked him to step down or be fired. the pressure was overwhelming and just for rutgers to move on we to resign but is going to be paid for the next few years so it's not like he's resigning and not getting anything out of the deal so he can going to get paid as was mike rice, he was fired without cause surprisingly, he'll get paid over $1 million. >> i'm sure there will be questions about that. other questions, a report that talk about donors at rutgers are going to pull money temporarily, could there be more financial fallout? >> well the thing is the big boosters were behind pernetti, they did not want him to leave. that's why it took him a long time. pernetti was instrumental getting rutgers from the big east into the bi

now one of rices assistant coaches jimmy martelli, he has resigned, too.was seen berating players and hurling basketballs at them. the athletic director and president getting plenty of heat over their handling of the case. remember, they allowed this coach to stay before ultimately firing, firing him next hour we're going to talk with rutgers professor robert snyder who wants the school's president to step down. >> maybe my favorite picture of the day. prince william may have found his princess but he appears to be losing his touch with the ladies a little bit. william and his wife the former kate middleton encountered a little 4-year-old girl holding a single red flower. you have to see what happens when the prince stops to greet her. >> eerks. oh. >> the kiss. just complete rejection. total rejection, like the heisman right there. before that, the prince even asked the little girl if the flower she was holding was for him. and she pulled it away. >> it's so cute. that is so cute. we told you at the top of the hour about this breaking news out of north ko