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In this task, we ask you to rewrite a sentence in simple English without changing its general meaning. Essentially, you want to make the sentence easier to read by using simpler words, utilizing more straightforward sentence structures, and omitting non-essential information etc.

Newton spent much of the second half of the 2010 football season embroiled in a controversy regarding allegations that his father , Cecil Newton , had sought substantial sums of money in return for his son playing for a major college football team , in violation of National Collegiate Athletic Association rules .
Output:
Newton spent much of the second half of the 2010 football season haunted by allegations that his father , Cecil Newton , who wanted a fair amount of money money in return for his son playing for a major-college team .