Josh Shaw's story is warping even further and now authorities at the University of Southern California (USC) are handling the probe.

The senior cornerback and newly minted captain on the Trojans football team told USC's athletic department's website he suffered two high ankle sprains leaping from a second story balcony to save his nephew from drowning. Shortly after, USC head football coach Steve Sarkisian said the school was looking into the story after a few callers disputed the events as Shaw said they happened.

"It's pretty clear that there's quite a few conflicting stories out there," Sarkisian said after practice Wednesday, according to ESPN. "Any information we have providing up until this point we have pushed along to campus authorizes. We're really going to let it play out in their hands up until this point and quite honestly we're in somewhat of a holding pattern. That's where we are at. Anything I do get that I can provide you guys with, I will, believe me, I will."

Shaw said he was at a family gathering Saturday when he noticed his sister's seven-year-old in the apartment building's pool. Knowing the kid could not swim and seeing no one near him, Shaw leapt, crawled into the pool to save the kid and then pulled himself out.

Lt. Andy Neiman, of the Los Angeles Police Department, told the Associated Press in a report published Tuesday that Shaw was named in a break-in Saturday, though not as a suspect. The report noted that a man pried open a window of a third-floor apartment before leaping off the balcony, but did not take anything. The victim also "acknowledged that she had a relationship with a Mr. Shaw," Neiman told the AP.

The same day the AP published their report, "a woman who identified herself as Shaw's older sister" verified her brother's story to USA Today. Asia Shaw said her son was the one in the pool and that reports of Josh Shaw being involved in a break-in was "speculation."

Neither Asia nor Josh's father were at the gathering, though the sister said her other brother Justin was supposed to be watching the young boy. USA Today could not reach Justin Shaw.

Josh Shaw has also not spoken to the media and it is not clear how long he will be out for, though he will not have to miss the season.

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