What a week it has been for sports. Roger Clemens goes to Capitol Hill to speak with Congress about his Steroid/HGH use (I guess Congress got tired of talking about Iraq funding OR trying to bring the boys home, fixing the unemployment problem, the homeless issue, the interest rate stuff....), BUT I HATE talking about steroids, so we will move on.
Also, a typo on a court document caused ESPN to post that Barry Bonds failed a drug test in 2001, instead of 2000. I think that is JUST AS BAD, but whatever. Again, it is steroids, so let's move on.
Vince Dooley's supporters that UGA President Michael Adams wants to honor him. Give me a break. It is an honor. A lot better than the honor he has RIGHT NOW....which is NONE! I have blogged about this on myspace, and I might bring that one over here, but to boil it down, if we name the Stadium after him, what happens if/when Mark Richt wins a national title. What if he wins two? Will it be Sanford-Dooley-Richt Stadium? If you call it Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium, again, what about Richt? Will it be Richt's Goalposts on Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium? UVa has that problem right now with George Welsh Field at Scott Stadium (featuring the Ford Expansion) at the Charles Smith Sports Complex. It is freaking crazy. Dooley is scheduled to get a SPORTS Complex named after him. It is a few miles away from Sanford, but it is STILL ON CAMPUS. If you want to put a statue of Dooley up near one of the gates, fine. But don't hate the idea of naming an ENTIRE sports complex after Dooley. That is PLENTY honor since he was the athletic director, which means he oversaw ALL sports. (And PS, I am pretty sure he didn't recruit one H. Walker. It was his assistant coach that did. Walker has admitted this.)
Indiana basketball coach Kelvin Sampson is in trouble AGAIN. While he was the head man at Oklahoma he got into some hot water by illegally calling recruits and over texting them too. He was put on probation by the NCAA, even though he had taken the job at Indiana. HE was on probation and now HE is in trouble, and Indiana is too, because they got into bed with this guy. Sampson may get fired, which is a shame since he is a pretty good coach. He can sure recruit for his system, maybe illegally, but it isn't like he is PAYING people-that we know of-but he is just calling the kids to build a rapport. Talking to kids too much? I don't really have a problem with that, but that's just me. He has also taken a team to the Final Four. The guy is a good coach and he may end up unemployed after this, but (aside from wishing UGA had this guy over Felton) he may end up in the Pros since he has ability. We shall see.
Finally PacMan is back in the news after he pleaded Nolo to his final charge pending from Georgia. He got more probation. The question I have is, didn't this arrest affect his probation from the case in Las Vegas. Wait, it didn't because it happened BEFORE he received probation from that case. This guy is a bad egg. He just has good timing to NOT have gotten arrested after his probation was issued, but before it. He was involved in a shooting that left a guy unable to walk for the rest of his life in Vegas. Now he bites a person at a strip club in Georgia. The guy is bad news. I would have LOVED for the judge to have turned DOWN the agreement and said, "Adam Jones, I REFUSE to call you Pac Man. Pac Man is a cartoon, but Sir, there is NOTHING funny about what you have done with your life. You are extremely talented, but you seem to want to waste your talents by living at strip clubs at 3 in the morning." Sentence him to house arrest of something. Put him in jail for being arrested 6 times since he graduated high school. But at the rate now, he is just on probation until 46 years AFTER he dies. He has a great lawyer that is now a regular on 680 The Fan (which is a joke, but regardless). I just think at SOME point, one of these arrests should have violated his probation, but whatever. Pac Man, I certainly hope you can turn your life around, but QUIT going to strip clubs. You seem to get into trouble when you go to those at 2 in the morning.
I won't bring this argument back up, but if I had an opportunity like Pac Man or Tripp Chandler at UGA, I would go OUT OF MY WAY NOT to screw it up. But that's just me.
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