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Since it’s St. Patty’s day I won’t dis the Irish. Actually, I have no issues with them anyway, although they should have beaten Duke yesterday.
COLLEGE ATHLETES GRADUATION RATE
Who is really responsible when athletes don’t graduate from college? Is it the coach or is the athletes themselves? Nowadays even if players do graduate people bitch and moan about the fact that they have a degree in Sociology. What’s that all about? If you are unaware, ESPN had a show called “Outside the Lines” on a few weeks ago dealing with the low graduation rates of student-athletes. Duke’s athletes were highlighted because 40% of the basketball players receive a degree in sociology while only 2% of the regular student body does so. I say who cares! Isn’t it good enough for them to have a degree? Must the student-athlete sham include a degree in micro-physics in order for validation. A degree is a degree why should it matter that other students don’t get the same type of degree. On the flip-side, should we really care whether or not Jason Williams or Drew Gooden graduate? Did anyone say boo when Tiger Woods left Stanford early or when Michael Jordan or Magic Johnson or even Bill Gates or Michael Dell left school early to make millions. No one said anything when computer geeks left school to work for the dot-coms during the big explosion. Whenever the sports programs or magazines decide to publish graduation rates its just a facade, so they can pretend to care, and because they had a slow sports week.
RUBEN THE THIEF
 Ruben Rivera the spare outfielder for the New York Yankees was thrown off the team because he stole Derek Jeter’s game glove and a bat from his locker. Rivera reportedly sold the items to a sports memorabilia for $2,500. You have to be the dumbest guy in the world to f*ck with Derek Jeter’s stuff. The guy blew $800,000 in order to make $2,500. Everyone knows Jeter IS THE YANKEES. Case in point, anyone heard from Chad Curtis after he got into a dispute with DJ? One of the reasons David Wells was traded for Clemens was because he reported rubbed Jeter the wrong way. Two days after the story broke, Rivera was quoted as saying “It was a rookie mistake”. Apparently, Rivera figured he would not have gotten caught if he were a veteran. He said he didn’t do it for the money so the question is? Why do it anyway, and why take Jeter’s game glove and not his spare shit. The Moral of the story is that you can beat your wife/girlfriend (i.e. Darryl Strawberry) and keep your job with the Yankees, you can do drugs and drink alcohol (ala Doc Gooden and Steve Howe) and still keep a job with the Yankees, but don’t steal from Jeter!
NHL HITZ
If you haven’t played it yet, go out and find a friend who has it. I’m talking about NHL Hitz, one of the coolest games for PS2 and the X-BOX. There is just nothing like playing a hockey game that limits the action to 8 players (3 on 3 plus two goalies). It may not be for the purist out there, but I like how the players turn red and blue as they get hotter and hotter from scoring on your pal’s shitty goalie. The game is fast paced and fun. And now I don’t get a commission from whomever makes the game.
HOLLYWOOD MOVIES
 What’s with all the hoopla about whether A Beautiful Mind is accurate or not? Why does it matter? I’m tired of people chiming in about how inaccurate a film is compared to the true story. If they want an accurate portrayal of the characters then they should watch a documentary. Hollywood movies are not supposed to be accurate, they do what they can to come close, but artistic interpretation is always available to spice up the story.
If someone were doing my story, I would hope they would spice it up. I would expect the directors to include several scenes where I beat up people, yelled at my editors to publish my column or else and make me look better than I really do. No one wants to see a movie about a guy who sits at home watching sports and listening to sports radio for ideas to write about. Yet every year people get bent out of shape about how some film is inaccurate because “everyone knows Marilyn Monroe had three breasts and ______ director left that fact out.” I hope when they do my movie, I’m hung like Marky Mark (aka Dirk Diggler) in Boogie Nights.
MARCH MADNESS
For the record I have UCONN, DUKE, KANSAS and OKLAHOMA in my final four with Kansas finally winning the big one. Nothing can screw up a pool like a team no one expected to crash the party i.e. Kent State or Missouri and a team that flames out early like USC or Cincinnati. By the way can someone get Dick “Duke ass licker” Vitale to shut the f*ck up. When is the last time that guy gave us information that we didn’t already know? All he does is scream and yell about some coach who has nothing to do with the action on the floor. Vitale does not seem to realize that it’s the players on the court who determine what’s going to happen and not Coach K or The F*cking General. If you have bum players you have bum players and nothing is going to change that. You think Coach K could take the players from Fordham and take them to the final four? I don’t think so.
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