Weekend Round-Up

As you know, I’ve been on vacation for the past couple of days, and as I return back to the wonderful worldwide web, I found a couple of great stories that are a few days old, but frankly too funny (as in you’re a complete moron haha kind of way) not to comment on.

Several Oregon football players were involved in a speed-racing related crash early Thursday, sending two players to the hospital. Freshman QB Darron Thomas and sophomore receiver Jamere Holland were passengers in the Ford Mustang while teammate Eddie Pleasant was at the helm when the incident happened. Thomas was said to have suffered only a bruised elbow and could have been available to play in Oregon’s Saturday game while Pleasant and Holland were taken to a local hospital. Pleasant needed 75 stitches to close a 1-inch gash, but that wasn’t the worst part of the accident, he also was charged with reckless driving and speed racing. Watch out boys, because the popo are on your tail!
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Meanwhile USC will have to fill the place of recruit Maurice Simmons after he was sentenced to four years in jail for felony robbery, assault with a firearm and the misdemeanor of allowing someone to bring a gun into his car. A probation office had asked the court to sentence Simmons to probation, but the court thought felony robbery was a bit too serious of a crime to let him walk, even though he had a football scholarship. Too bad, the kid had an opportunity to make something of himself and he let it get away. Watch out Maurice, because the popo are on your tail!
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And finally, the Bluegrass Beat is reporting that Kentucky football player Ashton Cobb was arrested on Friday and was absent from the Wildcat’s game against Western Kentucky on Saturday. Apparently Cobb suffers from the Kelvin Sampson disease of calling and texting people excessively, like about 19 times too many. Cobb’s ex-girlfriend wasn’t a huge fan of the threatening voice messages he was leaving her and relayed them to the local authorities who in turn arrested his ass. Next time, just text something nasty to the campus gossip blog ala Blair Waldrof, otherwise Ashton, you’ll have the popo on your tail!
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