FULMER CUP UPDATE, FIDDLING NERO EDITION
Rome–or, er, Troy–is burning. Backup qb Mark Sanchez was arrested yesterday on charges of sexual assault around 4 pm PST regarding an alleged assault early Wednesday morning. The 19-year old Sanchez–or the 21 year old Jordan Traver Uttal, if you believe his fake ID–left the 901 club and returned to Cardinal Gardens, the apartment complex where two prior allegations of sexual assault against Trojan football players have been made in the past two years.
Quantifying how bad this looks for USC may be impossible. Two things must be mentioned to indicate the extent of said badness:
1. As our readers have pointed out, USC’s “very concerned” point man for all of this is a guy named Michael Jackson. (And we thought he was in Dubai.)
2. This gives an excuse for Bill Simmons to stick his college football-contemptuous nose into our tidy corner of the internet by making his standard “Pete Carroll is not good” comment in a column.
Aside from the alleged sexual assault’s inherent and complete badness: anything that allows Michael Jackson sex jokes and gives Bill Simmons an excuse to write anything about THE GAME is the opposite of good.
Fulmer Cup points pending.
Carroll: who knew you could find trouble in L.A.?
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NewAZTiger says:
Well, hell, that HTML didn’t work…
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April 27th, 2006 at 10:09 pm
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the cuban comet says:
Sexual assault allegations aside, the “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle” portion of the L.A. Times story is unbelievable:
“USC students Matthew Menjou and Altman Tsang, roommates who live in a building adjacent to where Sanchez was taken into custody, said Sanchez happened upon them in a parking lot behind the apartment buildings about 1:30 a.m.
Menjou, from Torrance, said he and Tsang, who is from Centerville, Va., said
Menjou said Sanchez, whom he recognized from photos as a football player who was supposed to be “the next Matt Leinart,” showed up and offered to help them push the car into a space.
Wow. Harold and Kumar (inadvertantly) may end up a witnesses here, if only to corroborate a timeline that emerges during discovery. And they thought they were just running to White Castle…
April 27th, 2006 at 11:33 pm
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phil says:
Nestor, how many times a day do you have to wipe the spittle off of your computer screen?
You might help your case if you didn’t seem to get GPA and SAT mixed up. Also saying that anybody who goes to an out of state college is “a loser” is just silly. USC pulls in students from across the nation (and world) and that’s a good thing. I’d guess that many of those out of state students come from places with less grade inflation than California. That makes the SAT and ACT test scores the most valid comparison I think.
I’ve taken a few math courses over the years but none that told me how to take 3 smaller numbers and add them together and get an aggregate result that is more than the sum of 3 larger numbers. Maybe that’s special Nestor mathamagic.
Nestor, you have a fine university that you can be proud of. They have a great basketball tradition and sometimes they have a decent football team. They are not one of the elite teams in football. You should be thrilled with your fine coach for leading you to a 10-2 season with victories in your bowl and against Oklahoma. Don’t be so full of hatred just because the team and University on the other side of town is better.
April 27th, 2006 at 11:51 pm
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Nestor16 says:
Keep spinning Philly (and love that fantastic math skilz!) … the more you do it … the more you sound like the bitter little Trojan imbecile. Keep licking the Sanchez willie.
Hate on.
April 28th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
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UCLABrian says:
Pretty sad that us Bruin fans jump all over a kid when the charges were dropped. It wasn’t rape, it was kissing and touching with an ex who got pissed. Get this kid’s name out of the mud.
June 19th, 2006 at 7:44 pm