Suspended Players

In today’s world of you most win at all cost it was surprising to hear that University of Georgia suspended its leading scorer from last year for the season and two other players fifteen games and the other six games. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3081116 Senior Takais Brown the leading scorer from last year was only going to be suspended only nine games but because he broke athletic department polices he was dismissed from the team. The polices are about unexcused absences of classes and missed academic appointments. The reason that Georgia has this new policy is to increase their graduation rate. I was some what shocked when I read this because normally you don’t see a team suspend one its better players to improve their graduation rate. Also they will be without two other players Mike Mercer and Albert Jackson for the first part of the season for similar rules violation. The AD also said that the two suspend players that when they return after suspension will be academic eligible by the school, SEC and the NCAA. The coach Dennis Felton said that Takais will stay at the school to graduate, which he is set to do in the summer. I hope Takais stays at Georgia to finish up is degree it seems that there are a lot of people that want to help him out and to make sure that he does graduate on time. It’s nice to see that the school wants to help out a suspended player so much even though he will not help out the basketball team. This should be done at more colleges to help the athletes graduate on time even if it means that they can not play on the team.

Another player involved with the law

The Sacramento Kings gave Justin Williams an indefinite leave of absence due to recent police investigation a team spokesman said. This is all the NBA needs a player involved with an investigation of sexual assault of a female acquaintance. http://www.sportsline.com/nba/story/10417184 With what all the NBA has one through this is one thing that they don’t need to have more bad publicity for them. Williams has not been charged yet and he is cooperating with the police. The Kings have not said if they are going to suspend Williams at this point. I think that the Kings should suspend for some at least for some amount of time depending on what happens in the case. This is just another case of were athletes don’t get it with all the athletes that have gotten in trouble this past year you would think that other athletes would make better decisions. I know has not even be charged with anything yet but his name just mention in a police is not good for the league which has enough issues with the gambling refs. The good thing that the team did was give him a leave of absence to show the league that there were proactive in this to maybe try to limit a possible suspension by the league.

Mitchell Investigation

With the results of the George Mitchell investigation coming out with in the next few weeks the questions is does anybody even care about it any more. Mitchell said he would be to talk to anybody that has a question about why they are on the list. http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/story/10404410 They also said that they might not tell the teams who is on the list before it is released to the public. Honestly I think that they should tell the teams if they have a player on the list so they can be warned before the public knows. First so the clubhouse knows so if questions are asked they can answer them with some knowledge about it. Now back to does anybody can anymore about it. I for one don’t care anymore because it has be going on for so long I just want to hear that it is done with. Another question is what are they going to do with the players on the list in the first place. Are they just going to suspend them for like 10 games or are they going to kick them out of MLB because they are know for steroids usage or owning them. I also think they just need to get done with Mitchell’s investigation because it keeps a black eye over baseball with steroids and all the other things that come along with that. Finally I think it was a good idea in the beginning but it took to long to get to the conclusion of investigation.

Player gives up scholarship

This is something that you don’t here about everyday one player giving up his scholarship so the school can have room for an incoming recruit. Washington State senior Taylor Rochestie gave up his scholarship for the 2008-2009 season so they go offer the scholarship to Marcus Capers from Orland, Florida. http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/story/10390866/1 Taylor said his family could afford the 25,000 dollars for school so it was a no brainer to help the team out. How often do you see an athlete give up going to school for free to help out his team? Would you give up your scholarship to help out your team get a star recruit? I know I would most likely not give up my scholarship if I had one even if it helped out the team because in my view I earned it and I would not want to give it up. It is nice to see that he is not all about me, me, me like so many athletes now a day but instead what can I do to help the team. That is what I call a senior leader he is helping the team in the future by making room on the team for an impact freshman on the team. Taylor said that he wanted to give back to the team that gave him a chance after he transferred from Tulane. There should be more players like Taylor Rochestie that are willing to do anything to help out their teams and be a mentor to the younger players like Marcus Capers.