Thought #1

Ever wonder how much two laptops and an old guitar cost? How about 5 grand, 12 months probation, 140 hours of community service, and, oh yeah, a year of your college career.

Well that's the price Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli will be paying for going Captain Sticky Fingers on a frat house. Jeremiah pleaded guilty to second-degree burglary for his part in the theft of a pair of laptops and guitar.

Now I get it, the thrill of stealing things got to you. I mean I saw Ocean's Eleven. You get some cool disguises, start running some witty dialog, and come up with some ridiculously brilliant scheme. It's fail proof and awesome! Only you didn't come up with some great scheme to steal diamonds or rob a casino, you just jacked a few undergrads Macs and a guitar, obliviously had no disguise, and I'm seriously doubting you said a darn thing that was slightly witty.

Listen Jeremiah, you are....were the starting quarterback for one of the top teams in the Pac-10. Your face is plastered all over ESPN, and even more so all over the entire campus of Oregon. You can't just run around lifting some random frat boy's toys. For the record, robbing millions from evil casino owners is cool. Jacking computers and musical instruments from frats is stupid and lame, which makes it double stupid.

Thought 1a.

And by the way, what is going on in with you guys in Eugene? The same day Jeremiah is in court his teammate LaMichael James is in there pleading guilty to misdemeanor assault. Are you guys trying to one up each other? At this rate the Eugene courthouse might as well go ahead and put in a team room for you guys.

 Come on Oregon, you aren't some division three bottom feeder, you were a legit title contender last season. Grow up and quit acting like this is some National Lampoons' college football comedy and realize you are costing your school it's chance to become one of the big boys on the national stage.

Thought #2

Just as reports begin to surface about a potential Tiger Woods come back, which by the way has the golf world drooling profusely, new information about the night of his "accident" surface.

New reports from that night have come up saying that the emergency crew that responded to the event refused to let Tiger's wife, Elin, ride in the ambulance with him because they feared it was a domestic violence case.

Now Tiger has come out and stated that Elin has never hit him, which Lord knows took mad restraint, but apparently things appeared quite different that night. They have also reported that Tiger had taken some level of pain killers earlier that day.

So let's think about this. Tiger's wife finds out he's been cheating, he gets in some ridiculous wreck in his own driveway, and then doesn't make a public appearance for months after. Hmm, is that enough time for a few stitches and a black eye to heal? Yep.

Bottom line is that something bizarre happened that night and Tiger is keeping his lips sealed about it, which makes it all the worse. As much as he would like it, this isn't going away until dude comes out and has a real press conference, ditches the script, and  answers some real questions. It is long overdue, but really it is the only way this will ever die down.