Talking Points 03/04

What’s the buzz from the world of sports? Here are some items that will have people talking:

1

That national football championship for TCU is looking better and better.

Yahoo! Sports reported Thursday that the University of Oregon might be in hot water with the NCAA for paying “$25,000 to Will Lyles of Complete Scouting Services in Houston, and $3,745 to Baron Flenory of New Level Athletics.

“If Lyles and Flenory aided in or were involved in any way in the recruitment of student athletes to Oregon, they would be classified as boosters by the NCAA, and any payment to them from the school would be considered a violation of Bylaw 13. Bylaw 13 prohibits boosters from directing a recruit to a school.”

Throw in the Cam Newton saga at Auburn and eventually the NCAA could nullify both recent BCS Championship participants.

Stay by that phone TCU.

2

The lengths some people will go to make a soccer game exciting.

Six men wearing costumes — four Power Rangers, a ninja and a Spider-Man — have been arrested and charged with disrupting or interfering with a girls high school soccer game in Cleveland, Ga., authorities said.

Players and coaches said they didn’t know what was going on, and were fearful as the men dashed onto the field and surrounded a goalie.

The men told sheriff’s officials they ran onto the field as a prank and that they were bored, a sheriff’s report stated.

Of course Talking Points does not condone this “prank” … no matter how boring soccer may be.