Southern Cal gets another free pass

[KillerNut]

Next years top basketball recruit OJ Mayo, whom commited to USC this year, got a free pass for a drug charge. Figures, nothing but a bunch of pre-madonnas.

ESPN.com - SPORTS/HIGHSCHOOL - Marijuana citation against O.J. Mayo dismissed (http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/highschool/news/story?id=2796613)

[gatorunvrsty]

Next years top basketball recruit OJ Mayo, whom commited to USC this year, got a free pass for a drug charge. Figures, nothing but a bunch of pre-madonnas.

ESPN.com - SPORTS/HIGHSCHOOL - Marijuana citation against O.J. Mayo dismissed (http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/highschool/news/story?id=2796613)

He wouldn't have even been charged with a crime in California. They're de-criminalizing marijuana possession. They hand out tickets like traffic citations, now.

[Cianne]

Most star HS athletes get free passes from the local authorities.

Case in point, five years ago, Quinton Culberson out of Provine HS in Jackson assaulted a plain clothes police officer when the officer told him that the Mississippi Coliseum was full (Provine was playing in the state basketball championship). All charges were dropped.

[uscrebel]

Next years top basketball recruit OJ Mayo, whom commited to USC this year, got a free pass for a drug charge. Figures, nothing but a bunch of pre-madonnas.

ESPN.com - SPORTS/HIGHSCHOOL - Marijuana citation against O.J. Mayo dismissed (http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/highschool/news/story?id=2796613)

The difference between a USC education and an OSU education is that we know that there is no such creature as a "pre-madonna." The only meaning that I would conjure for this is that O.J. Mayo is "before the Virgin Mary."

I think that your pathetic little vocabulary was seeking the term "prima donna." It is a term from Italian that means "the First Lady." In the operatic community it used to mean the woman with the major aria in a specific performance. Overtime, it became a term of derision to refer to a woman who thought herself to be arrogantly more important than others.

Despite all of this, I am particularly proud that the long arm of the USC athletic department has the influence to sway a magistrate's decision in West Virginia. I am also glad to see the resentment and envy that my alma mater creates in a state school half a continent away.

BTW, you'd better duck, I think I hear Woody Hayes winding up for another roundhouse. Oh, nope. My bad. It was just Urban Meyer spanking Jim Tressel again.