The Water Cooler
By Bontã Hill
The Guardsman
Ladies and gentleman, I’ve got three words for you — Happy New Year. I hope everybody out there who actually wastes a moment of their life reading this had a great one.
Mine was okay, but the rumors circulating around the Ocean campus about whether the Cooler was coming back caused me to develop a case of insomnia. With a full load of classes, being sleep deprived is not one of my goals.
After having many heated discussions on whether the Water Cooler should return to The Guardsman, I finally bribed newly appointed editor-in-chief Alex Emslie into giving me five more months of fame.
Although I didn’t put this on my list of New Year resolutions, the Cooler has been filled with the coldest water yet to be served. I’ll be here with you all for the next five months, going through the stress of exams as well as watching the beautiful flowers blossom this spring.
Oh yeah, and I’ll continue to talk about that thing we call sports. I’ll try my best to quench your thirst this semester.
Idiot of the Week
It’s been about a month since we last spoke, and an awful lot has happened. Tiger Woods has supposedly been admitted to a sex addiction rehab clinic somewhere in Mississippi. There was the crumbling of the proposed mega fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao and Mark McGwire’s pitiful admission to using steroids during his 70 home run season in 1998.
Those three stories are all fascinating, but you only get the ink when you really do something absurd.
Did you happen to hear the news about Washington Wizards point guard Gilbert Arenas? If you haven’t you will now.
Arenas, the team’s franchise player who, just before the 2008-2009 season, signed a six-year deal worth $111 million, brought in four unloaded guns into his team’s locker room and has been suspended from NBA action indefinitely without pay.
Arenas and teammate Javaris Crittenton had unloaded guns in the Wizards’ locker room during a Christmas Eve argument regarding gambling debts. Supposedly Crittenton had a gun in the locker room that WAS loaded.
What makes the erroneous act by Arenas mind boggling is the fact that, during the pregame warm-ups to a game against the Philadelphia 76ers, he pretended to shoot his teammates with guns.
That’s smart, especially with the U.S. attorney’s office and D.C. metropolitan police investigating.
Not only is it against NBA rules to bring firearms inside an arena, but it violates D.C. ordinances as well. It also doesn’t help when you don’t have a gun license, which just happens to be another violation.
Now, if their was money owed to somebody, is it really that tough to scrap together some change and pay? I mean, Arenas has a $100 million contract. Is it really worth being stripped of playing the game you love and losing endorsement deals?
Apparently for Arenas it was, and his idiotic actions made him a unanimous choice to become a member in the Idiot Hall of Fame.
Misc…
Watching another football season come to a closure hurts as much as my roommate continuing to believe that JaMarcus Russell will be a star quarterback for the Oakland Raiders.
In saying that, Super Bowl XLIV is here, and it will pit the Indianapolis Colts against the New Orleans Saints. Nope, that’s not a typo, the Saints are going to the big show for the first time in franchise history.
These aren’t your granddaddy’s Saints. They throw out an offense that can score on any given play. I’m still putting my money on Peyton Manning.
He’ll have two weeks to break down a mediocre Saints defense and thus will hoist his second Lombardi Trophy. Colts 34-20 to win their franchise’s third Super Bowl.