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The buzz

By Times Staff Writer
Published March 13, 2005

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OVERRATED

The importance of having a good caddy

The Best Damn Sports Show, Period

HD TV (especially if you ain't got it)

UNDERRATED

UConn basketball coach Jim Calhoun

Every Breath You Take (1986)

WORLD WIDE WEIRD

Players from an Australian cricket team, the Nerrena Cricket Club, claim a rival squad fed them drug-laced cupcakes during an important game. "I thought, gee this is pretty good, they usually feed us c-p," Nerrena player Tim Clark said. He ate five cupcakes. Three of the players consumed the cakes, which they think were laced with marijuana. Nerrena lost by only 50 runs.

* * * A 34-year-old male high school coach in Oregon has been accused of licking the bleeding knee of a female athlete. The school district has placed the man on probation and required him to take a "bloodborne pathogens" course. * * *

An argument over a foul ended last week in Connecticut when the basketball coach at Waterford High was cuffed and hauled away in a police car. The incident began when the referee called a technical foul and the coach loudly protested. The ref reportedly asked the coach to sit, then an officer at the game and the coach exchanged words. A few moments later, several officers escorted him from the gymnasium. Just the kind of guy you want around kids, huh?

WHINE OF THE WEEK

"What is it with the people at (the University of Colorado)? There has been a constant coverup in the athletic department, and it goes even beyond the football team. The things one hears. From those one believes. Wrongdoings.

"No, I can't prove some of the allegations from parents whose kids went to school in Boulder or from parents who refused to send their sons and daughters to CU and from men who have worked in the athletic department or still are employed there, but the smell is like your sink when rotting eggs haven't been properly disposed of."

- Woody Paige, Denver Post

Times staff writer Keith Niebuhr compiled this report with information from other news sources.

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