Thursday, March 02, 2006
God is apparently a basketball fan.
From last week, an article in the New York Times about sham prep schools whose only purpose is to give aspiring basketball players a bogus diploma to get them into college.
And what's so amusing about that? Well, the names of some of those bogus schools: Redemption Christian Academy, Lutheran Christian Academy, Genesis One Christian Academy, God's Academy, ...
Does anyone else see the common theme here?
AFTERSNARK: I'm thinking that, if you call your school "God's Academy," you best have one muthafuckin', kick-ass hoops team to back that up with.
SPEAKING OF REALLY DUMB ATHLETES, there's a raging controversy at the moment based on U of Texas superstar quarterback and Rose Bowl-winning Vince Young scoring disastrously low on the Wonderlic intelligence test at the recent NFL combine, as you can read here.
As you can read in that piece, out of a maximum of 50, most teams would like their potential quarterbacks to score in the 30s somewhere. According to reports out of the combine, Young scored a six on his first attempt, and a 16 on a re-test. This is for a college graduate.
Feel free to take a shot at some sample Wonderlic questions here.
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4 comments:
Religion as the ultimate scam...
Here we have just one example of this criminality.
You are wrong!!
Vince Young never graduated. He left in his final year to enter the draft.
That aside, I think I could pass this test while handcuffed and blindfolded underwater.
What makes anyone think that these "schools" had anything to do with religion? Seems to me they were exploiting religion in order to have a name that would make people less inclined to question them.
Other bogus "schools" from the article:
-University High School in Miami: I guess this means universities and high schools are "the ultimate scam!" This is "just one example of this criminality!"
-Eldon Academy: had classes in a bookstore. Bookstores are a scam! Also used a classroom at a community college. Community colleges are a scam!
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