THE (LET’S BE HONEST, ONLY) STORY EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT
Feeding Frenzy

The offseason, as we have noted, often offers scant fare for the chosen few who write about college basketball. So when the O.J. Mayo scandal hit the wire … well, the result wasn’t exactly pretty:

Shark Week 2008 - Sports media covering an offseason scandal.

We weren’t sure it was possible to extend food analogies with O.J. Mayo any further, but there you have it.

Everyone has thrown their own opinion into the mix - from the MSM (Luke Winn at SI, Gary Parrish at Sportsline, Adam Rose at the LAT, Michael Ventre at NBC Sports) to ye olde national bloggers (STF, The Dagger, Rush, and tons at Fanhouse.)

In the cacophony of tsking, Bruin Nation asks, when will the local paper start snooping around USC’s athletic program? Both the Bush and Mayo scandals were broken by national media, not than the LA Times. But the paper did report today that the NCAA has opened an investigation.

But amidst all this seriousness (or faux seriousness), we’d be lying if we didn’t say that our favorite part of all of this was licking up the tears of the vanquished. And in that light, we give you Conquest Chronicles as Paragon goes through the five stages of grief.