Long before kneeling knuckleheads and multiple anthems, the NCAA Tournament commenced in 1939, which was one year after the NIT triggered national postseason competition. An overlooked "versatile athlete" feat occurring in 1938 likely never to be duplicated took place at Arkansas, where the quarterback for the football squad (Jack Robbins) repeated as an All-SWC first-team basketball selection, leading the Razorbacks (19-3) to the league title. After the season, Robbins became an NFL first-round draft choice by the Chicago Cardinals (5th pick overall) and senior football/basketball teammates Jim Benton (11th pick by Cleveland Rams) and Ray Hamilton (41st pick by Rams) went on to become wide receivers for at least six years in the NFL. Yes, they created a kneeling-in-admiration shatterproof achievement - three do-everything members of a league championship basketball squad who promptly were among the top 41 selections in the same NFL draft.

Two years later, All-SWC first-team hoop selection Howard "Red" Hickey was instrumental in Arkansas reaching the 1941 Final Four before becoming an end for the Cleveland Rams' 1945 NFL titlist. Two-sport college teammate and fellow end O'Neal Adams scored five touchdowns for the New York Giants the first half of the 1940s. Another two-sport Hog who played for the Giants in the mid-1940s was Harry Wynne. An earlier versatile Razorback was Jim Lee Howell, who was an All-SWC first five hoop selection in 1935-36 before becoming a starting end for the Giants' 1938 NFL titlist and Pro Bowl participant the next year. Adams, Benton, Hamilton, Hickey and Howell combined for 77 touchdowns in an 11-year span from 1938 through 1948 when at least one of the ex-Razorback hoopers scored a TD in each of those seasons.

Hickey and ex-Hog All-SWC second-team hooper in 1929-30/NFL end Milan Creighton each coached NFL franchises. Many other ex-college hoopers also displayed their wares on the gridiron. Following is exhaustive research you can tackle regarding former college basketball players who made a name for themselves on September 23 in football at the professional level (especially in 1962 and ex-hoopers with Giants):

SEPTEMBER 23

• Chicago Cardinals rookie QB Paul Collins (All-Big Six Conference first-team hoops selection for Missouri in 1943-44) made his lone NFL start (10-0 setback vs. Detroit Lions in 1945).

• Detroit Lions QB Fred Enke (three-year All-Border Conference first-team hoops selection under his father at Arizona was co-captain as senior in 1947-48) threw two touchdown passes in a 27-24 setback against the Los Angeles Rams in 1949 season opener. Rams E Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch (starting hoops center for Michigan in 1944) scored two TDs.

• San Diego Chargers TE Antonio Gates (second-team All-MAC selection in 2002 when Kent State finished runner-up in South Regional) caught 11 passes for 113 yards in a 31-24 setback against the Green Bay Packers in 2007.

• New York Giants' Dave Jennings (forward averaged 5.9 ppg for St. Lawrence NY in 1972-73 and 1973-74) punted six times for a 46.7-yard average in 17-14 win against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1984.

• Philadelphia Eagles DB Joe Lavender (averaged 13.4 ppg and 6.6 rpg for San Diego State in 1969-70 and 1970-71) returned a fumble recovery 96 yards for touchdown in 13-10 win against the Dallas Cowboys in 1974.

• Pittsburgh Steelers QB Bobby Layne (Texas hooper in 1944-45) threw two second-quarter touchdown passes in a 30-28 win against the Dallas Cowboys in 1962. Steelers LB George Tarasovic (led NLU forerunner Northeast Junior College LA with 21 ppg in 1950-51) returned an interception 37 yards. Cowboys FB J.W. Lockett (three-year hoops letterman led Central Oklahoma with 8.8 rpg in 1958-59) opened the game's scoring with a 29-yard TD pass reception from Eddie LeBaron.

• Baltimore Colts TE Dee Mackey (All-Lone Star Conference first-team hoops selection for East Texas State and member of NAIA All-Tournament team as senior) caught two touchdown passes in a 34-7 win against the Minnesota Vikings in 1962.

• Philadelphia Eagles QB Donovan McNabb (averaged 2.3 points in 18 games for Syracuse in 1995-96 and 1996-97) threw two second-quarter touchdown passes in a 27-3 win against the Seattle Seahawks in 2001. Six years later, McNabb passed for 381 yards - including four first-half TDs - in a 56-21 win against the Detroit Lions in 2007.

• Miami Dolphins rookie RB Jerris McPhail (starting point guard for Mount Olive NC with 11 ppg in early 1990s) returned two kickoffs for 70 yards in a 10-6 setback against the Indianapolis Colts in 1996.

• Frankfort Yellow Jackets B Ken Mercer (three-year hoops letterman as Simpson IA forward) scored two touchdowns in a 19-9 win against the Green Bay Packers in 1928 season opener.

• Dallas Cowboys WR Terrell Owens (UTC hooper from 1993-94 through 1995-96 started five games) had eight pass receptions for 145 yards in a 34-10 win against the Chicago Bears in 2007.

• New York Giants E Ray Poole (Ole Miss' leading hoops scorer in 1942-43 with 12.3 ppg) provided a fumble recovery for touchdown in 27-7 win against the Boston Yanks in 1948 season opener.

• St. Louis Cardinals WR Sonny Randle (scoreless in seven basketball games in Virginia's third season in ACC in 1955-56) caught three second-half touchdown passes in a 43-21 win against the Los Angeles Rams in 1960 season opener.

• Atlanta Falcons WR Andre Rison (backup hoops guard for Michigan State in 1987-88 under coach Jud Heathcote) had 11 pass receptions in a 19-13 setback against the San Francisco 49ers in 1990.

• Detroit Lions WR Freddie Scott (averaged 5.3 ppg as sophomore forward for Amherst MA in 1972-73) opened game's scoring with a touchdown reception in 24-23 win against the Atlanta Falcons in 1979.

• New York Giants WR Del Shofner (Baylor hoops letterman in 1956) caught two first-half touchdown passes from Y.A. Tittle (69 and 56 yards) in a 29-13 win against the Philadelphia Eagles in 1962.

• Denver Broncos WR Rod Smith (swingman was Missouri Southern State hoops letterman as sophomore in 1990-91) caught 14 passes for 162 yards - including two touchdowns from Brian Griese - in a 38-17 win against the Arizona Cardinals in 2001.

Long before kneeling knuckleheads and multiple anthems, the NCAA Tournament commenced in 1939, which was one year after the NIT triggered national postseason competition. An overlooked "versatile athlete" feat occurring in 1938 likely never to be duplicated took place at Arkansas, where the quarterback for the football squad (Jack Robbins) repeated as an All-SWC first-team basketball selection, leading the Razorbacks (19-3) to the league title. After the season, Robbins became an NFL first-round draft choice by the Chicago Cardinals (5th pick overall) and senior football/basketball teammates Jim Benton (11th pick by Cleveland Rams) and Ray Hamilton (41st pick by Rams) went on to become wide receivers for at least six years in the NFL. Yes, they created a kneeling-in-admiration shatterproof achievement - three do-everything members of a league championship basketball squad who promptly were among the top 41 selections in the same NFL draft.

Two years later, All-SWC first-team hoop selection Howard "Red" Hickey was instrumental in Arkansas reaching the 1941 Final Four before becoming an end for the Cleveland Rams' 1945 NFL titlist. Two-sport college teammate and fellow end O'Neal Adams scored five touchdowns for the New York Giants the first half of the 1940s. Another two-sport Hog who played for the Giants in the mid-1940s was Harry Wynne. An earlier versatile Razorback was Jim Lee Howell, who was an All-SWC first five hoop selection in 1935-36 before becoming a starting end for the Giants' 1938 NFL titlist and Pro Bowl participant the next year. Adams, Benton, Hamilton, Hickey and Howell combined for 77 touchdowns in an 11-year span from 1938 through 1948 when at least one of the ex-Razorback hoopers scored a TD in each of those seasons.

Hickey and ex-Hog All-SWC second-team hooper in 1929-30/NFL end Milan Creighton each coached NFL franchises. Many other ex-college hoopers also displayed their wares on the gridiron. Following is exhaustive research you can tackle regarding former college basketball players who made a name for themselves on September 22 in football at the professional level (especially in 1963, 1968 and 2013 plus ex-hoopers with the Bears):

SEPTEMBER 22

• Green Bay Packers WR Don Beebe (Aurora College IL junior varsity hooper in 1983-84) delivered a career-long 80-yard touchdown reception from Brett Favre in 30-21 setback against the Minnesota Vikings in 1996.

• Chicago Bears TE Martellus Bennett (averaged 1.9 ppg and 1.5 rpg as Texas A&M freshman in 2005-06 before playing briefly next season under coach Billy Gillispie) had two touchdown receptions in a 27-19 win against the New York Jets in 2014.

• Cleveland Browns FB Jim Brown (averaged 14 ppg for Syracuse as sophomore and 11.3 as junior in mid-1950s) had two long rushing touchdowns - 71 and 62 en route to finishing with 232 yards on 20 carries - in a 41-24 win against the Dallas Cowboys in 1963.

• New York Giants B Dale Burnett (two-time all-conference hooper for Emporia State KS) caught two touchdown passes (45 and 25 yards) in a 42-7 win against the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1935 season opener. Giants TB Ed Danowski (Fordham hoops letterman in 1932-33) threw two of his league-high 10 TD passes,

• Cleveland Browns TE Jordan Cameron (redshirt freshman forward for BYU in 2006-07 before playing briefly for Southern California in 2008-09 under coach Tim Floyd) caught three touchdown passes in a 31-27 win against the Minnesota Vikings in 2013.

• Chicago Bears TE Mike Ditka (averaged 2.8 ppg and 2.6 rpg for Pittsburgh in 1958-59 and 1959-60) caught eight passes for 124 yards - including two touchdowns - in a 28-7 win against the Minnesota Vikings in 1963.

• New Orleans Saints TE Jimmy Graham (part-time starter for Miami FL averaged 4.2 ppg and 4.2 rpg from 2005-06 through 2008-09) caught nine passes for 134 yards - including two of his NFL-high 16 touchdown receptions from Drew Brees - in a 31-7 win against the Arizona Cardinals in 2013.

• Cleveland Browns QB Otto Graham (Big Ten Conference runner-up in scoring as Northwestern sophomore in 1941-42 and junior in 1942-43) threw two first-quarter touchdown passes in a 28-0 AAFC win against the Buffalo Bisons in 1946.

• Carolina Panthers DE Greg Hardy (Mississippi backup forward as freshman in 2006-07) had three sacks and five tackles in a 38-0 victory against the New York Giants in 2013.

• Philadelphia Eagles QB King Hill (Rice hoops letterman in 1955-56 and 1956-57) threw a 92-yard touchdown pass to Ben Hawkins in 34-25 setback against the New York Giants in 1968.

• St. Louis Cardinals QB Charley Johnson (transferred from Schreiner J.C. to New Mexico State to play hoops before concentrating on football) threw three touchdown passes in a 28-24 win against the Philadelphia Eagles in 1963. Two of the TD passes were in the second half to WR Sonny Randle (scoreless in seven basketball games in Virginia's third season in ACC in 1955-56). Eleven years later with the Denver Broncos, Johnson threw two first-quarter TD passes in a 35-35 tie with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1974.

• Pittsburgh Steelers RB John Henry Johnson (made 5-of-8 FGAs in five games for Saint Mary's in 1950-51) rushed for 123 yards on 24 carries in a 31-0 win against the New York Giants in 1963.

• Green Bay Packers RB Aaron Jones (collected six points and six assists in eight basketball games for Texas-El Paso in 2013-14 under coach Tim Floyd) rushed for two touchdowns in a 27-16 win against the Denver Broncos in 2019.

• New Orleans Saints QB Billy Kilmer (hooper under legendary UCLA coach John Wooden in 1959-60) threw two second-half touchdown passes in a 37-17 win against the Washington Redskins in 1968.

• Baltimore Colts FB J.W. Lockett (three-year hoops letterman led Central Oklahoma with 8.8 rpg in 1958-59) had a career-high five pass receptions in 20-14 win against the San Francisco 49ers in 1963.

• Atlanta Falcons WR Bob Long (Wichita State hooper in 1960-61 and 1961-62 under coach Ralph Miller) caught a 71-yard touchdown pass in 28-20 setback against the Baltimore Colts in 1968.

• San Francisco 49ers WR Kay McFarland (three-year hoops letterman for Colorado State was honorable mention UPI All-Skyline Conference selection in 1961) had a career-long touchdown reception of 43 yards from George Mira in 35-17 win against the St. Louis Cardinals in 1968.

• A 29-yard touchdown reception by TE Keith McKeller (starting center for Jacksonville State's 1985 NCAA Division II championship team led Gulf South Conference in rebounding each of his first three seasons and finished second as senior) from Jim Kelly in the fourth quarter gave the Buffalo Bills a 17-10 win against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1991.

• Philadelphia Eagles QB Donovan McNabb (averaged 2.3 points in 18 games for Syracuse in 1995-96 and 1996-97) threw three touchdown passes in a 44-13 win against the Dallas Cowboys in 2002.

• Chicago Bears B Ray Nolting (Cincinnati letterman in 1936) returned kickoff 97 yards for a touchdown in 41-10 win against the Green Bay Packers in 1940 season opener.

• Chicago Bears DE Julius Peppers (averaged 5.7 ppg and 3.7 rpg while shooting 60.7% from floor for North Carolina in 1999-00 and 2000-01) returned a fumble recovery 42 yards for touchdown in 40-23 win against the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2013.

• Oakland Raiders WR Art Powell (averaged 10.5 ppg and 8.2 rpg for San Jose State in 1956-57) caught eight passes for 150 yards in a 20-14 AFL setback against the Boston Patriots in 1963.

• Philadelphia Eagles HB Bosh Pritchard (four-sport letterman for VMI) accounted for the game's only score with a 16-yard rushing touchdown in 7-0 win against the New York Bulldogs in 1949 season opener.

• Jacksonville Jaguars WR Andre Rison (backup hoops guard for Michigan State in 1987-88) caught two third-quarter touchdown passes from Mark Brunell (41 and 61 yards) in a 28-25 setback against the New England Patriots in 1996.

• First NFL reception for Miami Dolphins rookie TE Dion Sims (played one basketball game with Michigan State under coach Tom Izzo in 2009-10) was a game-winning touchdown with 38 seconds remaining in 27-23 win against the Atlanta Falcons in 2013.

• Kansas City Chiefs FL Otis Taylor (backup small forward for Prairie View A&M) caught two fourth-quarter touchdown passes in a 34-2 AFL win against the Denver Broncos in 1968.

• San Francisco 49ers E Bob Titchenal (San Jose State hoops letterman in 1939) had a 42-yard pass reception for touchdown in 32-13 AAFC win against the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1946.

Long before kneeling knuckleheads and multiple anthems, the NCAA Tournament commenced in 1939, which was one year after the NIT triggered national postseason competition. An overlooked "versatile athlete" feat occurring in 1938 likely never to be duplicated took place at Arkansas, where the quarterback for the football squad (Jack Robbins) repeated as an All-SWC first-team basketball selection, leading the Razorbacks (19-3) to the league title. After the season, Robbins became an NFL first-round draft choice by the Chicago Cardinals (5th pick overall) and senior football/basketball teammates Jim Benton (11th pick by Cleveland Rams) and Ray Hamilton (41st pick by Rams) went on to become wide receivers for at least six years in the NFL. Yes, they created a kneeling-in-admiration shatterproof achievement - three do-everything members of a league championship basketball squad who promptly were among the top 41 selections in the same NFL draft.

Two years later, All-SWC first-team hoop selection Howard "Red" Hickey was instrumental in Arkansas reaching the 1941 Final Four before becoming an end for the Cleveland Rams' 1945 NFL titlist. Two-sport college teammate and fellow end O'Neal Adams scored five touchdowns for the New York Giants the first half of the 1940s. Another two-sport Hog who played for the Giants in the mid-1940s was Harry Wynne. An earlier versatile Razorback was Jim Lee Howell, who was an All-SWC first five hoop selection in 1935-36 before becoming a starting end for the Giants' 1938 NFL titlist and Pro Bowl participant the next year. Adams, Benton, Hamilton, Hickey and Howell combined for 77 touchdowns in an 11-year span from 1938 through 1948 when at least one of the ex-Razorback hoopers scored a TD in each of those seasons.

Hickey and ex-Hog All-SWC second-team hooper in 1929-30/NFL end Milan Creighton each coached NFL franchises. Many other ex-college hoopers also displayed their wares on the gridiron. Following is exhaustive research you can tackle regarding former college basketball players who made a name for themselves on September 21 in football at the professional level (especially in 1997 and ex-hoopers with the Broncos):

SEPTEMBER 21

• Dallas Cowboys TE Billy Joe Dupree (scored four points in total of four basketball games for Michigan State in 1971-72) caught two nine-yard touchdown passes from QB Danny White in a 28-17 win against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1980.

• Miami Dolphins QB Bob Griese (sophomore hoops guard for Purdue in 1964-65) threw two fourth-quarter touchdown passes in a 20-17 win against the Atlanta Falcons in 1980.

• San Diego Chargers SS Rodney Harrison (averaged 7.4 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 3 apg and 1.6 spg for Western Illinois in 1992-93) returned an interception 75 yards for touchdown in 26-22 setback against the Seattle Seahawks in 1997.

• Minnesota Vikings QB Brad Johnson (part-time starting forward for Florida State as freshman in 1987-88 when averaging 5.9 ppg and shooting 89.1% from free-throw line) threw three second-half touchdown passes in a 38-32 setback against the Green Bay Packers in 1997. Six years later with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Johnson threw two second-quarter TD passes in a 31-10 win against the Atlanta Falcons in 2003.

• Denver Broncos QB Charley Johnson (transferred from Schreiner J.C. to New Mexico State to play hoops before concentrating on football) passed for 329 yards and three touchdowns in a 37-33 win against the Kansas City Chiefs in 1975 season opener.

• Washington Redskins QB Billy Kilmer (hooper under legendary UCLA coach John Wooden in 1959-60) threw four touchdown passes in a 41-3 win against the New Orleans Saints in 1975 season opener.

• San Francisco 49ers RB Terry Kirby (averaged 3.4 ppg as Virginia freshman in 1989-90 and 2.1 as sophomore in 1990-91) rushed for two touchdowns in a 34-7 win against the Atlanta Falcons in 1997.

• Cleveland Browns TE Oscar Roan (averaged 5.8 ppg and 4.3 rpg for SMU in 1973-74) debuted with what became a career-high six pass receptions in 24-17 setback against the Cincinnati Bengals in 1975 season opener.

• Denver Broncos WR Rod Smith (swingman was Missouri Southern State hoops letterman as sophomore in 1990-91) caught two touchdown passes from John Elway in a 38-20 win against the Cincinnati Bengals in 1997. Broncos DE Alfred Williams (Colorado hooper in 1989-90) returned a fumble recovery 51 yards for TD.

• Dallas Cowboys rookie QB Roger Staubach (Navy varsity hooper in 1962-63) opened the game's scoring with a 75-yard touchdown pass to Lance Rentzel in 24-3 win against the St. Louis Cardinals in 1969 season opener.

• Denver Broncos SE Lionel Taylor (led New Mexico Highlands in scoring average with 13.6 ppg in 1955-56 and 20.3 in 1956-57) had 12 of his AFL-leading 77 pass receptions in a 41-16 setback against the Boston Patriots in 1962.

Long before kneeling knuckleheads and multiple anthems, the NCAA Tournament commenced in 1939, which was one year after the NIT triggered national postseason competition. An overlooked "versatile athlete" feat occurring in 1938 likely never to be duplicated took place at Arkansas, where the quarterback for the football squad (Jack Robbins) repeated as an All-SWC first-team basketball selection, leading the Razorbacks (19-3) to the league title. After the season, Robbins became an NFL first-round draft choice by the Chicago Cardinals (5th pick overall) and senior football/basketball teammates Jim Benton (11th pick by Cleveland Rams) and Ray Hamilton (41st pick by Rams) went on to become wide receivers for at least six years in the NFL. Yes, they created a kneeling-in-admiration shatterproof achievement - three do-everything members of a league championship basketball squad who promptly were among the top 41 selections in the same NFL draft.

Two years later, All-SWC first-team hoop selection Howard "Red" Hickey was instrumental in Arkansas reaching the 1941 Final Four before becoming an end for the Cleveland Rams' 1945 NFL titlist. Two-sport college teammate and fellow end O'Neal Adams scored five touchdowns for the New York Giants the first half of the 1940s. Another two-sport Hog who played for the Giants in the mid-1940s was Harry Wynne. An earlier versatile Razorback was Jim Lee Howell, who was an All-SWC first five hoop selection in 1935-36 before becoming a starting end for the Giants' 1938 NFL titlist and Pro Bowl participant the next year. Adams, Benton, Hamilton, Hickey and Howell combined for 77 touchdowns in an 11-year span from 1938 through 1948 when at least one of the ex-Razorback hoopers scored a TD in each of those seasons.

Hickey and ex-Hog All-SWC second-team hooper in 1929-30/NFL end Milan Creighton each coached NFL franchises. Many other ex-college hoopers also displayed their wares on the gridiron. Following is exhaustive research you can tackle regarding former college basketball players who made a name for themselves on September 20 in football at the professional level (especially in 1964 and by Packers RB Aaron Jones in back-to-back years):

SEPTEMBER 20

• New York Giants DB Erich Barnes (played hoops briefly for Purdue as sophomore in 1955-56) opened the game's scoring by returning an interception 26 yards for touchdown against the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1964.

• Boston Braves RB Cliff Battles (four seasons of varsity hoops for West Virginia Wesleyan) rushed for two touchdowns - one of them 65 yards - in a 26-3 win against the Philadelphia Eagles in 1936.

• Rookie E Harry Burrus (three-year hoops letterman in early 1940s for Hardin-Simmons TX) opened the New York Yankees' scoring by catching a 19-yard touchdown pass in 17-17 AAFC tie against the Chicago Rockets in 1946. A 36-yard TD reception in fourth quarter for Rockets rookie HB Bill Boedeker (teammate of DePaul All-American George Mikan in mid-1940s) knotted the score.

• Green Bay Packers RB Paul Hornung (averaged 6.1 ppg in 10 contests for Notre Dame in 1954-55) rushed for two first-half touchdowns in a 21-20 setback against the Baltimore Colts in 1964.

• San Diego Chargers WR Vincent Jackson (Northern Colorado's leading scorer with 13.6 ppg in 2003-04 while also contributing 5.6 rpg and 3.1 apg) caught six passes for 141 yards in a 31-26 setback against the Baltimore Ravens in 2009.

• St. Louis Cardinals QB Charley Johnson (transferred from Schreiner J.C. to New Mexico State to play hoops before concentrating on football) threw three touchdown passes in a 33-33 tie against the Cleveland Browns in 1964. Two of the TD passes were in the second half to WR Sonny Randle (scoreless in seven basketball games in Virginia's third season in ACC in 1955-56). Six years later with the Houston Oilers, Johnson threw two first-half TD passes in a 19-7 win against the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1970.

• Green Bay Packers RB Aaron Jones (collected six points and six assists in eight basketball games for Texas-El Paso in 2013-14 under coach Tim Floyd) scored three touchdowns (including 75-yard run from scrimmage en route to career-high 168 yards) in a 42-21 win against the Detroit Lions in 2020. The next year, Jones scored four TDs (one rushing/three receiving from QB Aaron Rodgers) in a 35-17 nod over the Lions in 2021.

• Kansas City Chiefs LB Frank Manumaleuga (San Jose State hooper in 1978-79) had two interceptions in a 42-31 setback against the San Diego Chargers in 1981.

• Philadelphia Eagles QB Norm Snead (averaged 7.8 ppg in four Wake Forest games as senior in 1960-61) threw two second-half touchdown passes in a 28-24 setback against the San Francisco 49ers in 1964.

• WR Kitrick Taylor (Washington State hooper in 1984-85 and 1986-87) caught 35-yard touchdown pass from Brett Favre in the fourth quarter to give the Green Bay Packers a 24-23 win against the Cincinnati Bengals in 1992.

• Cincinnati Bengals rookie KR David Verser (played five basketball games for Kansas in 1977-78 under coach Ted Owens) returned two kickoffs for 95 yards in a 20-17 setback against the Cleveland Browns in 1981.

Long before kneeling knuckleheads and multiple anthems, the NCAA Tournament commenced in 1939, which was one year after the NIT triggered national postseason competition. An overlooked "versatile athlete" feat occurring in 1938 likely never to be duplicated took place at Arkansas, where the quarterback for the football squad (Jack Robbins) repeated as an All-SWC first-team basketball selection, leading the Razorbacks (19-3) to the league title. After the season, Robbins became an NFL first-round draft choice by the Chicago Cardinals (5th pick overall) and senior football/basketball teammates Jim Benton (11th pick by Cleveland Rams) and Ray Hamilton (41st pick by Rams) went on to become wide receivers for at least six years in the NFL. Yes, they created a kneeling-in-admiration shatterproof achievement - three do-everything members of a league championship basketball squad who promptly were among the top 41 selections in the same NFL draft.

Two years later, All-SWC first-team hoop selection Howard "Red" Hickey was instrumental in Arkansas reaching the 1941 Final Four before becoming an end for the Cleveland Rams' 1945 NFL titlist. Two-sport college teammate and fellow end O'Neal Adams scored five touchdowns for the New York Giants the first half of the 1940s. Another two-sport Hog who played for the Giants in the mid-1940s was Harry Wynne. An earlier versatile Razorback was Jim Lee Howell, who was an All-SWC first five hoop selection in 1935-36 before becoming a starting end for the Giants' 1938 NFL titlist and Pro Bowl participant the next year. Adams, Benton, Hamilton, Hickey and Howell combined for 77 touchdowns in an 11-year span from 1938 through 1948 when at least one of the ex-Razorback hoopers scored a TD in each of those seasons.

Hickey and ex-Hog All-SWC second-team hooper in 1929-30/NFL end Milan Creighton each coached NFL franchises. Many other ex-college hoopers also displayed their wares on the gridiron. Following is exhaustive research you can tackle regarding former college basketball players who made a name for themselves on September 19 in football at the professional level (especially in 1947 plus ex-hoopers who became QBs for the Redskins):

SEPTEMBER 19

• Buffalo Bills WR Marlin Briscoe (averaged 9.5 ppg and 3.6 rpg for Nebraska-Omaha in 1964-65) caught two touchdown passes - one of them for 75 yards - in a 49-37 setback against the Dallas Cowboys in 1971 season opener.

• New York Jets TE Tyler Conklin (Northwood MI hooper in 2013-14 before transferring to Central Michigan to concentrate on football) contributed a career-high 93 receiving yards (one five pass receptions) in a 24-3 win against the New England Patriots in 2024.

• WR George Farmer (teammate of UCLA legend Lew Alcindor in 1968-69) caught fourth-quarter touchdown pass to give the Chicago Bears a 17-15 win against the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1971 season opener.

• San Diego Chargers TE Antonio Gates (second-team All-MAC selection in 2002 when Kent State finished runner-up in South Regional) caught two second-quarter touchdown passes from Philip Rivers in a 38-13 win against the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2010.

• Los Angeles Dons E Dale Gentry (averaged 5.3 ppg for Washington State's 1941 NCAA Tournament runner-up) caught a 54-yard touchdown pass in 48-21 AAFC win against the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

• Chicago Rockets E Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch (starting center for Michigan in 1944) caught two touchdown passes - one for 76 yards - in a 31-14 AAFC setback against the Buffalo Bills in 1947. Bills rookie QB George Ratterman (third-leading scorer with 11.7 ppg for Notre Dame in 1944-45) threw four TD passes (one in each quarter).

• Washington Redskins QB Brad Johnson (part-time starting forward for Florida State as freshman in 1987-88 when averaging 5.9 ppg and shooting 89.1% from free-throw line) threw three touchdown passes in a 50-21 win against the New York Giants in 1999.

• St. Louis Cardinals QB Charley Johnson (transferred from Schreiner J.C. to New Mexico State to play hoops before concentrating on football) passed for 383 yards - including three touchdowns - in a 34-27 setback against the Philadelphia Eagles in 1965 season opener.

• Washington Redskins QB Billy Kilmer (hooper under legendary UCLA coach John Wooden in 1959-60) threw three touchdown passes in a 31-7 win against the Seattle Seahawks in 1976.

• Washington Redskins QB Donovan McNabb (averaged 2.3 points in 18 games for Syracuse in 1995-96 and 1996-97) passed for 426 yards in a 30-27 setback against the Houston Texans in 2010.

• Miami Dolphins LB Quentin Moses (played in three basketball games for Georgia in 2002-03 under coach Jim Harrick) contributed a career-high four solo tackles in 14-10 win against the Minnesota Vikings in 2010.

• San Francisco 49ers WR Terrell Owens (UTC hooper from 1993-94 through 1995-96 started five games) caught two touchdown passes from Steve Young in a 28-21 win against the New Orleans Saints in 1999.

• First touchdown for rookie WR Bucky Pope (two-time All-Carolinas Conference hoops pick for Catawba NC averaged 19.4 ppg from 1961-62 through 1963-64) opened the Los Angeles Rams' scoring with a 65-yard pass reception from Bill Munson in 17-17 tie against the Detroit Lions in 1964.

• Atlanta Falcons WR Andre Rison (backup hoops guard for Michigan State in 1987-88) caught three touchdown passes from Bobby Hebert in a 37-30 setback against the San Francisco 49ers in 1993.

• Denver Broncos WR Courtland Sutton (SMU hooper for three games in 2015-16 under coach Larry Brown) collected career highs of nine pass receptions and 159 receiving yards in a 23-13 win against the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2021.

• Denver Broncos SE Lionel Taylor (led New Mexico Highlands in scoring average with 13.6 ppg in 1955-56 and 20.3 in 1956-57) had nine pass receptions for 172 yards in a 30-15 AFL setback against the Buffalo Bills in 1965.

Long before kneeling knuckleheads and multiple anthems, the NCAA Tournament commenced in 1939, which was one year after the NIT triggered national postseason competition. An overlooked "versatile athlete" feat occurring in 1938 likely never to be duplicated took place at Arkansas, where the quarterback for the football squad (Jack Robbins) repeated as an All-SWC first-team basketball selection, leading the Razorbacks (19-3) to the league title. After the season, Robbins became an NFL first-round draft choice by the Chicago Cardinals (5th pick overall) and senior football/basketball teammates Jim Benton (11th pick by Cleveland Rams) and Ray Hamilton (41st pick by Rams) went on to become wide receivers for at least six years in the NFL. Yes, they created a kneeling-in-admiration shatterproof achievement - three do-everything members of a league championship basketball squad who promptly were among the top 41 selections in the same NFL draft.

Two years later, All-SWC first-team hoop selection Howard "Red" Hickey was instrumental in Arkansas reaching the 1941 Final Four before becoming an end for the Cleveland Rams' 1945 NFL titlist. Two-sport college teammate and fellow end O'Neal Adams scored five touchdowns for the New York Giants the first half of the 1940s. Another two-sport Hog who played for the Giants in the mid-1940s was Harry Wynne. An earlier versatile Razorback was Jim Lee Howell, who was an All-SWC first five hoop selection in 1935-36 before becoming a starting end for the Giants' 1938 NFL titlist and Pro Bowl participant the next year. Adams, Benton, Hamilton, Hickey and Howell combined for 77 touchdowns in an 11-year span from 1938 through 1948 when at least one of the ex-Razorback hoopers scored a TD in each of those seasons.

Hickey and ex-Hog All-SWC second-team hooper in 1929-30/NFL end Milan Creighton each coached NFL franchises. Many other ex-college hoopers also displayed their wares on the gridiron. Following is exhaustive research you can tackle regarding former college basketball players who made a name for themselves on September 18 in football at the professional level (especially in 1966 plus ex-NCAA Tournament hoopers Donovan McNabb and Terrell Owens hooking up for two first-half TDs with the Eagles in 2005):

SEPTEMBER 18

• Buffalo Bills FL Elbert Dubenion (solid rebounder and defensive player for Bluffton OH in late 1950s) caught two touchdown passes (53 and 40 yards) in a 27-21 setback against the Denver Broncos in AFL's inaugural season in 1960.

• Atlanta Falcons TE Tony Gonzalez (averaged 6.4 ppg and 4.3 rpg for California from 1994-95 through 1996-97) caught two touchdown passes in a 35-31 win against the Philadelphia Eagles in 2011.

• Dallas Cowboys CB Cornell Green (Utah State's all-time leading scorer and rebounder when career ended in 1961-62) had two interceptions - returning one of them 41 yards for touchdown - in a 52-7 win against the New York Giants in 1966 season opener.

• Rookie QB Randy Hedberg (three-time All-NDCAC hooper for Minot State ND from 1975 through 1977) started 1977 season opener for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers when they lost to Philadelphia Eagles, 13-3.

• San Diego Chargers WR Vincent Jackson (Northern Colorado's leading scorer with 13.6 ppg in 2003-04 while also contributing 5.6 rpg and 3.1 apg) caught 10 passes for 172 yards - including two fourth-quarter touchdowns from Philip Rivers - in a 35-21 setback against the New England Patriots in 2011.

• Green Bay Packers RB Aaron Jones (collected six points and six assists in eight UTEP basketball games as freshman in 2013-14 under coach Tim Floyd) rushed for 132 yards on 15 carries in a 27-10 win against the Chicago Bears in 2022.

• Baltimore Colts TE John Mackey (Syracuse hooper in 1960-61) caught two touchdown passes from Johnny Unitas (83 and 26 yards) in a 38-23 win against the Minnesota Vikings in 1966.

• New York Giants DE George Martin (Oregon teammate of freshman basketball sensation Ron Lee in 1972-73) returned an interception 30 yards for touchdown in 20-17 win against the Washington Redskins in 1977 season opener.

• Philadelphia Eagles QB Donovan McNabb (averaged 2.3 points in 18 games for Syracuse in 1995-96 and 1996-97) completed 23-of-29 passes for 342 yards and five touchdowns - including two in first half to WR Terrell Owens (UTC hooper from 1993-94 through 1995-96 started five games) - in a 42-3 win against the San Francisco 49ers in 2005.

• Cleveland Browns WR Evan Moore (Stanford hooper in 2003-04 and 2004-05 under coach Mike Montgomery) had a second-quarter touchdown reception from Colt McCoy in each of first two contests in 2011.

• Oakland Raiders WR Art Powell (averaged 10.5 ppg and 8.2 rpg for San Jose State in 1956-57) caught nine passes for 133 yards in a 32-10 AFL setback against the Kansas City Chiefs in 1966.

• DB Wayne Rasmussen (MVP in 1963 NCAA College Division Tournament for South Dakota State) had an interception in each of the Detroit Lions' first two games in 1966.

• New York Jets DB Johnny Sample (freshman hooper for Maryland-Eastern Shore in mid-1950s) had two interceptions in his second straight AFL game in 1966.

• Denver Broncos WR Courtland Sutton (SMU hooper for three games in 2015-16 under coach Larry Brown) caught seven passes for 122 yards in a 16-9 win against the Houston Texans in 2022.

An ugly but consequential topic raised its head as a former NCAA Division I player became a central figure before rap icon Sean "Diddy" Combs, mirroring pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's sordid activity, was arrested upon unsealing of an indictment. Brendan Paul, a walk-on who was former Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim's son (Buddy) prep school teammate, played in 16 games for the Orange in 2018-19 and 2019-20 (first points came from three-pointer against Pittsburgh) before transferring to Fairmont State WV (1.3 ppg in 23 contests in 2021-22). Paul agreed to a plea deal (diversion program lasting six months) to avoid prison after music producer ("The Love Album") and alleged drug "mule" for rap mogul Combs was arrested in Miami six months earlier in late March 2024.

Paul was charged with possession of cocaine and possession of a controlled substance (edibles) after the feds intercepted Diddy's plane at a Miami airport amid raids at his mansions in Los Angeles and Miami. It is unclear to what extent Paul, who reportedly once triggered a separate plane delivery upon forgetting to bring tusi (combination of ecstasy and cocaine) to a music festival in Virginia for his boss, may have cooperated in elaborate Diddy depravity testimony with the feds. Combs, the life of lavish NBA All-Star Weekend parties for many years, partnered with the league to host an All-Style fashion show. "I think I created a very cool, sexy atmosphere that was a little bit different," Diddy told Bleacher Report. He has been embroiled in a dozen lawsuits (reportedly in excess of 120 sexual-abuse victims including more than 20 children with one as young as nine years old) accusing him of vile sex trafficking and sexual abuse featuring horse tranquilizer. Meanwhile, degenerate diddler also launched "Vote or Die!" campaigns to support Democrats (see his video of interview with #QueenofDenial #ShrillaryRotten at 2004 DNC Convention).

A civil lawsuit case stated Paul financially benefitted when he "aided and abetted" trafficking venture for Combs and the old Puff Daddy's co-conspirators. According to a complaint affidavit in the case, Paul was also responsible for handling P Diddy's guns and drugs plus paying sex workers in cash for deviant white party freak-offs (law enforcement seized more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant plus sex toys - nearly 800 dildos - and bondage gear). The lewd allegations included recorded blackmail videos at the orgies leaving some victims so fatigued they needed replenishing IV fluids to help recover from the marathon debauchery. Court documents claim self-pleasuring deviant paid $46,000 in 2012 to cover damages to a Manhattan penthouse hotel room following one of his raucous sex sessions before he was given honorary "Key to the City of New York" by embattled NYC Mayor Eric Adams in fall of 2023. Hotel surveillance video from 2016 appeared to show Combs violently attacking, kicking and shoving a former partner at a hotel in Los Angeles area. He was denied bail as authorities reportedly expanded racketeering probe to include potential witness intimidation.

With legal repercussions on the horizon as NDAs flourish and P Diddy tries to obstruct justice via jail phone calls, haughty Hollyweird accomplices aware of secret racy signal can't stay mum forever. How many self-absorbed celebrities ("gun mule" JLo, Justin Bieber, former Katy Perry spouse Russell Brand, Naomi Campbell, Mariah Carey, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cuba Gooding Jr., Kevin Hart, Steve Harvey, Paris Hilton, Jay-Z, the Kardashians, Ashton Kutcher, Russell Simmons, Usher, Kanye West, etc.) could be implicated as possible co-conspirators and potentially subpoenaed to testify (especially NBA players) if hip-hop tycoon eventually flips and rats on everyone as a sex trafficking case proceeds to trial? Meanwhile, Mr. Gratification's silly-season legal counsel insisted lurid white-party bashes were "a lifestyle not a crime" and the excessive amount of lubricants could be explained by buying in bulk from a nearby Costco although retailer said it doesn't sell baby oil in any of its U.S. locations. Believe it or not, Bad Boy Records Co-founder's legal team also compared their client's experience in jail to incarceration of civil rights leader MLK Jr.

Speaking of "slick" lifestyle, did Paul make a seamless transition from corrupt big-time sports? It seems as if perennial Top 20 teams think they're immune to criticism and simply go about their business however in hell they want to be "comfortable" assembling a roster to remain among the elite. Several summers ago marked nearly half of Michigan State's All-Big Ten Conference first-team selections this century running afoul of the law or involved in unseemly lawsuits/incidents after Miles Bridges faced felony domestic violence charge following accusation of assaulting his girlfriend in front of their two children (pleaded no contest when sentenced to serve three years of probation). Bridges, who is also a rapper under the name RTB MB, previously was fined $50,000 for striking a fan with a mouthpiece.

Out of eligibility or not, a campaign can't go by without having to wade through college basketball's corrosive "Cradles of Criminals" cesspool. Several years ago, former Notre Dame assistant coach Ryan Ayers was charged with three counts of voyeurism and one count of domestic violence. Charges involved his relationships with two women over a four-year span where he allegedly recorded them, without their consent, naked or while having sex with them. Ayers, who averaged 6.5 ppg and 2.4 rpg for UND from 2005-06 through 2008-09 under ex-coach Mike Brey, is also said to have hit one of the females in the face during an altercation in his car. Son of former Ohio State/Philadelphia 76ers coach Randy Ayers abruptly left the less-than-candid Fighting Irish program at start of 2020-21 school year "to pursue opportunities (to do heaven or impish leprechaun knows what) elsewhere." The state's subsequent motion to dismiss charges came after prosecutors twice asked a superior court judge to recuse himself from the case for allegedly making inappropriate comments about an accuser and photographic evidence in the case.

It wasn't that long ago when Georgetown's roster was depleted when majority of four exiting players departed due to off-the-court transgressions. The "hood" ornaments of self-indulgence striving to bask in glory of Hoya Paranoia heroes such as Allen Iverson and Victor Page drove away without admission of or finding of guilt regarding sexual harassment and assault charges including FaceTime "we'll send people after you" threat and complaint that one of the suspects "showed her his erect clothed penis." One of the female accusers expressed fear for her safety and her roommate's safety, alleging assault and battery plus theft of personal property (Playstation 4, Nikon camera among other items with value of $1,625). Seems as if ex-Hoyas coach Patrick Ewing should have taken his "G-men" scholars on "cultural" field trip to g-string Atlanta strip club, where former All-American center admitted twice having oral sex with dancers compliments of the club owner according to testimony in a racketeering trial. At a "bare-it-all" minimum, Ewing could conduct free #MeToo seminar explaining to his pupils how abusing women similar to Georgetown graduate William Jefferson Clinton could be detrimental to their careers if facing an authentic impeachment. Perhaps by now the inept #MessMedia, including "unbiased" Clinton lackey George Step-on-the-truth-to-us and his throat-slitting gesture on ABC to cut input from Donald Trump lawyer, discerned who blew past him as #SickWillie's "whistle" blower relieving his anxieties.

Amid the incessant indiscretions at NCAA DI level, there should be a GoFundMe account for those offended whenever self-promoting mother/daughter duo Gloria Allred and Lisa Bloom - women's rights lawyers/extortionists "extraordinaire" - hit the airwaves with doctored evidence and therapeutic crying towels. Prior to making Prince Andrew profusely sweat, boisterous Bloom sought to solicit cash from donors and media outlets for accusers of sexual misconduct alleged about #TheDonald. Unscrupulous Bloom, affiliating with demented demagogue David Brock, offered to sell the victims' Pay-to-Say tales while wanting to pocket a portion for herself as a commission. She persuaded a Democratic donor to pay off one accuser's flip-flopping make-up artist mortgage and tried to get a hefty six-figure payday for a hospitalized woman who eventually declined to come forward despite exponentially-increasing offers up to $750,000. Read Bloom's disgusting emails and text messages if you want to lose your lunch and get an urge to recycle leech lawyer jokes. Misguided Allred/Bloom tandem should make themselves useful by keeping mouths fulls of fellow insufferable Left Coast lunatics/swamp mistresses #NannyPathetic and #MadMaxine via "fohty-five" scoops of #Dimorat diva deluxe (im)peach ice cream.

At any rate, which sexual-deviant B.C. (Bill Clinton or Bill Cosby) should be designated BC (Biggest Conniver)? Moreover, which BCs (Basketball Coaches) should be sued for BC (Bringing to Campus) so many BCs (Bad Characters)? Beyond Clinton's Oral Office, is nothing sacred as father-figure Cosby's silence about numerous female accusations spoke volumes before and as his sexual assault retrial unfolded? We'll never think of Fat Albert and Jell-O pudding in the same way after hearing about a settlement and conviction involving former Temple women's basketball staffer Andrea Constand and Cosby, the school's most famous alumnus. Standards depend upon how much one donates to a university on or off the court/field. Temple's indifferent brass, apparently much too fond of Jello-O pudding samples or Quaaludes lethargic, kept Cosby as a member of its Board of Trustees while many other entities dropped Dr. Huxtable off a cliff quicker than a Ferguson or Baltimore thief mishandling a liquor bottle scampering out of a looted convenience store hurdling debris like an aging track star fantasizing about an aphrodisiac drink. The Cosby Show was finally cancelled as a TU Trustee after Thanksgiving before degenerate's striking number of accusers formed a cathartic coalition. Cigars stored elsewhere, perv prez Clinton must have a freezer full of Jell-O pops spiked with "distinguishing-characteristic" Quaaludes provided by admirer Cos, going blind from who knows what as his attack-dog legal team assaulted his victims again. Have you woke-wondered if #SickWillie's attorney with wallet full of his sex-dollar bills was immersed in negotiating #HarveySwinestein's contract tolerating sexual harassment by acknowledging prospect of pathetic pig, supported by Bloom, paying Cosmic settlements to aggrieved women? #Swinestein had millions of reasons invested in a recent massage-my-ego project.

Excluding slip-and-fall ambulance chasers, what self-respecting attorney would contemplate representing repulsive rollator-requiring #Swinestein? If Jimmy Carter felt comfortable smiling while criticizing "we-know-what-has-to-be-done," then there is an absolute absence of mentally-tough authentic leaders. The NFL essentially ignored domestic violence until Candid Camera delivered demonstrable deviance igniting a cover-up. In sports, what the "presstitutes" miss is that zero tolerance for the troubling "War on Women" needs to be addressed in high school and college before the lack of a moral compass reaches the green room for pink-ribbon and pink-shoe donning pros. Actually, Allred and Bloom missed the boat dwelling on celebrities and politicians when they could have made a fortune focusing on college sports during and after scholars were big man on campus. For instance, former Arkansas State guard Arthur Agee Jr., featured in documentary Hoop Dreams (1994 Oscar-nominated film following prep players in Chicago) was accused of punching a woman in mid-November 2017, causing her to incur three fractured ribs (charges subsequently dropped). In 2018, UMBC earned national acclaim by becoming the first #16 seed to defeat a #1 seed (Virginia) but the Retrievers didn't receive similar headlines only four years earlier when four members of team allegedly gang raped a female athlete at a dormitory in late summer. The deliberate debauchery has existed for decades. Fifty years ago, Pan American was investigated regarding a sexually explicit interracial photo album used in recruitment. Any idea why a Florida State cheerleader reportedly traveled with a Seminoles assistant coach to Chicago in the late 1970s on recruiting trip pursuing guard Raymond McCoy?

Only heaven knew where tawdry allegations would end up in aftermath of legal "Hoop Nightmare" maneuverings against former Memphis guard Derrick Rose, Sacramento Mayor/Depreciated Democrat Kevin Johnson and OTL investigative reporting about Michigan State's pill-pushing Cosby wannabees. Rose, hoop royalty speaking with all the credibility of "sweating-and-learning" Prince Andrew explaining friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, testified he was taught at the NBA's rookie camp to take used condoms with him after sex. Cynically, coach John Calipari could have been referring to Rose's group-effort escapades several years ago when saying "he (great kid) is taking better care of his body than at any other point during his career." Other observers digesting trial accounts of possible Lamar Odom/Tristan Thompson (Kardashi)can-chasing wannabee might view him as the youngest MVP (Most Vile Pervert) in NBA history or that Karma is a bitch when it came to his series of injuries.

Unless you are progressive puke approving of Bernie Sanders' rape-fantasy essay and completely ignore Tara Reade's accusations regarding #Plagiarist Biledumb going farther than hair-sniffing when not on speaker phone with business partner son hideous Hunter, shouldn't there be more reflexive concern for victims rather than impact on roster of team with alleged criminal? According to FBI, about 70% of domestic violence probes fail to result in criminal cases. Those figures coincide with estimates claiming about 2/3 of sexual assault charges involving soup-kitchen college athletes are dropped or not filed similar to couple of TCU hoopers in 2006; multiple Syracuse hoopers in fall of 2007 carrying on SU tradition stemming from bizarre incident involving Villanova cheerleader at 1982 Big East Tournament in Hartford; St. John's players attending a strip club to drown their sorrows following loss at Pittsburgh in 2004; two Michigan State freshmen playing mini-hoop version of strip poker during orientation in fall of 2010 plus three apparently wayward scholars "running a train" in spring of 2015; a Washington player probed in 2010-11; pair of Providence freshman "players" several seasons ago on the heels of recruiting rot revealed upon dismissal of leading scorer after 2009-10 campaign; Wake Forest band member allegation after 2009 NCAA playoff upset defeat against Cleveland State in Miami, and salacious Kansas sexcapade in dormitory housing hoopers relieving stress "running away" from studying for final exams in mid-December 2016. Criminal charges also weren't filed at KU stemming from an alleged elevator exposure incident in mid-May 2007. In light of Marquette failing to report multiple messy incidents to Milwaukee police, can you begin to fathom how many times monopolistic schools covered up "Boys Gone Wild" indiscretions with get-out-of-trouble-free cards to keep rap sheets shorter than stat sheets? If in idealistic denial, read accounts regarding raunchy book written by Kyle Fuller, a starting guard in previous decade for Vanderbilt, the so-called "Harvard of the South."

Forfeiting any recruiting dignity, the MSU and PC freshman felonious activity coupled with Minnesota's frosh porn-star tryout in 2015-16 and Louisville's "Thrill in the Ville" indicate that, at the very least, schools need to improve their background checks. In an era where athletic departments solely review accusations against their own, statistics show disturbing pattern of inaction where athletes are convicted at a much lower rate than the general population. According to a USA Today study during a trial involving wayward Kobe Bryant, prominent athletes are much less likely to be convicted of sexual assault than the average citizen. Consider this stark statistical comparison: 2/3 of the public-at-large is convicted when charged with sexual assault while 2/3 of prominent athletes are exonerated in similar allegations involving the brotherhood of scumbags. Accordingly, can you imagine how many self-serving boosters (such as Sam Gilbert at UCLA) and coaches helped orchestrate and underwrite abortions since Roe vs. Wade decision? Naked thought is as ugly as #Hollyweird mosaic of male celebs exposed as sexual abusers the last few years.

Public-at-large has virtually become numb to the seemingly never-ending sordid shenanigans such as Saint Louis having multiple players suspended for 1 1/2 to 2 years and another expelled before prize prospect Jordan Goodwin was sanctioned stemming from an on-campus apartment incident concluding with three women telling police they were sexually assaulted. Earlier in the decade, SLU had its top two players dropped from the Billikens' roster amid similar accusations. Michigan State's poor judgment, including redacting information on public records to a point where the material became useless, wasn't restricted to basketball obfuscation in order to try to maintain national acclaim. Reports of sexual misconduct by disgraced Dr. Larry Nassar reached at least 14 MSU representatives in two decades before his arrest. MSU is an inspiration to mediocrities everywhere. It missed multiple opportunities to halt Nassar, a graduate of its osteopathic medical school who also served as USA Gymnastics national team doctor while reportedly molesting more than 250 girls and women under the guise of treating them for pain. Circling the wagons before settling with survivors for $500 million, MSU's purported concern for victims included spending $500,000 for dig-up-dirt/peeping Tom monitoring of some of their social media accounts along with journalists. But Spartan Nation has always been suspect, if not textbook lax, in regard to accountability going back to All-American guard Scott Skiles, the nation's second-leading scorer in 1985-86 who incurred two DUI arrests, a drug possession arrest, two jail sentences and 18 days in jail during a 16-month span in mid-1980s. As a result of these numerous indiscretions, Skiles received a whopping one-game suspension. What "train" engineering courses do athletes with "loco-motives" take at maniacal MSU? Manhood Selfie 101 (like Snap-chat sensation Draymond Green). Who do these vain denizens think they are? Did they spike drinks a la P Diddy and Cosby? As Amazon irresistible as #WashingtonCompost owner Jeff Bezos and his intimate texts to girlfriend? Thus, it was no surprise ESPN unearthed that aroused MSU athletes were about three times as likely as other students to be accused of sexual misconduct or domestic violence in complaints made at the "institution." In the aftermath of 2015 Final Four appearance, several Spartan players lured a female student back to their apartment under false pretenses from a local bar and took turns having their way with her. In late February 2021, a judge dismissed a Title IX complaint despite saying case met criteria of incident of actionable sexual harassment and the school's actual knowledge of it.

Tortured observers needed "other stuff" treatment after listening to and watching image-protecting hoops icon Tom Izzo's painful healing and support-for-survivors post-game weasel words weekend following retirement/resignation of school prez and AD. If Izzo has a "part-of-life" soul, he should donate his "sole" income (sneaker endorsement money) to victims of recruits he brought to campus (including post-MSU career) and/or help underwrite MSU paying ESPN's attorneys' fees after Michigan courts ruled the university violated open-records laws. Izzo's contacting witness before school in another sordid incident and unsettling silence was interrupted by seemingly rehearsed remarks such as "I can do whatever I want to do" resembling Slick Rick's smug trivialization during "get your fill in the Ville" than "we'll cooperate with any investigation and always have." Among the things a good Christian man like Izzo might "want to do" is religiously meet with FBI-indicted agent Christian Dawkins to go over their donation endeavors. For candor's sake, let us hope an undergraduate assistant coach didn't live in Izzo's basement completing his degree the season Izzo said he couldn't recall why a rare three-year captain exited the program. Was Izzo also unaware of captain/undergrad aide's child support order? By the way, what is the deal with becoming MSU captain or Final Four "playmaker" in the last 20 years? Did stress of duty contaminate Bridges, Mateen Cleaves, Charlie Bell, Travis Walton, Korie Lucious and Keith Appling or did they wash down idiot pills with toxic tap water from Flint? Something sinister surely is in state's water after Michigan and MSU each had an All-American with multiple Final Deplore appearances sued by women claiming they gave them herpes as NBA players. STD seems to have also infected fellow Big Ten Conference member Purdue if lawsuit involving center Isaac Haas had any merit. Enterprising engineering students apparently should have invested more time and energy helping Haas with a different pliable and protective appendage sleeve than designing brace for his fractured right elbow. What could possibly be the genesis for these raw animalistic instincts? UM physician Robert E. Anderson engaged in sexual misconduct (multiple forms of inappropriate examinations) with patients on countless occasions. Dr. "Drop Your Drawers" Anderson worked in various capacities at the university between 1966 and 2003. Other names by which student-athletes referred to him included "Handy Andy," "Goldfinger" and "Dr. Handerson." Similarly, multiple Indiana hoopers including Haris Mujezinovic and Charlie Miller sued their alma mater alleging team doctor repeatedly sexually assaulted them and teammates by subjecting athletes to unnecessary prostate exams in the mid-1990s and IU did nothing to stop him.

After MSU's gymnastics coach was charged with lying about her knowledge of sexual assault complaints, Izzo exhibited similar lack of candor. Amid the airing-of-dirty-laundry debris including an "entitled" walk-on, it didn't appear prudent to put much stock in arousal-discretion dialogue from Earvin Johnson. But MSU's most famous alumnus (even more than ex-ESPN egomaniac #KneelWithJemele) lectured nation as if he was male version of Oprah by calling for the firing of any employee who failed to report sexual assault allegations on campus to the proper authorities. Consider the ravenous source insofar as Johnson admitted his Magical Mystery Tour sexual frivolity included sleeping with 300 to 500 partners per year (entertainment venue featured the Los Angeles Lakers' locker room and sauna). How many enablers resembling "Clintonistas" such as Betty "Hoover" Curry and former DePauw (Ind.) hooper Vernon Jordan, perhaps humming "Do You Believe in Magic?", facilitated indulgence over the decades of decadence? Of course, this great feat of Magic paled in comparison to legendary Wilt Chamberlain's community partnership claim to bedding 20,000 women from coast to coast before and after son of janitor left Philly to drive around the Kansas plains in a souped-up red and white Oldsmobile convertible (with license plate BIG DIPPER) not all that far from NCAA headquarters at the time. "I feel sorry for the Stilt," wrote New York Daily Mirror columnist Leonard Lewin. "When he enters the NBA, he'll have to take a cut in salary." Truth be told, the LA (Lay All) Lakers' debauchery and Olympian appetite for copulation likely didn't originate there; "littering" simply escalated on free-love Left Coast. Perhaps it is time to allow sanctuary-sick and homeless-infested California to go ahead and secede before U.S. version of salty Sodom and Gomorrah turns into bankrupted ruins. Don't look back!

Distributing pain to anyone with belief system, disturbing allegations at Louisville (Chris Jones), Kansas (multiple players) and Duke (Rasheed Sulaimon and Corey Maggette) had their celebrated coaches either making comments as incoherent as their scholars or hiding under their desk memorizing athletic department versions of pleading the fifth. Minnesota and West Virginia endured similar unseemly "violation-of-team-rules" situations in the mid-1980s. Ditto Arizona State in the mid-1990s and priorities across the country haven't improved. Consider an Inside Higher Ed article written about a Syracuse dean facing dismissal for refusing to cover up an assault of a female student on campus by basketball players. Elsewhere, a culture concerning abuse of females frequently goes unchecked at sports factories reminiscent of group assault charges at Arkansas under coaches Nolan Richardson and John Pelphrey resulting in Ray Rice-like initial modest sanctions. UA probably failed to meet #MeToo college-town investigation standards in wake of late summer 2009 frat-house party incident when prosecutor was son-in-law of former athletic director Frank Broyles and brother-in-law of athletic department spokesman. Did the tumult really change much under coach Mike Anderson, who also had more than his share of undignified problem children at Missouri before moving on to St. John's until cast adrift after last season?

Only one in five college-aged female students report their assaults to law enforcement. There are words and there are actions as well as "tough" guys and "cool" guys in this criminal "no-means-no" emphasis. One-sided co-ed boxing apparently needs to get personal before the player-predator issue penetrates thick skulls in establishment media and cavalier campuses. For instance, ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale, obsessed with "payday" and "cash" as always, tweeted he doesn't "dig actions away from ring but he (Floyd Mayweather Jr.) is an all-time great." Well, let's "dig" on one easy hipster wannabee layup straight from the grandstanding opening bell. Unless mindset of role model/ex-analyst Dancin' Ray contaminated network judgment across the sports spectrum including Screamin' A. Stiff, no one with an extensive history of domestic abuse charges such as misfit Mayweather should be designated an all-time great in any way, shape or form with or without a cover-your-fanny-like-commish qualifier. Ditto for Florida State's troubled Jameis Winston, who Vitale tweeted was "great to have on your side on Saturday" (at least until Nike severed its relationship with QB before promoting kneeling knucklehead #ColonKrapernick).

Presumably, Dickie V didn't mean late Saturday night with him and Uber driver or at any sort of Winston post-college game celebration leaving an accuser susceptible to dragging through the mud one way or the other (perhaps on a scooter). In a textbook example of Buc-kissing shilling, Vitale bragged about Shameless Jameis joining him at gala in Tampa Bay QB's first appearance as NFL player before the university settled with Winston's accuser for $950,000 in the spring of 2016. Methinks Vitale knows little, if anything, about FSU "football-fixer" associate AD who served time in prison for cocaine distribution. The general public's prevailing ignorance resembles failing to acknowledge the corrupt Clintons' "War on Women" exemplified by #ShrillaryRotten's faith advisor.

If the holier-than-thou press is so concerned about PC-police nickname changing, perhaps they should encourage schools to be more accurate with monikers such as Auburn Whore Eagles, Bailor Needed For Bad News Bears, Cincinnati Barely Can Read 'Cats, UConn Artists, Florida Maters, Florida State Sininoles, Georgetown Beatdowns, Indiana Booziers, Kansas Jailhawks, Louisville Slug-her Breaking Cardinal Rules, Memphis Mafia Malcontents, The U (as in "unsavory"), Michigan State Hard-ons, Minnesota Go-for-hers, Miz-zou Animals, UNCheat Tarrin (Gals in) Heels, Oklahoma Sinners, Syracuse Orange Jumpsuits, TCU Horny Dawgs, UNLV Sincredibles, USC Trojan Ultra Ribbed, X-rated Musketeers, etc. Wherever the #MessMedia and school administrators may have been in same veiled-secret toilet sweeping stench under sullied carpet, someone needs to finish the "movement" and flush them all! Emptying the excrement should include infected hangers-on although prosecutors declined to pursue charges against Baylor's former manager after his arrest early in 2017 on allegations of harassing two women via sexually-explicit social media messages. How could Baylor bear such bewildering behavior while boasting a director of sports ministry on staff? An "I'm-such-a-stud" mindset in culture breeding risky behavior goes way out of bounds to near epidemic proportions as an alarming number of conniving former college hoopers think they're still BMOC when hired by a high school district and victimize vulnerable females.

Amid the extensive flaws, can any of the journalistic jackals unearth whether "The Carolina (Academic) Way" for Raymond Felton and Ty Lawson included a rigorous African and Afro-American independent study course on how to treat the opposite sex, Africa's subjugation of females or discerning the origin of HIV and Ebola virus rather than the importance of Swahili language? If the scheme was solely for GPA boosting, Carolina's 2005 (10 of 15 members were AFAS majors with total of 35 "pretty doggone good" bogus classes over two semesters) and 2009 NCAA titles should of been in jeopardy of being vacated. But the UNC placed on probation for scholastic shenanigans was Northern Colorado; not Carolina. At the very least, for the sake of supplying a good chuckle to offset a portion of the angst, we should be entitled to digest a sampling of prose from those unread Prime Time 10-page papers (assigned mostly A grades with few B+ marks since a few players may have misspelled their names). UNC, admitting "regrettable actions," should have been sanctioned simply because disgraceful no-show classes came under umbrella of Center For Ethics apparently as unethical as seven-layered Comey and FBI toadies Baker/Clinesmith/McCabe/Page/Priestap/Strzok.

UNC paid over $21 million in assorted costs dealing with the scholastic scandal but that exorbitant fee might have been an affordable expense insofar as there was significant savings over these many years when no faculty was necessary to actually provide instruction for bogus book-work. Rather than learning classy pass fakes on the court, the courted players passed by "learning" in fake classes. It's no excuse but, if the let's-not-dwell-on-the-negative media would get off its royal cushion, how many other schools across the nation have comparable compromising courses? A polluted program under current coach Richard Pitino, who brought in troubled transfers Reggie Lynch and Daquein McNeil, isn't exactly virgin territory among power-league members. The Gophers have "hole" history featuring a former Minnesota tutor claiming she wrote or helped write more than 400 papers or pieces of coursework for in excess of 20 Gophers players in the mid-1990s, multiple pre-Lynch/pre-#AlFrankenstein prospects-turned-suspects (Courtney James/Mitchell Lee/Trevor Mbakwe/Royce White) and recent out-of-control athletic director. After academic anemia decades ago involving Creighton's Kevin Ross taking rigorous courses such as theory of baseball and ceramics, the NCAA should remember: "If you don't stand for something (such as higher scholastic standards), you'll fall for anything (excessive number of criminals)." If NCAA movers and shakers didn't do anything meaningful back then addressing scholastic shenanigans, why would we expect them to do something now such as condemn Auburn's class clustering? In this charade, many of the recruits contemptible coaches and media butt kissers drool upon are "self-reliant students" as much as culpable kids of actress Lori Loughlin/Aunt Becky are "authentic athletes."

How in Heel is having athletic department personnel steering players into sham classes for 18 years not, at its core curriculum, a textbook definition of "lack of institutional control?" When will ESPN get to the bottom of the chicanery yielding answers via another orchestrated interview with former coach Roy Williams serving as master of "really-bothered-by-whole-thing" ceremonies featuring backdrop of supportive ex-players? ESPN should have just gone ahead and issued Williams' support group "Game Day" posters for their little pep rally at former big boss' alma mater. Network could have called charade, appearing as if it was created by coke-head Rolling Stone editor, Skipper's short three-hour tour. What most media outlets skip over is the disgusting percentage of prize prospects becoming prime predatory suspects in abusing underage females (including after they leave college).

How difficult would it have been for Williams, instead of pleading educational mission ignorance, to take a few minutes per semester assessing academic progress of each of his players? Didn't he acknowledge there was "class clustering" early in his Carolina head coaching tenure? It is the height of hypocrisy for him and other DI mentors/"fathers" to have a contract bonus provision stemming from APR/graduation rates. Will UNC encourage him to apologize to whistle-blower tutor Mary "Just Keep My Players Eligible" Willingham? Didn't Williams figuratively punch her (triggering death threats in aftermath of additional administration admonishments) by impugning Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's character saying her illiteracy claims were untrue and totally unfair about a striking number of scholars boasting middle-school reading skills? Said Willingham prior to settling a lawsuit with UNC for $335,000 (about $1,000 per basketball player enrollment in paper class minus attorneys' fees): "I went to a lot of basketball games in the Dean Dome, but Roy never came and sat with me while I tutored his guys." Naturally, the first step to academic-anemia recovery at reformatory is admitting you're a huge hypocrite. Heaven help us if Williams' "sad-time" excuses and pleading ignorance about suspension of guard Jalek Felton - most heralded member of freshman class for defending NCAA champion - are typical of the coaching community level of interest in authentic advancement toward a genuine diploma.

Which is worse - free grades/dean's list for not even attending rogue class (see Rashad McCants), free abuse of female tutor or free rental cars for top returning scorer (P.J. Hairston) linked to an ex-convict? An absence of press accountability in the Carolinas probably is why a Democratic male running for statewide office can chuckle after calling a Republican female sitting governor a "whore." What we have here is a failure to exhibit standards; not so much an inability to thoroughly discuss the (physical and/or verbal) beat-down topic and appease the all-women sports gabfest "We Need to Talk" on CBS. The coaches' Sgt. Schultz "I-know-nothing" routine is insulting spit because they usually know when a regular takes an irregular dump. The NFL and NBA likely will announce policies "to do more," but when will colleges and the media do likewise to mitigate Sharia Law-like malignant message dumping on women? Instead, we get Kansas' Selfless coach creatively saying one of his Adidas-adoring players involved in school probe was "ill" upon missing a couple of games. Truth be told, the sport will remain "sick" if scholastic standards aren't raised while "educators of men" focus more on assembling megaconferences.

The NCAA should embrace the Nwagwu Rules of Engagement. Jackson State guard Chuck Nwagwu's father, a professor at the school, forced the part-time starter to quit the Tigers' team in 1996-97 after receiving a grade of C in two classes. "I am an academician," said the elder Nwagwu. "My job is to educate young black men. That should be the primary objective. Basketball is secondary." Nwagwu's dad also made him move out of the dormitory and canceled his meal tickets. "I had to impress him that school comes first," the Nigerian native said. "He thinks he's going to be the next Michael Jordan." Regrettably, JSU didn't last long as beacon of integrity among HBCU institutions as seven players were arrested five years later and charged with sexual abuse.

What is it about punks flourishing at sports that makes adults fall all over themselves making excuses for abhorrent behavior infecting the sport? Amid the pimpish compartmentalization, there are also "clever" outfits such as Oregon stemming from its timing in waiting to expel three players implicated in an alleged sexual assault in order to avoid a reduction in its Academic Progress Rate score before reaching 2017 Final Four with another player under comparable criminal investigation. Telephone records clearly convey Oregon athletic officials including coach Dana Altman were concerned about a recent recruit and NCAA gumshoes should be, too, instead of whether an assistant coach refereed a scrimmage. Meanwhile, fellow Pac-12 Conference member California adopted a stricter admissions policy when it comes to academics and Indiana embraced a no-admittance policy regarding previous indiscretions. Will Cal and IU set a nationwide trend for increased scholastic and decorum standards or will majority of universities duck the issue? Not if their on-court performances this season are any barometer or the condescending NCAA headquarters remains much more concerned about Indian nicknames and transgender restrooms than ending licking of dames. Can the NCAA, featuring a president informed at the start of this decade about MSU mayhem, at least encourage its members to consider utilizing Norway's syllabus teaching Muslim male migrants how to treat non-veiled women? At times such as Evansville firing coach Walter McCarty midway through 2019-20 season amidst a Title IX probe into alleged sexual misconduct, the ethically-bankrupt atmosphere doesn't appear to be much better at mid-major schools. St. Francis (N.Y.) had two different teammates busted for sex abuse on back-to-back days in early 2014 and an alleged cover-up at North Texas is equally disturbing.

It was a bizarre Halloween(ie) at mid-major Detroit in 2012 when athletic director Keri Gaither and assistant coach Derek Thomas resigned stemming from their extramarital, interracial affair. Ex-Baylor standout Carlos Briggs, another aide under coach Ray McCallum, was the anonymous whistle-blower before his identity was compromised and he was also dismissed. According to lawsuit filed by Briggs, UD players would observe former Western Illinois head coach Thomas slip into Gaither's hotel room after the team's curfew during road games, triggering them to leave their rooms to go stand outside the door to Gaither's room, giggling while they listened to zesty sounds of Gaither and Thomas apparently getting busy. No word if they discerned whether Titan condoms were utilized.

Speaking of "tough, cool and clever" guys resembling deranged DeNiro, Mayweather told CNN that "only God can judge me." But let's play The Almighty role and make things personal prior to enablers going on their merry way "earning" academic-anemia "dollars" off the next round of ill-equipped recruits. Father-figure coaches masquerading as social workers who persuade admissions offices to enroll some of the "exception" vermin should be sued by victims if the abuse is campus connected under their stewardship. As for the #MessMedia (student newspaper had to step up to the plate at Duke), perhaps Vitale's next illuminating book should be "You're Awful, Baby! With a Capital A!: 100 Players I Praised as Great But Glad My Daughters Didn't Date." Striving to avoid turning a blind eye to problem like so many in the press, below we'll give his researchers a head start on the EBOLA (Excessive Beatings are Outlandish of Ladies by Athletes) plague with robust list of scholars to assess en route to him setting a Guinness Book of World Records for most basketball volumes he didn't write, yet having name on covers as author.

Research shows that arrests of college athletes are more than double those of pros. Former Duke starter Jay Bilas has experiential ACC knowledge competing against colorful North Carolina State coach Jim Valvano's suspect squads (735 average SAT score - featuring Chris Washburn at 470 - and excessive number of positive drug tests during the 1980s). While pondering rigorous courses washout Washburn somehow passed to remain academically eligible for more than one season, a cold-blooded question surfaces as to whether the academic anemia at UNC is worse than what occurred at N.C. State, which probably gains the negative nod if only because of Washburn teammate Charles Shackleford's following animal-expert quote: "Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious." The "A" in "bring your A-game" in an old ACC ad apparently didn't stand for academics.

If bookish Bilas genuinely knows self-evaluation "toughness" beyond "if they (coaches) knew," the policy wonk will maneuver upstream and shift his passion from lambasting the NCAA about paying these gentlemen and scholars to a lawyer-like focus on stopping the NCAA from preying on players who have little to no business representing universities because they aren't authentic student-athletes (although "Sullen-man" was still enrolled as student when allegations against him surfaced). Granted, such an academic-values modification will translate into an inferior product for him and his network to promote (and for walk-on-water luminaries such as Jim Boeheim, Calipari, Bob Huggins, Izzo, Self plus Rick Pitino to coach for that matter). But does a mediocre Duke player such as Lance Thomas need more than $30,000 as down payment on jewelry? What about multiple Memphis players reporting they were robbed of more than $66,000 worth of vital items for Calipari-coached college students (mink coats, diamond earrings, stereo equipment, flat-screen TV)? Ask CIA jurisprudence jackal John Brennan!

Moreover, former Syracuse bench boss Boeheim wouldn't have an opportunity to be "impressed" about one-and-done Carmelo Anthony's 1.8 gpa before failing to mention if Anthony attended more classes than games his second semester. Did Melo mellow out in Orange-hot Child and Family Studies en route to underwriting Cuse's hoops centerpiece (The Melo Center)? No word yet from blow-hard Boeheim after former Orange hooper/NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb was accused of sexual harassment by a former female colleague at the NFL Network and discarded by ESPN. At least the win-at-all-costs mentality is gender neutral as goalie Hope Solo flew above the Soccer Wars like Han Solo and school spirit took on a whole new meaning among Coastal Carolina's cheerleaders. More coaches are becoming members of the Garbage Collectors Guild as they don't give a rat's ass about anything beyond winning a few more games. What quality of classes could possibly be taken in college by mercenary professional-caliber athletes if a mind-numbing 60% of NBA players file for bankruptcy five years after retirement? Symbolic of a normal DI rescue-mission campaign, more than 50 people were arrested in a sex trafficking sting operation during Final Four weekend in Minneapolis several seasons ago. Instead of paying athletes, just let "sperminator" stallions have free erectile access to on-campus brothels.

In a 2015 sexcapade, a former recruit said he felt as if "I was in a strip club" when visiting Louisville. Georgia Tech apparently felt comfortable transporting impressionable high school prospect directly to jiggle joint. It's almost time to hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete and reboot nearly everything about the sport. A striking number of prominent schools (down to Florida, LSU and Oregon first week of new year not long ago before LSU "won" commitment) recruited power forward Emmitt Williams, who was arrested the previous fall in Florida on sexual battery and false imprisonment charges before charges were dismissed just before Christmas. Zach Harvey, a prize prep prospect in Kansas, pleaded no contest to two misdemeanor crimes (endangering a child and breach of privacy) after facing two felony sex crime charges stemming from an alleged incident in March 2017 involving two other teens and an underage girl. Amid a scholastic schedule laden with decidedly non-academic courses, personal character flaws didn't surface solely upon reaching the professional level and power-league members unscathed by female battery are clearly in the minority.

Immersed in an era fraught with human debris devoid of moral compass, ORU committed athletic program suicide during the previous decade when mandating the Titans, who averaged 22 victories annually in their first six seasons at the NCAA DI level in the 1970s, could only sign players without tattoos and new recruits would have to take a "faith exam" as well. Facing unvarnished truth, all hormonal basketball roads seem to lead to liberal lunacy including "tolerant" fans condoning shameless womanizing comparable to Los Angeles Lakers zealot Jack Nicholson. As many local and national press heads should roll as incompetent school administrators if there is anything close to equivalence of their overall hear-no-evil, see-no-evil and speak-no-evil oversight. While much of the lame-stream media looks the other way like referee in waning moments seeking blowout contest to conclude as soon as possible, following are vital facts on what really is outside the lines since ESPN came on the scene in the late 1970s and CBS assumed control of March Madness. High-profile commentators, appearing as if they were drugged, aimlessly address relevant "no-means-no" issues about as much as Cosby and Izzo answered pertinent inquiries. Celebrated coaches such as Altman, Boeheim, Izzo, Greek philosopher Pitino, Self and many of their peers never will "get it" until they're hit in the pocketbook or, God forbid, their daughters are victimized by a cretin. Compare how much power conference/prominent mid-major player air-time was given to "singing the praises" of the following alphabetical list of Three-S "Men" (Stupid, Sin-tillating and Sin-sational) to how much gutless wonders devoted to elaborating on their Hoop Hall of Shame misdeeds against women or offering solutions preventing exploitation of such derelict student-athletes even if the quality of basketball is reduced and might negatively affect ratings, endorsement deals, speaking engagement fees, charity donations or circulations of periodicals:

• Abdul Abdullah (Providence) - arrested as fugitive from justice and held for extradition to Georgia as probation violator on statutory rape conviction
• Richie Adams (UNLV) - convicted of manslaughter after being accused of stalking and killing a 15-year-old Bronx girl in a housing project
• Courtney Alexander (Virginia/Fresno State) - convicted of misdemeanor assault after arrest for striking his live-in girlfriend
• Darryl Allen (Oklahoma) - accused of breaking into woman's apartment and assaulting her
• Teddy Allen (West Virginia/Wichita State/Nebraska/New Mexico State) - dismissed from WSU's squad following disturbance at woman's home
• Tony Allen (Oklahoma State) - charged with domestic assault, domestic vandalism and interference with emergency calls in connection with incident at his wife's apartment
• Rafer Alston (Fresno State) - pleaded no contest to assaulting former girlfriend
• Keith Appling (Michigan State) - accused with teammate Adrien Payne of raping student in their dorm room during freshmen orientation
• Ron Artest (St. John's) - arrested on suspicion of domestic violence
• Vincent Askew (Memphis State) - accused of unlawfully having sex with minor
• Brandon Austin (Providence/Oregon) - twice accused of sexual assault
• Ryan Ayers (Notre Dame) - charged with three counts of voyeurism and one count of domestic violence (charges involved his relationships with two women over a four-year span where he allegedly recorded them, without their consent, naked or while having sex with them)
• D'Juan Baker (Cincinnati) - aggravated assault charge for striking his girlfriend in head with flower pot
• Sean Banks (Memphis) - arrested in connection with domestic-violence complaint
• Arthur Barclay (Memphis) - faced assault charge related to domestic violence (punching girlfriend in face breaking her nose although judge dismissed case after victim failed to appear at hearing)
• Lucas Barnes (Miami/Southern LA/Florida International) - dispute with girlfriend
• Marcus Barnes (Miami/Northeastern) - kicked off Miami's team in late summer 2002 following charge by police with domestic violence
• Matt Barnes (UCLA) - arrested on suspicion of felony domestic violence although his then-fiancee denied he abused her before subsequently choking woman during brawl at New York City nightclub
• Mark Barwig (Oregon) - arraigned on rape charge
• Armon Bassett (Indiana/Ohio University) - apprehended after allegedly pouring bleach over his girlfriend's head and face in front of victim's toddler
• Michael Beasley (Kansas State) - investigated for alleged sexual assault
• Benoit Benjamin (Creighton) - charged with simple battery and resisting arrest following a domestic disturbance
• Corey Benjamin (Oregon State) - domestic battery
• Keith Benjamin (Pittsburgh) - arrested and charged with simple assault after altercation with former girlfriend
• Winston Bennett (Kentucky) - Rick Pitino assistant violated Boston Celtics' contractual agreement for practicing at Brandeis by having sexual relationship with female student enrolled there
• Joseph Bertrand (Illinois) - arrested for domestic battery before charge was dismissed because alleged victim became uncooperative
• Mike Bibby (Arizona) - police investigated sexual-abuse harassment accusations made against coach of his high school alma mater (likely won't face criminal charges)
• Kavell Bigby-Williams (Oregon/Louisiana State) - played entire 2016-17 season for Final Four-bound Oregon while under criminal probe for sexual assault
• Chauncey Billups (Colorado) - settled lawsuit with Boston Celtics teammate stemming from incident as NBA rookie
• Jabari Bird (California) - arrested and faced domestic abuse and kidnapping charges (pled guilty and sentenced to two years probation)
• Jimmy Black (North Carolina) - jailed after arrest in domestic-abuse case while serving as assistant coach for Notre Dame
• Daron "Mookie" Blaylock (Oklahoma) - became violent with his wife in summer of 2001 and cops came to his house in 2009 for a domestic disturbance after his girlfriend called them
• Eric Bledsoe (Kentucky) - arrested for misdemeanor domestic violence for allegedly slapping his girlfriend (charges subsequently dropped due to insufficient evidence)
• Tony Bobbitt (Cincinnati) - juco recruit charged with felony attempted strangulation, felony domestic assault and misdemeanor domestic assault
• Charles Boozer (Iowa State) - arrested and charged with simple assault
• Anthony Bowie (Oklahoma) - suspended without pay following accusation of twice exposing himself to another teacher
• Todd Bozeman (Rhode Island) - former California coach reached court-approved settlement with woman accusing him of harassment
• Jamel Bradley (South Carolina) - fired as resource officer at high school amid internal investigations into multiple predatory sexual relationships with students
• Carlton Bragg Jr. (Kansas/Arizona State/New Mexico) - battery charges dropped after incident when he allegedly struck his girlfriend and pushed her down flight of stairs during argument; served three-game suspension stemming from police probe of attempted rape of girlfriend's best friend (college town politics included wife of county DA being UNM's Dean of Students)
• Alyn Breed (Providence) - suspended after charged with pointing gun at girlfriend
• Rick Brunson (Temple) - indicted for sexual assault stemming from encounter with massage therapist before he was found not guilty
• Andrew Bryant (Boston College) - violated in dining hall a restraining order a woman secured against him
• Glenn Bryant (Arkansas/Eastern Michigan) - accused of choking girlfriend during argument
• Joe Bunn (North Carolina A&T/Old Dominion) - convicted for assaulting girlfriend
• Todd Burgan (Syracuse) - suspended for seven games following breach of school's Student Conduct Code
• Antonio Burks (Memphis) - arrested after fight with his girlfriend
• Darryl Butterfield (Missouri) - arrested for allegedly punching ex-girlfriend during domestic dispute
• Jason Caffey (Alabama) - charged with domestic violence
• J.J. Caldwell (Texas A&M/New Mexico) - suspension linked to accusation of battery against ex-girlfriend
• Jamaal Camah (Providence) - pleaded "no contest" to misdemeanor charge of domestic disorderly conduct involving his pregnant girlfriend
• Marcus Capers (Washington State) - charged with assaulting female police officer at London bar at about 1:45 a.m.
• Derrick Caracter (Louisville/Texas-El Paso) - arrested and jailed after allegedly striking a cashier
• Aquille Carr (Seton Hall commitment) - arrested on domestic-assault charge
• Parrish Casebier (Evansville) - received eight-year prison sentence for felony rape of minor
• DeAngelo Casto (Washington State) - arrested for domestic violence involving his wife
• Duane Causwell (Temple) - alleged domestic violence dispute
• Cedric Ceballos (Cal State Fullerton) - faced warrant for allegedly assaulting former girlfriend in school dormitory
• Tony Christie (Clemson) - pleaded "no contest" to charge of assault after female student claimed high school coach touched her inappropriately
• Keon Clark (Temple commitment/UNLV) - domestic battery
• Monterale Clark (Marquette commitment) - J.C. recruit from Milwaukee arrested and charged with alleged second-degree felony sexual assault stemming from dorm-room party
• Shelly Clark (Illinois) - arrested and charged with breaking into his ex-girlfriend's apartment
• Mateen Cleaves (Michigan State) - charged with sexually assaulting woman who said she was driven to motel and attacked following Flint-area charity golf outing and group trip to local bar for drinks (subsequently acquitted)
• Ricky Clemons (Missouri) - assault case involving former girlfriend after she didn't want to watch Roots
• Verice Cloyd (Alabama/Chattanooga) - accusation he enticed 12-year-old girl into apartment and raped her
• Peter Coker Sr. (Dartmouth/North Carolina State) - arrested as 49-year-old in his native Allentown, Pa., and charged with allegedly exposing himself to three girls (as he drove his BMW around a school)
• Tony Cole (Georgia) - arrested for violating protection order involving ex-girlfriend he pleaded guilty to punching in face
• Derrick Coleman (Syracuse) - faced civil lawsuit after accusation of trespassing and battery at woman's home
• James Collins (Florida State) - arrested on charges of stalking ex-girlfriend
• Sherron Collins (Kansas) - accused of exposing himself and rubbing against older woman in elevator at Jayhawker Towers (accuser subsequently dropped civil suit)
• Darren Collison (UCLA) - arrested on domestic-violence charge
• Chance Comanche (Arizona) - admitted to strangling escort
• Michael Cooper (New Mexico) - domestic dispute
• Jamelle Cornley (Penn State) - domestic dispute with woman in the Philippines led PBA to indefinitely suspend him
• Deshawn Corprew (Texas Tech) - juco recruit left program following suspension from 2019 NCAA tourney finalist after allegations of Title IX allegations
• Attila Cosby (Pittsburgh/New Mexico/George Washington/Bowie State MD) - served 2 1/2 years in prison after found guilty by judge in sexual assault case involving 46-year-old prostitute
• DeMarcus Cousins (Kentucky) - faced arrest warrant on misdemeanor domestic violence charge before harassment allegation was dropped three months later
• Morgan Tyler Crawford (Georgetown) - arrested for felonious assault after punching woman in face several times
• Dante Cunningham (Villanova) - suspected of domestic assault (both charges later dropped)
• Avery Curry (Florida State/Idaho) - found innocent of battery in separate hotel incident but pleaded guilty to disturbing peace, was fined $298 and wrote letter of apology to another woman
• Quintin Dailey (San Francisco) - pleaded guilty to aggravated assault of nursing student in dormitory
• Ian Dale (Arizona State) - placed on three years' probation after pleading guilty to attempted sexual abuse and assault
• Samuel Dalembert (Seton Hall) - arrested following alleged battery involving his girlfriend after finding out she was leaving with their two children
• Myles Davis (Xavier) - restraining order issued amid facing two charges involving former girlfriend
• Terence Davis (Mississippi) - arrested for assault after getting into verbal dispute with his girlfriend (charges dropped four months later)
• Branden Dawson (Michigan State) - arrested on suspicion of felony spousal abuse
• Yuri Demetris (Pittsburgh) - booted from team following arrest after altercation at his ex-girlfriend's apartment where he twice climbed through window
• Eric Devendorf (Syracuse) - punished for punching female student in face
• Michael Dixon Jr. (Missouri/Memphis) - accused in a couple of unseemly incidents while attending Mizzou
• Damonte Dodd (Maryland) - accused of having sex with intoxicated woman without her consent (subsequently acquitted)
• Lee Dort (Vanderbilt) - suspended from team following arrest and charge with aggravated assault in incident involving his ex-girlfriend
• Robert Dozier (Memphis) - police took simple assault domestic violence report before complaint stemming from argument at 3:30 a.m. outside nightclub was dismissed; also arrested on domestic assault charge in attack reportedly leaving victim with dislocated shoulder and finger
• Nikola Dragovic (UCLA) - arrested although charges weren't filed in case involving suspicion of misdemeanor battery on ex-girlfriend with which he co-habitated
• Bobby Dulin (Penn State/Connecticut) - pleaded no contest to sexual assault in second degree stemming from affair with teenage girl he coached in summer program
• Jordan Dumars (South Florida/Michigan) - controversy at UM regents meeting as to whether transfer son of NBA All-Pro Joe Dumars received preferential treatment from university and local newspaper following accusation of forcible oral sodomy
• Devan Dumes (Eastern Michigan/Indiana) - faced charges of domestic battery before suspect shooting
• LaceDarius Dunn (Baylor) - arrested on charges he punched his girlfriend and broke her jaw in two places
• Teddy Dupay (Florida) - pleaded guilty to attacking a woman at a Utah ski resort
• Billy Edelin (Syracuse) - two accusations of sexual assault although court charges were dropped because of insufficient evidence
• Eugene Edgerson (Arizona) - faced two domestic violence arrests in two-month span
• Jay Edwards (Indiana) - charged with two counts of battery following accusation by woman he slapped and punched her at party
• Craig Ehlo (Washington State) - arrested on domestic violence charge
• Dale Ellis (Tennessee) - found guilty of assaulting wife and resisting arrest
• Tyree Evans (Cincinnati signee/Maryland signee/Kent State) - pleaded guilty to reduced assault-related misdemeanor
• Jim Farmer (Alabama) - arrested during sting operation on charges of seeking sex from minor (human trafficking charge subsequently dropped)
• Jamaal Faulkner (Arizona State/Alabama) - arraigned for assaulting his girlfriend
• John Fedders (Marquette) - SEC enforcement director in Reagan Administration admitted in divorce court to having beaten his wife
• Kay Felder (Oakland) - booked amid allegations of domestic violence
• Rakym Felder (South Carolina) - dropped from roster after arrest around 2:45 a.m. stemming from brawl reportedly precipitated by him spitting on woman
• Jalek Felton (North Carolina) - expelled for sexual assault and sexual violence
• Raymond Felton (North Carolina) - estranged wife allegedly told police she was threatened with gun
• Ronnie Fields (DePaul signee) - charged with sexual assault
• Dedrick Finn (Xavier) - accused of shoving his ex-girlfriend and kidnapping her pug dog
• Damon Flint (Cincinnati) - pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charge of domestic violence
• John Flowers (Indiana/UNLV) - arrested on attempted rape, burglary and robbery charges involving a friend's girlfriend
• Eric "Sleepy" Floyd (Georgetown) - arrested on misdemeanor-assault charge after fight with his wife
• Dwayne Fontana (Arizona State) - charges dropped following arrest after co-ed's rape allegations
• Bryn Forbes (Cleveland State/Michigan State) - arrested at 5:15 a.m. on family violence charge after verbal argument with his ex-porn star fiancee turned physical
• Steve Francis (Maryland) - woman on his record label filed groping complaint against him
• Kevin Gaines (Michigan/Houston) - arrested for assaulting woman at nightclub
• Travis Garrison (Maryland) - pleaded guilty to assault and sex offense charges stemming from slapping incident at local bar before he was required to register as sex offender after assaulting multiple women present at his wife's overnight birthday party
• Naseem Ikena Gaskin (Utah/Montana) - arrested for felony strangulation of partner
• Kenny Geno (Georgia) - part-time H.S. assistant coach was arrested in fall of 2023 on pair of federal child sexual exploitation charges
• Andre Gilbert (South Dakota State/Kansas State) - juco recruit for K-State was acquitted by jury on two counts of second-degree rape after female SDSU student accused him and teammate of sexual assault
• C.J. Giles (Southern California commitment/Miami FL signee/Kansas/Oregon State) - kicked off KU team for misdemeanor battery to his girlfriend
• David Girley (Oregon) - accused of trying to harass women who claim he sexually abused them
• Ben Gordon (Connecticut) - arrested for allegedly slapping female student
• Benny Green (Kansas State/Chattanooga) - struck female cheerleader from opposing team in face at conclusion of contest when she held her index finger in his face in "We're No. 1" gesture
• Jeremy Green (Stanford) - arrested on suspicion of felony domestic violence
• Orien Greene (Florida/Louisiana-Lafayette) - arrested after being accused of breaking into two Florida homes and fondling woman
• Wendell Greenleaf (Baylor) - faced misdemeanor charge of assault-family violence after already on two years' deferred probation upon pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges of criminal mischief and assault (breaking down apartment door and slapping ex-girlfriend)
• Eddie Griffin (Seton Hall) - woman accused him of punching her in face and shooting pistol at her car as she drove away
• Teddy Grubbs (DePaul) - convicted of lewd fondling and simple battery
• Anthony Grundy (North Carolina State) - arrested and charged with simple assault on female
• P.J. Hairston (North Carolina) - charged with assault on a female, interfering with emergency communication and injury to personal property
• Darvin Ham (Texas Tech) - arrested on suspicion of violence against his wife
• Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway (Memphis) - charged with threatening and intimidating his girlfriend while carrying gun at his side
• Greg Hardy (Ole Miss) - arrested as an NFL defensive end and charged with attacking and threatening his girlfriend
• James Hardy III (Indiana) - arrested for abusing mother of his child and their infant boy
• Keith Harris (Kansas) - charged with assault after choking and biting female student in her apartment
• Paul Harris (Syracuse) - pleaded guilty to menacing
• Jaxson Hayes (Texas) - arrested after altercation with police when law enforcement was summoned to LA area home for domestic disturbance
• Daniel Hayles (Auburn/South Alabama) - arrested on domestic violence charge
• Eric Hayward (Connecticut) - sentenced to three years in prison for multiple counts of sexual assault and risk of injury to child
• Cedric Henderson (Memphis) - booked on warrant to appear in court on domestic-assault charge
• Jason Henry (Arkansas) - pimp known as "Allstar" booked on multiple sex crimes
• LaDontae Henton (Providence) - charged with domestic assault after fighting with ex-girlfriend although charges were eventually dropped
• Eric Hicks (Cincinnati) - faced felony charges for assault
• Jordan Hill (Arizona) - felony assault charge after allegedly shoving and choking his girlfriend
• Baskerville Holmes (Memphis State) - arrested twice for domestic violence
• Jonathan Holton (Rhode Island/West Virginia) - pleaded no contest to sex crime of video voyeurism
• Dennis Hopson (Ohio State) - pleaded guilty to menacing charge for threatening to shoot his wife
• Daniel Horton (Michigan) - arraigned on domestic-violence charge
• Byron Houston (Oklahoma State) - pleaded guilty to multiple counts of indecent exposure and became registered sex offender
• Rolando Howell (South Carolina) - arrested and charged with criminal domestic violence
• Dewan Huell/Hernandez (Miami FL) - arrested after reportedly entering his ex-girlfriend's dorm room uninvited and finding her in closet with another man
• Ron Huery (Arkansas) - received five-year prison sentence for violating probation and attempting to break into ex-girlfriend's home
• Jordy Hultberg (Louisiana State) - arrested after shoving his estranged wife into dresser when she caught him with another woman
• Jeremy Hunt (Memphis) - twice charged with domestic assault
• LeRoy Hurd (Miami/Texas-San Antonio) - sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of using computer to solicit minor stemming from relationship with high school student where he was a coach
• Richard Hurd (Baylor) - arrested for sexual assault but charges were dropped when DA's office determined case was not strong enough to go to trial
• Richard "Pop" Isaacs (Texas Tech) - accused in civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting a minor during team trip to the Bahamas (suit subsequently dismissed)
• Allen Iverson (Georgetown) - kicked naked wife out of their residence according to 911 police tape
• Courtney James (Minnesota) - found guilty of domestic assault
• Anthony Jenkins (Clemson) - pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting minor
• Anthony Johnson (College of Charleston) - pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct
• Carlos "Scooby" Johnson (Butler) - medical redshirt freshman from Michigan charged with felony rape and sexual battery in his dormitory room (subsequently found not guilty by jury)
• Dave Johnson (Syracuse) - disciplined for relationship with 14-year-old girl who claimed he had sex with her
• Dennis Johnson (Pepperdine) - charges dismissed after wife refused to press them following arrest for holding knife to her throat
• Dior Johnson (Pittsburgh) - shortly after arriving on campus following 10 high schools and two previous college commitments (Syracuse and Oregon), he was arrested after alleged fight with woman (pleaded guilty to simple assault and strangulation)
• James Johnson (Wake Forest) - arrested on charges of domestic assault causing bodily harm
• Kevin Johnson (California) - history of sexual misbehavior
• Marques Johnson (UCLA) - arrested on suspicion of beating his wife
• Torre Johnson (Oklahoma State/Wisconsin-Milwaukee) - dismissed from UWM's team after police found him hiding in closet and arrested him on suspicion of substantial battery (hitting woman in mouth causing her to get 10 stitches)
• Chris Jones (Louisville) - faced charges of rape and sodomy (subsequently cleared by grand jury)
• Theodore "Mookie" Jones IV (Syracuse) - suspended for one year following female student accusing him of cyberbullying
• Bobby Joyce (UNLV) - abuse of spouse
• Logan Kelley (Rutgers/Montevallo AL) - pleaded guilty to fatally slicing neck of strip club employee in Tijuana
• Jason Kidd (California) - pleaded guilty to spousal abuse
• Thomas Kilgore (Central Michigan/California) - charged with roughing up CMU student and mother of his daughter
• Jesse King III (Texas A&M) - acquitted of child rape charges while attending prep school in 1999
• Jason Klotz (Texas) - charged and arrested for assault with injury following fight with his girlfriend
• Billy Knight (UCLA) - committed suicide month following arrest on molestation charges reportedly involving nine-year-old daughter of ex-girlfriend
• Danny Lawhorn Jr. (Washington State signee/Midwestern State TX) - AAU girls coach in hometown of Hartford, Conn., accused of assaulting female player staying with him as her summer sponsor
• Ty Lawson (North Carolina) - arrested in alleged domestic violence incident
• Mitchell Lee (Minnesota) - involved in couple of sexual assault cases
• DeAndre Liggins (Kentucky) - charged with domestic abuse
• Donald Little (Cincinnati) - pleaded guilty to persistent disorderly conduct for assaulting female tavern manager
• Mario Little (Kansas) - arrested after altercation involving girlfriend
• Robert Littlejohn (Purdue) - sentenced to 60 years in prison following conviction of chasing and stabbing woman to death during fight
• Eric Lockett (George Mason/Florida International/North Carolina State) - criminal case was dismissed following arrest at 5 a.m. and charged with assault on his ex-girlfriend
• Steve Logan (Cincinnati) - pleaded guilty to charge of domestic violence stemming from incident involving long-time girlfriend
• Brad Lohaus (Iowa) - pleaded guilty to domestic assault stemming from hotel incident involving his girlfriend
• Art Long (Cincinnati) - pleaded no contest to domestic violence
• Reggie Lynch (Illinois State/Minnesota) - arrested on probable cause of criminal sexual conduct and subsequently suspended from campus for separate incident
• Clyde Lynn (North Carolina) - walk-on resigned from his high school position following arrest for allegedly having sexual relationship with student
• Sam Mack (Iowa State/Arizona State/Houston) - co-ed accused him of rape
• Yemi Makanjuola (Tennessee/UNC Wilmington/SIU Edwardsville) - accused by woman of sexual assault in residence hall housing many of UT's athletes (his attorney sat on university's board of athletics; DA declined to prosecute)
• Julius Marble (Michigan State/Texas A&M) - alleged sexual assault
• Roy Marble Sr. (Iowa) - charged with domestic-abuse assault
• Anthony Mason (Tennessee State) - multiple criminal rape complaints
• Bryant Matthews (Virginia Tech) - found guilty in Australia of sexual assault
• Vernon Maxwell (Florida) - charged with kidnapping and aggravated assault
• Joe Mazzulla (West Virginia) - suspended for arrest on charges of domestic battery (allegedly grabbed woman he had lived with by neck at bar)
• Trevor Mbakwe (Marquette/Minnesota) - arrested and jailed for violating harassment restraining order
• Ed McCants (Northwestern/Wisconsin-Milwaukee) - sentenced to year in jail for six misdemeanors related to domestic abuse case
• Walter McCarty (Kentucky) - fired as Evansville coach amid Title IX probe into reports of alleged sexual misconduct
• Michael McClain (Washington) - faced assault charges following arrest stemming from scuffle with girlfriend
• Xavier McDaniel (Wichita State) - accused of couple of domestic assaults
• Cam McDowell (Georgia) - charged with criminal trespass-family violence/damage to on-campus property where a former girlfriend resided after throwing rock through window about midnight
• Marcetteaus McGee (Wisconsin signee/Illinois-Chicago) - pleaded guilty to reduced sexual-assault charge
• Donnie McGrath (Providence) - pleaded no contest to charge of simple assault following arrest stemming from struggle with former girlfriend
• Mario McKinney Jr. (Missouri/New Mexico State/Texas-El Paso) - accused of attempting a battery on woman who lived with him
• Ben McLemore (Kansas) - arrested in Oregon facing multiple sex crime charges
• Roshown McLeod (St. John's/Duke) - charged with simple battery after shoving pregnant girlfriend
• Donovan McNabb (Syracuse) - fired by ESPN after he, along with several other ex-NFL players, were accused of sexual harassment by a former female colleague (wardrobe stylist) at NFL Network
• Daquein McNeil (Florida International/Minnesota) - jailed after arrest for two counts of domestic assault against 28-year-old girlfriend and accused again less than week after release from jail
• Howard McNeil (Seton Hall) - convicted of murder
• Paul McPherson (DePaul) - high school coach in Florida was charged with multiple counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor
• Carl McPipe (Nebraska) - sex crime conviction resulting in five years' probation
• Fab Melo (Syracuse) - charged with criminal mischief
• Marcus Melvin (North Carolina State) - charged with trying to strangle his girlfriend
• Ron Mercer (Kentucky) - settled lawsuit with Boston Celtics teammate stemming from incident as NBA rookie
• Nate Miles (Connecticut) - expelled following hearing concerning alleged assault of female student
• Greg Minor (Louisville) - agreed to enter program for batterers to avoid trial on charges he assaulted his ex-girlfriend
• Duke Mondy (Providence/Oakland) - arrested based on sexual-assault complaint
• Arterio Morris (Texas/Kansas) - charged with misdemeanor assault after physical altercation with his ex-girlfriend (entered plea deal) and dismissed from KU's program following alleged sexual assault
• Ravi Moss (Kentucky) - arrested on assault charge after alleged argument with mother of their child
• Andrew Moten (Florida) - arrested and charged with spouse battery
• Jerrod Mustaf (Maryland) - settled wrongful-death lawsuit
• Shawn Myrick (Cincinnati) - jailed for sexual battery
• Lee Nailon (Texas Christian) - pleaded no contest to roughing up his girlfriend in dormitory room and arrested on charges of beating his wife
• Johnny Newman (Richmond) - sentenced to 60 days in jail and fined $500 for assaulting his wife
• Kendrick Nunn (Illinois/Oakland) - charged with domestic battery for allegedly striking woman in her apartment
• Greg Oden (Ohio State) - accused of punching woman in face around 3:30 a.m.
• Mike Olliver (Lamar) - sentenced to 16 years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted murder (stabbing ex-girlfriend)
• Michael Olowokandi (Pacific) - police investigated multiple alleged instances of domestic violence
• Venoy Overton (Washington) - alleged criminal conduct involving teenage girls
• Victor Page (Georgetown) - multiple assaults against same woman among 33 criminal charges in 3 1/2-year span in Maryland and the District of Columbia prior to sentenced to 10 years in prison before going back behind bars following alleged attempt to assault his girlfriend's 17-year-old daughter
• Richie Parker (Long Island) - convicted of sexual abuse at his New York City high school
• Ruben Patterson (Cincinnati) - NBA's first registered sex offender stemming from incident involving his family's nanny
• Anthony Peeler (Missouri) - federal court jury awarded woman $2.4 million after suing him and testifying he pinned her down and held gun to her head
• Kendrick Perkins (Memphis commitment) - allegedly punched woman in face outside nightclub
• Prentiss Perkins (Washington) - sex-abuse offense
• Gerald Perry (South Carolina/Southern LA) - multiple settlements involved in series of sordid incidents regarding eventual NFL offensive tackle
• Jesse Perry (Arizona) - pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charge of strangulation after facing three felony domestic violence charges
• Marcus Perry (Nebraska) - jury found him not guilty of sexual assault but guilty of child abuse
• Wesley Person Sr. (Auburn) - multiple domestic-violence charges
• Terry Pettis (Fresno State) - pleaded no contest to misdemeanor vandalism and battery charges involving his girlfriend before later sentenced to life in prison without parole for first-degree murder in botched drug robbery
• Larry Petty (Wisconsin) - pleaded guilty to threatening wife with kitchen knife
• Terrence Phillips (Missouri) - suspended in mid-season amid investigation by school officials in Title IX office (Mizzou paid $400K over claims of botched sexual conduct probe)
• Pierre Pierce (Iowa) - imprisoned for assaulting former girlfriend at her apartment
• Matt Pilgrim (Kentucky/Hampton/Oklahoma State) - judge dismissed female student's emergency protective order against him
• Kendal "Tiny" Pinder (North Carolina State) - professional career in Australia derailed by multiple sexual-assault convictions involving women aged 16 to 20 between 1988 and 1990
• Elliott Pitts (Arizona) - left school over "personal issue" following suspension after university finding of sexual misconduct
• Carl Pollard (Brigham Young/Southern California/Southern Utah) - sentenced to prison for sexually molesting three girls under 11 years old
• Olden Polynice (Virginia) - arrested on domestic-assault charges
• Chris Porter (Auburn) - arrested for sexual abuse (alleged fondling of female teenager)
• Kevin Porter Jr. (Southern California) - accused of punching woman in face and later of assault and strangulation involving his girlfriend
• Michael Porter (Kentucky) - sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to having sex with an underage girl
• Kenny Pratt (Iowa State) - arrested for alleged abuse (charges subsequently dropped)
• Zach Price (Louisville/Missouri/Winthrop) - allegedly pushed female to ground
• Joshua Primo (Alabama) - released by San Antonio Spurs stemming from multiple alleged instances of exposing himself to women
• Stanley Pringle (Penn State) - charged with public lewdness and disorderly conduct in connection to a reported library masturbation incident
• Zach Randolph (Michigan State) - exotic dancer sued him for sexual assault although police never filed criminal charges
• Michael Reese (Boston College/Loyola MD) - criminal charges for which he never was convicted involving altercation with old girlfriend
• Grady Reynolds (St. John's) - arrested and charged with assaulting and harassing female student in campus dormitory
• Lafester Rhodes (Iowa State) - charged with ransacking ex-girlfriend's apartment
• King Rice (North Carolina) - charged with assaulting woman, resisting arrest and destruction of public property
• Jason Richardson (Michigan State) - found guilty of domestic violence
• Jereme Richmond (Illinois) - convicted of threatening female probation officer
• Andre Riddick (Kentucky) - allegedly picked up his girlfriend after leaving a bar and pushed or tossed her down stairs before punching her in chest
• J.R. Rider (UNLV) - accused of kidnapping and battery of female acquaintance
• Jimario Rivers (Memphis) - wanted for aggravated assault after reportedly attacking his girlfriend at grocery store
• Rolan Roberts (Virginia Tech/Southern Illinois) - transferred following suspension for one year at VT for an incident alleging assault and sexual misconduct
• Alvin Robertson (Arkansas) - imprisoned for probation violation involving rape accusation
• Bernard Robinson Jr. (Michigan) - arrested and charged with three counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct
• Cliff Robinson (Connecticut) - decked female police officer during brawl outside nightclub
• Clifton Robinson (Auburn) - accepted plea bargain (contributing to delinquency of minor) following accusation of having sex with underage girl
• Glenn Robinson Jr. (Purdue) - charged with domestic battery and assault
• Jon Robinson (Maryland) - wife obtained restraining order after household scuffle
• Rumeal Robinson (Michigan) - swindled his adoptive mother out of her home
• Marvin Rodgers (West Virginia RS/Wright State) - expelled from WV after pleading guilty to second-degree sexual assault
• Lou Roe (Massachusetts) - woman successfully filed restraining order against him
• Reggie Rogers (Washington) - assaulted girlfriend
• Delco Rowley (Michigan State) - arrested as YMCA behavior specialist on charges of sending nude pictures of himself to 15-year-old girl
• Clifford Rozier (North Carolina/Louisville) - arrested on charges of assaulting his mother but case was dropped
• Casey Sanders (Duke) - charged with assaulting girlfriend
• Chris Sandle (Arizona State/Texas-El Paso) - charged with two counts of assault on women at nightclub
• Melvin Scott (North Carolina) - arrested and charged with assaulting female student at local nightclub
• Brian Shorter (Pittsburgh) - charged with domestic violence and wanton endangerment after dispute with wife in middle of night as Kentucky assistant coach
• Bobby Simmons (DePaul) - charged in assault
• Greg Simpson (Ohio State/West Virginia) - couple of disputes with females
• Andy Slocum (Texas A&M) - immersed in controversy with fellow WWE talent
• Bobby Leon Smith (Villanova/Southeast Missouri State) - arrested for domestic battery
• Tommy Smith (Arizona State) - pleaded guilty to charge of aggravated assault
• Troy Smith (Louisville) - served one year of five-to-25-year prison term for involuntary manslaughter death of mother of his infant son
• Ben Spencer (Connecticut) - allegedly broke several windows in his girlfriend's apartment
• Travis Spivey (Georgia Tech/Iowa State) - pleaded guilty to sexual assault in incident involving 15-year-old and booked into jail for investigation of battery in domestic-violence case
• Latrell Sprewell (Alabama) - accused of assaulting girlfriend in front of children
• Michael Spruell (Auburn signee) - sentenced to 15 years in prison after conviction for rape and aggravated assault of two women
• Jerry Stackhouse (North Carolina) - accused of assaulting real estate agent during argument concerning beach house
• D.J. Stephens (Memphis) - arrested in connection with domestic-violence incident involving his child's mother
• Lance Stephenson (Cincinnati) - arrested for pushing girlfriend down stairs
• DeShawn Stevenson (Kansas signee) - admitted taking 14-year-old back to hotel room, getting her drunk and having consensual sex
• Rod Strickland (DePaul) - pleaded guilty to assaulting girlfriend
• Rasheed Sulaimon (Duke/Maryland) - sexual assault allegations
• Jared Sullinger (Ohio State) - domestic dispute with girlfriend
• Chester Surles (Nebraska) - arrested for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend
• Zac Swansey (Georgia/Tennessee Tech) - entered plea for eight years of probation after high school coach/online learning teacher had inappropriate relationship with female student
• Daimon Sweet (Notre Dame) - arrested and charged with having sexual relationship with high school student where he coached
• Stromile Swift (Louisiana State) - pleaded guilty to stalking
• Roy Tarpley (Michigan) - jailed on assault charge
• Jaylon Tate (Illinois) - arrested on charge of domestic battery
• Jeff Taylor (Vanderbilt) - charged with domestic assault
• Marvin Taylor (South Florida) - accused by multiple women of sexual harassment
• Bill Teal (Arkansas commitment) - Florida high school product lost opportunity to align with Razorbacks after conviction of kidnapping and raping woman at gunpoint
• Sebastian Telfair (Louisville commitment) - slapped with three-year restraining order involving his estranged wife
• Issa Thiam (Rutgers) - dismissed from team while native of Senegal faced deportation following domestic-violence charges (pleaded guilty to two of them stemming from incident slapping woman and swinging knife at her after she refused to relinquish cellphone)
• Charles Thomas (Arkansas) - arrested and charged with third-degree battery after reported argument with his former girlfriend
• Isiah Thomas (Indiana) - jury ruled he harassed female New York Knicks executive who was awarded $11.6 million in damages
• Kurt Thomas (Texas Christian) - charged with assaulting his wife
• Stuart Thomas (Stanford) - pleaded no-contest in plea bargain reducing felony charge to misdemeanor in connection with reported sexual assault in campus dormitory
• Ali Thompson (Arkansas) - imprisoned for beating mother of his child
• James Thompson (South Carolina signee/Eastern Michigan) - arrested for alleged domestic abuse despite former Gamecocks coach Frank Martin calling him "an awesome kid"
• Joshua Tinch (Louisville) - football WR who also played hoops under coach Rick Pitino was terminated as high school instructor after female student complained of inappropriate contact with her when she was 16 shortly following his hiring
• Marlon Towns (Arkansas/Murray State) - arrested on charges of domestic assault and marijuana possession
• Gary Trent (Ohio University) - arrested on domestic-violence charge accused of assaulting girlfriend
• Mack Tuck (Colorado) - kicked off team following arrest for allegedly threatening 6 1/2-month pregnant teenager who refused to have sex with him
• Rodney Tucker (Florida State/Auburn) - missed season facing first-degree felony charge of sexual battery on physically helpless victim while she slept after night of clubbing
• Carlos Turner (South Carolina signee) - Louisville product was accused of breaking into home of former girlfriend and stabbing mother of two of his children seven times before turning weapon on himself
• Sean Tyson (Clemson) - charged with assaulting female student
• Robbie Valentine (Louisville) - charged with strangulation of his girlfriend at their home (reportedly because she sought to move out)
• David Vaughn III (Memphis State) - domestic violence arrest
• Herman Veal (Maryland) - disciplined for allegedly making unwarranted sexual advance toward female student
• Toby Veal (Colorado/Virginia Commonwealth/Paine GA) - violated school's weapons policy
• Lagerald Vick (SMU signee/Kansas) - although never charged with crime, school probe resulted in recommendation of two years probation after determining he likely committed domestic violence
• Charlie Villanueva (Connecticut) - domestic assault charge
• Clyde Wade III (Memphis) - domestic-assault charges involving mother of their twins
• Maurice "Boo" Wade (Wisconsin) - sentenced to 18 months probation and ordered to complete domestic-violence counseling
• Kenny Walker (Kentucky) - pleaded guilty to menacing his wife
• Martez Walker (Texas/Oakland) - charged with misdemeanor assault
• Toraino Walker (Connecticut) - spent time in detention home in high school after pleading guilty to battery charge in incident involving young woman during double date
• John Wallace (Syracuse) - girlfriend withdrew harassment charge alleging he punched her in face and choked her during quarrel
• Rasheed Wallace (North Carolina) - misdemeanor assault involving ex-girlfriend
• Jake Walter (Xavier commitment) - seven-footer charged as juvenile with rape and sodomy before accusation was dismissed and documents in case ordered to be sealed
• Carlo Walton (Iowa State) - arrested after allegedly beating his girlfriend in a bar parking lot
• Travis Walton (Michigan State) - allowed to continue duties as student-assistant coach after criminally charged for punching female student at bar
• Chris Washburn (North Carolina State) - convicted of misdemeanor charge of pushing and slapping female student at NCSU
• Brock Washington (Michigan State) - freshman walk-on underwent investigation for criminal sexual conduct (forcibly groping woman) before state AG decided not to press charges
• Jermaine Watson (Boston College) - evicted from his apartment following incident allegedly precipitated by pushing of woman at party
• Marcus Watson (Oklahoma State) - second cousin to coach Mike Boynton was suspended entire season following protective order filed against Pokes' highest-rated freshman recruit for 2019-20 by ex-girlfriend of former OSU player (county DA's office chose to not pursue criminal charges)
• Maurice Watson Jr. (Boston University/Creighton) - pleaded no-contest to misdemeanor assault and sentenced to five days he'd already served in jail
• Kenyan Weaks (Florida) - placed on conduct probation following dormitory altercation with woman
• Kass Weaver (Wisconsin/Richmond) - charged with domestic assault and malicious wounding
• Marcus Webb (Alabama) - pleaded guilty to reduced charge of indecent assault
• Bonzi Wells (Ball State) - arrested after allegedly assaulting woman who refused to have sex with him
• Delonte West (St. Joseph's) - domestic dispute
• Robert Whaley (Missouri signee/Cincinnati) - charged with sexual misconduct in alleged rape of 13-year-old friend of his sister although trial ended with hung jury
• Jahidi White (Georgetown) - prosecutors declined to file charges because of insufficient evidence after Salt Lake woman said she was drugged and awoke in hotel room being raped
• Royce White (Minnesota/Iowa State) - Maxim model girlfriend filed police report alleging he beat her up
• Charles "Hawkeye" Whitney (North Carolina State) - told college coach Mike Brey in 3:00 a.m. call he'd been picked up by police because his girlfriend had gotten restraining order against him
• Sherron Wilkerson (Indiana) - starter kicked off team following domestic violence arrest at 3:30 a.m.
• Darrell Williams (Oklahoma State) - convicted of sexual battery and rape by instrumentation although verdict was overturned by court of appeals
• DeShaun Williams (Syracuse/Iona) - arrested for allegedly hitting team's mascot during bar fight
• Frank Williams (Illinois) - booked for domestic battery
• Jacorey Williams (Arkansas/Middle Tennessee State) - dismissed from Razorbacks squad following alleged pair of assaults at local nightclub, including one against his ex-girlfriend
• Jayson Williams (St. John's) - wife claimed abusive relationship in divorce papers
• Terrence Williams (Louisville) - domestic-violence arrest
• Tre'Von Willis (Memphis/UNLV) - pleaded no-contest to domestic battery stemming from arrest after allegedly choking female acquaintance six years older than him
• Othell Wilson (Virginia) - acquitted of rape charges, he admitted writing threatening letter to ex-girlfriend half his age at the time but did not kidnap or sexually assault her
• David Wingate (Georgetown) - encountered multiple criminal complaints from women
• Dontonio Wingfield (Cincinnati) - imprisoned for assaulting two police officers responding to domestic violence call
• Jeff Withey (Arizona/Kansas) - L.A. District Attorney's Office chose not to move forward with case after 2014 Playboy Playmate of the Year accused her ex-fiancee of domestic violence
• Enosch Wolf (Connecticut) - arrested by campus police after he was involved in domestic dispute just before 6 a.m.
• Brandon Wood (Southern Illinois/Valparaiso/Michigan State) - arrested after allegedly striking female across face
• Terry Woods (Iowa State) - pleaded guilty to reduced charges in connection with kidnapping case involving woman
• Tony Woods (Wake Forest/Oregon) - arrested and charged with assaulting live-in girlfriend
• Doug Wrenn (Connecticut/Washington) - convicted of cyber-stalking and telephone harassment
• Lorenzen Wright (Memphis) - prior to arrest for his murder, ex-wife claimed abusive behavior in book she wrote

"If we have one of those cases (sexual assault), that's very problematic," pious retired NCAA President Mark Emmert told USA Today while five of every six universities refused to provide disciplinary records to the publication's network for a "Predator Pipeline" profile despite federal law giving schools explicit permission to provide such information. Question for Emmert: How about hundreds of cases plus one? If they bother to digest this lengthy list (including murders) or discern how often local "Mr.-Fix-It" go-to defense attorney is utilized by athletes, it might be time for Emmert, who earned $4 million annually, and shameful thumb-sucking university presidents to emerge from fetal position in their ivory towers, cease deliberate indifference and finally add a few paragraphs citing penalties for sexual misconduct to 440-page rules book. More to the point, how about elevating scholastic standards to emphasize genuine student-athletes less likely to be involved in sordid activities? Let's face it: Stupid people do dumb things. A correlation connecting delinquency of college cagers and soft-on-crime mindset is certainly an inconvenient truth requiring better leadership than insulated higher-education parasites and lame-stream #MessMedia leeches; not to mention grievance-industry NBA players probably supporting the aforementioned list as much as social scholars do common criminals in #Dimorat-dominated municipalities such as Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, District of Columbia, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Memphis, Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Portland, St. Louis, San Francisco, Seattle, state of Wisconsin, etc. Even worse are college campuses infected by progressive puke as genesis for every idiotic idea about which nation is polarized.

Extra! Extra! Instead of wondering if Plagiarist Biledumb is most adept at uniting American citizenry with halfhearted comments assassination attempts on #TheDonald, combining one cogent thought with another, shuffling on Delaware beach with "Dr." Jill, issuing weather reports to hideous Hunter, creating pseudonyms, halting flow of illegal aliens, hugging cute granddaughter from rural Arkansas, skinny-dipping when VP in front of female Secret Service agents or creepily showering with his daughter, you can read news about memorable major league baseball achievements and moments involving former college basketball players. Baseball is portrayed as a thinking man's game but only 4% of active MLB players earned college diplomas. Nonetheless, numerous ex-college hoopers had front-row seats to many of the most notable games, transactions and dates in MLB history.

Former Fordham hoopers Frankie Frisch and Babe Young provided significant National League hitting performances for the New York Giants while ex-San Diego State hoopers Tony Clark and Graig Nettles supplied decisive homers on this date. Unless you habitually pore over the content at baseballlibrary.com, baseballreference.com and nationalpastime.com, following is a September 17 calendar focusing on such versatile MLB athletes:

SEPTEMBER 17

• Cincinnati Reds CF Ethan Allen (Cincinnati basketball letterman in 1924-25 and 1925-26) accumulated four hits in an 8-7 setback against the New York Giants in nightcap of 1927 doubleheader.

• New York Yankees C Benny Bengough (Niagara hoops letterman from 1916-17 through 1918-19) went 3-for-3 for the second time in 17 days in 1926.

• Cleveland Indians SS Lou Boudreau (leading scorer for Illinois' 1937 Big Ten Conference co-champion) supplied four hits against the Washington Senators in a 1949 game.

• Baltimore Orioles CF Al Bumbry (Virginia State's runner-up in scoring with 16.7 ppg as freshman in 1964-65) banged out four hits against the New York Yankees in a 1984 contest.

• Los Angeles Dodgers rookie CF Glenn Burke (averaged 16.3 ppg in six basketball games with Nevada-Reno in 1974-75) went 3-for-3, including go-ahead, two-run double, and scored three runs in an 11-7 win against the Atlanta Braves in nightcap of 1976 twinbill.

• Chicago Cubs RHP Ray Burris (two-sport standout in Southwestern Oklahoma State Hall of Fame) won his fifth straight start in 1975.

• Arizona Diamondbacks 1B Tony Clark (San Diego State's leading scorer in WAC games in 1991-92) homered twice in back-to-back games against the Colorado Rockies in 2005.

• C Gene Desautels (hoops letterman for Holy Cross in 1929 and 1930) awarded on waivers from the Cleveland Indians to the Philadelphia Athletics in 1945.

• Houston Astros RF Cameron Drew (averaged 15.4 ppg and team-high 8.9 rpg as sophomore in 1983-84 before becoming NECC first-team selection in 1984-85 when leading New Haven CT in scoring and rebounding) collected two of his three MLB hits, including a triple, against San Francisco Giants P Rick Reuschel in a 1988 contest.

• Los Angeles Dodgers C Joe Ferguson (hooper in 1967 NCAA playoffs with Pacific) jacked two homers against the Atlanta Braves in a 1979 outing.

• Philadelphia Athletics RF Walt French (letterman for Rutgers and Army) contributed three hits in a game for the second consecutive day in 1925.

• New York Giants 2B Frankie Frisch (Fordham hoops captain) smacked a decisive homer in the 10th inning of 5-4 decision over the Cincinnati Reds in 1926.

• Detroit Tigers 1B Hank Greenberg (enrolled at NYU on hoops scholarship in 1929 but attended college only one semester) homered in third consecutive contest, sixth out of last seven games and eighth out of last 11 outings in 1946. Blast was milestone 300th of his 331 MLB career round-trippers.

• Baltimore Orioles 3B Wayne Gross (Cal Poly Pomona assists leader in 1974-75) cracked a grand slam against the New York Yankees in a 1984 contest.

• New York Giants RHP Jim Hearn (Georgia Tech hoops letterman in 1941-42) hurled a shutout against the Chicago Cubs in 1952.

• Toronto Blue Jays 3B Garth Iorg (juco hooper with College of the Redwoods CA in mid-1970s) stroked a bases-loaded, game-winning single in the bottom of ninth inning in 5-4 win against the Boston Red Sox in 1984.

• Los Angeles Dodgers LHP Sandy Koufax (Cincinnati's freshman hoops squad in 1953-54) tossed his 11th shutout of the 1963 campaign, a modern MLB record for lefthander.

• Cleveland Indians rookie 3B Jack Kubiszyn (All-SEC first-team guard as senior averaged 18.3 ppg for Alabama from 1955-56 through 1957-58) provided a career-high three hits against the Minnesota Twins in the opener of 1961 twinbill.

• Chicago White Sox LHP Thornton Lee (Cal Poly hooper in 1925-26) hurled his second straight complete game yielding fewer than five hits.

• New York Giants CF Hank Leiber (Arizona hooper in 1931) provided three extra-base hits and five RBI against the Brooklyn Dodgers in a 1936 game.

• The longest hitting streak of the 1940 season ended at 21 games when Philadelphia Phillies rookie RF Danny Litwhiler (member of JV hoops squad with Bloomsburg PA in mid-1930s) went hitless against the Cincinnati Reds.

• Philadelphia Phillies 1B Tony Lupien (Harvard hoops captain in 1938-39) went 4-for-4 against the New York Giants in opener of a 1944 doubleheader.

• Cleveland Indians 1B Ed Morgan (Tulane hoops letterman from 1923-24 through 1925-26) manufactured four hits in back-to-back games in 1930.

• St. Louis Cardinals RF Red Murray (played hoops for Lock Haven PA in early 1900s) collected four hits and three RBI in a 1908 contest against the New York Giants.

• New York Yankees 3B Graig Nettles (shot 87.8% from free-throw line for San Diego State in 1963-64) supplied a go-ahead homer in 11th inning of 5-3 win against the Milwaukee Brewers in 1976.

• Chicago Cubs RF Bill Nicholson (hoops guard for Washington College MD two years in mid-1930s) went 4-for-4 with four RBI against the New York Giants in nightcap of a 1947 twinbill.

• Detroit Tigers OF Jim Northrup (second-leading scorer and third-leading rebounder for Alma MI in 1958-59) homered in both ends of a 1971 doubleheader sweep of the Baltimore Orioles.

• Montreal Expos OF Curtis Pride (led William & Mary in steals three times and in assists twice from 1986-87 through 1989-90), born with 95% hearing disability, stroked his first MLB hit in 1993 (pinch two-run double against Philadelphia Phillies).

• Philadelphia Phillies SS Don Rader (Oregon hoops letterman in 1912) registered a career-high three hits in a 1921 game against the St. Louis Cardinals.

• Brooklyn Dodgers rookie 1B Jackie Robinson (PCC's leader in scoring average in 1939-40 and 1940-41 with UCLA) opened game's scoring with a homer and knocked in eventual winning run with double in 4-2 win against the Pittsburgh Pirates clinching 1947 N.L. pennant.

• Chicago Cubs utilityman Roe Skidmore (scored 41 points for Millikin IL in game against Illinois College on 1-28-66) delivered a pinch-hit single in his only MLB appearance in 1970 (off Jerry Reuss of St. Louis Cardinals).

• New York Yankees RHP Lee Smith (averaged 3.4 ppg and 1.9 rpg for Northwestern State in 1976-77) notched milestone 400th of 478 saves in his 18-year MLB career.

• Chicago Cubs 2B Wayne Terwilliger (two-year hoops letterman for Western Michigan in late 1940s) cracked a two-run homer in the seventh inning to account for decisive blow in 3-2 triumph at Brooklyn in 1950.

• New York Yankees CF Dave Winfield (starting forward for Minnesota's first NCAA playoff team in 1972) launched two homers in a 1983 game against the Cleveland Indians.

• New York Giants rookie 1B Babe Young (Fordham hoops letterman in 1935-36) knocked in five runs against the Chicago Cubs in a 1940 contest. Two years later as a CF, Young had seven RBI in 1942 outing against the Cincinnati Reds.

Extra! Extra! Instead of wondering where is the junk-journalism ridicule and accountability for egregious multitude of bed-wetting #MessMedia misfits blaming Donald Trump for assassination attempts against him, you can read news about memorable major league baseball achievements and moments involving former college basketball players. Baseball is portrayed as a thinking man's game but only 4% of active MLB players earned college diplomas. Nonetheless, numerous ex-college hoopers had front-row seats to many of the most notable games, transactions and dates in MLB history.

Former hoopers from multiple different Michigan colleges - Don Lund (Michigan), Jim Northrup (Alma) and Robin Roberts (Michigan State) - supplied significant MLB performances on this date. Unless you habitually pore over the content at baseballlibrary.com, baseballreference.com and nationalpastime.com, following is a September 16 calendar focusing on such versatile MLB athletes:

SEPTEMBER 16

• Switch-hitting C Mark Bailey (Southwest Missouri State's top basketball rebounder in 1980-81) homered from both sides of the plate as Houston Astros rookie in 1984 game against the San Diego Padres.

• Chicago Cubs 2B Glenn Beckert (three-year hoops letterman for Allegheny PA) established a dubious MLB record (subsequently tied by Todd Helton in 1998) by stranding 12 baserunners in an 18-5 victory against the New York Mets in 1972. Five years earlier, Beckert provided multiple hits for the sixth consecutive contest in 1967.

• Baltimore Orioles RF Angelo Dagres (averaged 6 ppg for Rhode Island in 1954-55) delivered a hit and scored a run in both ends of 1955 doubleheader sweep against the Washington Senators.

• Cleveland Indians rookie RF Larry Doby (reserve guard for Virginia Union's 1943 CIAA hoops titlist) extended his hitting streak to 21 games with a first-inning grand slam against the Washington Senators in 1948.

• St. Louis Cardinals CF Taylor Douthit (California hoops letterman from 1922 through 1924), en route to amassing 84 RBI as a leadoff hitter, singled in the contest's only run against the Brooklyn Dodgers in 10th inning in 1930.

• Philadelphia Phillies RHP Don Erickson Don Erickson (basketball scholarship recipient at Western Illinois as freshman in 1950-51 but signed pro contract before playing single game of hoops) lost his lone MLB decision (10-8 against Chicago Cubs in 1958) when reliever yielded a two-run single to 3B Alvin Dark (hoops letterman with Louisiana State in 1942-43 and Southwestern Louisiana in 1943-44) in top of the 10th inning.

• New York Giants 3B Frankie Frisch (Fordham hoops captain) furnished four hits against the Cincinnati Reds in the opener of a 1922 doubleheader.

• Brooklyn Dodgers 1B Gil Hodges (hooper for St. Joseph's IN in 1943 and Oakland City IN in 1947 and 1948) homered twice against the New York Giants in a 1955 game.

• Philadelphia Phillies CF Kenny Lofton (Arizona's leader in steals for 1988 Final Four team compiling 35-3 record) stroked five hits against the Florida Marlins in a 2005 contest.

• St. Louis Browns RF Don Lund (Michigan starter in 1943-44 and 1944-45) went 4-for-4 in a 3-1 triumph against the Boston Red Sox in 1948.

• St. Louis Cardinals LF Irv Noren (hooper of year for California community college state champion Pasadena City in 1945) homered in his third consecutive outing in 1958.

• Detroit Tigers RF Jim Northrup (second-leading scorer and third-leading rebounder for Alma MI in 1958-59) homered in fifth different and final contest during seven-game road trip in 1969. Five years later, Northrup was purchased from the Montreal Expos by the Baltimore Orioles in 1974.

• In 1954, Philadelphia Phillies RHP Robin Roberts (Michigan State's second-leading scorer in 1945-46 and 1946-47) became the first N.L. hurler to reach 20-win plateau five successive seasons since Carl Hubbell in mid-1930s.

• Chicago Cubs LF Dave Robertson (one of two reserves on North Carolina State's first basketball team in 1911) contributed three hits and five RBI in 1920 game against the Philadelphia Phillies.

• New York Yankees 3B Red Rolfe (played hoops briefly with Dartmouth in 1927-28 and 1929-30) knocked in five runs against the Detroit Tigers in a 1939 game.

• RHP Dave Sisler (All-Ivy League second-team selection for Princeton's first NCAA Tournament team in 1952) traded with cash by the Washington Senators to the Cincinnati Reds for P Claude Osteen in 1961.

• RHP Jack Spring (freshman hooper for Washington State in 1951-52) won his three starts this month in less than two weeks with the expansion Los Angeles Angels in 1961.

• New York Mets C John Stephenson (scored 1,361 points for William Carey MS in early 1960s) swatted two homers against the Cincinnati Reds in a 1965 contest.

• Pittsburgh Pirates RHP Kent Tekulve (freshman hooper for Marietta OH in mid-1960s) permitted his only earned run in final 17 relief appearances of the 1984 campaign.

• St. Louis Browns SS Bud Thomas (Central Missouri hoops letterman in late 1940s) belted his lone MLB homer (third-inning blast against Philadelphia Athletics in nightcap of 1951 doubleheader).

• DH Jim Thome (played junior-college hoops for Illinois Central in 1988-89) jacked a walk-off, two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Chicago White Sox a 9-7 win against the Los Angeles Angels in 2007. It was the 500th of his 612 MLB career clouts.

• Pittsburgh Pirates rookie LHP Bob Veale (scored 1,160 points from 1955-56 through 1957-58 with Benedictine KS) hurled his second shutout in an 11-day span in 1963.

• Cincinnati Reds LF Hub Walker (Ole Miss hooper in 1927 and 1929) supplied his third three-hit outing in a five-day span in 1936.

• Minnesota Twins 2B Jay Ward (McKendree IL hooper in 1956-57 before forgoing hoops to concentrate solely on pro baseball) reached base a total of four times with single and three walks in 2-1 win against the Baltimore Orioles in 1964.

• Boston Red Sox 3B Billy Werber (first Duke hoops All-American in 1929-30) whacked two homers against the Chicago White Sox in the nightcap of a 1934 twinbill.

• Philadelphia Phillies CF Cy Williams (Notre Dame forward in 1909-10) went 4-for-4 against the Pittsburgh Pirates in nightcap of a 1924 doubleheader.

• In 1993, Minnesota Twins DH-RF Dave Winfield (starting forward with Minnesota's first NCAA playoff team in 1972) singled against the Oakland A's for his 3,000th hit.

• Homering in his first of three consecutive contests in 2005, San Francisco Giants CF Randy Winn (Santa Clara backcourtmate of eventual two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Steve Nash in 1993-94) went 4-for-4 against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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Former Bucknell hoopers Bob Keegan and Christy Mathewson provided noteworthy MLB pitching performances on this date. Ditto ex-Cincinnati hoopers Carl Bouldin and Sandy Koufax. Unless you habitually pore over the content at baseballlibrary.com, baseballreference.com and nationalpastime.com, following is a September 15 calendar focusing on such versatile MLB athletes:

SEPTEMBER 15

• California Angels 1B Bruce Bochte (starting forward with Santa Clara's 1970 NCAA playoff basketball team averaged 7.4 ppg and 4 rpg) went 5-for-5 against the Minnesota Twins in a 1975 game.

• Washington Senators RHP Carl Bouldin (All-NCAA Tournament selection for Cincinnati in 1961) posted his first MLB victory with his only complete game (3-1 nod over Chicago White Sox in 1962).

• California Angels 2B Denny Doyle (averaged 2.7 ppg for Morehead State in 1962-63) delivered four hits in a 1974 contest against the Chicago White Sox.

• Detroit Tigers rookie CF Hoot Evers (Illinois hoops starter in 1939-40) slugged two homers against the Washington Senators in a 1946 outing.

• In the opener of a 1946 doubleheader, Boston Red Sox RHP Boo Ferriss (Mississippi State hoops letterman in 1941) registered his 25th triumph, a 4-1 verdict over the Chicago White Sox.

• In 1947, Pittsburgh Pirates 1B Hank Greenberg (enrolled at NYU on hoops scholarship in 1929 but attended college only one semester) hammered the final of his 331 MLB career homers.

• San Diego Padres RF Tony Gwynn (All-WAC second-team selection with San Diego State in 1979-80 and 1980-81) went 4-for-4 against the Cincinnati Reds in a 1996 game.

• Los Angeles Dodgers RF Frank Howard (two-time All-Big Ten Conference first-team selection when leading Ohio State in scoring and rebounding in 1956-57 and 1957-58) went 4-for-4 and contributed two assists in a 6-4 victory against the Chicago Cubs in 1962.

• Chicago White Sox rookie RHP Bob Keegan (Bucknell letterman in 1941-42 and 1942-43) tossed his first of back-to-back shutouts in 1953.

• New York Yankees LF Charlie Keller (Maryland three-year hoops letterman from 1934-35 through 1936-37) homered twice against the St. Louis Browns in the opener of a 1945 doubleheader.

• In 1961, Los Angeles Dodgers LHP Sandy Koufax (Cincinnati's freshman hoops squad in 1953-54) set a N.L. single-season record for most strikeouts by a lefthander.

• Detroit Tigers SS Harvey Kuenn (played hoops briefly for Wisconsin in 1951-52 after competing on JV squad previous season) supplied first four-hit game in his MLB career (against Washington Senators in 1952).

• Chicago White Sox RHP Ted Lyons (two-time All-SWC first-team selection for Baylor in early 1920s), en route to pacing the A.L. in ERA (2.10), hurled a three-hitter against the Boston Red Sox in 1940 on day commemorating his career.

• In 1908, New York Giants RHP Christy Mathewson (Bucknell hooper at turn of 20th Century) defeated the St. Louis Cardinals for 24th straight time.

• In his MLB debut, Philadelphia Athletics RHP Bill McCahan (three-year Duke hoops letterman named to All-Southern Conference Tournament team in 1942) tossed a seven-inning, 2-0 shutout against the Cleveland Indians in nightcap of 1946 doubleheader, outdueling Hall of Famer Bob Feller.

• St. Louis Cardinals LF Wally Moon (averaged 4.3 ppg with Texas A&M in 1948-49 and 1949-50) whacked two homers against the Pittsburgh Pirates in nightcap of a 1957 twinbill.

• New York Giants RF Red Murray (played hoops for Lock Haven PA in early 1900s) knocked in five runs in opener of 1910 doubleheader against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

• RHP Joe Niekro (averaged 8.9 ppg and 3.8 rpg for West Liberty WV from 1963-64 through 1965-66) traded by the Houston Astros to the New York Yankees in 1985.

• Detroit Tigers RF Jim Northrup (second-leading scorer and third-leading rebounder for Alma MI in 1958-59) jacked two homers against the Oakland Athletics in a 1968 contest.

• Oakland Athletics 2B Tony Phillips (New Mexico Military juco hooper in 1977-78 as teammate of eventual Drake All-American Lewis Lloyd) went 3-for-3 for the second successive contest in 1989.

• After missing three previous seasons while serving in U.S. Navy during WWII, Chicago White Sox RHP Johnny Rigney (top hoops center for St. Thomas MN in mid-1930s) twirled a three-hit shutout against the Boston Red Sox in nightcap of 1946 doubleheader.

• 2B Mel Roach (averaged 9.3 ppg for Virginia in 1952-53) delivered a pinch-hit single in the bottom of ninth inning to lift the Philadelphia Phillies to 5-4 win against the St. Louis Cardinals.

• Brooklyn Dodgers 2B Jackie Robinson (highest scoring average in Pacific Coast Conference both of his seasons with UCLA in 1939-40 and 1940-41) homered twice against the Cincinnati Reds in a 1952 outing.

• Washington Senators LHP Orlin "Buck" Rogers (Virginia hoops letterman from 1932-33 through 1934-35) lost his lone MLB decision in debut as a starter against the Cleveland Indians in 1935.

• Milwaukee Brewers LF Ted Savage (Lincoln MO scoring average leader in 1955-56) collected two triples and homer against the Oakland Athletics in a 1970 game.

• An eighth-inning bloop single by Philadelphia Athletics 1B Dick Siebert (Concordia-St. Paul MN hooper in 1929 and 1930) broke up a no-hit bid by Cleveland Indians P Bob Feller in 1940.

• Cleveland Indians RHP Sonny Siebert (team-high 16.7 ppg for Mizzou in 1957-58 as All-Big Eight Conference second-team selection) closed out the 1966 campaign with seven straight quality starts, compiling a 1.61 ERA in that span.

• Minnesota Twins RHP Mike Smithson (teammate of Tennessee All-American Ernie Grunfeld averaged 1.9 ppg and 1.6 rpg under coach Ray Mears in 1974-75 and 1975-76) hurled his first MLB shutout in 1984 (1-0 against original MLB team Texas Rangers).

• Atlanta Braves rookie LHP George Stone (averaged 14.7 ppg and 6.5 rpg for Louisiana Tech in 1964-65 and 1965-66) won his fourth straight start in 1968, notching a 1.69 ERA in that span.

• Chicago White Sox rookie 3B Billy Sullivan Jr. (Portland hoops letterman in 1927-28) supplied four hits against the Boston Red Sox in a 1931 outing.

• Montreal Expos 2B Gary Sutherland (averaged 7.4 ppg with Southern California in 1963-64) stroked four hits against the Chicago Cubs in a 1969 contest.

• Kansas City Royals C John Wathan (averaged 3.7 ppg in 11 games for San Diego in 1968-69) went 4-for-4 in a 7-6 win against the Oakland Athletics in opener of 1977 twinbill.

• Washington Senators LHP Eddie Wineapple (averaged 13.9 ppg with Providence in 1928-29) made his lone MLB appearance, toiling four innings in the opener of a 1929 doubleheader against the Detroit Tigers.

• Cleveland Indians rookie RF Ab Wright (Oklahoma A&M hoops letterman in 1928-29) contributed four hits and four against the Washington Senators in opener of a 1935 twinbill.

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Former Big Apple college hoopers Ralph Branca (NYU), Hank Greenberg (NYU) and Andy Karl (Manhattan) supplied significant MLB performances on this date. Ex-Duke hoopers Chubby Dean and Dick Groat and ex-San Diego State hoopers Tony Gwynn and Graig Nettles also made MLB news on this date. Groat was joined by fellow All-American Eddie O'Brien (Seattle) in generating headlines for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Unless you habitually pore over the content at baseballlibrary.com, baseballreference.com and nationalpastime.com, following is a September 14 calendar focusing on such versatile MLB athletes:

SEPTEMBER 14

• New York Yankees RHP Rich Beck (listed on Gonzaga's basketball roster in 1961-62) fanned eight batters and walked none while allowing one earned run in his seven-inning debut against the Washington Senators in 1965.

• St. Louis Browns RF Beau Bell (two-year hoops letterman for Texas A&M in early 1930s) banged out three extra-base hits against the Philadelphia Athletics in a 1937 contest.

• Showing no indication of 20-year-old jitters in a pennant race, Brooklyn Dodgers RHP Ralph Branca (sixth-leading scorer for NYU in 1943-44) hurled a 5-0 shutout against the St. Louis Cardinals in 1946.

• Seattle Mariners CF Mickey Brantley (averaged 10 ppg, 6.8 rpg and 5.4 apg for Columbia-Greene Community College SC in 1979-80) went 5-for-6 with three homers and seven RBI in an 11-8 setback against the Cleveland Indians in 1987.

• New York Yankees rookie LF Bob Cerv (ranked fourth on Nebraska's career scoring list in 1949-50 when finishing his career) collected two homers and five RBI against the Detroit Tigers in a 1954 game. Four years later with the Kansas City Athletics, Cerv clubbed a homer in both ends of 1958 doubleheader against the Yankees.

• Philadelphia Athletics C Mickey Cochrane (Boston University hooper in early 1920s) contributed three extra-base hits and four RBI against the St. Louis Browns in a 1932 game.

• Philadelphia Athletics LHP Chubby Dean (reserve guard for Duke in 1936) made his MLB pitching debut as the ex-1B hurled three innings of scoreless relief against the St. Louis Browns in 1937.

• Detroit Tigers CF Hoot Evers (Illinois hoops starter in 1939-40) provided four hits against the Washington Senators in the opener of a 1947 twinbill.

• Boston Red Sox LF Dick Gernert (Temple hoops letterman in 1948-49 when averaging 2.7 ppg) contributed seven RBI in a 13-10 win against the Cleveland Indians in 1957.

• Boston Red Sox RHP Dave Gray (hooper for Weber State in early 1960s when school was junior college) made his lone MLB start in 1964.

• Detroit Tigers LF Hank Greenberg (enrolled at NYU on hoops scholarship in 1929 but attended college only one semester) launched a homer for the fifth consecutive contest and extra-base hit for the 10th straight outing in 1940. Six years later, Greenberg contributed two homers and seven RBI in a 7-4 win against the New York Yankees.

• Pittsburgh Pirates SS Dick Groat (two-time All-American with Duke in 1950-51 and 1951-52 when finishing among nation's top five scorers each season) went 4-for-4 against the San Francisco Giants in 1962.

• Oakland Athletics 3B Wayne Gross (Cal Poly Pomona assists leader in 1974-75) smacked a pinch-hit grand slam in an 8-3 victory against the Chicago White Sox in 1979.

• In 1996, San Diego Padres RF Tony Gwynn (All-Western Athletic Conference second-team selection with San Diego State in 1979-80 and 1980-81 who twice led league in assists) registered milestone 2,500th of his 3,141 MLB career hits.

• Philadelphia Phillies RHP Andy Karl (Manhattan hoops letterman from 1933 through 1935) collected his sixth save the first half of month in 1945.

• In the midst of a career-high 12-game hitting streak, Philadelphia Phillies rookie SS Ralph LaPointe (Vermont hoops letterman during WWII) provided three extra-base hits (including his lone MLB homer) in manufacturing four safeties in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates for the second straight day in 1947.

• Houston Astros CF Kenny Lofton (Arizona's leader in steals for 1988 Final Four team compiling 35-3 record) collected three hits and three runs in his MLB debut against the Cincinnati Reds in 1991.

• St. Louis Cardinals rookie CF Bake McBride (averaged 12.7 ppg and 8.1 rpg in 21 games with Westminster MO in 1968-69 and 1969-70) provided his third four-hit game in a four-day span in 1974.

• St. Louis Cardinals RHP Lindy McDaniel (played for Oklahoma's 1954-55 freshman hoops squad) fanned four Cincinnati Reds batters in 2 1/3 innings but yielded his only earned run in 11 relief appearances during the month in 1960.

• In 1974, 3B Graig Nettles (shot 87.8% from free-throw line for San Diego State in 1963-64) homered for the New York Yankees in the first inning before brother Jim Nettles homered for the Detroit Tigers in the second. Four years later, Graig Nettles clobbered two homers against the Tigers in a 1978 outing.

• Pittsburgh Pirates INF/OF Eddie O'Brien (Seattle All-American in 1952-53) took to the mound and hurled a complete-game, 3-1 victory against the Chicago Cubs in opener of 1957 doubleheader.

• St. Louis Browns CF Ray Pepper (Alabama hoops letterman in 1926-27) provided at least four hits in a game for the fifth consecutive month in 1934.

• Chicago White Sox rookie RF Carl Reynolds (Southwestern TX hoops MVP and captain in mid-1920s) banged out four hits and scored three runs for the second time in a three-game span in 1928.

• Seattle Mariners RF Leon Roberts (grabbed one rebound in four basketball games for Michigan in 1970-71 under coach Johnny Orr) contributed a run-scoring double and grand slam in 7-5 win against the Kansas City Royals in 1979.

• Chicago Cubs LF Dave Robertson (one of two reserves on North Carolina State's first basketball team in 1911) went 5-for-5 (including three extra-base hits) and scored four runs in 1920 outing against the Brooklyn Robins.

• Brooklyn Dodgers LHP Preacher Roe (Harding AR hooper in late 1930s) improved his record to 20-2 in 1951 with a 3-1 triumph against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

• Cincinnati Reds OF Ted Tappe (leading scorer in 1949 NJCAA Tournament was Washington State's third-leading scorer following year) smacked a pinch-hit homer in his first MLB at-bat (against Brooklyn Dodgers in 1950).

• Washington Senators 2B Wayne Terwilliger (two-year hoops letterman for Western Michigan in late 1940s) went 4-for-4 against the Detroit Tigers in a 1953 contest.

• Boston Braves rookie C Luke Urban (player-coach for Boston College's hoops squad from 1918-19 through 1920-21) hit safely in his first nine games of the month in 1927.

• Pittsburgh Pirates LHP Bob Veale (scored 1,160 points from 1955-56 through 1957-58 with Benedictine KS), supported by Roberto Clemente's pair of homers, blanked the New York Mets, 6-0, in 1968. It was Veale's second shutout in a week.

• California Angels RF Dave Winfield (starting forward for Minnesota's first NCAA playoff team in 1972) collected two homers and five RBI in a 1990 game against the Seattle Mariners.

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Former Arizona hoopers Hank Leiber and Kenny Lofton supplied significant MLB performances on this date. Ditto ex-PA small-college hoopers Harry Anderson (West Chester), Christy Mathewson (Bucknell) and Gary Peters (Grove City). Unless you habitually pore over the content at baseballlibrary.com, baseballreference.com and nationalpastime.com, following is a September 13 calendar focusing on such versatile MLB athletes:

SEPTEMBER 13

• Detroit Tigers 1B Dale Alexander (starting basketball center in mid-1920s for Milligan TN) delivered four hits in an 11-10 win against the New York Yankees in the opener of 1930 doubleheader.

• Philadelphia Phillies CF Ethan Allen (Cincinnati hoops letterman in 1924-25 and 1925-26) provided four hits in a 5-1 victory against the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1935.

• Philadelphia Phillies LF Harry Anderson (averaged 7.7 ppg and 8.9 rpg for West Chester PA in 1951-52) went 5-for-5 against the San Francisco Giants in a 1958 game.

• Final MLB triumph for RHP Elden Auker (All-Big Six first-five selection with Kansas State in 1931-32) was a three-hit shutout with the St. Louis Browns against the Philadelphia Athletics in 1942.

• California Angels RHP Mike Barlow (Syracuse hooper from 1967-68 through 1969-70) won his third game in six days in 1977, yielding zero earned runs in 10 2/3 innings in that span.

• RHP Bill Beckmann (Washington MO hooper in late 1920s) posted a clutch victory in his next-to-last MLB appearance and St. Louis Cardinals' debut to help them win 1942 N.L. pennant.

• Arizona Diamondbacks RHP Andy Benes (played briefly for Evansville in 1985-86 under coach Jim Crews) allowed only one hit in 8 1/3 innings against the Cincinnati Reds in 1998. He subsequently hurled a total of 15 scoreless frames in his last two starts of the season.

• Washington Senators 1B Zeke Bonura (best basketball forward for Loyola LA in late 1920s and early 1930s) went 4-for-4 in a 7-1 win against his original team (Chicago White Sox) in opener of 1938 doubleheader.

• In midst of a career-long nine-game hitting streak, Los Angeles Dodgers CF Glenn Burke (averaged 16.3 ppg in six basketball games with Nevada-Reno in 1974-75) contributed four safeties and four RBI in a 1977 outing against the San Diego Padres.

• RHP Ownie Carroll (Holy Cross hoops letterman in 1922) purchased from the New York Yankees by the Cincinnati Reds in 1930.

• In 1997, San Diego Padres RF Tony Gwynn (All-WAC second-team selection with San Diego State in 1979-80 and 1980-81) reached the 200-hit plateau in a lone season for fifth time in his career.

• Los Angeles Dodgers C Tom Haller (Illinois backup forward in 1956-57 and 1957-58) smacked a pinch-hit, three-run homer in 10th inning in 5-3 win against the San Francisco Giants in 1970.

• In 1972, Detroit Tigers 1B Frank Howard (two-time All-Big Ten Conference first-team selection when leading Ohio State in scoring and rebounding in 1956-57 and 1957-58) socked his 13th career homer off his apparent favorite pitcher - Baltimore Orioles starter Dave McNally.

• Los Angeles Dodgers LF "Sweet" Lou Johnson (Kentucky State teammate of legendary coach Davey Whitney averaged 5.7 ppg and 2 rpg in 1951-52) smacked two homers against the New York Mets in a 1966 contest.

• Chicago Cubs SS Don Kessinger (three-time All-SEC selection for Mississippi from 1961-62 through 1963-64 while finishing among nation's top 45 scorers each year) went 4-for-4 against the Atlanta Braves in a 1966 outing.

• Chicago Cubs CF Hank Leiber (Arizona hooper in 1931) went 4-for-4 with four runs, two homers and six RBI against the Boston Braves in a 1939 contest.

• Washington Senators CF Don Lock (paced Wichita State in field-goal percentage in 1956-57 and 1957-58 under coach Ralph Miller) secured his fifth two-homer game of the 1964 campaign.

• In 1992, Cleveland Indians rookie Kenny Lofton (Arizona's leader in steals for 1988 Final Four team compiling 35-3 record) broke the A.L. record for stolen bases by a first-year player with thefts #53 and #54. Lofton went on to finish the campaign with league-high 66 steals and 14 assists by a center fielder.

• Hall of Fame RHP Christy Mathewson (Bucknell hooper at turn of 20th Century) made his first MLB start for the New York Giants in 1900.

• Cincinnati Reds rookie LF Greasy Neale (hooper graduated in 1915 from West Virginia Wesleyan) had his 12-game hitting streak snapped by the New York Giants in 1916.

• In 1967, Chicago White Sox LHP Gary Peters (played for Grove City PA in mid-1950s) and Cleveland Indians RHP Sonny Siebert (team-high 16.7 ppg for Mizzou in 1957-58 as All-Big Eight second-team selection) each tossed 11 shutout innings as starters before the White Sox finally won by scoring in 17th frame.

• St. Louis Browns RHP Nels Potter (leading scorer two seasons in early 1930s for Mount Morris IL/Manchester IN) provided his eighth multiple-hit game at the plate during 1945 campaign.

• Atlanta Braves RHP Cecil Upshaw (Centenary's leading scorer as junior in 1962-63) scored upon for only time in span of 14 relief appearances until his final regular-season outing in 1969. Six years later with the Chicago White Sox, Upshaw permitted an earned run for the only time in his last 11 MLB relief appearances over final two months of the 1975 campaign.

• Pittsburgh Pirates 1B Preston Ward (second-leading scorer for Southwest Missouri State in 1946-47 and 1948-49) pounded two homers against the Cincinnati Reds in nightcap of a 1953 doubleheader.

• Boston Red Sox C Sammy White (All-PCC Northern Division first-five selection for Washington in 1947-48 and 1948-49) made an unassisted double play against the Chicago White Sox in 1953.

• New York Yankees LF Dave Winfield (starting forward for Minnesota's first NCAA playoff team in 1972) walloped a grand slam in 1982. Blast was his 200th of 465 MLB career homers.

• Grand slam by Seattle Mariners LF Randy Winn (Santa Clara backcourtmate of eventual two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Steve Nash in 1993-94) proved to be the difference in a 5-1 victory against the Anaheim Angels in 2003.