Here’s an interesting article from Sports Law Blog about why Joakim Noah can afford to pass up a chance to be a lottery pick in the NBA draft to play one more year in college. His father is a rock star in France (which apparently is quite lucrative) so Joakim doesn’t feel the pressure to support his whole family or help them get out of the ghetto.
Despite Charles Barkley’s quote (“I hope a lot of these young kids look at [Dwayne Wade], who went to college. Everybody is in such a hurry. Hey, the money is not going anywhere… and if you go to the right college, you can get paid there… Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee.”), it’s hard to resist the guaranteed multimillions if you grew up in the projects. College is fun, but so is getting paid.
In other news…
[USA Today]: Leinart already has fired his agent, just three weeks before the draft.
[MSNBC]: Mooch defends Brett Favre’s feet dragging
[MySA.com]: 10 year old bowls perfect game. Damn overachievers.
[You Tube]: (video) Fine, we’ll make the obvious joke: Dick Cheney throws out the first pitch for the Nationals – hits 80 year old guy in the face.
