the events of the day in sports again confirm what the sports punditocracy knows all too well: if one is looking for role models in sports, look no further than the AI. No one has ever been punched in the groin; arrested for duct-taping 8 people & stealing their cash or having sex with, well, anyone.
Herewith, today's news from the moral high ground known as NCAA basketball:
"Seton Hall dismissed Coach Bobby Gonzalez on Wednesday, ending his tumultuous four-year tenure a day after an ignominious first-round loss in the National Invitation Tournament and the arrest of a player who had been kicked off the team.
Gonzalez was 66-59 in four seasons at the university, and his teams failed to make the N.C.A.A. tournament field in all four seasons. He received a contract extension last year, which was to run through 2015, but his future was clouded by dissatisfaction with Gonzalez’s fiery personality.
The loss to Texas Tech on Tuesday night was marred by the ejection of the star forward Herb Pope, who punched an opposing player in the groin. Gonzalez also received his seventh technical foul of the season.
Also Tuesday, a Pirates player, Robert Mitchell, was arrested in Newark and charged with kidnapping, robbery, burglary and possession of a weapon, according to a law enforcement official in Essex County. Mitchell was accused along with another person of breaking into a house in South Orange, duct-taping eight people and stealing cash and personal items. The police have not identified the other person. "
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