This is starting to get way out of line. A bunch (or one i don't know for sure) ####(s) who probably got cut from their college teams started a web site designed to rat out teams who have some sort of initiation party. This webiste is so high class that when I was on there you could find an attorney who help you get out of a DWI. What really bothers me about this site is that they do not do any sort of research. They take articles verbatum out of newpapers (they do reference correctly) and go on websites with photo albums (such as webshots and others) they find pictures pertaining to a University and one of its athletic teams and they post them on their websites. Recently, Northwestern Women's soccer, Quinnipiac University Baseball, and Catholic University Women's Lacrosse have all been under scrutiny due to posts on this site.

Now for all of you naive people out there. Initiation is part of college sports, like it or not and I do not agree with the over the top stuff that happens ( See UVM Men's hockey a while back) but if you have a party and everyone participates willingly there should be nothing wrong with that, it is college by the way. This web site (Badjocks.com, I'll reference it against my will) does not take anything like this into consideration. There is no mention of what happened just pictures, so no way to know if it was willing or not. There is nothing there right now that looks out of the ordinary seeing as I've been to a college party or two in my lifetime.

These idiots are going out of their way to ruin the reputation not just of the Athletes, but the entire University on nothing but circumstantial evidence. And Pujols thinks Bonds gets it bad. What makes it worse is that the mainstrem media (ESPN) is reporting these incidents like they are groundbreaking news. I know Stuart Scott is a loser and probably didn't have many friends in college but he had to have atleast seen a party once, in case you've never heard him talk he went to UNC-Chapel Hill and pretends he played sports, (a funny side note on good ol' Stu, At this years NBA Skills competition he interviewed Rip Hamilton and said "just wanted to rub it in that MY Tarheels beat UConn, Rips Alma Matter. Has there been a more awkward moment in the history of side line interviews, Joe Namath and Susy Kolbert excluded, you know that Rip must have wanted to drop the "Aren't you a sportscaster because you weren't good enough to play in college" but instead he just laughed it off, missed opportunity if you ask me.) But I digress, there is nothing new here just college kids being stupid. There are no laws being broken in these cases, except underage drinking, which is as much a part of college as going to class (By the way is the drinking age still 21, what a joke. How many high school teams throw parties that involve alcohol,) And if laws are broken let the Police, or the NCAA or the University jump in and investigate, not some nitwits who pay $20, or however much it costs, a month to have their own website.

I realize that their are times when teams do cross the line and they should by all means be punished for this, and if a website wants to cover that then that is their right. But to have a website dedicated to posting pictures (that they didn't take) and articles (that they didn't write) is stupid. For now anyone who is friends with a student-athlete do the world a favor and don't post your pictures on the internet and put this website out of business.

The purpose of this blog is not to encourage hazing, I do however encourage initiation. See "Miracle", it is activities like this that help bring teams together, and help the new players get to know their upper class counter parts and vice versa. From the pictures that I have seen all people involved looked to be having a good time, and there were no illegal acts taking place (see my opinion on the drinking age above). That is what angered me enough to write this.