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Daily News Alert a {text-decoration:underline;} Yahoo! Alerts Yahoo! News - My Alerts - Edit Alert Friday, September 08, 2006 11:00 AM PDT Today's Weather News:
Florence to veer from U.S. to Bermuda Company settles Katrina workers' suit Heavy rains pound Tucson, Ariz. Tsunami spurs interest in Asian coasts Katrina hospital deaths case progresses Tropical Storm Florence takes aim at Bermuda Weather around the U.S.A. Army general recalls Katrina aftermath Child labor abuse increases 2 missing boys tracked to N.C. river Far-off Florence could become a hurricane Nursing home owners sue over Katrina Space shuttle set for liftoff Wednesday Three more killed as troops ferry in aid in flood-hit Kashmir Tropical Storm Florence forms in the Atlantic Hurricane leftovers cause minor flooding Florence to veer from U.S. to Bermuda
Fri, 08 Sep 2006 08:44 am PDT
AP - Tropical Storm Florence, chugging through the open Atlantic, was expected to strengthen and veer toward Bermuda and away from the East Coast, forecasters said Friday. Full Story Top
Company settles Katrina workers' suit
Fri, 08 Sep 2006 01:56 am PDT
AP - A construction company specializing in disaster recovery settled a lawsuit with migrant workers who were denied overtime even though they often worked long hours cleaning up wreckage left by Hurricane Katrina. Full Story Top
Heavy rains pound Tucson, Ariz.
Thu, 07 Sep 2006 04:59 pm PDT
AP - Heavy rains pounded the Tucson area on Thursday, flooding numerous streets and strangling traffic. Full Story Top
Tsunami spurs interest in Asian coasts
Thu, 07 Sep 2006 01:14 pm PDT
AP - For much of his life, Viroj Dedsongprak paid little attention to the mangrove forests that surrounded his Thai village. He thought nothing of it when neighbors chopped down trees for firewood or plowed them under for shrimp ponds. Full Story Top
Katrina hospital deaths case progresses
Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:59 am PDT
AP - New Orleans' coroner said Thursday he has the material he needs to present findings to a grand jury that will consider indictments against a doctor and two nurses accused of killing patients in the chaotic days following Hurricane Katrina. Full Story Top
Tropical Storm Florence takes aim at Bermuda
Fri, 08 Sep 2006 09:24 am PDT
Reuters - Tropical Storm Florence headed for Bermuda as a lopsided blob of gusty rain on Friday but seemed ready to strengthen into a hurricane before hitting the British territory, U.S. forecasters said. Full Story Top
Weather around the U.S.A.
Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:51 am PDT
AP - Weather around the U.S.A. Full Story Top
Army general recalls Katrina aftermath
Thu, 07 Sep 2006 01:13 am PDT
AP - When civilian officials couldn't get a grip on Hurricane Katrina's devastation, it was Lt. Gen. Russel Honore who took charge, leading federal troops to help rescue thousands still stranded in New Orleans days after the storm. Full Story Top
Child labor abuse increases
Wed, 06 Sep 2006 04:51 pm PDT
AP - Children displaced, often orphaned, by tsunami, earthquakes and other disasters made last year a particularly sordid one for their exploitation as cheap labor or sexual victims, the government said Wednesday. Full Story Top
2 missing boys tracked to N.C. river
Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:48 am PDT
AP - Two young brothers were missing from a home near a fast-moving stream Wednesday, while across the state six people were evacuated from an area flooded by a river swollen by Tropical Storm Ernesto. Full Story Top
Far-off Florence could become a hurricane
Wed, 06 Sep 2006 05:20 am PDT
Reuters - Tropical Storm Florence, which remains far from land and may not make landfall in the United States, could strengthen into the second hurricane of the Atlantic season within 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Wednesday. Full Story Top
Nursing home owners sue over Katrina
Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:52 pm PDT
AP - Two nursing home owners who were arrested after 34 of their patients died in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are suing the government, saying federal, state and local officials failed to keep residents safe and evacuate vulnerable citizens as the storm approached. Full Story Top
Space shuttle set for liftoff Wednesday
Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:53 am PDT
AP - Atlantis' six astronauts did some last-minute studying for their 11-day mission Tuesday as the weather forecast for Wednesday's space shuttle launch continued to look good. Full Story Top
Three more killed as troops ferry in aid in flood-hit Kashmir
Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:53 am PDT
AFP - The death toll from the heaviest rains in 25 years in Indian Kashmir rose by three to 16 as troops rushed supplies to people cut off by floods, police said. Full Story Top
Tropical Storm Florence forms in the Atlantic
Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:11 am PDT
AFP - Tropical Storm Florence formed well away from land, becoming the sixth named Atlantic storm this year, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. Full Story Top
Hurricane leftovers cause minor flooding
Tue, 05 Sep 2006 06:47 am PDT
AP - Flash flooding triggered mudslides that trapped vehicles in Southern California as the fading remnants of Hurricane John dumped rain on parts of the Southwest. Full Story Top

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I've been thinking about this story since I heard about it yesterday. Four years ago Maurice Clarett was the top college football player in the country and he knew it. He decided that he wanted to go into the NFL after his freshman year at Ohio State. Unfortunately for him the NFL has a rule that says you cannot be drafted into the NFL until at least 3 years after you graduated high school - this is an effort to get kids to stay in school and get an education that can support them when their football career is done. Well, Maurice thought the rule was good for other people but not him, so he took the NFL to court.... and lost then he appealed...and lost. Anywho, in the mean time he was convicted of breaking NCAA and Ohio St. rules for taking stuff and was promptly expelled, which was fine for him because he didn't want to be at that stupid school anyway. Once he was eligible to be drafted by the NFL he was given another chance by the Denver Broncos. He showed up overweight and with an alcohol problem, which got him promptly cut from the team. Then this January he was charged with robbery and two days ago he was arrested by police for driving erratically. In his vehicle they found 4 loaded guns, an open half full bottle of Vodka, a hatchet and he was wearing a bulletproof vest. At least one of the weapons was hidden in the vehicle which will bring concealed weapon charges and at least one was an illegal assault rifle. He could now be facing decades in jail because of this one arrest, never mind the previous robbery charge.

As I said before, I've been thinking about this story for about a day now and I don't know what angle to take. In an age where sports heros are the equivalent of the Greek Pantheon, it seems clear that a greater effort needs to be made at teaching humility in sports. Clarett honestly thought that he was better than everybody, which is nothing new for an athlete, but also thought that because of that he was above the rules. While, I'm not a fan of the theory in sports that it doesn't matter if you win or lose, only that you tried your hardest (it does matter, this is sports - somebody wins and somebody loses and you play to win). In that theory is something important, what matters most is that you try your hardest not your place in history. When the media, family and friends start talking about an athlete as the best ever or comparing him/her to the greats of the sports an entitlement mentality can be developed and that's what happened in this case. The problem for Maurice is that he isn't above the rules or the law and neither is any athlete. At the end of the day athletes are only human and they are all replaceable.

I've always thought that it was great that Michael Jordan was cut from his freshman basketball team, it brought reality to his game and it made him work that much harder to be the best and never get cut again. In the end that is why people will remember MJ for a lot longer than Maurice - MJ worked hard to get to be the best, MC expected it to be given to him.