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SPORTS
The Clarion \ September 21, 2007
The Volleyball team took an 8-1 Newberry team into
five games on Wednesday, September 19, before fall
ing to the Indians in South Atlantic Conference Play.
Jessica Whitmire prepares for a spile in Photo by Shawn James
Wednesday's volleyball game against Newberry.
Get arrested for stealing
memorabilia? Brilliant!
by Joseph Chilton
Managing Editor
O.J. Simpson has been all over
the news this week after being
arrested last Sunday for
allegedly entering a hotel room
with several other men and
robbing a man at gunpoint of
other $100,000 worth of O.J.
Simpson memorabilia.
All week, whenever the Juice
is brought up in conversation
around me, all I hear people
saying are things along the
lines of, “O.J. Simpson must be
the dumbest human being on
the face of the planet.”
I beg to differ I say that O.J.
Simpson may be dumb, but he
is dumb like a fox.
As everybody knows, O.J.
Simpson was acquitted on
double murder charges during
the “Trial of the Century” in
1995. A lesser known fact,
however, is that a civil court
found the former Heisman-
wiimer guilty, and ordered him
to pay $33.5 million in
retribution to the families of his
victims.
In the twelve years since this
ruling, O.J. has gone practically
bankrupt, even resulting to
selling his Heisman Trophy in
order to scrape by. According
to the NY Daily News, with the
interest that has accrued on this
debt, Simpson now owes about
$38 million.
It is because of this debt that
the actions of O.J. Simpson last
weekend do not seem all that
dumb to me.
According to the website
bloggingvegas.com, the Clark
County District Attorney’s
office has brought nine charges
against Simpson relating to the
break-in. Unless O.J. can
somehow conjure up the ghost
of Johimy Cochran, he is going
to j ail for a long, long time.
Simpson is already 60 years
old, and he no longer has the
fiscal means necessary to
assemble a defense “dream
team” like the one he had in
1995, so it is entirely
conceivable that he will spend
the rest of his days behind bars
for armed robbery.
According to ESPN, when he
was questioned regarding this
case, Simpson told
investigators, “I thought what
happened in Vegas stayed in
Vegas.” This does not seem like
the type of thing a man who
wants to stay a free man would
say.
There are two things that
could possibly come of O.J.’s
trial in this case. He can either
stay a free man and continue
to sell everything that has ever
meant anything to him in an
attempt to pay his debts, or he
can rot in jail, where probably
should have spent the last 12
years anyway.
It seems to me as if at this
point in his life O.J. is willingly
accepting the second option.
Because of this, O.J. Simpson,
I half-heartedly salute you, for
proving that while crime may
not pay, at least it can keep a
person from having to.
Weekly Sports
Calendar
Football
Sept. 22- vs. Chowan
Volleyball
Sept. 22 vs. Lincoln
Memorial
Sept. 25 vs. Carson-
Newman
Men’s Soccer
Sept. 22- at Lincoln
Memorial
Sept. 25- vs. Mars
m
Sept. 26- VS. Erskine
Women’s Soccer
Sept. 22- VS.
Tusculum
Sept. 26- at Converse
Cycling
Sept. 22/23- at
Florida State