And Now: An Encore Presentation of Drive and Dish

With Greg Oden forgoing his college eligibility, the editorial staff at Drive and Dish (yeah, we work on Saturdays) has decided to exhume an archived Drive & Dish post that links to an Oden parody. The piece, which parodied Oden's student athlete status, ran in the Sports Pickle about one month ago. Drive and Dish thought the Sports Pickle piece was humorous, yet felt that it wasn't necessarily fair to Oden (and yes, we're fully aware of what a sham the concept of amateurism and the "student athlete" often is in revenue producing Division I sports). But with Greg Oden's career as a "student athlete" ending after only one year (and, yes, we agree with his decision to leave school - he'll be the first pick in the NBA draft), we think he's probably fair game.

By the way, in the picture above, Greg Oden is hanging on the rim - as he does whenever he dunks. How impressive!! The dude is seven feet tall and he can dunk!! Not only can he dunk, but he can dunk really hard!! Wow!! Who knew?

Hopefully, he'll be assessed with a technical foul if he tries that in the NBA. Hanging on the rim is, after all, illegal.

BTW: considering the way the "sports entertainment league" known as the NBA operates (the star system is in force -some animals are more equal than others), we won't be holding our breaths for those "hanging on the rim" technicals.

So Wrong, Yet So Right On

If you are easily offended, read no further. The following parody borders on being offensive. It may be (or may not be) unfair to Greg Oden. But, although satirical in nature, it (sadly) paints a not altogether inaccurate picture of life at an NCAA basketball (applies to football as well) factory.

Oden lightens up practice session with humor


Update:

What do you want to bet that Thad Matta wasn't so jovial in his halftime speech? Whatever adjustments he and his staff made really worked. Ohio State overcame a 20 point deficit en route to a 1 point, nail-biter win. After poor first half showings against Xavier and Tennessee, maybe OSU should stop joking around (insert groan-it's deserved-and yeah, I know, the linked article is a parody).