What are you smoking?

So, two things happened in the sports world in the last 2 days that are utterly ridiculous.

1. I don't follow the NBA, but apparently they have a rookie transition program designed to help players adjust to life as a professional athlete making a 7 figure salary. I guess it's a code of conduct orientation -- don't get in trouble and make the league look like it's just a bunch of thugs. Well, two players were found in their room at this conference with marijuana and --gasp -- girls. Both drugs and girls were against the rules of this conference. It all sounds like a high school band camp drama. Anyway, the punishment was to send them home from the very program trying to keep them from making such errors in moral judgment. Does this make sense to anyone? How will this teach them a lesson? It's akin to sending youth home from a church youth retreat because of breaking rules. Usually, those are the kids who need to be at the retreat the most.

2. Chad Johnson, flamboyant receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals, has legally changed his name to Chad Ocho Cinco. This is so utterly ridiculous I have no words for it. I'm just waiting for the offseason, when Ocho Stinko demands a trade again, and it's finally granted. Only, he discovers that he's been traded to the Lions or Rams, the only two teams in the NFL that have retired #85. After that, he'll have to legally change his name again. This time, he'll choose a more fitting last name: Ocho Idiot.