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Paul Daugherty
Paul Daugherty has been an Enquirer sports columnist since 1994 and has been chronicling Cincinnati sports since 1988. He has covered almost every major sporting event in America, as well as five Summer Olympics. Along the way, he has been named one of the country's top-5 sports columnists four times, and Ohio columnist of the year on seven different occasions. Last year, he was voted 2nd-best sports columnist in the country, by the Associated Press Sports Editors.

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Thursday, August 10, 2006

maurice clarett is not :"sad''

He is willfully stupid, pathetic and scary. He has taken gifts that the rest of us would love to have and flushed them. He has been a jerk every step of the way, beginning the day in arizona when, 3 days before the biggest game of his team's season -- and for many of those guys, the biggest day of their lives -- he whined about not being allowed to attend a friend's funeral. He said Jim Tressel knew about his free car, he became a menace to society. He was given a chance by the Broncos and blew it. He chose all this. There is nothing even remotely sad about Maurice Clarett. What's sad is that we persist in believing it's sad.


9 Comments:

at 8:17 AM Blogger Nathan said...

I woke up today thinking about how "sad" of a situation this is...how he had everything and blew it. But you are right...HE HAD EVERYTHING AND BLEW IT (more than once)! He had abilities that any one of us would kill to have and wasted them. How many chances did he have? Countless.

What is sad is how many people he took advantage of, people who just wanted to help him. Coach Tressel, his mother, players, etc.

 
at 11:01 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah..."waste" and "lazy" work well too.

Rus

 
at 11:04 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

I honestly don't know why he is even "news" in the sports world anymore. Name another guy, in any sport, who had one good year (as a freshman in college) and has been a total zero for the last five (or however long it has been) that gets the coverage he gets.

 
at 11:56 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Clarett is pathetic.

The problem is when you give someone at such a young age the impression that they are godlike (such as his so called advisors did) and make them believe they are NFL talent at 18 and treat them like royalty before they have earned it ... this is how they turn out. He was a spoiled brat that didn't have to play by the rules and now he doesn't think the rules apply to him. But no longer are the money and gifts pooring in like the used to and no longer is he a future NFL million, so he robs and steals. He has no education to fall back on, and he is 'too good' to flip burgers.

We should be talking about how Clarett is going to be a first round pick on our fantasy team, but he flushed that talent down the drain.

 
at 12:23 PM Blogger Paul Daugherty said...

Lots of guys have been told they're wonderful, same as clarett, and have done very well... most obvious recent example is lebron james, great player, quickly becoming a polished pro

 
at 6:58 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Excuse me, isnt Paul the same guy who wrote an article praising the huslte and Pete Rose like play of Ryan Freel. Didnt Ryan Freel have TWO DUI's last year?

 
at 8:31 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah, that's the same 'Paul'. He also wrote if Odell Thurman or the others start playing stellar ball, we as the public will forget their problems...just like we have with Freel.

And if Clarett were out of prison and playing exceptional ball, we, as the public would eventually think, "Wow, he really got his act together. Good for him!"

The majority of society likes to be gracious and forgive.

 
at 8:18 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Few of us can qualify as poster boys for the Vienna Boys' Choir. Clarett is no different. The difference between Clarett and the rest of us is that most of humanity can conform to the minimum standards of the criminal laws. I just don't see the newsworthiness in the story. He is a fool caught up in a culture of entitlement. What's so remarkable about that? Shanahan and the`Broncos tried to help him, but Clarett resisted all their efforts.

I think Bedinghaus deserves three cheers for the 381-JERK program. The idea is an inspired one, with the proper dose of humor and utility. Live robustly.

Chip Lapp
Kenwood OH

 
at 11:16 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

CW, are you the same person who would sit outside a car dealership just to get the autograph of Pete Rose despite the fact that Pete is a bad person with no character what so ever. You probably had your kids in line with you along with lance Mccalister who is also a hypocrite.

 
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