Seattle Sportsnet

A gaggle of University of Oregon basketball players were cited by police after shooting metal BBs at ducks and geese Monday night.

Freshmen Michael Dunigan, Josh Crittle, and Teondre Williams were each served with court orders for their role in the harassment of the water fowl at Eugene’s Alton Baker Park.

Police spokeswoman Jenna LaBounty stated that it was unclear whether any of the birds had been injured or killed during the shootings, though the charges placed upon the trio were for discharging firearms, rather than animal cruelty.

One can only speculate on the players’ motive for firing at the birds.  Did they need to eat the birds to survive?  Had the birds at one time or another offended the players?  Did the birds attack the players first?

While the reason for the shooting has yet to be revealed, one thing remains clear.  Duck on duck violence has been taken to a whole new level, and it needs to be stopped.  Stop the violence!

We break down your 2009 Seattle Mariners, position-by-position, with the start of the MLB regular season fast approaching.  In our first installment, we took a look at the infielders.  In our second installment, we examine the outfield situation.

Projected Starters: LF Ken Griffey, Jr./Endy Chavez; CF Franklin Gutierrez; RF Ichiro Suzuki.

Bench: Chavez, Wladimir Balentien/Mike Morse.

Fighting for a spot: Balentien/Morse, Mike Wilson.

40-man roster players in the minors: Greg Halman.

Outside of the playing time situation in left field, not too much going on in the outfield. Gutierrez and Ichiro were starters before Spring Training, and Chavez was signed early in the offseason with the intention of being a stopgap starter until a younger player emerges.

With Griffey on board, Chavez’s role has diminished to some degree, and it remains to be seen how much of a hit his playing time will receive if Griffey refuses to DH.

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Imagine coming home one day, walking into your bedroom, and finding your wife sleeping with the University of Virginia.  “Oh, UVA, I loved it when you had Sean Singletary and Chris Long on campus at the same time,” your wife would moan just as you walked in.

“What the *bleep* is going on here?!” you’d scream.  “Why is Al Groh firing his son in our bathroom?!  And was that Ralph Sampson making a sandwich in the kitchen?”

“It’s not what it looks like,” she’d say, “we’re just friends….”

But in reality it is what it looks like, and they aren’t just friends.  They’ve been sleeping together, cheating on you for some time now, pulling the wool over your eyes.

In the end, they’ll run off together and make millions of babies like jackrabbits in a beautiful meadow, while you’re left to wallow in your own self-pity and contemplate whether or not your unwillingness to live outweighs your desire to make a quick run to McDonalds for 12 Big Macs.

It sounds horrible, and it is.

No one deserves to feel like this, but today, that’s exactly how fans of Washington State basketball feel. Yesterday, in a stunning move, they lost their cheating head coach, Tony Bennett, to the Virginia Cavaliers.

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