Bulldogs Battle, Judge Agrees Duke Sucks

Jacob E. Osterhout

Welcome to this week's installment of The Dean's List, where we believe that Adam Jones waited too long to drop the "Pacman" moniker. Isn't that one of those nicknames, like Boo-Boo, Pinky, or Freckles, that should be dropped after middle school (instead of after a strip club shooting)?

Honor Roll

Fresno State shocked UNC and the college baseball world by becoming the first No. 4 seed to advance to the CWS finals. AP

• With last night's defeat of UNC, the Fresno State Bulldogs secured a place in the national championship and became the first No. 4 regional seed to ever advance to the College World Series. Clayton Allison pitched brilliantly in the 6-1 win over the Tar Heels, allowing just one run over six innings. The win sets up an all-bulldog title game with the Fresno State Bulldogs taking on the Georgia Bulldogs in a best-of-three championship that'll determined which dog's got more bite in this dog eat dog world.

• For the last month, all the noise out of Bloomington has been about the sorry state of the Hoosiers basketball program -- starters transferring, players flipping out on the coach, sanctions looming. But if you look closely enough, you'll realize that coach Tom Crean has righted the ship. Indiana's already strong recruiting class got stronger Saturday when 6-foot-5 guard Malik Story committed, joining seven other players who have already accepted scholarships to play for Crean in 2008. Sure, the Hoosiers only have two returning players from last season and their names are Taber and Finkelmeier, but Crean is bringing in a ton of talent with the promise of immediate playing time and, assuming the NCAA blames the rogue ex-coach and not the institution, Indiana should be back to form in no time.

• Just as your mom should never be your sex-ed teacher, so your father should never be your football coach. Ask quarterback Clint Brewster, who's transferring out of Minnesota, where his dad took over as the head football coach last season. A red-shirt freshman on a 1-11 team, Brewster never played a down as a Golden Gopher and probably never would have. Minnesota will start a sophomore quarterback next season and has highly touted recruit MarQueis Gray on the way (never go head to head with a guy that's got a capital Q in the middle of his name). By transferring, Clint avoids what was destined to be an awkward situation -- playing third-string quarterback on his own father's team.

• Kansas guard Sherron Collins has a new lawyer and this one is actually going to do his job. Last month, Jessica J. Brown filed a lawsuit claiming that Collins exposed himself and rubbed against her in an elevator. On Monday, a judge granted Brown damages in excess of $75,000, but not because Collins was found guilty. Rather, Collins' former lawyer neglected to file a legal response to the lawsuit within 20 days. Apparently, Collins was unaware that his previous attorney had ended their attorney-client relationship, which doesn't bode well for his communication skills, which in turn, probably doesn't help his defense. So Collins hired a new lawyer in the hopes that this one is going to be better than the last one and prove that he does not molest women in elevators.