Well, in what is undoubtedly shocking news to anyone who follows the University of Texas football program, backup safety, senior Tyrell Gatewood, was arrested early this morning on drug charges.

Gatewood is the fifth member of the Longhorn football team to be arrested this year.

I don’t know, but maybe Roger Goodell should give up on the NFL and start trying to clean up UT. Or, at best, maybe he can just automatically assign all of UT’s seniors to the Cincinnati Bengals. — John Royal

This article appears in Sep 13-19, 2007.

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