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Monday, December 18, 2006

wittle boys
make vewy bad choices
at the spearmint whino
gentleman's cwub

UD wishes coaches and university presidents would stop using baby talk when they talk about recruits who get into heavy weaponry fights. Donna Shalala is the poster girl here, with her mommy-disappointed-bad-baby thing whenever her footballers go at it; but the rhetoric is in general use.

The University of New Mexico is the latest site of an "an isolated incident where players made some very bad choices," in the words of an athletic official there.

Let's see what the kids were up to.




[A] recruit [was] shot outside an Albuquerque strip club during an official visit....[P]olice sought help finding the shooting suspects... The players and Palomar College offensive lineman Ervin "Una" Smiley went to the Spearmint Rhino Gentleman's Club, 1645 University Blvd. The athletes got into an argument with two unidentified men, accompanied by two women, around 2 a.m. Dec. 9.

The athletes were getting into Cardenas' SUV, when one of the men fired shots at the vehicle. Cardenas drove south on University Boulevard and stopped at a light at Indian School Road, where police said the man fired more shots at the SUV.

The man fired at least 17 bullets at the SUV.

The players headed to UNM Hospital, where Smiley was treated for gunshot wounds to the legs and Cardenas was treated for an eye bruise caused by flying glass.

An officer interviewing Smiley, who is 20, said the recruit appeared to be intoxicated.
Posted at: 12/18/2006 01:22:00 PM