There are several items in the news worthy of being covered tonight. Unfortunately (or unfortunately depending upon how you feel about this site) none of them are worthy of a full post. So here are a few quick thoughts concerning some notable stories in the news.

How would you like the be the high school recruit that knocked over the 2006 National Championship Trophy at Florida? Here's the best line from the story:

"If you were outside the stadium, it was so loud, I think you would've heard it shatter," Charles said. "Nobody said anything for 10 minutes, then Florida assistant Coach John Hevesy said, 'What do I do? Who do I call? Did you know that was $35,000!'

Accidents happen. Who among us hasn't broken a national championship trophy in their lifetime? It will be interesting to see if he commits to Florida now.

Apparently everyone is up in arms out in LA, because UCLA has a tradition during spring practice called "ditch day". During "ditch day", the players ditch practice. The problem this year? The Bruins stink and they are installing a new offense under Rick Neuheisel. Here's one fan's reaction:

"This is exactly why USC wins and UCLA is subpar," David Wong said in an e-mail. "The culture of USC is to practice hard and play hard. UCLA's culture apparently is ditch practice and play around Westwood."

Here's the problem with that thinking. If USC were to have a "skip day", no one would complain. Everyone would think is was awesome and talk about what a great "player's coach" Pete Carroll is. Winning cures everything. UCLA has been doing this since the early 80's according to this article. It's funny how everyone has a problem with it now, when they stink. I'm not saying I'm in favor of the "ditch day". I'm just saying that if you are really against it, why are we hearing about it now?

Here's speculation as to why Derrick Rose didn't hold a press conference to announce he was going pro. And it's not because he choked at the line in the championship game.

But multiple sources close to the Memphis basketball and football programs have told CBSSports.com that Rose was recently involved in an altercation over a girl with Tiger football player Steven Black, an altercation that -- how to phrase this? -- didn't go so well for Rose. Put another way, the possible No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft spent the early part of this week looking like a person who had just been in a scrap, making the way he announced his future plans -- through a release distributed by the Memphis Sports Information department -- convenient, if not necessary.

What a week for Rose. First you lose the title game and then you allegedly get beat down by a football player. He'll get the last laugh when he's the first pick in the NBA draft.

Aaahh, the college life.