In College Basketball, That’s Ideal Resume

Suffice to say, Dan Le Batard of the Miami Herald isn’t a fan of Georgia basketball Coach Jim Harrick:

“Aside from the lying and cheating and academic fraud and fake expense reports and allegations of sexual misconduct, Harrick is really everything you’d ever want in an educator.

“You know what ‘class’ was at the University of Georgia under Harrick? It was something basketball players skipped and something the program lacked.”

More Georgia: “Texas Tech Coach Bob Knight gave his entire salary back to the university this year,” wrote Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel. “I wonder if Georgia’s basketball players will do the same.”

Trivia time: Who holds the USC men’s basketball record for most points in a game?

No scholars: Fresno State’s basketball team was banned from postseason play amid allegations that a former student was paid to write papers for players.

Responded David Thomas of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: “This might never have been discovered if the players hadn’t all turned in papers written by ‘Your Name Here.’ ”

Party line: Twelve Villanova basketball players were suspended for using a school access code to make long-distance calls. Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times called it “the mother of all charging fouls.”

Justified act: Jon Heyman of Newsday writes that Mike Piazza of the New York Mets did what was needed when he charged the Dodgers’ Guillermo Mota after being hit by a pitch:

“Normally I wouldn’t recommend charging a man with fists and eyes ablaze. But in the case of Mota, punk pitcher, I’ll make an exception.”

Bearing down: Jay Mariotti of the Chicago Sun-Times doesn’t think much of the Bears’ acquisition of quarterback Kordell Stewart: “Stewart is to Drew Bledsoe what Marge Simpson is to Cameron Diaz, the quarterbacking equivalent of the world’s tallest midget, the biggest building in Omaha and the best item on a drive-through menu.”

A mean thirst: “I know beer prices have gone through the roof,” wrote Jim Armstrong of the Denver Post, “but do they really need those signs at spring training that read, ‘Do Not Drink from the Irrigation System?’ ”

Ice capades: Former figure skating judge Jon Rubin wants to launch a professional figure skating league, with six teams of five skaters each. Keith Olbermann of ABC Radio suggests a Tonya Harding Division, to be nicknamed “the Black and Blue Division.”

Retro deal: “The Cincinnati Reds are having trouble trying to move Ken Griffey Jr.,” wrote Bill Scheft in Sports Illustrated. “So far the best offer is from the Baltimore Orioles. They’re willing to give up Milt Pappas.”

Trivia answer: John Block, 45 points against Washington in 1966.

And finally: “ESPN says softball pitcher Jennie Finch beat out Anna Kournikova in a poll as the hottest female athlete,” reported Jim Barach of WTVH-TV in Syracuse, N.Y. “This shocked millions of Internet voters who gasped, ‘Kournikova’s an athlete?’ ”