Stefon Diggs hasn't even enrolled at Maryland yet, but he's already getting a taste of how quickly a fan base can turn on him.

Friday, Diggs sent out a racially offensive tweet regarding New York Knicks star guard Jeremy Lin: "Everybody need to get off Jeremy Lin egg roll and dumplings he's good though."

Within minutes, the tweet was grabbed, published and Diggs felt a shockwave of anger and disappointment the likes of which the highly touted recruit had never felt before. So he did what any person who sent out an ignorant tweet would do — he apologized and closed his Twitter account.

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While the NCAA continues to tweak its proposal to give some student-athletes an extra $2,000 for bills, some players are already finding ways to use their scholarship money to pay for those excess necessities - like scales, baggies and a vaporizer.

Middle Tennessee offensive lineman Preston Bailey did just that as he used his medical scholarship as startup for his budding drug business (pun intended).

Bailey was arrested Feb. 16 and charged with possession of a schedule VI drug with intent to sell and possession of drug paraphernalia. Officers found nearly a pound of marijuana - 27.9 grams in a plastic bag in his dirty clothes hamper, five glass jars weighing 322.5 grams and another 6.2 grams of hash - and $3,000 in cash. Police also found scales, a grinder and a vaporizer.

Murfreesboro Police spokesman Kyle Evans told the Daily News Journal that Bailey told police he, "used his scholarship money as startup money for his illegal drug sales business."

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Rarely do we see student-athletes, football players, get involved in political matters that affect the universities where they play. We're not talking about student government, but the politics that happen within the university, disputes between workers or teachers and administration

Virginia safety Joseph Williams is changing that.

For the past eight days, Williams, a junior walk-on who has played in two games during his career, has been on a hunger strike "to protest the economic and social injustices perpetrated by the UVa administration against the vast majority of the University's service-sector employees."

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Apparently LSU fans aren't the only one disillusioned with quarterback Jordan Jefferson.

Jefferson is one of 19 quarterbacks who were invited to this weekend's NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis and NFL draft expert Mike Detillier thinks that was a mistake.

"I was surprised he was invited," Detillier told the towntalk.com. "I don't think Jordan can throw accurately enough to play in the NFL. He has a strong arm. He's a good athlete. But in the NFL, you have to throw accurately from the pocket. Jordan struggled with that his whole career."

I think those who watched the BCS National Championship would agree. Against Alabama's stout defense, Jefferson completed 11-of-17 passes for 53 yards and an interception. But throughout the course of the year, Jefferson completed 61 percent of his passes for 737 yards, six touchdowns and two interceptions and LSU (with the help of fellow quarterback Jarrett Lee) finished 24th nationally in passing efficiency.

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A lot of merchandise has surfaced celebrating Alabama's national championship win over LSU, T-Shirts, hats, commemorative glass footballs, but the one thing that's been missing from the memorabilia case is a specialty item, say an Alabama merman ornament.

But where would you find such an amazing tribute to the Tide? Don't worry, we found it for you.

That's right, your very own Alabama merman ornament can adorn your Christmas tree for just $25.99. Just look at this beauty, it's hand painted with red glitter making it really is the gift that keeps on giving. Personally, I see a lot of LSU fans sending this special item to that certain Alabama fan in their lives.

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Apparently, football players in the state of Oregon have been commissioned to show the world that Nissan Altima's are the speeding cars of choice.

The latest player to get caught flying down Oregon's Interstate 5 in a Altima is Oregon State cornerback Malcolm Marable, who was cited for driving 104 mph in a 2005 Altima at 1 a.m. Sunday morning, according to the Gazette-Times.

Marable was not only cited for driving Interstate 5 like it was the Autobahn, but he was also ticketed for failing to produce proof of insurance and registration. The fine for driving over 100 mph in Oregon is $1,148.

Oh, and here's a shocker, it wasn't Marable's car.

Did Marable go to the Cliff Harris school of driving?

Last summer, Harris, a cornerback with the Oregon Ducks, was cited for going 118 mph in a 2011 Nissan Altima down the same stretch of road. He also didn't own the car and was cited for lack of insurance, driving with a suspended license and not wearing his seatbelt. Harris, who had a litany of other issues, was ultimately dismissed from the team.

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Dillan Lawson must be a little confused.

The Crestview (Fla.) High linebacker recently committed to Florida following the Gators' junior day despite having a profuse and profound love of Alabama and a bad image of the University of Florida.

"I mean I was born and raised in Alabama," Lawson told Gator Nation. "I have an Alabama tattoo on my chest. That's the reason why. I'm just an Alabama fan. That's all there is about it. I mean Alabama is my dream school, off the top, No. 1. I told coach Will [Muschamp], 'Coach I was a Gator fan when I was in Alabama, they were like my second favorite team. But when I moved to Florida I saw how cocky and crazy these Gator fans where, so that kind of turned me away from Florida.' I told him that."

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Even though Florida walk-on Jesse Schmidt has played in just one game with the Gators, he has no shame in using his status as a football player as a way to earn votes in the upcoming University of Florida student elections.

And we're not mad at him. In fact, we here at the Doc enjoyed his video so much, that we decided to post it and give him our own endorsement, though we have absolutely no pull in student elections.

Schmidt is running for vice president alongside Alex Cornillie, who is running for president, for the Students' Party. Alligator Army breaks down the advantages to voting for the duo, but for us it was the cats and running back Trey Burton having a staring contest with a cat swayed our allegiance. Not to mention a cameo by freshman linebacker Graham Stewart.

While we're having a good laugh about this, we do appreciate that student government is a pretty big deal. So big, in fact, that someone (the blame is going to supporters of the rival Unite Party) threw away several copies of the student newspaper, the Independent Florida Alligator, because it ran coach Will Muschamp's endorsement of Schmidt on its front page. The student paper, as you could imagine, was not pleased.

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It only took a week of media ganging up on Randy Edsall for the Maryland coach to finally see the error in his ways.

Edsall was taking shots from national media for restricting the transfer of quarterback Danny O'Brien, offensive lineman Max Garcia and linebacker Mario Rowson. Edsall blocked them from going to any other ACC school or Vanderbilt. The blocking of the ACC schools was not as big of a problem as him blocking a transfer to Vanderbilt where former Maryland offensive coordinator James Franklin is now the head coach.

There were accusations of tampering, which Franklin denied and probably some hurt feelings by Edsall, who told media that O'Brien was not "all in." Franklin didn't deny that he had not cut off communication with O'Brien and claimed, "I'm going to have relationships with my players."

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Scottsdale (Ariz.) Chaparral receiver Davonte Neal nearly stood up several elementary kids Tuesday.

Neal, who started the day as the top uncommitted 2012 prospect in country, was supposed to announce his collegiate choice Tuesday morning at Kyrene de la Esperanza Elementary School in Phoenix, but as television cameras, media and the school children who had been called to a special assembly waited, Neal never showed up.

"We had a lot unfortunate things happen. At about 2 a.m. we had deeper family issues that we're trying keep private right now," Luke Neal told IrishIllustrated.com. "The biggest part wasn't the schools (Notre Dame or Arizona), it was what family was going to come (to the school) and what family had to stay (at home)."

Neal ultimately came back to the school — long after the television media had left — and ended up choosing Notre Dame. He signed and sent his national letter of intent to the Irish Tuesday afternoon, but the drama of the day caused hours of speculation as to why Neal missed his original press conference in the first place.

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