Derrick Rose has to be a pretty big man on the Memphis campus. Star of the basketball team about to make millions tends to have an intoxicating effect on the coeds.
Unless the coed has a boyfriend on the football team, that is. Playing second fiddle around school has to grate on the gridiron gang and when a guy like Rose comes sniffing around your girl, it's bound to raise your hackles. And, hackles raised, the football player is probably going to win if things escalate to a fight. Shame that it happened to Rose just before he was to go on camera and announce his move to the NBA.
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 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.Black and Rose are both 6'3" but the footballer has about 30 pounds on him. A guy who dominates by pushing around smaller guards ain't gonna fare too well in that kind of fight. Even so, isn't Rose being a bit vain? As you can see above, we've seen him with a scrape or two before.
(H/T Sports by Brooks)
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Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 1)
1. This was just plain mean, yellow journalism. Derrick got that gash above his eye in front of millions of witnesses during a game in the NCAA Championship tournament. Josh Alper should be banned.
Posted at 12:50PM on May 26th 2008 by Anne
2. ask yourself... what would the press say if it were beasley that got into the fight?
Posted at 11:14AM on Jun 25th 2008 by oh really