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Jay, here.

Admittedly, I’m a bit sheepish about posting this entry. But it’s just too funny.

However, I have to give credit where credit is due. This blog entry came from a discussion on one of the eDuck forums.

First, let’s start with the good news.

But let me preface this by saying that Oregon State University is a fine academic institution. I have two sisters-in-law who graduated from OSU. There’s a third sister-in-law who is planning on attending OSU in the Fall. And one of the members of the Duck Sports News team is married to an OSU grad.

Yesterday, USA Today named OSU student Tari Tan as a Second Team All-USA College All-Star. Here’s what USA Today had to say about Tari’s academic achievement:

Tari Tan, Oregon State University; home, Salem, Ore.; major, biochemistry/biophysics; research on role of prolactin in rams’ sexual preference.

Congratulations, Tari. That’s a very fine achievement. (I would just like to point out that the University of Oregon did not have a student receive such an honor.)

So, what’s the ba-a-a-d news?

Out of all of the institutions of higher education in the United States of America, Tari had to be honored for studying rams’ sexual preference at an institution known for an incident involving a member of the football team abducting a sheep used in the study of homosexuality in sheep.

I remember listening to The Jim Rome Show several years ago and hearing about this incident. It struck me as so funny at the time, I nearly wrecked my car trying call a friend to see if he had heard about this episode. Unfortunately for OSU, this story came on the tar heels of several other OSU football players also being legally-challenged.

Tari, well done on your academic achievement at OSU…not that there is anything wrong with that.

Tags: Football, OSU, Sheep, Tari Tan