Boner of the Day

X96 radio station in Salt Lake City, Utah has a segment during their morning show called "Boner of the Day." The DJs scour the news for utterly stupid things and then put three on a day. Listeners vote for the dumbest of the three, and on Friday, the four winners from Monday-Thursday are pitted against each other for a "Boner of the Week" prize.

Well, I was reading this story on Fox and realized this is a definite boner candidate.

FRESNO, Calif. — Maribel Cuevas (search) was arrested in April for throwing a two-pound rock at a neighborhood boy who had pelted her with a water balloon. The rock gashed the boy's forehead, and the girl spent five days in Fresno's juvenile hall (search) and a month under house arrest after police said she resisted arrest and scratched an officer's arm.

...Maribel maintains she was playing on the sidewalk with her 6-year-old brother on April 29 when Elijah rode by on his bike with a half-dozen neighborhood boys, who splattered them with water balloons.

The girl threw a rock that police later described as "jagged" and measuring 5.5 inches by 3.75 inches and it hit Elijah on the head, opening a gash that required stitches. While she ran to find Elijah's parents, a neighbor called 911.

My coworker, DJ described it like this:

"That's insane! Every ten-year-old kid throws rocks!

They throw rocks at people!
They throw rocks at cars!
They throw rocks at animals!
They throw rocks at nothing!
Heck, I still throw rocks!"

I couldn't have said it better myself, DJ. Throwing a rock in response to an unsolicited water balloon attack may not have been the best response, but it is definitely not worthy of a felony charge.

I am not one who likes to play the race card alot, but I feel strongly that if it had been a 11-year-old white girl throwing the rock, we wouldn't be having this trial.

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PHOENIX (AP) -- Steve Nash will be named the NBA's most valuable player for the second year in a row, The Arizona Republic reported on Wednesday.

The newspaper cited a league source familiar with the voting, but said the official announcement may not come for two weeks.

The Phoenix Suns playmaker would become the 1s0th player to win the award in consecutive seasons.

"Anytime you sit back and think about just winning it once, it's mind-boggling -- the company and what it means in the history of the game," Nash said after Wednesday's shootaround. "To win it twice obviously just compounds that. It's just an incredible honor. I think it's a tribute to what this game allows people to do if they work hard."

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PHOENIX (AP) -- The Bowl Championship Series on Wednesday lowered the bar for at-large qualifiers.

Instead of having to finish in the top 12 of the final BCS standings, teams finishing in the top 14 will now be eligible for one of the lucrative postseason berths. The change reflects the addition of a fifth BCS bowl, which means there will be 10 BCS slots instead of eight next season.

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"There's a lot of logic to that because of the additional two slots," BCS coordinator and SEC commissioner Mike Slive said as three days of meetings ended Wednesday.

Any Division I-A team is eligible for at-large consideration. The BCS did not change its automatic qualifiers -- the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the final standings; the champions of the Big East, Big Ten, Southeastern, Pac-10, Big 12 and Atlantic Coast Conferences; Notre Dame if it finishes in the top eight; and a non-BCS team that finishes in the top 12, or in the top 16 if they're ahead of a BCS champion.

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