NFL felons can wear white collars

By KEN WILLIS
MY TWO CENTS

You probably never heard of Bob Buczkowski during his three-year NFL career in the late 1980s.

If you heard of him in the years since, lay low, because you don't want to make this witness list.

Breaking a long, long pattern of crime news involving current and former NFL players, Buczkowski should probably be congratulated. He's been arrested for something other than assault, battery, assaultand battery, first-degree murder, manslaughter, or the way-too-common domestic abuse.

Domestic abuse? No way. In fact, Bob and his girlfriend, Amy Schifano, got along so well, they've been charged by Pennsylvania authorities with operating a prostitution ring that dabbled in drug sales -- hey, get a gun license, and we're talking one-stop shopping.

According to a wire report Friday, Bob and Amy generated nearly $1 million in business over past couple of years, which is certainly more than he made in his uninspiringNFL layover. The couple reportedly attracted business through ads in a weekly entertainment newspaper, and I know what you're thinking: If you're running a veritable Handy Way for hookers and happy dust, you probably shouldn't advertise in the trades.

Bob should be congratulated for debunking the myth that all football defendants are violent.

PICK-N-ROLL

Today's game in Tuscaloosa will give strong clues as to whether UF can indeed win 11 or 12 games this year, or whether Urban Meyer will need a refresher course on how to shake the opposing coach's hand and pretend he's not sick to his stomach -- break out the Pepto . . . 'Bama by 4 (when I'm wrong and you call to remind me, ask for Earl on the back dock -- he gave me the tip).Elsewhere, FSU rather easily over Syracuse; Miami by just 6 over South Florida; B-CC handles Joe Morgan State; UCF makes it two straight at La.-Lafayette; Southern Cow by just 30 over Arizona State; LSU by 6 over Mississippi State; Tennessee beats Can't Miss by 12; Michigan State over Michigan with a late safety; Auburn over Spurrier; Southern Utah handles McNeese State; Notre Dame by 3 over Purdue; and this year's national champs over West Virginia by 9 points and two post-game fires.

AND SO ON . . .

All the previous LPGA commissioners had an excuse. With precious few exceptions, the tour hasn't had a glut of media darlings to help build its brand.

But now that Michelle Wie has officially turned pro, joining other teenagers Morgan Pressel and Paula Creamer on the national stage -- and several marketable twenty-somethings -- new commish Carolyn Vesper Bivens has horses to ride. Whether golf fans want to line the rail and watch them run remains to be seen.

· Wondering why you can't find Sterling Marlin this weekend? Must be that camouflage car he's sportin' at Talladega. It's all part of a marketing campaign (SURPRISE!) by Coors, which is introducing a camouflage can to certain markets.

In yet another shock, Coors thought it might go over big in Central Alabama. So Talladega is one of two tracks (another shock: Texas is the other) where Sterling will don the camo paint scheme on his car. Convince the ol' boys in the infield that the cops can't see a camouflage can, and you'll sell a billion of 'em.

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