By Matthew Waxman
March Madness may be over, but the second week of April still showcased some captivating matchups. At the University of Georgia, federal agents got involved in the ol' ninjas vs. pirates debate. In California, Supreme Court judges settled a dispute between a headhunter and a head. In Houston, Vince Young took on Andy Roddick in tennis and football, and on the Berkeley campus, Cal students took on the administration by taking off their pants.
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Hot: Vince Young
After his win over Paul Capdevile last Tuesday at the Westside Tennis Center in Houston, Austin resident Andy Roddick volleyed the fuzz and tossed the pigskin on center court with match spectator Vince Young. "It felt soft." Roddick said about a post pattern reception from the former UT quarterback. "I was afraid I'd drop it. If I had, I'd have been a total dork, but he put it right on the money."
Not: Napoleon Dynamite
In a move out of dork central casting, Roddick claims on his Web site that his favorite movie is Napoleon Dynamite and that he downloaded the ring tone of Napoleon telling Trisha, "It took me three hours to finish the shading on your upper lip."
Hot: Ben Watson
The Patriots tight end told The Boston Globe he's still receiving backslaps for his 99-yard chase and leveling of Denver's Champ Bailey after Bailey picked off a pass in New England's playoff loss and nearly scored. Watson's hit caused a fumble that was ruled out of bounds at the 1-yard line. "Everybody asks me if the ball went out of the end zone, and going back and watching it, I think the refs were right," said Watson. ''I've talked to guys who have talked to physics professors at Harvard and MIT and they've done studies on the play -- about the projection of the ball and everything -- and said there is no way it couldn't have gone through the end zone."
Not: Jack Nicholson
In last week's US Weekly, Easy Rider bad boy Jack Nicholson made his geriatric status official as paparazzi captured him sporting Velcro sneakers at the the Lakers-Clippers game.
Hot: Headhunters
The California Supreme Court ruled 6-1 that former Rio Hondo Community College baseball player Jose Avila cannot sue over being intentionally beaned in the head by a Citrus Community College pitcher in 2001. Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar stated, "The majority holds that a baseball pitcher owes no duty to refrain from intentionally throwing a baseball at an opposing player's head." She added, "Being hit by a pitch is an inherent risk of baseball."
Not: Ninjas
Cruising across the University of Georgia campus, dressed in black with a red bandana over his face, sophomore Jeremiah Ransom was apprehended at gunpoint by federal agents after attending a ninjas vs. pirates party. "It was surreal," Ransom said. "I was jogging from Wesley to Snelling when I heard someone yell 'freeze.'" Responded special agent in charge Vanessa McLemore, "Seeing someone with something across the face, from a federal standpoint, that's not right," "Aye aye," exclaimed the pirates.
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