Slices of Tuna: Come on
Brendan Sorsby can play? Really? Plus, Northwestern bolsters its staff, and a feel-good night on the diamond gets our attention in the football world.
It’s only hump day.
What else do the leaders of this enterprise have in-store for us this week?
1. A new low in Lubbock, and for college football
The school that fired Mike Leach and posted a losing record with Patrick Mahomes managed to outdo itself this week.
Texas Tech fought, and won, to get Brendan Sorsby eligible for this season. The quarterback was granted a temporary injunction Monday that is set to keep him on the field this fall, after serving a two-game suspension to open the season.
Sorsby, of course, was ruled ineligible by the NCAA after he was found to have wagered roughly $90,000 over the past four years, a run that included betting on Indiana football while he was a member of the Hoosiers’ program.
Among those bets that Sorsby placed while wearing the crimson and white, according to ESPN’s Mark Schlabach and David Purdum: Under on his teammate’s passing yards in October of 2022, and under on the first half of a September 2023 game. (Sorsby said he was unaware of those bets.)
