THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION has had better weeks in the sports department. First, it discovers they’ve got a salty old columnist running around the back offices demanding that we stop being nice to the Japanese. Now they’ve pulled down their paean to their brand new Mr. Georgia Basketball within hours of posting it to their Web site after he’s accused of a drive-by BB gun shooting.

(Image courtesy Gwinnett County Detention Center)

Ronnie Ramos, the senior sports editor at the AJC, told his own paper that they’re reconsidering the honor. His hand was forced when reports of the arrest of Al-Farouq Aminu, one of the top high school basketball players in the nation and a Wake Forest recruit, started trickling in Friday.
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