Vikings speedout Percy Harvin has about as bad a rep as any rookie who has ever come into The League. From testing positive for weed at the NFL combine to the accusations that he used throughout his college career and even choked out his position coach at UF, safe to assume dude isn’t going to to be getting the benefit of the doubt anytime soon.

Last week he missed practice for the third time this season due to what’s been reported as an illness, which naturally has flushed out skepticism as to his dedication.

But today Judd Zulgad and Chip Scoggins of the MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE presented a possible reason for Harvin’s somewhat erratic attendance: Migraines. Read more…

• Brooks gleams the cube, as he & SbB Girl Cecilia check out the X-Games.

• Percy Harvin regales U of Florida recruits with wild Gator tales of partying, pot smoking, and coach choking.

• Speaking of the SEC, does Matthew Stafford’s U of Georgia girlfriend have enhanced gazongas?

• Fresh off the LeBron Dunkgate comes the Tiger Woods Fartgate.

• Detroit Pistons rookie DaJuan Summers places a Twitter bet with porn star Valerie Luxe on who can get 4,000 followers the fastest.

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• Smoking pot, partying with coeds, choking out assistant coaches - Percy Harvin sure knows how to sell the Florida Gators to recruits.

• Tiger Woods ends the Buick Open with a big bang - from his pants! And like Nike did with the LeBron dunk, the PGA tries to remove all video.

• Beer pong with babies & shotgunning brewskis with toddlers - now that’s good parenting!

• Time to go outside, as the Arena Football League is officially folding.

• Fergie Jenkins recalls the fun traveling with the Cubs during the days of segregation - such has having to sleep at funeral homes & bordellos.

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Undoubtedly, one of the most exciting, dynamic players in college football last season was Percy Harvin, the quarkback from Florida who helped push his team to a national title (they also had some “Tebow” guy). But after declaring early, Harvin dropped all the way to the 22nd pick and the Minnesota Vikings. Among the factors in the drop, as you might recall, was the second-most ominous/vague term in football: “character issues”*.

(”Character issues” are never anything good, like “is awesome at football”)

Those rumors didn’t exactly disappear over the offseason, either; whether it was Harvin’s rumored pot use or hs hospitalization for dehydration or whatever immediately after landing on a flight, whispers were rampant. So on an invitation from coaches, he went to a Florida function with some recruits to sell the whole Florida experience to them, and we’re sure he was instructed to just say good things about everyone for five minutes and leave.

But this is Percy Harvin, you see, and s–t’s about to go crazy.

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The power of the Internet, the enduring strength of the conspiracy theorist, and the undying hate for every SEC school fan for every other SEC school (except Vanderbilt because it’s impolite to hate the emaciated) have taken the catalyst of a positive NFL combine marijuana test for Percy Harvin and started digging into Harvin’s University of Florida career.

The question on the table: how long has this toking been going on?  Some suggest it could have been as early as sophomore year, when Harvin missed two games for “migraines”.  Was it a suspension?  Or could he have been gambling with Michael Jordan while on his way to pass Tim Donaghy a note from Jimmy Hoffa? Only the Internet (and Urban Meyer) knows!

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Can we all agree that NFL mock drafts are ridiculous? And that Clever Hans has as good a chance at accurately predicting the first round as Mel Kiper, Jr.? Here’s more evidence, in the form of a 19-year-old kid who claims that his mock draft beat Kiper’s last year, and was in fact “the best in the country.”

(Tweety Bird and a young Seth Rogen discuss Matthew Stafford.)

Let’s leave aside the fact that this is completely unverifiable, as fantasy mock draft leagues have yet to catch fire. What’s Shawn Zobel’s secret that makes his projections so accurate compared to real football writers who have inside sources? He watches a lot of TV.

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Moreover, brothers and sisters, we declare to you the gospel which we preached to you by which also you are saved from life without Tim Tebow in Florida, if you keep in memory what we preached to you, unless you have believed in vain that He shall return for his senior season.

For we delivered to you first of all that which we also received, how that Tebow won the BCS Championship Game again according to the Brennaman; And that he took a few days to think it over, and that he rose again the third day according to the ORLANDO SENTINEL; And that he was seen of Urban Meyer for another season, then of the eleven (except Percy Harvin because, c’mon, who are we kidding).
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