I almost don’t care at all about this story. I did read it in my RSS and then see it on Deadspin only moments later, so I assume it’s somewhat big or something. The idea is that this guy and his Friday Night Lights family moved all over the country so he could do real good at football, and then he did ok, and then he transferred to Yale where he was awesome because it’s Yale. Then he was really smart and almost interviewed to be a Rhodes Scholar, and then he didn’t get to interview because he’s an alleged rapist. Oh yeah, he wants to go into politics.

There is a part that stinks a little bit, the end of this follow-up story,

The statement issued for Witt asserted that the request by Rhodes officials for Yale to re-endorse him was effectively moot because he had already informed Yale that he was going to withdraw and play in the game against Harvard.

A big part of the original story was a kind of cool gotcha moment where the Times got all grammatical and noted that there was no causal link between Witt’s withdrawing from the Rhodes and playing in the Yale-Harvard game.

Still, wow, this is probably the most boring story of all-time, and of the roughly 50 headlines per day that cross my NYT RSS feed, I’ve seen this guy mentioned twice in two days. Last time I checked, this was not the Yale New Haven Au Courant Cryer. It seems like the only way you can get a rape case reported in the Times is for it to intersect a Yale/Rhodes/Possible Pro Football player. Jesus christ, just write about how cute Eli Manning is or something. Stop wasting my time.