BEER, CIRCUSES, AND RABBITS. The latest news on last Friday's rumble suggests the football players got caught up in somebody else's scrap. (At Northern Illinois, disciplinary hearings are kept confidential; the absence of specific facts or of comment from the athletic department ought not be interpreted as evidence of a coverup.) But this quote from one of the players is priceless.

"Nobody goes to a frat house looking for a fight."

Riiiiight ...