With all this talk about Roger Clemens lying about taking steroids...another athlete did a little bit of lying.

On a much smaller scale. Well, maybe saying "smaller scale" is the wrong choice of words, since the dude weighs almost 300 lbs.

A high school football player in Reno said that a couple Pac-10 schools wanted to recruit him. A big ceremony was held to promote his college football choice; he made a big annnoucement as to which team he was going to choose.

He decided he wanted to play at Cal. The problem was, when reporters called Cal for comments, they had no clue what was going on. You see, this kid lied. Neither of these schools had recruited the boy.

Now there are all kinds of nasty threats, lawsuits, everything.

I say, who cares. The kid pulled a prank. And I say, it's a lot less damaging than when kids thrash the school in their senior years with toilet paper, spray paint, and broken windows.

Or, as we seem to keep seeing, when kids start shooting up a school.

I'm not saying the kid shouldn't be punished. Just don't act like he murdered someone.

He fooled a couple of reporters. Big deal.