UW = Probation Nation
Go 2 Guy I'd been sick for a few days and tried everything to shake it, from getting rest to taking fluids, yet nothing seemed to work.
So I was completely out of sorts until receiving the news that a Huskies football player had been arrested and, boom, the Go 2 Guy felt a lot better.
It had been far too long. Under previous regimes, Probation Nation was noticeably absent from the Pac-10 race but could always be found competing for headlines on the police blotter.
Since Tyrone Willingham took over two years ago, there had been nothing at all from the cop shop until Michael Houston was arrested Sunday, breaking a long and baffling drought, restoring faith in the program.
A redshirt sophomore who transferred from Texas, Houston was suspended from the team. Pending the outcome of a UW investigation, Houston figures into the cloudy mix at tailback next year.
Saturday night, according to a police report, Houston allegedly stole an Orange Cab that had picked him up, along with two other men and a woman, from Déjà Vu, a popular Lake City strip club.
Apparently on their way home or wherever they were headed next, Houston and his friends got hungry, prompting a stop at the Lake City McDonald's.
For reasons unknown, the woman spit on a cab window, prompting the cab driver to get out of the car and call 911. At that point, according to the report, Houston jumped from the back seat and drove away.
Seattle police found him getting out of the cab on Lake City Way and arrested him.