Former Longhorn star Brian Orakpo's little brother, Mike, involved in beating Colorado State students

This is a pretty disturbing story.

Colorado State linebacker Mike Orakpo, who is the younger brother of former Texas Longhorn star and current Washington Redskin Brian Orakpo, has been suspended along with two teammates by Rams head coach Jim McElwain after he was reportedly involved in the beatings of four CSU students over the weekend.

Four CSU freshmen were reportedly beaten by Mike Orakpo, and fellow CSU players Nordly Capi and Colton Paulhaus.

No charges have been filed. 

According to this story in the Colorodan, the four male CSU freshmen suffered black eyes, cuts, bruises, chipped teeth; one victim had a shoe print on his back.

The three CSU football players reportedly were in an SUV and shouted homophobic slurs at the four freshmen. After some verbal exchanges, the car stopped, the players got out and the fight began.

Orakpo has played two seasons at CSU after he was recruited out of Houston's Westbury high school. He was third on the team in tackles last season. Orakpo was involved in a fight on March 17 in which he suffered minor cuts.

On Monday, Orakpo Tweeted this verse from the bible: "Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account."

 

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Donovan McNabb throws up a giant red flag for RGIII in Washington, D.C.

Donovan McNabb may be the least impartial observor about this subject in the universe, but he is an NFL quarterback who both played in Washington D.C. and for head coach Mike Shanahan.

McNabb appeared on ESPN's First Take this morning, and was asked if Baylor QB Robert Griffin III would be a good fit in the Redskins' offense. "No," was McNabb's response.

RGIII is expected to be selected No. 2 overall by the Redskins in the NFL draft behind the Colts' selection of Andrew Luck. Washington traded the farm to acquire the pick from St. Louis.

McNabb went on a bridge-burning interview when he said, “A lot of times ego gets too involved when it comes to being in Washington."

Click here for the rest of the interview, which features a lot of juicy stuff from McNabb. The former Eagles QB sounds like he researched this subject well before he went on a his rant against the Redskins and Shanahan.

McNabb may be right, but he also sounds like another aging jock firmly in denail about his eroding skills. But as biased as McNabb is about this team and this head coach, primarily because he was run out of town there, he has a point. Several of them.

Shanahan has never done much of anything since John Elway retired. A head coach not having success without a Hall of Fame quarterback is nothing new, but Shanahan's reputation has endured since that title won in 1998.

Consider:
* In the 12 seasons Shanahan has been a head coach post Elway, he has been to the playoffs four times.
* Shanahan is 1-4 in those games.
* Shanahan has won at least 10 games in those 12 years four times.
* The last time he was in the playoffs was 2005.

And the train wreck mess that is the Washington Redskins football franchise under owner Dan Snyder is well documented, lamented and made fun of.

Now comes RGIII wearing his Superman socks to save what had been one of the NFL's greatest franchises.

When the Bengals drafted Andy Dalton out of TCU I feared for his professional football life because this organization has been a hell hole since the death of Paul Brown. They don't care.

The people in Washington do care, but they don't have a clue. Now comes another Texan kid to save a different franchise. For the sake of his new team, and his new head coach, he doesn't need to be Superman, just John Elway.

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