Mr. Mandel pleases again
Now, this is what you call in depth reporting. These stories don't just fall in your lap... though in this case, they do start there.
Stewart Mandel: Five teams have turned it around:
"When you've gotta go ...
No one was happier to see Stanford miss a 49-yard field-goal attempt that would have sent Saturday's game against Oregon to overtime than Ducks QB Kellen Clemens. Why? He had to pee -- and he'd been holding it nearly the entire second half. In the rain, no less. On a scale of 1 to 10, how bad was it? 'Eleven,' Clemens told the Oregonian. Even so, Clemens took a few moments after the final gun to shake hands with Stanford's players, salute the crowd and join the band in a serenade before darting to the locker room, but not before apologizing to a pack of people waiting for him as he was coming off the field: 'Sorry, I really have to pee.' Ducks tackle Adam Snyder said Clemens was being extremely polite, and hygienic, to wait that long when he could have just, well ... 'Guys do it all the time,' he told the Oregonian. 'They just squirt some water on them to rinse off. Their socks are probably nasty, though.'"
