I can see clearly now: Why Criminal Justice is a popular major among armed robbers and/or SEC and other bigtime sports factories

From Deadspin.com's Hugh Johnson Project (readers email or IM often wickedly funny comments during games on Sundays and Saturdays). This note from two weekends ago seemed to come out of nowhere:

"• Nate Harris, whose U. Miami scholarship was pulled after he was arrested for armed robbery, is a justice administration major at Louisville. Perfect. - cb4"

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That is until I got to page 237 in Michael Lewis' new book, "The Blind Side". Then things made sense. Here Lewis talks about the academic life of the Ole Miss football team:

"Of the seventy players who survived Coach O's first grueling spring practice, more than forty were classified as 'academically at risk'..."

"A big part of the tutor's job was to steer the players away from the professors and courses most likely to lead to lack of performance (in the classroom). The majority of the football team wound up majoring in 'Criminal Justice.' What Criminal Justice had going for it was that it didn't require any math or language skills. Criminal Justice classes were almost always filled with other football players."

Does your favorite bigtime university offer Criminal Justice as a major? Is so, it may be a football factory.

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Micheal Lewis is an author who never ceases to fascinate. "The Losers" was a book about the Presidential campaign....of a bunch of the losing candidates. Great stuff. "Next" was about the new economy, as was "The New New Thing. "Liar's Poker" is still a classic on Wall Street insanity. And of course, "Moneyball" has been a sensation for over two years.

And his new book, "The Blind Side", is another one sure to create a lot of interest. A sports book about.....a high school/college lineman? Well, I'm way into it. Good stuff.