WSU Columnist: Heytvelt, Davis “Just Plain Dumb”

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Say go, say … ’shrooms. It’s Monday, and everyone knows about the ill-fated traffic stop for a burned-out tail light Friday night that resulted in the arresting of two Gonzaga basketball players. Sophomore Josh Heytvelt and redshirt freshman Theo Davis were arrested for alleged possession of marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms, found after a search of Heytvelt’s SUV. The two were immediately suspended from the team, and sat out Saturday night at Gonzaga’s game against Saint Mary’s University. Gonzaga won, by the way. Already, many of us have been invited to join a Facebook group with some variation of “Heytvelt and Davis tried to sell me ’shrooms” in the title. After looking for more information, I entered the terms “Gonzaga” and “mushrooms” into the ever-trustworthy Google news search engine. Seattle had the story. So did city papers across Pennsylvania, Arizona, California, New York, North Carolina and Canada, among many others. College basketball bloggers across the nation were eating it up, and spitting it out with increasingly creative jokes on prison life and drugs in the Pacific Northwest. Deadspin.com, a sports news blog, displayed Saturday, “If Gonzaga Bulldogs Josh Heytvelt and Theo Davis are playing basketball today, they’re playing not for position in the WCC standings, but for cigarettes and the protection of their anal cavities.” Regardless of opinions on marijuana or mushrooms as illegal drugs, and regardless of the fact that many students, both at WSU and Gonzaga, do “experiment” with drugs in college, these two athletes, if the allegations are true, are like many other student-athletes across the country who get involved with drugs: just plain dumb — Amelia Veneziano/WSU Evergreen.

Related: Gonzaga Syndrome is sweeping West Coast Conference as men’s basketball teams try to keep up with the Zags, according to San Jose News columnist Jon Wilner, here.