Palin could probably take Fitz on in a game of basketball

Vice Presidential hopeful Sarah Palin is an educational whore, much like our friend and Red and Black sports editor Michael Fitzpatrick. Fitz has been to seven different schools in as many years, something that Palin nearly accomplished in college, when she attended six schools in six years.

This comparison has absolutely no relevance unless you think about luck of each individual:

• Fitz jumped from gymnastics beat writer at Arizona to sports editor at Georgia within a few months. If Palin is this lucky, she could jump from governor to VP in the same timeframe.
• Fitz was criticized on the national stage when he shocked the world with his preseason rankings by not putting his own school at No. 1, going against the entire Milky Way. Palin was criticized on the national stage when her 17-year-old daughter became pregos. Read more…

Yesterday we brought to your attention the fact that presidential hopeful John McCain named Sarah Palin as his running mate and that Palin was a former hoopster.

Thanks to the Internet, which can pull out even the most intimate secrets about someone in seconds, a video of Palin — then as Sarah Heath — has come to surface, showing us her skills as a 1988 sports anchor. She was pretty hot then, too.

Eat her shorts, Ron Burgundy.