Article: Column: Randy Moss' abusive acts should hurt his chances in pro draft

Mark Shapiro
University Wire
04-21-1998
(Daily Bruin) (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES -- After years of the drug addict signing the million dollar deal, the wife beater making the all-star team and the felon going to the Super Bowl, we can finally chalk one up for the proverbial good guy.

Finally, character gets off the hook, and a phenomenal athlete with a checkered past gets smacked so hard he falls 16 spots in the NFL draft.

Sure, wide receiver Randy Moss may have good hands, but the fact that they landed on his girlfriend in anger was more important to the Tennessee Oilers, who took a decidedly inferior receiver, Kevin Dyson, over Moss.

Sure Randy Moss will probably be a bigger offensive force than ...

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