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This year, the most sought after NFL fantasy football player is Penn State’s own Larry Johnson, now of the NFL Kansas City Chiefs. I just heard Tiki Barber of the New York Giants, no slouch himself, state that LJ would be his cornerstone pick.

There’s even a television commercial that centers around Larry’s desirability as a fantasy player. It promotes ESPN’s cell phones. Reggie Bush is in it and the theme is that Heisman aside, LJ is the top pick for this year, not Bush (which you can presumably glean by getting the stats through your ESPN cell phone). The setting is someone’s house, with a bunch of guys sitting around making their fantasy pick. Bush is sitting in the middle. It goes something like this:

Reggie Bush: Who you picking first in the fantasy draft this year?
Unidentified Guy: I think I’m going with Larry Johnson.
RB: That’s messed up. I got the Heisman and you’re picking LJ first in my league?
UG: OK, here goes. With the first pick in the 2006 fantasy draft, I select Reggie Bush.

RB: Good. Now I can get LJ!

All this Turkey has to say is that Larry had better live up to the promise for which he set the bogey with last season’s second half performance, or there will be a lot of pissed-off fantasy football players around this great land of ours!

OK, for those of you who haven’t responded to The Turkey’s prior quiz about the Paterno Sculpture, there is still time. I have another one for you. Perhaps this one will be easier.

Which Penn State running back who went on to play in the NFL also played Major League baseball?

Remember Lavon Chisley? His less than memorable Nittany Lion career ended before last season, having been declared academically ineligible, as the fifth-year senior defensive end’s final season was about to begin. Fast-forward one year and we find that Chisley’s woes have increased exponentially.

Chisley, who had several run-ins with the law in State College before his departure from the team, is currently locked up in the slammer in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, where he is being held on drug charges. But that is apparently the least of his problems.

Chisley would rather stay in jail in Maryland than post bail and return to Centre County, where he faces misdemeanor drug charges and is “a person of interest” in a murder investigation.

Read the full story in the Centre Daily Times.