One rumor has dogged and seriously annoyed Darren Sharper, who may have played his last down with the Vikings.
The last time I asked him about it again, just to make sure nothing's changed, Sharper gesticulated wildly and asked why the rumor that he fathered a baby boy in the Twin Cities won't go away.
This gossip first came to me in an e-mail, the land of the coward, from someone claiming to be a friend of the mother of a woman who reportedly had given birth to Sharper's baby. When I pressed the e-mailer for specifics and requested that court documents mysteriously arrive in my mailbox if the charge was true, that person stopped typing.
The baby boy gossip is so prevalent, however, that Sharper said he'd heard it before I first broached the subject.
For the record, Sharper stressed that he has one child -- a daughter, Amara, who, he indicated in another 2008 conversation, is about 10 years old.
Sharper also indicated that he has got a concrete plan for the creation of future progeny. "The next time I have a baby will be after I put a ring on [some woman's finger]," the bachelor said.
Unlike too many pro athletes, it took only one time for Sharper to figure out what causes unexpected pregnancy.
So long, Sharper, because my information is you're outta here. Stay out of those handicapped parking spots. You're too decent a fellow to succumb to entitlement head trips that define too many pro athletes.