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POSTED 10:27 p.m. EST, February 14, 2006

VINCE CHOOSES NOT TO THROW?

Less than a month after agent Major Adams said that Texas quarterback Vince Young will throw at the upcoming scouting combine, Adams now says that Young might not throw, after all.

"We want to make sure it's something we want to do and something that's best for Vincent," said Young's agent, Major Adams.

Asked why it might not be in Young's best interests to throw at the combine, Adams said, "Unfamiliar surroundings, unfamiliar receivers."

Adams denies that the decision is linked in any way to Young's poor showing in a college skills competition aired by ESPN the day before the Super Bowl.

Elsewhere on Team Starry, Starry Night, legendary Houston litigator and major UT booster Joe Jamail reportedly will advise Young during contract negotiations.  Though Jamail will be required to walk a fine line lest he have his knuckles rapped by the NFLPA, Jamail apparently has helped other former Longhorns.

Said Jamail, according to The Dallas Morning News:  "I've helped a lot of former Texas players by reviewing their contracts before they sign them -- Roy Williams, Cory Redding, there's a lot of them, Cedric [Benson], Derrick Johnson. . . .  I'm not an agent and I don't try to be, I just look them over to make sure they're not getting tricked or fooled."

Memo to NFL teams -- don't piss this guy off.  He is regarded in some circles as the best trial lawyer in America, and he does whatever is necessary to represent his client.

And sometimes more than what is necessary.

In 1994, the Delaware Supreme Court found that Jamail had behaved in "an extraordinarily rude, uncivil, and vulgar manner" due in part to the following excerpt from a deposition in the case of Paramount Communications Inc. v. QVC Network, Inc.:

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Q. . . .  Do you have any idea why Mr. Oresman was calling that material to your attention?

MR. JAMAIL:  Don't answer that. How would he know what was going on in Mr. Oresman’s mind?  Don't answer it.  Go on to your next question.

MR. JOHNSTON:  No, Joe --

MR. JAMAIL:  He's not going to answer that.  Certify it.  I'm going to shut it down if you don't go to your next question.

MR. JOHNSTON:  No.  Joe, Joe --

MR. JAMAIL:  Don't "Joe" me, asshole.  You can ask some questions, but get off that.  You could gag a maggot off a meat wagon. . . . .

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Wait a minute.  Maybe this guy has the right stuff to be an agent, after all.