OU Kid

Education never ends. We don't stop learning just because our days sleeping sitting in classrooms come to an end.

Donell Cooper used to a) attend Ohio University and b) play basketball for OU. He did not find employment in the NBA here, so he's been playing pro basketball in Greece and Monte Carlo for a living.

Up until now, that is. He's currently suspended from European basketball. He did coach the Bosnian national team, and has applied for citizenship in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

But, he needed to pass a urine test to keep playing or coaching over there, so he dutifully supplied a sample.

Of his girlfriend's urine.

And that's where the learning came in! When the test results came back, Cooper learned a) you can't get away with passing off someone else's urine as your own and b) his girlfriend is pregnant.

The tinklewater that he provided showed positive for human chorionic gonadotropin, or hCG.  That's a hormone made by the placenta during pregnancy.

I know a great joke along these lines and if you ever worked with me, you've heard it. I'm trying to figure out how to retell it now and work the phrase "Hanging With Mr Cooper" into it.