11:23am | This is the delayed Dust version of Notes on My Napkin, a little late while awaiting the next black-and-gold sneaker to drop.

Of long term import the news from Golden Shore (that would be the CSU system office) has a huge long-term impact, or maybe it doesn’t. The web pundits weighed in and took both sides of the argument. 
 
Web One: “I suspect that the entire CSU System will be hurt significantly, athletically, because we don’t have huge amounts of donor monies and no BCS for March Madness money to speak of to backfill behind the increases in tuition like we will see in the UC System and have seen in the UC System….out of state is a completely different story and one not terribly relevant to our situation here in California.”

Web Two: “It will be interesting to see if the big tuition hikes will affect the number of students applying to get into the school or the number of students who decide to attend if accepted. My guess is that the impact will be minimal to non-existent.” 

Translated, most expect no real impact since all CSU’s got hit with the same percent increase; CSULB is still the lowest of all campuses, and the CSU System still offers the best bargain known to man!
 
Disclosure:  Your author receives a bloated pension check from the CSU, which clearly is more important than the REMs (rapid eye movements) and RMTs (rapid muscle twitches) of student athletes. Pension checks pay the mortgage plus luxurious living.)
 
Best of the REMs and RMTs this summer is one tiny, prone to cramping, super guard Casper Ware who is the best player in the summer basketball league and is averaging over 35 points per game. If I was his head coach, I would thank him and shut him down until the games go for real.
 
It was but one inning, but our next name, Jered Weaver, was very excited. He told MLB.com: “Never in my life did I think I’d be starting an All-Star Game, let alone be in an All-Star Game … You’re playing ball in the cul-de-sac — I’m Pedro [Martinez] this time or I’m Roger [Clemens] this time, or whatever … For it to come full circle and to be a part of starting an All-Star game is very surreal.”

Another name in the news is Santa Clara, not the religious figure but the outstanding liberal arts collection in Nor Cal. They made the news when Marin Catholic High grad Robb Woodcock MCAL pitcher of the year, gave a verbal commitment to play for Cal and will attend the school on a partial scholarship beginning this fall. The left-hander was granted release from his commitment to Santa Clara University after the Broncos coaching staff was let go by the school in early June. The local angle, Santa Clara, a warm and wonderful place, is the alma mater of one Troy Buckley, the Dirtbag skipper.
 
I understand (from his parents’ Facebook posts) that a Cal State Fullerton recruit, catcher Eric Hutting, has re-committed to Long Beach State, which really needs a solid catcher for next season and beyond. Eric’s brother is current Titan Anthony Hutting and his cousins include former Titan Aaron Rowand and James Shields.
 
Then there is the newest Gaucho Andrew Checketts. Prior to joining Oregon’s staff, Checketts was on the UC Riverside staff for seven years. In 2007, UC Riverside was the Big West Champion and was ranked as high as 13th in the country during the season. It marked the first time in 20 years that a Division I program in the UC system won its outright conference championship. They have the exciting BLUE-GREEN rivalry… So, trivia time: Who is the green?
 
Back at  Blair with Buck, he was happy last weekend when slugger Robert Vickers found out he would be playing baseball for Long Beach State next year. In order to celebrate, he went 2-for-3 with a mammoth solo home run as the Santa Barbara Foresters beat the Santa Barbara Stars 11-2 in the Rawlings California Cup.
 
Vickers is a former standout at Dos Pueblos High School, after which he committed to play at Cal State Northridge. He ended up playing his freshman season at College of the Canyons, however, before playing last season with Santa Barbara City College. He had played with the San Luis Obispo Rattlers the last two summers before the Foresters picked him up this year. He said that the decision to sign with Long Beach may have helped him on the field. “It might have. It definitely cleared my mind a little bit and got a lot of things off my back … . I’ve been waiting to sign at a school this year and I feel like I found the right one,” he said.

The North American Baseball League announced last Tuesday that Chico Outlaws right-handed pitcher David Roberts (a former Dirtbag) has been named one of two Rawlings Players of the Week for the week in June.
 
Dave Serrano’s Memorandum of Understanding with Tennessee takes a hard-line stance on violations.  “…more NCAA rules or multiple secondary violations of one or more NCAA rules considered collectively to be a major violation,” the document reads. After the Vols troubles in basketball and football you can understand.
 
The failure of Serrano to “report immediately to the Vice Chancellor for Athletics … or the Associate Athletics Director for Compliance any actual knowledge of or reasonable cause to believe that violations of NCAA, SEC or University rules or regulations have been committed or are being committed by himself or others” could also result in a termination with cause.

If Serrano resigns or leaves for another job before June 15, 2014, he would owe UT two times his annual guaranteed compensation. If he resigns or leaves after June 15, 2014, but before the end of his contract, Serrano would owe UT one year’s worth of his annual guaranteed compensation. All fancy post-season advances earn bonus money ranging from up to $100,000. Film at 11.—DR. DAN