Johnny Manziel and Amanda Bynes in the same sentence on SportsCenter

"Manziel's wild weekend," read the slug in the rundown as the second half hour of the 6 p.m. edition of SportsCenter began Monday night.

"Has Johnny Manziel become the Amanda Bynes of college football?" Linda Cohn started. "Or do all 20-year-olds act like this?"

The story that drew this intro: Manziel getting kicked out of a fraternity party at the University of Texas Friday night followed by his "head-shaking" wardrobe choice - a Tim Tebow Jets jersey - that "created a buzz."

"The Texas A&M quarterback put himself in the spotlight yet again in yet another chapter of the summer of Johnny Football," Cohn read. "Then he took to Twitter." 

OH THE HUMANITY.

Manziel tweeted: "Last time I checked double digit win columns and championships are what matters" and "'Just win, Baby'"

"And some wonder why he's still on Twitter," Cohn followed.

Cocky, sure. Racial slurs or derogatory remarks, no.

As if this wasn't enough coverage, it was then time for actor Denzel Washington to weigh in on the quarterback's actions - because Washington certainly offers insightful perspective on 20-year-old college athletes and frat parties - followed by the PTI guys debating the question,"Does Johnny Football need to grow up?"

Kevin Blackistone says, "Look at what Johnny Manziel has gotten involved with since winning the Heisman trophy." His examples - shoving a grad assistant, putting out negative tweets about his school and leaving the Manning camp early.

"When is the university going to reel him in?" Blackistone continues. "With other athletes, we judge these kinds of things as a character flaw. We're not doing that with Johnny Manziel. He's getting a break."

This after five minutes were spent analyzing nothing but his weekend activities and mentioning his name in the same sentence as Amanda Bynes.

That's "getting a break?"

Maybe Manziel is immature, or should shut his mouth or be more careful about which parties he chooses to attend.

Or maybe he shouldn't be scrutinized as if he is an elected official, as if his partying or tweeting or wardrobe choice has some sort of greater significance because he won the Heisman last year.

Mentioning the frat party incident or Tebow jersey isn't the problem. Blowing them up into a full segment and discussion piece becomes overkill.

The end of July is far from the most action-packed time of the sports year with baseball the only major sport in full swing, NFL training camp just kicking off and college football a month away.

So the Aggie quarterback has become this cycle's "hot topic." A few weeks ago, it was Yasiel Puig. Before that, Tim Tebow, Jeremy Lin, and so on. Select athletes are hyped, dissected and debated to smithereens until their "story" becomes stale. Then it's on to the next. 

Sure, Manziel is in the spotlight as a Heisman winner and big-name college athlete, but these scrutinized actions are more TMZ fodder than Worldwide Leader food for thought.