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Today's Maurice Clarett update: The "troubled" — that is to say, "known for pretty much everything other than being a football player — posted a $50,000 bond to be released after his charges of aggravated robbery. We'll put aside for a moment how a guy with little discernible income over the last three years came up with 50 grand on the spot — maybe he was robbing people! — and instead look at Clarett's lawyer, William Settina. More »
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If you haven't checked in with former Red Sox/Expos/Twins closer Jeff Reardon for a while, well, jeez, why would you? Apparently, though, Mr. Reardon has had a bit of a hard time of it lately. More »
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Everybody remember Mark Chmura? The former Packers tight end, famously popular in Green Bay despite some pretty questionable moral choices, was acquitted of sexual assault and child enticement charges back in 2001 after a teenager accused him of raping her at a post-prom party. Chmura, a guy with a golden image before the trial (he even had considered a career in politics, famously denouncing President Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky fiasco), has been mostly out of the public eye since the trial. More »
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So we've spent the last hour reading about and researching the new study released by the "Center for Ethical Theory and Honor in Competitive Sports" — which, from what we can find, appears to be something operated out of the University of Idaho's basement (we imagine the office looking something like Peter Venkman's and Egon Spengler's at the beginning of Ghostbusters) — that says today's athletes "lack moral reasoning." This "study" surveyed 72,000 athletes over a 17-year stretch, which sounds to us like a pretty liberal definition of "today's athletes," but whichever. More »
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We're not saying that Paris Hilton's already decumbent standards are getting somehow lower or anything, but one would think that when you're on the cover of Vanity Fair, you'd be able to party with a relatively high class of athlete. Nope: Hilton was out boobing it up in Las Vegas last weekend with hockey puck Jeremy Roenick, dopey point guard Bob Sura and former NFL offensive lineman Ross Verba. Oh, and Tara Reid was there too. (Seriously.) More »
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The fine folks at Bad Jocks have compiled an outstanding reference resource: The Top 20 Blood Alcohol Content Leaders (Athlete Division), ranking the drunkest DUI athlete arrests. More »
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Just about two months after being arrested for throwing his wife from their car — it was his second arrest for spousal abuse within a year — Dolphins tight end Randy McMichael has pleaded out, accepting a misdemeanor of "trespassing," on his wife, in a similar way that Jason Christensen "trespassed" on Barry Bonds. Amusingly enough, the trespassing charge was not actually for the dragging of his recently pregnant wife, but in fact for scratching up a car in the Waffle House parking lot. More »
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For anyone who might have forgotten, Packers running back Ahman Green had some trouble with the law early this year; namely, he and his wife had a scuffle that started with a bunch of hollering and ended with some broken plaster and a visit from the 5-0. (Three days after the incident, Green filed for divorce, which was a nice touch.) More »
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On the list of "Things That Are Not Smart To Do," we'd have to say that "Drunkenly Plowing Into Shaquille O'Neal's Wife" has to be pretty high up there. But that's what happened to some poor soul at the Video Music Awards last week, and, perhaps not surprisingly, the dude ended up on the floor in a pool of his own fluids. More »
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You know, it had been so long since a good Athlete Beating His Wife story that we were beginning to wonder what was going on. But we can always count on crazy Dodgers outfielder Milton Bradley to take care of us. Bradley — who is out for the rest of the season with a knee injury, allowing the LA media to just pile this shit on — had the police called to his home three times this summer for complaints that he was beating his pregnant wife. More »
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It is a tragic shame that Reds pitcher Jung Bong was arrested last Friday, and it wasn't for a drug-related offense. Nope, Bong took after his old manager Bobby Cox and was busted for strangling his wife, or, rather, causing red marks to appear on her neck. More »
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We aren't one to talk about public drunkeness, but we still feel obliged to point out that when former Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Koren Robinson decided to show up at his one-day jail sentence for a DUI conviction, well, he probably shouldn't have been drunk. Just a thought. The good news: Being currently unemployed, he doesn't have to show up for training camp this week. Whew: Another round! More »
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Miami Dolphins tight end Randy McMichael was arrested last week for spousal abuse, his second arrest for that charge in the last 13 months. (The good news is that she wasn't pregnant this time.) More »
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It appears O.J. Simpson spent his Independence Day getting beaten up by his ex-girlfriend. (You read that right: O.J. Simpson has had many girlfriends since 1994. That's a pretty lousy background check, if you ask us.) The woman, Christine Prody (who once told the National Enquirer that OJ confessed the murders to her), beat on O.J. and a friend of his repeatedly when he tried to give her back some old belongings. More »
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Somewhat underreported around these parts, the trial of NBA players Gary Payton, Sam Cassell and Jason Caffey began yesterday in Toronto. More »
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More details have come out from the arrest of Redskins safety Sean Taylor, and they're ugly. According to The Washington Post and police reports: More »
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Whenever an athlete does something wrong — skip a practice, get caught with some of that ganja, stab a coach in the face — they end up either be suspended or, more often, having to a pay a fine. Typically, fans scoff at fines; players make so much that a fine is no punishment at all. More »
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Ravens running back Jamal Lewis was released from prison yesterday, and his reward is having to talk to a room full of reporters. (He probably wishes he had stayed in jail.) More »
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Which former football player said the following, during an interview with a video game Web site about the upcoming "Blitz: The League," which follows professional players' lives both on and off the field? More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=108987&view=rss&microfeed=true Our long national nightmare is over: Ravens running back Jamal Lewis is released from prison today. No word yet as to what prison tats Lewis will come out with, or whether he'll have made a very special new best friends named Bunny (or Sarge). He does want to skip his halfway house in Atlanta to head back to Ravens' minicamp, but authorities say that's unlikely. But hey. Prison. That's funny. More »
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A couple of weeks ago, word escaped that Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher had hooked up with former Detroit Piston and current Best Damn Sports Show co-host John Salley. Well, we don't expect that relationship to last much longer. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=108944&view=rss&microfeed=true From the Motivational Speaker File: Miami high school baseball coach Lazer Callazo resigned yesterday after a curious attempt to pump up his team. To quote The Miami Herald: More »
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We are but a week away from Jamal Lewis' freedom. On June 2, the Ravens running back will finish his four-month prison sentence for drug trafficking. Apparently he's been doing fine during incarcertion, working in the prison toolshed and checking out library books. (Right.) How will Jamal adjust to life outside? Tough to say, but we'll get a better feel for hard time was like by how loudly he yelps the first time he's knocked on his ass. (Sorry.) More »
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Any teenage boy could tell you the importance of parking. When your parents won't leave the house and you can't afford a hotel, the only place you can make out with girls is in your car. There are some key rules, though: More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=108845&view=rss&microfeed=true You know you're having a rough week when your kicker is busted for selling weed. Jonathan Skeete, a freshman kicker for Ohio State, was busted late last week for selling a half pound of marijuana to an undercover officer, according to the Ohio State student newspaper, The Lantern (good job, kids!). Story highlight: Skeete's attorney requested a change of venue because of the expected "massive" media coverage the redshirt kicker would receive. Heh. Add this to today's news that the NCAA let OSU know it has been nailed for nine different violations, including improper gifts and assistance to football and men's basketball players. (Funny: You never see the swim team cheating. Maybe it's the lack of body hair.) More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=108762&view=rss&microfeed=true We always loved Nate Newton. Frankly, it's impossible not to like the former Cowboys defensive lineman. This is a guy who, in November 2001, was busted for carting 213 pounds of marijuana. He met bond, and six months later, he was arrest for the same offense, this time with a mere 175 pounds. He spent 32 months in jail and resurfaced this weekend to talk on Dallas sports radio. Newton's rationale for his behavior? Like all athletes, he wanted to be the best. "I've always been competitive, I've always been in sports," he said. "I couldn't see myself not being the biggest dope man." Yep. And guess what he's doing now? If you said "preaching for Jesus," man, we made it way too easy for you. More »
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