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college football

Maurice Clarett's Experienced Defense Team

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 »

11:30 AM on Wed Jan 4 2006
By Leitch
256 views, 8 comments

Latest by kranepool: "With the first pick in the Penal League Draft, The Alcatraz Avengers select RB Maurice Clarett". The Sing-Sing Sonics are on more »

baseball

When Bearded Closers Attack

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 »

10:00 AM on Tue Dec 27 2005
By Leitch
364 views, 14 comments

nfl

Perhaps The Job Is To Pay Off Those Legal Fees

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 »

9:43 AM on Wed Nov 2 2005
By Leitch
1,895 views, 1 comment

Latest by gamenotes: And oh by the way, Gerry Boyle is the defense attorney who got Chmura off in the rape case. more »

crime blotter

All Athletes Are Scum! (Just Trust The Profs.)

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 »

2:20 PM on Mon Sep 26 2005
By Leitch
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ross verba

Paris Hilton And Ross Verba: Our Lucy And Ricky

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 »

11:45 AM on Mon Sep 26 2005
By Leitch
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This Is Why They Keep John Daly Away From Golf Carts

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 »

1:35 PM on Fri Sep 9 2005
By Leitch
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nfl

McMichael's Wife Dropped From Fantasy Rosters

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 »

11:26 AM on Fri Sep 9 2005
By Leitch
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ahman green

Ahman Green, Pleader

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 »

2:28 PM on Tue Sep 6 2005
By Leitch
174 views

shaquille o'neal

A Bad Way For Your Party To End

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 »

1:35 PM on Tue Sep 6 2005
By Leitch
161 views

milton bradley

Milton Bradley Repeatedly High-Fives His Wife

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 »

12:16 PM on Wed Aug 31 2005
By Leitch
807 views

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