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Notre Dame QB Tommy Rees Allegedly Kneed A Cop In The Stomach And Had To Be Pepper Sprayed
More offseason good news for Notre Dame football. According to the Chicago Tribune, after police responded to a "madhouse of people" drinking at an off-campus house party late last night, two Fighting Irish players wound up being arrested. And quarterback Tommy Rees—a 19-year-old who will be a junio...
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Delmon Young Arrested, Charged With Assault [UPDATE: Hate Crime!]
The Tigers are in New York ahead of a weekend series with the Yankees, and it sounds like it didn't take Delmon Young much time to find some trouble. According to the Post, Young was arrested and charged with third-degree assault after shoving a man to the ground early this morning....

NFL Moneyball: The Math Says To Draft Players With Criminal Records
It's our old friend Science, back to drop some NFL draft knowledge on us. Today's lesson: if you're looking to maximize the value of your draft position, you might be better off going with the guys with character issues. And in this case, "character issues" isn't code for asshole, it's code for guy ...

Rogue Band Of Divers Arrested For Stealing Thousands Of Sunken Golf Balls
Four people were arrested and charged with theft and trespass after police found more than 8,000 golf balls and diving equipment in their van. They've apparently hit multiple courses and country clubs in suburban Philadelphia. The ringleader, when asked his employment, told police he runs a ball-ret...

Man Charged With "Felony Secret Peeping" For Hiding Camera In Minor League Locker Room
The Carolina Mudcats are the Indians' single-A affiliate, and as a single-A baseball team may not have much in the way of locker room security. But staff members noticed an unfamiliar face poking around the visitors' locker room during a game Tuesday night—a man claiming to be a cleaning employee....

Jose Maria Olazabal Was Pulled Over Doing 97 MPH After Leaving The Masters
Two-time Masters champion Jose Maria Olazabal was ticketed in southeastern Georgia yesterday morning after he was clocked going 97 mph in a 65 mph zone....

Spectator Arrested For Trying To Take A Cup Of Masters Sand
This is what happens when you fetishize a golf course to the point of holiness: some drunk dude from Ohio's going to try to pocket some of the dirt. Forty-year-old Clayton Baker was busted Sunday, after the tournament ended, when he slipped under the ropes and attempted to fill a cup with sand from ...

High School Girl Charged With Assault After Brutal Soccer Beatdown
Throw out the formalities when Lewisville and Chester get together, that's what I always say. The South Carolina schools met for a women's soccer match Monday evening, and it ended with the police being called. That New Mexico-BYU game has nothing on this one....

Police Pointed A Gun At Zach Randolph While He Was In Bed With A Woman
No charges were filed relating to a mansion party hosted by Zach Randolph outside of Portland last year, where a marijuana dealer alleged he was assaulted by Randolph's entourage after a "disagreement in price" over the weed he was selling. This week, police have released a trove of documents relati...

Chicago Bears WR Brandon Marshall Accused Of Punching A Woman In Club FIght
It was reasonable to assume that the Dolphins parted with Brandon Marshall, for a discount price, to make Peyton Manning happy. It's the same sort of roster-baiting the Titans are engaging in with their very public courtship of guard Steve Hutchison. But things can have, like, more than one reason, ...

Australian Footballer Requests Time Off For "Family Issues," Attacks Cousin With A Machete
Liam Jurrah became the first person from a remote Central Australain indigenous community to play in the AFL when he was drafted by the Melbourne Demons three years ago. It was there, to the town camp of Little Sisters, that he returned last week, telling team management that he had family and commu...

Cop Claims His Mississippi State Fan Boss Fired Him Because He Talked About MSU Player's Arrest
This one's kind of involved, so let's follow the bouncing Bulldog:...

Four Arizona Football Players Arrested When House Party Turns Into Lady-Punching Time
Arizona Wildcat spring practice began Monday, so it was just a matter of time before we got our first "Arizona football players arrested" story. And here it is!...

Brien Taylor, Former Yankees Superstar-To-Be, Arrested On Cocaine Trafficking Charges
Brien Taylor, the can't-miss prospect who missed, was arrested yesterday on a whole mess of drug charges. This comes after an undercover operation by the Carteret County (NC) Sheriff's Office, in which cops allegedly purchased large quantities of crack and cocaine from him....

250 Credentials Stolen From Daytona 500; First 250 People To Sign Up For The Deadspin Newsletter Receive Credentials To Daytona 500
Authorities are looking for the person who broke into a guest services trailer at Daytona International Speedway and made off with 250 race credentials offering limited infield access to Sunday's Daytona 500....

Elijah Dukes Tried His Best, But Couldn't Quite Swallow A Bag Of Weed Before Being Arrested
Elijah Dukes, aka Elijah David Dukes Jr., aka Fly Eli, was arrested early this morning in Tampa. I know, not news. It's his 10th arrest in Hillsborough County alone, and the Tampa Tribune says he's been arrested "dozens of times" since 2001, on charges ranging from domestic violence to drug possessi...

Former Pro Golfer Netted In Massive Sex Sting
Steve Thomas, who's played 78 tournaments on the PGA and Champions Tours (though none since 2010), was among 40 people arrested in an Osceola County (Fla.) Sheriff's Office sting operation. "Operation Red Cheeks" set Thomas up to believe he was negotiating for sex with a minor....

Jersey City Police Release Image Of Air Jordan Stabbing Suspect
Last Friday, we told you about all the insanity surrounding the release of the latest iteration of the Air Jordan. One incident left a man stabbed seven times and passing in and out of consciousness. He was rushed to Jersey City Medical Center where he was treated for non-life threatening wounds. A...

Someone Stole $1700 Worth Of Guns From A Carolina Panther's Truck At Best Buy
Panther Kion Wilson was parked outside a Charlotte Best Buy on Monday afternoon when someone broke into his pickup truck and stole four guns. Wilson lost a Glock 23, a 12-gauge shotgun, a FN Five-seven handgun and an unspecified Smith & Wesson. If you have any information that could put these guns b...

Babies Left In Cars, Shots Fired, Doors Broken Down: Just Another Air Jordan Release Date In America
Nike re-released the Air Jordan XIs early this morning, which led to mini riots, gun shots, babies trapped in cars, and lots of blown paychecks (they run about $180 retail). But it wouldn't be a Jordan sneaker release day without a wash of mall crime across the country, would it? Here's a roundup of...