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Former WNBA player Chamique Holdsclaw pleads guilty to charges stemming from November argument, shooting

A nice, melancholy sum up of her troubles.

Chamique Holdsclaw's star fades as arrest is another sad chapter for former Queens basketball star

But, just a bit of hyperbole I am compelled to address:
If she had been a man with equivalent basketball talent, Holdsclaw would long ago have become our city’s greatest tragic sports figure.
Really. The greatest tragic sports figure. Even if you exempt Mets players, really? Iron Mike and a slew of other boxers? Ron Ron? Just in the same sport: Earl Manigault; Sweet Pea Daniels; Connie Hawkins; Charles Smith (yeah, I said it).
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And how is it that you bust caps at someone and get a probation plea deal? Like to think a judge wouldn't allow that. Tons of judges around here make guys serve 24 hours on a 1st DUI but this Defendant is going to stand up and admit to shooting at someone and get probation?
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Charles Smith ... well played.
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At first, I thought "big deal - a dui", but then I added the bonus points for the great circumstances:
Broncos director of player personnel Matt Russell, right, was arrested over the weekend after hitting two cars in Summit County — one of them a Breckenridge police car.
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Inverted from the title of the thread but solid.
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He broke a law. The one about turning a ho into a housewife. Otta be a law.
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He also broke the one about sticking your D in crazy.
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Broncos pro personnel director Tom Heckert charged with DUI
They'll be able to go to meetings together.
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Pat's Alfonzo Dennard DUI arrest
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Keg wrote:He also broke the one about sticking your D in crazy.
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Whitlock clearly hangs with a different class of strippers and hos than me.
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He's just trying really hard to be relevant. Not like that's anything new... but damn.
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howard wrote:Whitlock clearly hangs with a different class of strippers and hos than me.

If Anna Benson was a man, he would have been found dead in a ditch years ago.
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Jason Whitlock once wrote that Jaguars fans were racist because they were clamoring for David Garrard to replace Byron Leftwich.
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Heard something interesting on the BBC "More or Less" podcast (dedicated to investigating statistics and it usually disproves most of the numbers they investigate - fascinating and recommended)

Anyway, they were looking into whether or not NFL players are disproportionately involved in crime when compared to the population as a whole. And they cited a report from USA Today that shows that the answer is a resounding "no."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23179125

From the report:
"The NFL arrest rate for active players is around one in 47 but in the general population the arrest rate is actually double that, it's about one in 25. It's a surprise. It seems like you hear about an NFL arrest every week but it turns out they're still better behaved than regular society."

When the general population numbers are broken down even further the NFL players look even more like model citizens. The Bureau of Justice's figures reveal that the arrest rate for men is one in 15.

Active NFL players are aged, in the main, between 21 and 34 and the arrest rate for that demographic is one in 8. The arrest rate for people of Aaron Hernandez's age - he's 23 - is a startling one in 6.
It must be pointed out that the figures are based on TOTAL arrests, not on the number of individuals who get busted. But still, I was surprised at what I heard.
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The average U.S. citizen is probably worse off than the average NFL player.
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Most double murderers don't have $40 million contracts.
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Icepenis wrote:The average U.S. citizen is probably worse off than the average NFL player.
Oh, no doubt.

I should have added that what surprised me most about the study was the fact that so many Americans get arrested.
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Icepenis wrote:The average U.S. citizen is probably worse off than the average NFL player.
Oh, no doubt.

I should have added that what surprised me most about the study was the fact that so many Americans get arrested.

You haven't been to our hoods. The arrest rate is as high there as it should be in our banks.

I blame minor drug arrests for most of the US numbers.
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Pruitt wrote:I should have added that what surprised me most about the study was the fact that so many Americans get arrested.
Yeah, that will surprise most folks. That is another frog in boiling water fact describing our nice little society down here.
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howard wrote:Broncos pro personnel director Tom Heckert charged with DUI
They'll be able to go to meetings together.
Now, word is that Von Miller is getting four games for drugs. Sheesh. Next, I expect they'll nail Peyton for sniffing glue.
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The money part of it was that it was 7 in the morning when he hit a tree or something, in what was apparently a drunken haze, just a few hours before practice.
Aldon Smith was involved in a single-car accident this morning in San Jose and has been arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence and marijuana possession, authorities said. Smith was not injured in the crash. He was arrested at 7:02 a.m., taken to Santa Clara County's main jail and has since been released. His bail was set at $5,250.

Smith was on hand for Friday's practice, which began at 12:40 p.m.
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Our resident Swamp boxing writer, the doc, could tell you that the uppercut can be a devastating blow, when fighting in tight.
The Baltimore Sun broke the story that Rice had been arrested, charged, and released. His attorney, Andrew Alperstein, claimed that Rice's fiancée had also been arrested in connection with the incident, which he described as a "very minor physical altercation."

That may be so; Atlantic City police aren't returning calls on the matter right now and the casino declined to comment on the incident. According to our tipster, though, word at the Revel early Saturday morning was that a woman—presumably the fiancée—had spit on Rice and that in retaliation, he uppercut her, knocking her completely unconscious.
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You don't punch women. That is what sneakers are for.
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sancarlos wrote:Our resident Swamp boxing writer, the doc, could tell you that the uppercut can be a devastating blow, when fighting in tight.
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I'm pretty sure that his only option was an upper cut. Unless he felt the urge to send a right hook into the ovaries.
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We've found yet another person that couldn't block for Ray Rice this season.
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deadspin participant wrote:He was released on his own recognizance due to the fact that he's no longer a threat to run.
Stunning. I wonder what the trade value for a small, aging RB coming off his career lows are. And what the cap hit is if they cut him.
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http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/baltimore-ravens/ray-rice/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

$14.5 mil. He's at a solid half-Flacco.
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Gunpowder wrote:http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/baltimore-ravens/ray-rice/

$14.5 mil. He's at a solid half-Flacco.

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The video on the Big Lead doesn't look too good for Raymell. Sorry for the TMZ video, but this is too damning not to post. Maybe she is just drunk, but if this is from a punch, she is out cold. Also not a good sign when an NFL player is unable to lift his GF. They should add that to the combine.

Some of the comments are hilarious:
looks like he got about 2.5 yards on that carry.
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The woman Ray Rice knocked out went ahead and married him. Brandon Spikes was not invited.
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Inspector Gadget must have hacked his account.
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Spikes never would have made those comments if he was still on the Pats. And I don't understand what Mothers Against Drunk Driving have to do with this.
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Maybe it has something to do with laws preventing a wife from having to testify against her husband??
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