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Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 10:17 pm
by howard
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).
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 2:31 pm
by HaulCitgo
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?
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 7:45 pm
by garyclark
Charles Smith ... well played.
Gotta think like a player
Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 8:50 pm
by howard
Re: Gotta think like a player
Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 9:13 pm
by sancarlos
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.
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 8:31 am
by wlu_lax6
Inverted from the title of the thread but solid.
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Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 9:33 am
by howard
He broke a law. The one about turning a ho into a housewife. Otta be a law.
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 9:54 am
by Keg
He also broke the one about sticking your D in crazy.
I wanna party with this front office
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 9:37 pm
by howard
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 11:26 am
by wlu_lax6
Pat's Alfonzo Dennard DUI arrest
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Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 7:17 pm
by sancarlos
Keg wrote:He also broke the one about sticking your D in crazy.
Don't worry, Anna. Jason Whitlock is in your corner!
Jason Whitlock wrote:...If Anna Benson was a man, she’d be best friends with prominent politicians. I’m serious.
Jay-Z can rap and boast about dealing crack cocaine to single mamas and all the other destructive nonsense that goes along with a male hustler’s life and still have dinner at the White House. But Anna Benson can’t be proud and celebrated for hustling in the sex industry?
This is sexism.
There’s more honor in selling sex than selling dope. Strippers and hoes rarely shoot each other...
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 8:53 pm
by howard
Whitlock clearly hangs with a different class of strippers and hos than me.
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 8:05 am
by Brontoburglar
He's just trying really hard to be relevant. Not like that's anything new... but damn.
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 8:15 am
by The Sybian
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.
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 8:59 am
by Jerloma
Jason Whitlock once wrote that Jaguars fans were racist because they were clamoring for David Garrard to replace Byron Leftwich.
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 9:08 am
by Pruitt
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.
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 9:14 am
by Gunpowder
The average U.S. citizen is probably worse off than the average NFL player.
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 9:14 am
by Gunpowder
Most double murderers don't have $40 million contracts.
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 9:20 am
by Pruitt
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.
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 9:21 am
by Gunpowder
Pruitt wrote: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.
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 10:59 am
by howard
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.
Re: I wanna party with this front office
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 5:39 pm
by sancarlos
Now, word is that Von Miller is getting four games for drugs. Sheesh. Next, I expect they'll nail Peyton for sniffing glue.
13-year-olds, Dude
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 7:49 pm
by howard
Re: 13-year-olds, Dude
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 11:14 pm
by DSafetyGuy
Good thing he's a born-again Christian.
Dude really likes to drink and drive
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 2:56 pm
by howard
Re: Dude really likes to drink and drive
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 5:35 pm
by sancarlos
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.
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 10:52 am
by sancarlos
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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Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 1:00 pm
by howard
You don't punch women. That is what sneakers are for.
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 1:01 pm
by testuser2
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.
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 1:08 pm
by Gunpowder
We've found yet another person that couldn't block for Ray Rice this season.
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 1:11 pm
by kranepool
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.
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 3:27 pm
by Gunpowder
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$14.5 mil. He's at a solid half-Flacco.
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:19 am
by wlu_lax6
figure skater
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Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:26 am
by The Sybian
You see the dick as half-Flaco, I see him as half-The Rock.
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 10:11 am
by The Sybian
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.
and, fittingly, bernard pierce swooped in to carry her the rest of the way to the hotel room
"She looks ready to go."
-Darren Sharper
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 4:52 pm
by rass
The woman Ray Rice knocked out went ahead and married him.
Brandon Spikes was not invited.
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 6:43 pm
by kranepool
"Wowzersssss".
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 6:59 pm
by Johnny Carwash
Inspector Gadget must have hacked his account.
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 9:53 am
by The Sybian
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.
Re: Athletes breaking laws and beating women
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 10:04 am
by sancarlos
Maybe it has something to do with laws preventing a wife from having to testify against her husband??