DERRICK ROSE HAS A LEAD FOOT

Hopefully for the Chicago Bulls, who just took Derrick Rose #1 in the NBA draft, driving over the speed limit is the only problem they have to deal with as far as off the court problems are with Derrick Rose. 

Rose, 19, who live in Chicago’s West Englewood community, was driving a 2008 Land Rover on April 29 when he was stopped at 2:58 a.m. about a mile west of Illinois Highway 47 for allegedly going 106 m.p.h. in a 65-m.p.h. zone, according to Kane County court records. He is scheduled to appear in court July 11.

The article says that Rose could face a maximum of one year in jail, but that never happens with traffic tickets unless it’s your 40th ticket or something ridiculous like that.  Rose, who will become a millionaire shortly when he signs a deal with the Bulls, will have to go to traffic school with the rest of Illinois’ traffic violating Joe Schmoes. 

106 in a 65 for Rose [Chicago Tribune]

 

SUCKER PUNCH AT SOFTBALL GAME LEADS TO DEATH

Sunday softball leagues are all about hanging out with old high school buddies or co-workers, drinking during the afternoon on a sunny summer day, and occasionally remembering it’s your turn to bat.  Softball leagues are rarely taken too seriously and they’re always fun.  Unfortunately, there’s always one asshole in the crowd.

A softball player died Monday after taking a blow to the head from a player on an opposing team over the weekend.

Daniel Andrews, 37, of Hilton played in his usual Sunday softball league at Forks Park off Manitou Road in Parma with his Pallet Express team. According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, when the game was over about 2:30 p.m., Andrews was punched below the ear by a player from the opposing team, who then took off running.

Sheriff’s deputies arrested Sean Sanders, 27, of Irondequoit about 8 p.m. near Frisbee Hill Road in Greece, about a mile southeast of Forks Park. Sanders, who was on parole for assault, was charged with second-degree assault, a felony, said Cpl. John Helfer of the Sheriff’s Office. Helfer said Monday night that the Sheriff’s Office would work with the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office to determine whether the charge against Sanders will be upgraded.

Hopefully this Sean Sanders spends the better part of his days behind bars for this.  It was bad enough that he punched the guy and then ran away, but with Daniel Andrews actually dying because of this, all we can hope is that Sanders gets what’s coming to him.  Absolutely ridiculous.

Softball Player Dies [Democrat & Chronicle] via [Deadspin]

 

3 ARRESTED DURING CARDINALS/ROYALS SERIES

While the Royals & Cardinals interleague series will never be confused with the itensity of the Chicago Cubs/Chicago White Sox series, the relatively boring and docile fan bases got into enough this past weekend that it actually made the news.

Royals director of event operations Chris Richardson tells me that during the three-game weekend series, there were three arrests made for assault as well as 10 fan ejections for disorderly conduct.

I really can’t believe that this was seriously reported in the Kansas City Star newspaper.  Go to a football game in Philadelphia, and there will be that many arrests and ejections within the first 5 minutes of you arriving to the stadium.  These Midwestern people are just too nice I’m assuming, which is how this made the news.  Boring sure, but nice people.  I’m sure the 3 who were arrested were slapping way too out of control for the 90 year old usher to break it up.

3 arrests, 10 ejections at Royals/Cards weekend series [KC Star]

3 GEORGIA FOOTBALL PLAYERS ARRESTED FOR FIGHT AT BARBEQUE

Fighting at a barbeque led to 3 arrests on saturday night for 3 University of Georgia football players.

Offensive linemen Justin Anderson and Trinton Sturdivant were arrested Monday night and charged with simple battery, according to the Athens-Clarke County jail’s Web site. Each was released on $1,500 bond. No other information was available.

Another Georgia player, defensive lineman Michael Lemon, was arrested Saturday night and also charged with battery. Lemon allegedly punched another UGA student at an apartment complex barbecue, according to a report in the school newspaper, The Red and Black.

The way the article is written, it seems that Michael Lemon has been arrested since saturday and is still in jail.  The other two guys got out on bail of $1500.  Can’t somebody go and give Michael Lemon $150 so he can get out of jail?  Come on, help the guy out.  Scrape $150 together and get him out.  This either means all his friends are really poor, or he’s a jerk and nobody likes him, which could explain why he’s in jail for fighting in the first place.

3 more Georgia football players arrested [AJC]

 

UPDATE:  It turns out that 2 players (Anderson & Sturdivant) have been arrested for allegedly touching a woman’s stomach.  There might be more to that one later on.  The 3rd player, Michael Lemon, may or may not have punch somebody at that BBQ.  Lemon has not been arrested as of yet.  More to come in the investigation for that one.

Updated from AJC

GEORGIA TECH FOOTBALL PLAYER CHARGED WITH RAPE

A Georgia Tech football player, Jerrard Tarrant, was charged over the weekend for the rape of a fellow classmate at the school.  Tarrant has been subsequently suspended from the team and his return is pending on the outcome of his legal case. 

 ”These charges filed against Jerrard are something that we take very seriously,” Johnson said in a statement. “He has been suspended from the team indefinitely, pending the outcome of the legal proceedings.”

Tarrant’s facebook.com page was updated on Monday to say “Jerrard Tarrant is truly MISUNDERSTOOD, when will they see the real me????”

I bet it makes the old-school journalists absolutely cringe that “Facebook” can and is actually used to produce quotes in their stories.

GA Tech Football Player Charged with Rape [AJC]

WILLIE ANDREWS ALLEGEDLY PUTS GUN TO GIRLFRIEND’S HEAD

There are certain things a girlfriend shouldn’t do.  One of the things they should never do is accuse the boyfriend of cheating.  Some boyfriends would be very upset about that.  There is, however, a way of responding to accusations. (for instance, going out and actually cheating)   Willie Andrews of the New England Patriots gets really mad about it and responds the WRONG way.  So mad in fact, he allegedly put a gun to his girlfriend’s head.

The woman told police that she confronted Willie Andrews, 24, in a bedroom of his apartment on Sunday night, according to the Sun Chronicle. She said that Andrews was waving the gun and that it touched her temple, the newspaper reported.

The woman called 911, and when police arrived, Andrews allowed police to search his car. Police did not find a gun. The woman took her child to a hotel, police said.

Apparently this isn’t the first time that Willie has threatened to shoot his girlfriend, according to the girlfriend.  Willie seems to have Elijah Dukes syndrome.  No word on threatening text messages yet. 

The gun comes out when you accuse Willie [The Boston Channel]

MAN TRIES TO GET URINE AT SPORTS OHIO FUN PARK

It would appear that maybe Alan Patton may have some sort of problem.  For the second time in less than a month, the Ohio man was caught at the sports themed fun park, Sports Ohio, trying to collect urine in the men’s room.  To drink.

Alan D. Patton, 56, of 6269 Emberwood Rd. on the Northwest Side, was trying to collect urine in a men’s restroom at Sports Ohio, 6314 Cosgray Rd., when he was arrested June 14, Dublin police say.

Patton was found in a men’s restroom where he had allegedly covered toilet seats in plastic wrap, shut off water to urinals and placed Styrofoam cups in them. Sports Ohio employees told police that they recognized Patton as the man who had tampered with another men’s restroom there a week earlier.

Patton, a registered sex offender, admitted in 1994 to sexually assaulting four boys ages 7 and 9 in public restrooms in Columbus. At the time, Patton’s attorney said Patton suffers from urophilia, an interest in urine for sexual gratification.

Urophilia, apparently, can cause you to try and steal other people’s urine, or it can cause you to this at a horsetrack.  Either way, big thumbs down.  It’s rumored Patton has said that urine is sterile and that he likes the taste.  Or maybe that was Patches O’Houlihan.  I can’t remember now.

Urophila strikes Ohio sports park [Columbus Dispatch] 

4 GOLFERS, 2 CADDIES ROBBED ON GOLF COURSE

This is a story you don’t hear too often.  It appears that 4 golfers & their 2 caddies for the round wer robbed at gunpoint on the 16th hole.

When the party of six, four golfers and two caddies, reached the 16th tee shortly after 11 a.m., a gunman emerged from nearby woods and said, “Give me your money,” according to police.

Armed with a handgun and covering his face with a mask, the gunman robbed two of the golfers and one of the caddies before fleeing into the woods at the club at 6200 W. Good Hope Road.

Officials at the club said the foursome finished their round of golf after the incident. And no one at the club canceled tee times Saturday or Sunday.

The fact that the golfers did not quit their round despite being robbed is quite admirable.  If a man that had been hiding in the woods came running out with a gun while I was playing golf, I’d probably drop a deuce in my khakis.  But this whole thing makes me wonder…. do you think that one of the golfers was in on it?  Let’s say he was getting beat pretty badly and was losing money on hole after hole, what would stop him to call a buddy, tell him to meet him on hole 16 with a gun, and just rob his opponent?  I think I may use this one day.

 

ROBBED ON THE GOLF COURSE [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]

DRUNK COLLEGE HOCKEY PLAYER ARRESTED WITH HELP OF HIS MOM

Hopefully you were like me and you were able to count on your mom for a lot of things while you’re growing up.  One of the things I could always count on the most when it came to my mom was that she was never a snitch.  Unfortunately for Adam Estoclet, hockey player at Dartmouth College, there was no such agreement between Adam and his mom. 

Dartmouth College forward Adam Estoclet, 19, was arrested June 4 after he broke into a home in southeast Minneapolis shortly before 4 a.m. while trying to elude police with another 19-year-old man, police said.

Soon after his arrest, Estoclet’s blood-alcohol reading was .162 percent, more than twice the legal limit for driving in Minnesota, according to the charges.

The former star at Benilde-St. Margaret High School in St. Louis Park entered the room of a sleeping woman, grabbed her cell phone to apparently call his mother and fled, police said. Police said they nabbed Estoclet a short time later with the help of his mother.

While we all assume that Adam’s mom bailed him out of jail, we all know what should happen next.  Adam’s mom better watch her back because snitches get stitches.  Mom is just going to learn the hard way how things work.

Mom snitches on son [Minneapolis Tribune]

 

MANNY RAMIREZ PICKS ON TRAVELING SECRETARY

Manny Ramirez, the aloof leftfielder for the Boston Red Sox, got a little shove happy with the Boston Red Sox traveling secretary on Saturday.  The leftfielder, who is suddenly developing a penchant for fighting recently, threw down Jack McCormick to the ground over, get this, tickets.

Ramirez had asked McCormick for 16 tickets for Saturday night’s Red Sox-Astros game, an unusually high number for day-of-game. In addition to handling all travel details for clubs, traveling secretaries also take player ticket requests for both home and away games.

When McCormick cautioned Ramirez that he might not be able to fulfill his request, Ramirez responded by shouting: “Just do your job!”

An argument insued and Ramirez pushed McCormick, sending him to the ground.

The prima donna leftfielder apologized for the incident, and the Red Sox seem satisfied enough with Manny’s apology to not punish him whatsoever.  Who has to be thrown down by Manny Ramirez to warrant a suspension?  Are traveling secretary’s that disrespected that any player can just manhandle them over ticket requests?  Who is looking out for the traveling secretaries?  Is it because of this former assistant to the traveling secretary that traveling secretaries are treated so badly?