Casting a light where the sun don’t shine
Former NFL punter Joe Prokop was arrested in Los Angeles on Wednesday and along with two Las Vegas-area businessmen faces federal conspiracy and fraud charges for allegedly helping people use the Americans with Disabilities Act to avoid paying federal income taxes. The 48-year-old Prokop is being held pending arraignment Friday on a 21-count indictment handed [...]
Michigan basketball player Zack Novak has been issued a one game suspension by the University after swinging his elbow at Ohio state guard P.J. Hill while attempting to rebound with 1:25 remaining in the Wolverines double-digit loss to bitter rival Ohio State.
For more: Detroit Free Press
Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver and former Ohio State Buckeye Santonio Holmes has admitted to spending a year selling drugs on a street corner in his small hometown while in high school. Holmes made the admission in hopes that he may persuade at-risk youth to choose a different path. Early reports are that the admission is [...]
Former NBA player and University of Cincinnati star Corie Blount has been indicted on charges of selling marijuana stemming from his December arrest after deputies watched him pick up a package they knew to contain 11 pounds of marijuana and found another 18 pounds of marijuana at his home. Blount has been indicted on two [...]
Suspended Miami Hurricane basketball player Edwin Rios was arrested and jailed Wednesday on charges of burglary and grand theft after being booked on two counts of burglarizing an unoccupied dwelling, and two counts of grand theft. Rios was suspended by the Hurricanes on Jan. 12 for “violating team rules relating to following team protocol and [...]
Former welterweight titleholder Antonio Margarito and his trainer Javier Capetillo had their licenses suspended Wednesday by the California State Athletic Commission while the commission investigates a plaster-like substance found under the Margarito’s hand wraps before the boxer’s loss to Shane Mosley last weekend. Despite Margarito’s apparent heavy-handedness, Mosley punished Margarito before scoring a TKO [...]
According to a study by the nonprofit group Common Sense Media, half of the commercial breaks during NFL telecasts show at least one advertisement featuring sex, drugs, alcohol or violence, which only confirms that you don’t have to leave your living room to get the experience of being at an NFL game.
I mean seriously Common [...]
Maryland freshman Jin Soo Kim, the first Korean to earn an NCAA Division I scholarship, has been deemed academically ineligible and was not with the team for Tuesday night’s game against Boston College. Dark Side isn’t sure what classes Jin Soo failed, but for his sake, we’re hoping Math wasn’t one of them. What? Why [...]
Everardo Daniel Ordonez, former first basemen for the Guadalupe, Mexico Linda Vista team that won the 1997 Little League World Series, has been accused of helping kidnap an 18-year-old who was freed in exchange for a BMW and $300,000 in ransom. Dark Side always find it tough to watch the downward spiral that inevitably comes [...]
An Atlanta judge has ordered the arrest of nine-year NBA veteran Jason Caffey for his failure to obey a court order that he pay more than $200,000 in overdue child support and legal fees to Lorunda Brown, the mother of Caffey’s six-year-old son, and her attorney.
For more: ESPN