Casting a light where the sun don’t shine
Golfer John Daly was taken in custody by Winston-Salem police on Sunday morning after he was found drunk outside an area Hooters restaurant. The officers were called to the restaurant on a medical call and arrived to find Daly receiving treatment by emergency workers after having lost consciousness.
For more: ESPN
Virginia Cavaliers starting fullback RaShawn Jackson has been arrested and faces felony charges in connection with a 2007 campus burglary. University police reported on Wednesday that Jackson faces one count of breaking and entering and one count of grand larceny in connection with a dormitory break in last November.
For more: Sports Illustrated
The NFL has fined New York Giants receiver Plaxico Burress $45,000 for verbally abusing an official and tossing a ball into the stands during last weekend’s game against the San Francisco 49ers.
Burress was fined $20,000 for comments made to head linesman Phil McKinnely after the official called an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Burress in the [...]
NASCAR is expected to release the penalty information against driver Brian Vickers of Red Bull Racing on Wednesday after Vicerks’ car failed a random inspection following his 11th-place finish at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday. NASCAR tests discovered that Vickers’ No. 83 Toyota did not meet the minimum sheet metal thickness requirements. Based on previous rulings [...]
New York Red Bulls goalkeeper Jon Conway and defender Jeff Parke became the first players in the history of Major League Soccer to be suspended for using performance-enhancing drugs on Thursday.
According to the league, the two players tested positive for androstatriendione and boldenone metabolites after purchasing and using an over-the-counter nutritional supplement.
Both players have been [...]
A soccer fan has been banned indefinitely from Houston Dynamo games after directing a racial slur at D.C. United’s Liberian goalkeeper, Louis Crayton. Crayton was greeting fans, when the man approached him and shouted, “Hey, you’re a monkey, go back to the jungle.” Crayton had to be restrained by security after leaping over the barrier [...]
China’s national ping pong table tennis team will give Olympic silver medalist Wang Hao counseling after he reportedly got into a fight with a security guard trying to stop him from urinating outside a karaoke club. Dark Side’s Chinese interpreters have confirmed, however, that the Chinese word for “counseling” does not have an exact English [...]
Chris Baker and Langdon Perry, conservtive talk show hosts on Minnesota radio station KTLK accused Magic Johnson of faking AIDS on Wednesday.
The remarks came after a caller asserted that health care isn’t a basic right, to which Perry responded by asking about treatable diseases that a person can live with for a long time “if [...]
Disgraced former Olympian Tim Montgomery was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday for dealing heroin to a DEA informant in 2007 and 2008. Montgomery will begin serving the five-year sentence after his 46-month prison terms for an unrelated check-kiting conviction is completed. Montgomery’s numerous Olympic medals and world records were rescinded after Montgomery was linked [...]
The University of Wisconsin marching band has been suspended indefinitely while allegations of hazing, alcohol abuse and sexual misconduct are investigated. Which reminds us of this one time… at band camp…
No word on what the naughtiness was that led to suspension, but some past transgression, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal:
• A hazing incident in [...]