Casting a light where the sun don’t shine
Authorities in the South Carolina county where Michael Phelps was photographed smoking from a bong have been arresting people as they seek to make a case against the champion Olympic swimmer. Two of those arrested were renters at the house where the the naughtiness took place. They had since moved, but the reefer apparently moved [...]
The Baltimore Sun has reported that Michael Phelps will take two or three months to decide if he’s going to compete at the 2012 Summer Games in London. Phelps cited the bumpy road he’s been down since winning a record eight gold medals in the Beijing Olympics as factoring into his indecision, but Dark Side [...]
Michael Phelps lost the Kellogg company as a sponsor and was suspended from competition for three months by USA Swimming on Thursday, the latest fallout from a photo that showed him inhaling from a marijuana pipe. The sport’s national governing body also cut off its financial support to Phelps for the same three-month period, [...]
South Carolina sheriff Leon Lott says he will charge Michael Phelps with a crime if he determines the Olympic champion smoked marijuana in Richland County.
“This case is no different than any other case,” said Lott on Monday. “This one might be a lot easier since we have photographs of someone using drugs and a [...]
Michael Phelps has issued an apology after a picture taken as he inhaled from a marijuana pipe wound up in a British tabloid Sunday.
“I engaged in behavior which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment,” Phelps said in a statement released by one of his agents. “I’m 23 years old and despite the successes I’ve had [...]
A federal judge sentenced disgraced track coach Trevor Graham to a year of home confinement on Tuesday for lying to federal investigators. A jury convicted Graham of one felony count of making false statements in May after a parade of Graham’s former athletes testified that the track coach had set them up with steroids obtained [...]
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 [...]
The International Olympic Committee announced on Wednesday that it will retest all doping samples from the Beijing Games to check for traces of a new blood-boosting drug. The IOC will search for the new drug which was recently discovered during the retesting of samples from this year’s Tour de France.
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New York Football fans and Jewish groups are outraged over the prospect of the new Giants and Jets stadium being named after German insurer Allianz due to the company’s World War II Nazi ties.
Dark Side news bits and bites from the weekend.
Virginia QB violates alcohol probation
Virginia starting quarterback Peter Lalich, who has been serving a one-year probation since being arrested for underage possession of alcohol in July, is being charged for violating the terms of that probation after admitting to court officials that he has used alcohol and [...]