Archive for October, 2007

North Carolina suspends two football players indefinitely

North Carolina has suspended two of their football players indefinitely for violating team rules.  No details have yet been released on the suspension of cornerback Jermaine Strong, but offensive tackle Andre Barbour faces a misdemeanor charge of drug possession.  Barbour was charged with having up to a half-ounce of marijuana on his person.  Two more [...]

Three Coastal Carolina football players kicked off team, charged with armed robbery

Yikes, these are some heavy-duty boneheads. After a game on October 14, Coastal Carolina freshmen football players Rickey Johnson, Mario Tynes and Eric Brown Jr. had their car pulled over by police. That wasn’t good — the police found guns, cash, and marijuana in the car, and the three were arrested. Why [...]

Red Sox fans ordered to write essay after arrest due to celebration

This one is funny on both sides — first, as happens often in many sporting events, a lot of Boston fans got a little too crazy celebrating their team’s return to the World Series Sunday night. In fact, 26 fans got arrested for disorderly conduct as they ignored police orders and even threw rocks [...]

Rams lineman Claude Terrell arrested for assaulting wife

Well when you aren’t winning football games, I guess you go home and beat your wife. At least that’s what St. Louis Rams offensive lineman Claude Terrell did. Police responded to a disturbance call early this morning and found Terrell’s wife in a hotel room, bruised and battered. The cops then found [...]

Bonehead ref misses fair catch signal in Louisville/Connecticut game

Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese has punished a referee for a big mistake in Saturday’s game between Louisville and Connecticut. With Louisville leading 7-0, Connecticut punt returner Larry Taylor waved his hand signaling a fair catch. Subsequently, many players on Louisville’s punt unit stopped pursuit after Taylor caught the ball. But then [...]

Nuggets guard J.R. Smith suspended for 3 games

Denver Nuggets guard J.R. Smith is in trouble again. After being suspended 10 games for a fight and getting in a car crash that killed his friend (both last year), Smith was involved in an incident at a night club last October 13 where he got hit with charges of assault, disturbing the peace, [...]

General report — violation of school policy

We’ve come across several incidents in the past couple weeks where players were dismissed from the college team or suspended due to a violation of school policy.  Until we know what that violation was, which was more than likely boneheaded, we’re holding back from reporting on those incidents.  It has been pretty amazing, though, how [...]

Eagles tackle Jon Runyan injures butt on hot tub

You gotta love these freak, boneheaded injuries. Eagles right tackle Jon Runyan has a solid streak of 183 consecutive starts, but he put that streak in jeopardy after bruising his tailbone falling on the hot tub in the training room. He can’t really sit down without pain, but he and the coach still [...]

Josh Howard suspended for fight with Brad Miller

It’s only the preseason? Who cares! Let’s fight! That seemed to be the attitude of Dallas Mavericks forward Josh Howard, as he rushed across the court to deliver a forearm to the back of the neck of Kings center Brad Miller. Miller had gotten tangled up with the Mavericks’ Devin Harris [...]

Missouri forward Butterfield arrested, suspended for domestic assault

Another blow to the Missouri basketball program happened Thursday as senior forward Darryl Butterfield was suspended from the team after being arrested for domestic assault. Butterfield was arrested after a dispute with his girlfriend, where he allegedly struck her in the face. Way to be a team player, bonehead.