HS Gym Teacher Arrested for Killing Guy on First Day on the Job - Actually, Paul Buboltz was working as a bouncer in a bar in Minnesota last spring when an altercation between him and another man escalated and the other man eventually died. Police investigated and waiting until Buboltz had started his new job as a physical education teacher at Palo Verde High School in Las Vegas. Since he had not been arrested prior to his hiring, nothing showed up when the school system did a background check on the man. (KVBC)

"Cup Check" Coach Update - You remember the "cup check" coach from earlier this summer, don't you? Former youth baseball coach Dennis Ray Richens was accused of inappropriately touching three players while doing what they described as a mandatory "cup check" to make sure they were wearing athletic supporters. Well, this week Richens pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual battery. (KUTV)

#135! Alvin Perez Taylor, a former Talladega County Central High School teacher and head basketball coach was indicted this week by a grand jury on one count each of sexual abuse in the first degree and rape in the first degree. (Daily Home)

Yer Outta Here! Indianapolis Colts linebacker Kendyll Pope has been suspended for the season by the NFL for violating the league's substance abuse policy. (AZ Central)

Arena League Football Coach Caught Snorting Coke Behind Strip Mall - Sounds like an episode of COPs, doesn't it? Police saw a man standing next to a Land Rover behind a Mesa, Arizona business at 1 am Tuesday morning and became suspicious. When cops approached the man, he first told them he was there because he was checking on a business he owned in the mall. Then, when cops found a small bag with some white powder in it on him, he said he had found it in the parking lot. After further questioning the man, who turned out to be Arizona Rattlers head coach Todd Shell, he allegedly admitted to snorting the coke, then turned and looked toward some trees nearby. Asked what he was looking at, Shell reportedly told officers he saw a "guy wearing camouflage is in the tree." Officers checked the area and--surprise--found no one else. Shell, who played college football for BYU and was on several of the San Francisco 49ers championship teams, now faces possible drug charges. (AZ Central) Thanks to Allen Chapa for the link!

Teens Caught Recklessly Driving Golf Carts at 4:20 in the Morning, Alcohol & Weed May Have Been Involved

Coaches Sue to Get Jobs Back After Being Suspended for Not Having Naked Pictures of HS Cheerleaders - Earlier this summer, rumors that nude pictures were taken of cheerleaders from Cedartown High School in Georgia caused an uproar at the school. The pictures were allegedly taken of cheerleaders while on a summer retreat that took place on June 17 at Weiss Lake in Alabama. Once word of them got out, both coaches, Amber Fuqua and Rhonda Lindsey, were suspended and a hearing on September 8 is expected to decide if they will also get fired as special education teachers from the school system as well. But because the photos themselves have never actually surfaced, the pair claim the are being railroaded into leaving and have filed a lawsuit against the school. Stay tuned. (Rome News-Tribune)

#134! Coach Accused of Exchanging Child Porn Over Internet - This guy was just named head coach at South Salem High School after 11 years as an assistant coach. (Oregon Live)

Is David Wells Threatening MLB Commission Bud Selig? There is no love lost between feisty Red Sox pitcher David Wells and the Commissioner of baseball, Bud Selig. In an interview this spring, Wells called Selig an "idiot," accused him of trying to break the players association, and said he wasn't qualified to be commissioner. But that was before Wells was suspended for six games for inappropriate conduct and making contact with two umpires during an altercation July 2. Now, after his appeal of that suspension was upheld by a Selig underling, Wells is hoping the two meet up at the end of the season, possibly after another Bosox victory, adding, "I can't wait to win the World Series and have Bud Selig come up to me. I really can't. Who knows what will come out then? I hope we do go there and he comes in and presents it. I know one thing, he'll shy away from me." Does that sound like a threat to anyone else? Should he be suspended for making that remark? (Hartford Courant)

#133! HS Soccer Coach Hosts End-of-Season Party for Girls Team Which Features Strip Poker, Streaking: Allegedly Gets Four of Them Drunk, Scores With Three - With a .750% batting average, you would think Jeff van Gastel, 34, would be a happy man, but instead we find him resigning as president of the De Anza Force, an elite soccer team for high school aged girls in the San Jose, California area. According to police reports, Van Gastel held  an end-of-season party at his parent's home on June 7, 2005, and allegedly provided alcohol to four 18-year-old players and then had sex with three of them. Because the girls are "of age" to consent to sex, authorities will not file charges against him for that, but van Gastel does face four misdemeanor counts of providing alcohol to people under 21. (The police investigation began when two of the girls wanted to press rape charges.) According to the police report, the party really got started when several girls started playing a game of strip poker, which was followed-not surprisingly--by streaking though the neighborhood, which was then followed by the sex. The two who wanted to press charges also told police that van Gastel "possibly spiked the margaritas with a drug to get them in the state they were in." Police found no evidence the drinks were spiked or that the sex was anything but consensual. Van Gastek will also probably be asked to resign from his new job at Menlo College, where he had recently started working as the assistant women's soccer coach. (KESQ) (Thanks to Our Good Friend for another great link!)

#132! John Craco, 26, an assistant softball coach at Arvada West High School in Colorado was arrested and charged with having sex with a female student and providing alcohol to several others. (CBS 4 Denver)

Football Coach Accused of Stomping on Head of Opposing Fan - Mark Thomas, a youth football league coach with a lengthy criminal record, was arrested over the weekend after he allegedly beat up a 16-year-old boy. According to police, the victim and Thomas' 9-year-old son got into a shoving match at a football game for the San Joaquin Junior Rams. The teenager was a fan of the opposing team and when Thomas stepped in he allegedly punch the boy, knocking him unconscious to the ground. Them according to witnesses, Thomas also stomped on the teen's head when he was down on the ground. After his arrest, police discovered that Coach Thomas had a lengthy criminal background including an arrest on charges of attempted murder, assault, a 2002 conviction for assault with a deadly weapon, AND in 2004, he was arrested on charges of possession of a firearm. Why the team was not aware of this background remains a mystery. (KCRA)

Cheerleaders Sent Home for Wearing Skorts to Skool - The annual debate about what cheerleaders can wear took another strange twist at Ingram Tom Moore High School, in Texas. Ten cheerleaders were sent home under threat of detention by Principal Pamela Morris because the the girls wore practice uniforms to school last week to support the JV football team before their game Thursday after school. The "uniform" wasn't even the usual hot high school cheerleader outfit with the short skirt and tight sweater, but consisted of a skort and a t-shirt. (A skort is a combination of a skirt and shorts for those of you who didn't know.) Apparently, under the new district dress code neither the short skorts or the t-shirts are acceptable forms of dress, even though the cheerleading coach told the girls to wear them to school. Said one upset part, “They are not anything I’d have a problem with them wearing to a Sunday school picnic. The problem I have is with the school reprimanding a child for a uniform that they were told to wear.” (Kerrville Daily Times)

Welcome Back Otis! Dwight Gooden Turns Himself In to Police - Like Otis, the town drunk from the old "Andy Griffith Show," former Mets star pitcher Dwight Gooden showed up back at the jail and let himself into his regular cell, much to the delight of the local authorities. The loveable Gooden, wanted by police after driving off 3 1/2 days ago during a DUI stop, finally came to his senses and turned himself in to Tampa, Florida authorities on Thursday. He'll be arraigned this morning and Aunt Bee will be by at lunch time with some of her famous fried chicken. (St. Petersburg Times)

Japanese HS Baseball Scandal - According to the father of one of the players on the Komadai Tomakomai High School baseball team, the 27-year-old coach beat his son on several occasions over the summer, but that the school waited until AFTER the team won the national high school title before investigating the incidents. This has become a huge scandal in Japan where officials at the school are now being investigated for their failure to follow-up on complaints earlier this summer from the boy who claims to have been hit "30 to 40 times" by the coach. For his part, the coach admits he may have struck the boy 3 or 4 times but in a playful, loving manner. Komadai Tomakomai, which became the first school in 57 years to win a second straight title, could forfeit the championship if the high school baseball federation rules that it tried to cover up the abuse. (MSN - Mainichi Times)

Teenagers Can't Find Golf Course, Use Major Street as Driving Range - Three teenaged boys in Lancaster, NY are in trouble with the law after they decided to whacking golf balls at cars late at night in suburban Buffalo. According to police, the teens hit balls into Walden Avenue traffic and beyond into a business parking lot about one o'clock in the morning. As has happens frequently these days, the boys made it easier for the cops by videotaping their exploits. (WSTM)