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"Choking"
Hockey Dad Banned From Games for Five Years - The Greater Toronto Hockey
League has decided to ban Bradley Desrocher, the man charged with assaulting the
coach of his nine-year-old's minor hockey coach, from attending games for five
years. This is the longest suspension ever given out by the league. Desrocher
allegedly reached over the glass during a recent game and choked the coach until
he momentarily blacked out. What caused such anger? Apparently Desrocher's son
had missed a practice and was required by team rules to sit out several line
shifts. (Pictured at right is Mr. Desrocher leaving a Toronto courtroom with a
sense of humor, doing his best imitation of Mort,
from the Bazooka Joe comics.)
HS Hazing Horror: Family
Sues School Board, Baseball Coach After Son Gets Jaw Broken Resisting Hazing
- Now, we're not ones to give advice on how a high school hazing should go, but
making someone stand naked in a parking lot at night with car headlights turned
on them? Where's the fun in that? Apparently, that's what the parents of a
younger player on the Fort Pierce Westwood High baseball team must be thinking
because they're suing the St. Lucie County School Board and Coach Richard
Costello, claiming the coach condoned the hazing. According to the school
district's report on the incident, a hazing ritual took place after a Feb. 16
baseball game when Costello left the players in the parking lot of the high
school and older players allegedly made two younger players remove their clothes
and stand in front of a car's headlights. When one player resisted, a fight
broke out and his jaw was broken, according to the report. That report cleared
Coach Costello. (Link requires registration.)
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Hockey
League Suspends "Giant" Player 25 Games for Punching Referee -
The United Hockey League has suspended Mike Wolf, who plays for the Flint
Generals, 25 games for assaulting a referee during a Jan. 12 game against the
Port Huron Beacons. According to the league, Wolf, who stands 6-foot-5, and
weighs 275-pounds, punched referee Steve Marofsky after a scrum with an opposing
player. The Generals right winger has amassed 49 penalty minutes through
only 10 games this season, with no goals or assists. The ban is the longest in
modern Flint Generals history.
#10! Youth
Hockey Coach Accused of Having Child Porn Dumps Computer in Reservoir
Get
Rid of Cheerleaders? Columnist Slams CBS for Five Second Shot of NFL
Cheerleader's Hinder During Game - Rabbi Smuley Boteach goes on to say,
"CBS, one of the main networks that airs football games, has a network
rejoin they often use as they come back to a game after a commercial break.
Amazingly, it does not show a football player. Instead, it shows cutaway shots
of cheerleaders, with a few pictures of these overly made-up dolls jumping up
and down, and then one shot – I kid you not – of a woman's behind. A
five-second close up of a woman's rear end – that is a commercial for
football? The connection? Must be esoteric because I am not sure how the one
illustrates the other."
O.J.'s
Daughter Arrested for Brawl at HS Basketball Game - We're not quite sure
why Sydney Simpson was at a HS basketball game in Florida when she attends
college in Boston, but that didn't stop police from arresting O.J.'s oldest
child. According to police, Sydney refused to stop yelling at officers who had
been called because of a fight outside a basketball game at old prep school,
Ransom Everglades School. The trouble started after a boys' varsity basketball
game against Gulliver Prep, when Simpson yelled profanities at cops, and
according to the report slapped an officers hand when he tried to take her into
custody. Two girls also claimed that Sydney punched them in the face during the
brawl, but refused to press charges. (Thanks to Jason Miller for the link!)
Vikings
Family Members Taunted by Philly Fans - Minnesota quarterback
Daunte Culpepper was fuming about the way d his wife was treated in the stands
during last weekend's NFL playoff game against the Philadelphia Eagles.
"You can boo, you can have fun with it, but when it comes to the point
where you're throwing stuff and spitting on people, it's disrespectful,"
Culpepper said. "That's how people really get hurt. Lord knows, if I
would've been up there, somebody definitely would've gotten hurt." (Thanks
to Kurt Crowley at KACSports.com for the
link!)
BadJocks Update: Dance
Team Banned Because Floor "Too Cluttered" - New details about
the story regarding the University of South Carolina dance team known as the
Coquettes: apparently it was all a misunderstanding. Instead of being banned
from dancing during timeouts because their moves or uniforms were too
suggestive, officials now say it's a matter of clutter. Coquettes coach Michele
Fields claims the ban is about balancing the entertainment at the basketball
games, "They felt like there were too many people out of the floor at one
time and there was too much commotion. It didn't need to all be there at
once." Yep. When your basketball team sucks you want to make sure
there's nothing on the floor to distract the fans. That makes sense.
Heart-Breaking
BadJocks News: South
Carolina Dance Team Told Not to Perform 'Cause Moves are "Too
Suggestive!" - Fans at the Gamecocks basketball games look forward
to performances by the school's dance team the Coquettes (picture, right). But
that thrill may be gone after the dance team was prohibited from performing
during timeouts in Saturday's USC men's basketball game at the request of an unknown
official from the school's athletics department. According to Coquettes
captain Erin Widdle, "The cheerleading coach came to us and said . . . that
we were not to do any dancing during timeouts because our dances in the past
have been too suggestive." Interestingly, the Coquettes are NOT actually
part of the athletic department, but administrators feel like they are doing
them a kindness in allowing the girls to perform at all. (Link requires
registration: use the email address bugmenot@bugmenot.com
to access.)
Click here for a gallery of pictures from this year's squad.
(Thanks to Fark.com for the link!)
LET THEM DANCE! LET THEM DANCE! LET THEM DANCE!
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Mike Piazza's Getting Married? To a Playboy Playmate?
Really? What's the Punch Line to That Joke? - You heard it hear first folks
(actually, we got the story from the NY
Post, but you never read that rag so we might as well take the credit): The
Mets catcher is set to tie the knot with longtime girlfriend, "Baywatch"
babe and former Playmate Alicia Rickter, in Miami in late January. (If you want
to see a picture of Ms. Rickter from her Playboy days, visit the website of our
friends Karlson and McKenzie at WPDH. Warning: Their entire website is Not
Safe For Work . . . but it is funny as hell.)
Wrestler
Chyna Asked to Leave Strip Club After Taking Her Clothes Off - Joanie
Laurer, aka formerly Chyna of the WWE, seems to like taking her clothes off in
public lately: Last week she kept "popping out" of her dress on the
Howard Stern Show so he asked her to just take it all off. Then he asked her to
put it back on. Now comes word that Chyna Doll and her new boyfriend
Marcus Schenkenberg were at the Scores strip club in New York when she
jumped on stage and not only took off her top, but her bottom as well. Clear
thinking management asked her to leave before patrons started getting ill. The
NY Post also reports that earlier that same day, Chyna jumped buck-naked into
the fish tank at Coral Room as Schenkenberg filmed her with a video phone. (At
right, a fairly recent photo of Chyna Doll.)
BadJocks Update: Barret
Robbins Hiding in Women's Bathroom Before Police Shooting - Former
Oakland Raiders center Barret Robbins was arrested earlier this week in Miami
Beach, Fla., after being shot during a struggle with a police officer
investigating a burglary at a fitness club. Barret is best known for
disappearing the night before the 2003 Super Bowl. On Saturday, police
responding to a burglary call found an agitated Robbins hiding in a women's
bathroom in the building. Two plainclothes officers managed to coax the former
Raiders All-Pro offensive guard out of the bathroom, but Barret was startled
when he saw a uniformed officer and reached for his gun and was shot twice. Prosecutors
are expected to file formal charges of battery on an officer and trespassing
against the him.
#9! Neal Byron
Lenarcic, 31, a
former girl's soccer coach at at Blue Valley North High School was charged with
possessing sexually explicit pictures of three pupils. He's accused of giving a
camera to three girls in his elementary school class and asked them take
photos of one another's private parts for him.
#8! HS Girl Accuses Coach of Trying to Fondle Her During Bus Trip - Kevin
English has been fired head wrestling coach Hammond High School in Indiana was
fired after a freshman girl claimed he attempted to fondle
her while on a team bus trip to Twin Lakes High School in Monticello.
(Thanks to Artie Bigley for the link!)
Choking Epidemic in Sports and We're Not Talking About Peyton
Manning!
Assistant
Coach Chokes 18-Year-Old Ref After Close 5th Grade B-Ball Game
- Chad Shepherd, a HS senior from Akron, Ohio says after four years of being a
referee for the local Catholic Youth Organization league he's used to parents
yelling at him and disagreeing with calls, but never expected to be attacked.
After a close game between St. Barnabas and Holy Name over the weekend, Craig
Glascott, 42, an assistant coach for the St. B's fifth grade team, followed
Shepherd out to the parking lot and, after exchanging words, reached into the
car and allegedly started choking him. Said Shepherd, "I was scared to
death. When he grabbed my neck I choked out and could not get my breath for half
a minute." Glascott, who was charged with assault and menacing, also
reportedly threatened to kill the young ref before his wife was able to pull him
away. (Thanks to John Maczko for the tip!)
Dad Chokes Coach at Canadian Youth Hockey Game - Like
most youth hockey coaches, Mark Teskey of the Jr. Canadiens minor atom league
has a rule that if you miss a practice you sit out several line shifts during
the next game. You still get to play, just not every shift. Apparently that
wasn't good enough for the father of one of Teskey's 9-year-old players and
during a game over the weekend, the man reached over the glass and choked the
coach so hard he dropped to his knees. Other parents wrestled the man away and
the dedicated coach kept going so as not to upset his young team. Said John
Gardner, president of the Greater Toronto Hockey League, "I am sick of this
stuff. I was told by the referee that he has never seen anything quite like
this." (Thanks to Keith Burkhardt for the
link!)
Update: Campaign
by Canadian Youth Hockey to Get Parents to Calm Down Doesn't Appear to Be
Working, Eh? After a spat of escalating violence at kids hockey games in
2002, Hockey Canada launched a mass media campaign encouraging parents to take a
hard look at their behavior while at the rink. The campaign -- known as Relax,
It's Just a Game -- included TV commercials depicted kids getting furious
with their parents in absurd situations, such as a girl berating her mother for
not attacking another mom after the two bumped carts in a grocery store.
Despite these educational 
efforts,
some Canadian parents don't seem to be getting the message. Another one
has a dad getting pulled over by a cop and his kid berating the officer from the
back seat for making a "bad call." And yet another finds a nervous dad
standing over a putt at the golf course as his son coaches and pressures him. In
the end, the father misses and says he's sorry. the kid responds "Well,
sorry doesn't cut it." Watch
all the commercials for yourself here. There are also some great posters,
including a picture of kid with a stopwatch and clipboard standing outside an
open bathroom door as
his father sits on the toilet. (Click on image for larger view) And this
stuff didn't work?
HS Basket-Brawl Madness
We have a number of stories today involving brawls
and/or arrests at high school basketball games. Is this the result of the
positive influence the NBA has had on the game at all levels? Or are parents and
fans just getting too liquored up at the games anymore to stay out of trouble?
- Woman
Screams "You Want Some of This?" as She Pounds Teen With Water Bottles
After Girls HS B-Ball Game - A hard fought over-time girls basketball
game on Long Island should have ended in hugs and handshakes. Instead, school
officials and police are reviewing videotape and questioning witnesses in the
wake of a brawl that erupted after the North Babylon vs. Bay Shore fame last
week. According to reports the melee broke out in the hallway next to the gym
after the visiting Bay Shore team defeated North Babylon 67-64 in overtime.
There were numerous skirmishes involving players, fans, coaches and parents, but
one North Babylon freshman claims she was repeatedly hit on the head with a
water bottle by a woman and kicked in the knee. Said the young victim, "The
woman kept hitting me in the head with the bottle and screaming in my face
asking me if I want some of this. I'm very angry that a bunch of adults would
hit a bunch of kids. She's lucky my mother wasn't here."
- Girls Start Brawl at HS Basketball Games, Cop Injured During Fight
- Usually it's hormonally charged young males who start fights . . . but apparently
not in Iowa. Four high school students--including two teenaged
girls--were arrested following what Des Moines police describe as a
"melee" after the Roosevelt-Hoover basketball game Friday night.
According to police, the brawl started with a fight between two female students
from Roosevelt High School, and quickly escalated into a brawl. Police responded
with a large number of squad cars, and had to draw nightsticks to calm down the
crowd. One police officer was struck and has a black eye and a possible broken
nose. Four people were arrested. Those arrested face a variety of charges,
including interference with official acts, unlawful assembly, disorderly
conduct, and escape from custody.
- Riddick Bowe, Jr. Arrested For Bringing Gun to HS Basketball Game
- Police arrested Riddick Lamont Bowe
Jr. (the 18-year-old son of former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe, Sr.)
Friday night for bringing a concealed weapon West Charlotte High School during a
basketball game. According to the police report, an off-duty officer discovered
the gun in a car. Although not a student at the school, Bowe
still faces charges for having a weapon on school grounds, carrying a concealed
weapon and possessing a weapon of mass destruction.
Abusive
Fan: Mobile Phone Thrown at UK Soccer Star After He Scores Goal - I'm
not sure what this drunken soccer fan hoped to accomplish but he obviously got
the attention of British police. According to their report, after young phenom
Wayne Rooney scored for Manchester United against Liverpool, a fan in the stands
tossed his mobile phone onto the field in the general direction of Rooney.
According to police, while no one has been arrested yet, the assailant's method
of attack had a familiar "ring" to it. (Sorry, couldn't resist that
bad pun.)
BadJocks Update: Coach
in Sex Scandal #113 for 2004 Pleads Guilty, Gets 11 Years in Prison -
Damian Barker, the former coach for the girls track team at Jefferson High
School was sentenced to 11 years in prison last week under a plea bargain.
Barker was accused of secretly photographing a number of girls from his teams or
seducing them to pose nude. Original
story from May, 2004 here. (Thanks to Artie Bigley for the link.)
Breaking
BadJocks News: Olympic
Gold Medalist Caught in Parked Car Having Sex With Teen - Angelo Taylor,
26, a two-time Olympic gold medalist has been arrested after cops allegedly found him having sex
in a parked car with a 15-year-old girl. Taylor, who won gold medals in the 400-meter hurdles and 4x400 relay events at the 2000 Sydney
Games, was charged with one count each of child molestation and enticing a child for indecent purposes.
(Thanks to Brian E. Carroll for the link!) At right, Angelo Taylor's mug shot.
Caught
on Tape: Naked
Man Wanders Locker Room During Girl's Athletic Events - Maybe he just
spilled something on his pants and was looking for a washing machine . . .
twice? Okay, maybe not, but police in Naperville, Illinois are still looking for
a man who streaked through the halls of a Neuqua Valley High School twice in two
months. In December parents at a girl's basketball game reportedly saw him
walking naked in a hallway. Not doing anything, mind you, just walking
naked. Then, just this past Sunday morning, during a swim meet, a parent
found the same guy (believed to be in his 30s) standing naked in the girls'
locker room. Unfortunately he took off before police arrived. At left is a
still image of the man (with clothes on) caught by a surveillance camera at the
school. Any BadJocks readers know this guy?
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