Gainesville, Georgia "Track Coach of the Year" Arrested for Online Sex Chat With Fake Teen Girl - Once again, a member of the HS coaching ranks has fallen victim to the 14-year-old girl who's really a 40-year-old fat cop " scam." Shannon Dell Mandeville, 34, who used to be the track and assistant football coach at Flowery Branch High School, is charged with three felony counts of violation of the computer electronic pornography and child exploitation prevention act and one felony count of obscene Internet contact with a minor. The local sheriff says Mandeville had computer contact with an undercover investigator who posed as a 14-year-old girl in an Internet chat room. (Gainesville Times)

Volunteer Wrestling Coach Pleads Guilty to Having Sex With Three 15-Year-Old Girls - Not at the same time, of course. At least we don't think so, although it is kind of hard to tell from the story. At the very least we know that Richard Cea, 27, who used to teach at New Milford High School, was originally accused of having relations multiple time with three different 15-year-old girls over a period of less than two years between August 2003 and June 2005. Cea, who will be sentence on October 26, now faces between three and six years in prison. (New Times Online) Thanks to Artie Bigley for the link!

Painful Sports Picture of the Week . . . Maybe the Entire Year? - You may never see anything as frightening as the picture by Christian Abraham of the Connecticut Post. (Then again, you never know with profession sports!) This image is from a Tuesday night game where former major leaguer Jose " Hello to My Little Friend" Offerman charged the mound with a baseball bat after getting hit with a pitch during a game between his visiting Long Island Ducks and the Bridgeport Bluefish. In the process, Offerman--who had homered during his first at-bat--managed to make contact with both the pitcher AND the catcher, breaking a bone in Matt Beech's non-pitching hand, but giving John Nathans a concussion with a blow to the head. Not only did he get tossed from the game, Offerman was also charged with two counts of second-degree assault and posted a $10,000 bond, but is due in court August 23. (San Jose Mercury News)

Hot Cheerleading Coach Charged With Sex Crime - How often do we report on a female cheerleading coach caught having sex with a MALE cheerleader? Not very often, I can tell you, but that is what cops are saying happened between Tammie Fleming, 37, and a 17-year-old student she allegedly taught at the Dominion Cheer and Tumble in Virginia. Not many details are available at this time, but Fleming has charged with taking indecent liberties with a minor but is out on bond. (NBC12)

Texas HS Cheerleading Flap Continues - They take their high school football and cheerleading seriously in Texas. To the point that sometimes simple matters can practically tear a school apart. From what we can gather about this story, it basically involves Ashley Hansen, a sophomore at Ball High School in Galveston who only wanted to try out for the junior varsity cheerleading squad at the school. She made the squad, but then was injured over the summer and while her parents looked for a way to get her back on the sidelines, the found out something interesting: in her tryout last spring, Ashley had scored an 89, more than enough to be named to the VARSITY cheerleader squad. So why wasn't she given a spot there? According to the school, those spots are just naturally reserved for juniors and seniors. Duh! Nothing in the cheer rules about that, it's just how things have always been. But now other parents are calling into question the try out procedures and the whole thing has become quite a mess for Ball High. (Galveston Daily News)

Hazing Update: U of Maine Biacth Slaps Women's Softball Team Over Online Pics of Initiation - The University of Maine softball team has been placed on probation for three years and will delay the start of the 2008 season by one week for violating school policies that prohibit hazing. This comes after a website found--and posted--some pictures taken at the team's past two rookie initiations. Just like our Dirty Dozen last year, the pics were available for anyone to see online, which makes you wonder if these kids are paying attention at all, or if they just think they won't get caught? (USA Today)

HS Football Coach Gets Year in Prison for Affair With Female Student Manager, 17 - Not an unusual story for regular BadJocks readers, but I do love the opening line of the story from Rene Stutzman in The Orlando Sentinel:
Former Lake Howell High School football coach Edward Vincent Norton said he had fallen in love. The 41-year-old bought his sweetheart flowers and an engagement ring. The couple picked out names for the children they hoped to have. But this romance had one problem: Norton's lover was a 17-year-old girl, a student manager on his football team. Each time they had sex, he was committing a felony.
Despite the pleas of some strong character witnesses and the victim herself, the judge sentenced Norton to a year in the county jail, followed by a year of house arrest and then five years of probation. (Thanks to Bob for the link!)

Is Friday the End of the Line for Michael Vick? - Sounds like August 17 will be a pivotal day for Falcons quarterback: sources say that by Friday Vick will have to decide whether to plead guilty to several dogfighting-related charges (like all of his co-defendants appear to have done) or stand alone at trial and face a new, superseding indictment that contains two additional charges . . . and likely additional gory details of animal abuse. Obviously, if he pleads the Feds will likely go easier on him . . . but what about the fans who've supported him these past few months? The ones who claim this is just another case of a "rush to judgment" like the Duke lacrosse case? And more importantly, will he ever play another down in the NFL? You're on the clock Michael. (USA Today)
UPDATE: NFL Denies Rumor That Vick Will be Suspended for Season - At this point, they can just wait another week and let the courts work this out for them.

Michael Vick Update: Source Claims NFL Will Suspend Falcons QB for Entire 2007 Season - According to Jason Cole, a columnist for Yahoo Sports, sources within the NFL are telling him that commissioner Roger Goodell will announce this week or that Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick will be suspended for the entire 2007 season. Why now? Looks like the league has seen enough evidence to make them think that Vick will not win in court. Again, according to the sources, "Given what everybody has seen from what (league) security found and what the feds are telling us, there's really no choice." (Yahoo Sports)

Video Clip of the Week From CourtTV: Road Rage Diva Doesn't Take Jail Well, Screams "There's a Bullet in My Jaguar!"

Bill's Hargrove Suspended 4 Games for Violating Substance Abuse Police, Team Considers Releasing Him - In more good news for the NFL, defensive end Anthony Hargrove will sit out the first four regular-season games without pay for violating the league's substance-abuse policy. Bills coach Dick Jauron indicated that the team might be looking for a veteran defensive lineman to join the team since they were already a little thin in that area before Hargrove got in trouble. He was also in trouble last week with the cops after a confrontation with officers outside a Rochester, N.Y., night club in the early morning of Aug. 5. (Cleveland.com) At the rate the NFL has suspended players and watching them get arrested off the field, will there be anyone left to play in the Super Bowl?

Club Soccer Coach Accused of Texting 13-Year-Old For S-E-X, Gets B-U-S-T-E-D - Just like you never know who you're exchanging instant messages with, now coaches who like underage girls will have to worry about who they're sending text messages to. Benjamin Evans, 23, allegedly met a 13-year-old girl at a summer soccer camp he was coaching earlier this month. According to police, Evans began text messaging the girl on Aug. 2, and said during their conversation that he might pay her for sexual favors. By August 6 the girl's mother found out about the naughty text messages and called police who used the girl's phone to arrange to meet Evans last Tuesday night after a text exchange during which he asked if she wanted to perform oral sex on him and then told her how to do it. Always the coach! When caught, police say, Evans admitted to the sexual conversation and now stands charged with criminal solicitation, corruption of minors and unlawful communication with a minor. (Philly Burbs)

PacMan Jones: I've Only Been Arrested Twice, Not Six Times That Those Notoriously Inaccurate Police Records in Tennessee, Georgia and Nevada Show - Yeah, right. (Sports Illustrated)

Entire Adult Soccer Team Arrested for Soliciting Prostitute During Road Trip - Okay, maybe it wasn't the ENTIRE team, but looks like it was most of it. According to police, eight members of the Half Moon Bay adult soccer team from California were in Springfield Oregon for a tournament when they decided they needed something to help them relax. At that point, according to cops, the players approached an undercover female officer and offered her money for sex. All 8 now face misdemeanor prostitution charges in Oregon and likely missed the rest of the tournament. (KESQ)

Coach Sentenced to 12 1/2 Years in Prison for Sex With HS Cheerleader, 15 - Well, at least he got a three way out of it with her and one of her friends. Marcus Grocesley, 22 a former volunteer track coach at Joliet Township High School will spend 12½ years in prison for having sex with a 15-year-old cheerleader. Worst of all, according to sentencing guidelines, Grocesley must serve 85 percent of his sentence register for life as a sex offender. According to the victim, the pair had their first sexual encounter after a December 2005 basketball game. According to the victim's testimony, she disabled the alarm on her parent's home to allow Grocesley into her bedroom. After that, she claims their sexual relationship continued through February 2006 and revealed that Grocesley also had sex with her in his car and at his friend's house. And, on at least one occasion, one of the girl's friends joined the two for a sexual encounter. (Suburban Chicago News)

HAZING UPDATE: Dean Pleads Not Guilty to Aggravated Hazing Charges
Precedent Set After Frat Hazing: Two Administrators at Rider University Indicted by Grand Jury on Aggravated Hazing Charges After Pledge Passes Away From Alcohol Poisoning - No, this hazing wasn't sports-related, but it does sent an interesting legal precedent that should make athletic directors at colleges everywhere sit up and take notice: Dean of Students Anthony Campbell, 51, and university Director of Greek Life Ada Badgley, 30--along with three members of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity--now face aggravated hazing charges which is a felony in New Jersey and carries the potential for jail time. How unusual is it for employees of the university, who weren't anywhere near the frat house when this incident took place, to be charged? G. Robert Wills, a Princeton lawyer who often defends educators in criminal cases says, ". . . in my 25 years of practicing criminal law, I've never heard of a case where an administrator who did not actually participate in a hazing was charged criminally." County Prosecutor Joseph L. Bocchini Jr., says the indictment by the grand jury sends a "clear message that there is culpability involved in the ingestion of alcoholic beverages on college campuses. Rider University is involved in this today, but it could have been any college or university across the United States." 
"I think the prosecution is going to have a difficult time showing the requisite criminal intent," said Princeton attorney Wills. "But they may be able to show such gross negligence it amounted to reckless indifference." Still think you can ignore the jock "initiations" out there Mr. and Mrs. Athletic Director? You're next! (NJ.com)

Sports Video of the Week: Dario Franchitti Flips and Crashes at 2007 IRL Michigan International Speedway - Plus: a father attacks his son's killer in the courtroom and Jim Cramer melts down on TV. Watch them all at You Gotta See This Video!