Michael Vick Update: Co-Defendant Pleads Guilty (Not Good) and Claims Falcons QB Financed Entire Dog Fighting Operation (Really Not Good) 

Indiana University Tight End Arrested for . . . Hitting Off-Duty Cop With a Water Balloon? - Certainly we have seen more heinous crimes here at BadJocks, but how stupid do you have to be to throw a water balloon out our a moving vehicle and into the open window of another car where an off-duty cop sits--in uniform? Blake Powers, 22, was booked Monday night on a preliminary misdemeanor charge of battery. (WANE)

Parents Want Cheerleading Coach Fired Because Other Girls Weren't Nice to Junior High Daughter - Would it shock you to find out this happened in Texas? I'll try to make this long story short: Ryan Johnson was on the Red Oak Junior High cheerleading squad. She claims the other girls weren't nice to her, even purposely avoiding touch her. Why? No one seems to know. One girl on the squad was allegedly kicked off the team when she wrote something bad about Ryan online, but then later was reinstated after everyone thought Ryan may have set her up and wrote all those bad things herself. In the midst of all this, the squad's faculty sponsor altered a contract to get the ousted girl back on the squad. Now Ryan's parents want that teacher fired because she was "showing favoritism and for not taking care of the problem sooner." Yeah, how are those grades Ryan? (NBC5)

Michael Vick Speaks! - Not to us, of course, but to an Atlanta area radio station, V-103, with a female host who has clearly been told not to ask anything about the case. So what does he have to talk about? How much he misses not being in training camp this week and apologizes for the problems he's causing the team. And will he be back in uniform soon? Vick doesn't seem real confident in that for a man who just plead not guilty to all those dogfighting charges. Listen here

HS Ag Teacher Accused of Sexually Assaulting Girl at . . . Future Farmers of America Event? - Plus: another American Idol contestant is arrested on drug charges. You know, the guy who said he did it with Paula Abdul. No, not that one, the other one who looked like Sideshow Bob. Details and more stories of stupidity at Bob Reno's DumbassDaily.com.

Maine Softball Hazing Accusations Update:
UM - We're Shocked by These Photos!
Website - Uh, We Sent You Pics Last Year From the '05 Party
UM - Oh, Those. We Looked at Them, Didn't Think They Were Hazing & Didn't Say Anything to the Team. Oops!
- Controversy continues to swirl around the University of Maine's softball program as new information comes out that maybe, just maybe, the school should have done more to prevent the most recent party. The guys at NCAAHazing.com claim they sent the school similar pics last year of the 2005 team party and got no response. So, when they found some pics this year from the 2006 party, the went straight to the local media and now the University of Maine finds themselves with some 'splainin' to do! (Press Herald)

Coach Who Married HS Girl Update: Parents Sue Second School District - Remember coach Brenton Wuchae who married 16-year-old Windy Hager after resigning his job with at South Brunswick High School? Well, it turns out Windy's parents--who did sign a consent form for the two to marry because they couldn't keep the love birds apart--are suing a second school district for not protecting their daughter. Yep, they already sued South Brunswick (asking for $20,000), now they're going after Wuchae's previous employer, the Guilford County School Board for failing to alert authorities that Wuchae had "inappropriate relationships with female students at Southern Guilford High School." (Fox News)

More HS Wrestling Hazing Fun - No, this is not a repeat! Just yesterday we had the story of some HS wrestlers in Texas who are in trouble for hazing freshman during a camp earlier this summer. Now comes word that a similar incident happened during a camp at Northern Illinois University. According to reports, two 14-year-old boys were attacked outside a laundry room in one of the dorms by four older athletes. According to police, the first boy had his hands bound by a belt and athletic cream rubbed on his chest, while the second boy was held down and the cream was rubbed on his chest AND genitals. All four will be charged with two counts of misdemeanor battery. (Northern Star)

Michael Vick Dogfighting Case Update: Co-Defendant Pleads Guilty - Not looking good for Mikey folks. Tony Taylor entered the plea to federal dogfighting conspiracy charges today, as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors in Virginia. If video comes out of some of these fights, it's all over boys and girls. (KXMC)

Alabama HS Football Team Profiled on MTV's "Two-A-Days" Now at Center of Controversy Involved Grade Fixing, Allegations of Naughty Coach - It's a dilemma that's been going on as long as old high school football has been played in small towns: at one point does the success of a program stop becoming a source of pride for the community and start becoming a monster that takes over the entire school? The latest example is Hoover High School in Alabama which was featured last season on MTV's reality show Two-A-Days, kind of a real life version of Friday Night Lights. How good is Hoover's program under Coach Rush Propst? In only his eighth year, the Buccaneers were playing for their 5th straight state title in 2006 and he has seen 40 of his players receive college scholarships. But like any thing that powerful, the wheels eventually seem to come off and that all started with Hoover this summer when their athletic director, Jerry Browning, resigned and warned Coach Probst that several teachers had complained about grades being fixed for football players. After that conversation became public, the school's new principal, Richard Bishop, was dismissed by the school board after he was directed "to turn a blind eye" to reports of alleged indiscretions by  Coach Propst that "could be damaging to the coach and the football program." What kind of allegations? Well, the usual stuff that he was having affairs with other school employees but also a bizarre one that he had a "secret family and a completely separate life." Strange enough for you yet? Now the principal is fighting his dismissal, saying that it was all because he wasn't able to take action against Propst who was described as "untouchable" because of the success of the program. An investigation is being launched into both the grade-fixing allegations and some suggestions of financial improprieties. Is this just sour grapes by a few folks who don't like football, or are things starting to rot at the center of a once powerful program? Stay tuned! (AL.com)

New HS Hazing Report: Wrestlers Hold Down Freshman, Kick Him in the Groin - For those of you who still don't think that American kids are getting dumber by the day, let this be exhibit A: three wrestlers from Wylie High School in Texas face out-of-school suspension (and possibly more severe punishment) for allegedly hazing underclassmen while at a college wrestling camp earlier this month. An example of one of their well-planned pranks? Several of them held one freshman down while another one kicked him in the groin. That's it! No drinking games, no fun scavenger hunt, just straight to the good stuff, a boot to the nuts. That's the best these idiots could--allegedly--come up with on short notice. And this happened AFTER their coach, Andrew Wight, reportedly caught the same kids earlier in the week duct-taping another underclassman's arms to his bed. Yeah, those long winded lectures really do the trick coach. My favorite part of this story is the quote from the ball busted victim, only identified as Josh, 14, who said, "It was pretty embarrassing when it happened. There were a lot of people around. It hurt." Genius, pure genius! (Dallas Morning News)

Reader Tries to Scam BadJocks Into Reporting Fake "Yao Ming's Little Brother Signs With Cowboys" Story - At BadJocks, we get lots of interesting email each day and if we believed half of it, we'd have $11.5 million in the bank from some stranger dying of cancer in Nigeria, we'd be cleaning up on the Wall Street with insider stock tips, and our man-part would be dragging on the ground. On the other hand, we do encourage readers to send us tips on stories, 'cause we can't be everywhere, right? So this morning comes an email with the subject line: Yao's little bro. So I thought, maybe Yai Ming's little brother got arrested or something, so I opened it and here's what it said:
What's up Bad Jock!
Check out this story I found on Yao Ming's little bro trying out for the NFL!
(link to site)
Nuts huh?
Give your ol' boy Ken a shout out.
I visited the obscure blog Ken linked to and found the following, uh, "story":