BadJock's Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) Ranking of Sports Drunks & Drunk Drivers

Official Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) Rankings
Sports figures arrested for drunk driving or just being drunk

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Welcome to the BadJocks BAC Rankings! How does a young college star, pulled over for his first drunk driving arrest compare to some of the all time greats? How "good" is a BAC of .25% anyway? Well, now you have a way to compare your favorite drunken athlete with others who have gone before him. Below is a list of alleged public drunks or drunk drivers from the sports world. If you are aware of any that aren't listed here please and be sure to put "BAC Rankings" in the subject line. Before you dash off that e-mail message though, we have established several guidelines to be part of this ranking; The person must be a national athlete or affiliated in some way with sports. Reported BAC levels must be able to be verified in a legitimate news source. Current website links are preferred. No minors, please. (That's under 18, even though the legal drinking age is 21.) Contestants must not have killed or seriously injured themselves, or others, in the process.
	Current Rank	Name	Sport or Affiliation	Date of Incident	Reported BAC*	Special Note
	1	Lary Sorensen (He also owns the #4 spot and is tied for the #15 spot)	Former Detroit Tigers broadcaster	February 2, 2008	0.48%	Police officers picked up Sorensen after he was found in a parked car in Roseville, Michigan. The former major league pitcher is alleged to have had a blood-alcohol level of 0.48 before he was taken to a hospital for treatment. He was then jailed for allegedly violating a probationary sentence from a previous drunken driving conviction.
	2	Carly Cross	Field Hockey Player for Frostburg State U.	December 3, 2004	0.365%	Although Cross was ticketed for underage drinking, she and several other victims claim to have been forced to drink liquor and beer as part of a "Christmas buddy" party by other upper-class members of the field hockey team during a bizarre hazing ritual.
	3	Andrew Pointon	Professional Golfer	May 7, 2002	0.36%	He's reported as having four and a half times the UK legal limit when arrested for drunk driving.
	4	Lary Sorensen	Former Detroit Tigers broadcaster	October 16, 1999	0.35%	While out on bail for this drunk driving arrest, he was pulled over again and blew a 0.24%. (See below)
	T5	Nicole Lorigan	Member of Lehigh Women's Swim Team	September 12, 2007	0.31%	Lorigan was busted along with 18 other members of the Lehigh swim team when cops busted a pre-season party at the apartment of two of her teammates. Her high BAC concerned officers and earned her a trip to the hospital.
	T5	Lary Sorensen	Former Detroit Tigers broadcaster	October 30, 2004	0.31%	His 6th drunk driving arrest and a probation violation, Lary could go to prison for this one.
	T5	Bob Probert	NHL star	July 15, 1994	0.31%	In addition to drunk driving, cops also suspect he had cocaine in his system when he wrecked his motorcycle!
	T5	JaRon Rush	Former UCLA basketball player	May 21, 2002	0.31%	With a BAC over.30, he had to taken to the hospital.
	6 - NEW!	Darren Wilkins	Head soccer coach. at Lee Middle School (Florida)	March 20, 2008	0.306%	Arrested on his way home from a soccer game, was also charged with resisting arrest.
	7	Lynn Miernicki	Curling fan	Dec. 21, 2000	0.30%	His family is suing because he fell down a flight of stairs at a curling club and claims the place should have stopped serving he before he had 20 to 25 bottles of beers!
	8	Philip Padilla	Boys basketball coach, Van Meter High School, Iowa	May 29, 2005	0.285%	Police reports showed the truck Padilla was driving entered a ditch and struck an embankment. In 2006 he was also accused of having an inappropriate relationship female student.
	9	Brandon L. Hefflin	U of Toledo football player	January 19, 2003	0.28%	Arrested at a bar, he was taken to a hospital where he threw a portable urinal at an officer and tried to flee police.
	10	Debbie Rahal	Wife of Indy champ Bobby Rahal	July 10, 1999	0.27%	According to the Columbus Dispatch, she had her kids in the car with her at the time of her drunk driving arrest. (Submitted by David K. Singh)
	11	Jim McMahon	Former Bears Quarterback	November 9, 2003	0.261%	During the drunk driving sobriety test, reportedly told officers, 'I'm too drunk. You got me.'"
	T12	Roberta Santos	Florida Gulf Coast University's All-Atlantic Sun Conference first-team setter	November 28, 2007	0.26%	Arrested while driving near campus, Santos allegedly became upset when she wasn't allowed to use the phone at the jail and tried to urinate on the cops. She missed.
	T12	Unnamed Racine, Wisconsin Drunk	Miniature Golfer	October 3, 2004	0.26%	A 19-year-old Racine man and his friend were arrested Oct. 3 on allegations of underage drinking and disorderly conduct after they stole a bucket of golf balls from Mulligan's Mini Golf, threw the balls at each other and then used their golf clubs as swords and "fenced." A breath test showed a blood-alcohol level of 0.26 for the Racine man and 0.17 for his friend. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
	T12	John Abraham	New York Jets defensive lineman	October 1, 2003	0.26%	He plead guilty to the lesser charge of driving while impaired and avoided the jail time he could have faced if convicted of drunk driving.
	T12	Ingrida Sabonis	Wife of former Blazers’ center Arvydas Sabonis	December 2000	0.26%	Her second drunk driving offense in less than a year, her BAC in the first arrest was only 0.23%, but she was on the way to pick up the kids from school.
	13	Lily Miller	"Friend" of Cleveland Indians pitcher Scott Sauerbeck	May 2006	0.253%	Miller was at the wheel of a car owned by the married Sauerbeck when the two were pulled over for DUI and tried to run from the cops and hide in the bushes in a residential neighborhood. Sauerbeck claims he was just trying to "do the right thing."
	T14	Blaise MacDonald	Massachusetts-Lowell hockey coach	June 2007	0.25%	MacDonald was found passed out in his SUV in front of some condos at 9 o'clock in the evening.
	T14	Reginald "Reggie" M. Wilson	Assistant football coach for the Easton Area High School, in PA	September 2004	0.25%	Coach Wilson was on the sidelines the same night he was arrested about an hour and 25 minutes after the game was over.
	T15	Michael Schilling	HS girls basketball coach	August 2003	0.247%	In addition to drunk driving, he was also charged with one count each of marked lanes and seat belt violations.
	T15	Bernard Gilkey	Former Atlanta Braves outfielder	October 2000	0.247%	Got jail time for being a persistent drunk driver.
	T16	Mitch Ohnstad	Minnesota's Mr. Basketball - 1996	February 2005	0.24%	A two-season letter winner for the Minnesota Gophers in 1998-2000, Mitch was arrested for drunken driving in Lakeville on Feb. 27. It was his third DWI-type offense since March 1999.
	T16	Lary Sorensen	Former Detroit Tigers broadcaster	November, 1999	0.24%	Lary was out on bail for an earlier drunk driving arrest where he blew an even more impressive 0.35% BAC when he was arrested for this DUI.
	T16	Clark Haggans	Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker	June 21, 2003	0.24%	Haggans was arrested for drunk driving in the north-Denver suburb of Federal Heights after police said there was a confrontation passengers in two vehicles.
	T16	Jon Garrido	High school football fan	September 2003	0.24%	18-year-old fan ran onto field and hit coach and several players with a stick
	T16	Charles Woodson	Oakland Raiders DB	May, 2000	0.24%	Arrested during own charity golf tournament
	17	Jeff Garcia	SF 49ers QB	January 2004	0.237%	Drunk driving arrest occurred when he was leaving the campus of San Jose State University and forced to give field sobriety test in a Jack-in-the-Box parking lot.
	T18	Steve Foley	San Diefo Chargers linebacker	Sept. 3, 2006	0.233%	Foley was arrested after being shot outside his home following a violent confrontation with an off duty police officer in the early morning hours.
	T18	James Beattie	British Soccer Player	September, 2002	0.233%	Had a designated driver but decided to move car anyway.
	T19	Marcus Dove	Oklahoma State basketball player	July 15, 2007	0.23%	Dove was arrested on drunken driving charges that were upgraded to aggravated drunken driving.
	T19	Dennis Erickson	Former Seattle Seahawks Coach	April, 1985	0.23%	Thanks to the Jim Rome Show and The Smoking Gun for their assistance.
	T19	Joe Bernard	Fairfield University Football Coach	November 22, 2001	0.23%	Crashed his car into five parked cars Thanksgiving Day before being arrested for drunk driving.
	T19	Ed Podolak	Former Iowa football star current(?) radio broadcaster	September, 1997	0.23%	Arrest Info
	Honorable Mention	Eddie Sutton	Long time basketball coach at Oklahoma State	February, 2006	0.22%	Sutton was arrested for drunk driving after huis sports utility vehicle swerved across four lanes of traffic, slammed into the back of another car, then crashed into a tree

The Official BadJocks "How Many Drinks Did They Have?" Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) Estimator

Okay, so Joe Superstar gets pulled over for a DUI and blows a .22% on the breathalyzer. What exactly does that mean? Is there any way to tell if they had just one drink or a whole keg? The chart below gives you an estimated percent of alcohol in the blood by number of drinks in relation to body weight. This percent can be estimated by:

Locate the perpetrator's estimated body weight in the first column on the left.
Follow across to the left until you find the BAC the cops say they blew.
Follow that column back up to the top row to see how many drinks they would have had to consume in an hour to achieve that BAC. (Remember: 1 drink equals 1 ounce of 100-proof liquor, one five ounce glass of table wine or one 12-ounce bottle of regular beer)
And you're done! Wasn't that fun?

NOTE: The Official BadJocks "How Many Drinks Did They Have?" BAC Estimator is for entertainment purposes only. Your BAC may vary.

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Number of Drinks
Body weight	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
100 lb.	.038	.075	.113	.150	.188	.225	.263	.300	.338	.375	.413	.450
110 lb.	.034	.066	.103	.137	.172	.207	.241	.275	.309	.344	.379	.412
120 lb.	.031	.063	.094	.125	.156	.188	.219	.250	.281	.313	.344	.375
130 lb.	.029	.058	.087	.116	.145	.174	.203	.232	.261	.290	.320	.348
140 lb.	.027	.054	.080	.107	.134	.161	.188	.214	.241	.268	.295	.321
150 lb.	.025	.050	.075	.100	.125	.151	.176	.201	.226	.251	.276	.301
160 lb.	.023	.047	.070	.094	.117	.141	.164	.188	.211	.234	.258	.281
170 lb.	.022	.045	.066	.088	.110	.132	.155	.178	.200	.221	.244	.265
180 lb.	.021	.042	.063	.083	.104	.125	.146	.167	.188	.208	.229	.250
190 lb.	.020	.040	.059	.079	.099	.119	.138	.158	.179	.198	.217	.237
200 lb.	.019	.038	.056	.075	.094	.113	.131	.150	.169	.188	.206	.225
210 lb.	.018	.036	.053	.071	.090	.107	.125	.143	.161	.179	.197	.215
220 lb.	.017	.034	.051	.068	.085	.102	.119	.136	.153	.170	.188	.205
230 lb.	.016	.032	.049	.065	.081	.098	.115	.130	.147	.163	.180	.196
240 lb.	.016	.031	.047	.063	.078	.094	.109	.125	.141	.156	.172	.188

Red Boxes: Over the legal limit of .08, common in many states.

Source - NHTSA chart, with modifications

Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) Affect on Motor Skills

At .020 light to moderate drinkers begin to feel some effects.
At .040 most people begin to feel relaxed.
At .060 judgment is somewhat impaired, people are less able to make rational decisions about their capabilities (eg. driving).
At .080 there is a definite impairment of muscle coordination and driving skills; this is legal level for intoxication in some states.
At .10 there is a clear deterioration of reaction time and control; this is legally drunk in most states.
At .120 vomiting usually occurs. Unless this level is reached slowly or a person has developed a tolerance to alcohol.
At .150 balance and movement are impaired. This blood-alcohol level means the equivalent of 1/2 pint of whiskey is circulating in the blood stream.
At .300 many people lose consciousness.
At .400 most people lose consciousness; some die.
At .450 breathing stops; this is a fatal dose for most people

Source - SpeedImpact.org

* BAC levels are as reported by local law enforcement personnel at the time of arrest. Guilt nor innocence is implied by this level,
but is solely for comparison and entertainment purposes only.