Tag Archives: DUI/Drunks/Drugs

Central Florida Football Player Arrested for Punching Cop During St. Patrick’s Day Party – JJ Worton

The luck of the Irish ran out for University of Central Florida football coach George O’Leary when one of his players decided to take a swing at a cop . . . twice.

According to police reports, the fun with J.J. Worton, a redshirt freshman who led the Knights in receiving last season, during a block party outside a bar. For some reason, a deputy asked Worton to leave the area, and when he refused, the football player took a swing at him, missed and then took off running.

Cops chased him and allegedly found Worton hiding under a car. They dragged him out, tried to arrest him but he resisted and tried to punch another officer. This time he succeeded. And you know how cops like to be punched by drunks! So they pepper sprayed Worton, arrested him, and now O’Leary has suspended the star player from spring ball.

Source: Orlando Sentinel

Today’s “Pinocchio Award” Goes to: Eddie George! Found in Car With Drunk Blonde LPGA Golfer at 2am

Remember how we like to say that “nothing good happens outside a bar at 2 am?” Well, we can now add to that with “nothing good happens inside a car with a drunk, blonde golfer’s at 2 am.”

And we’re talking to you, former NFL star Eddie George. We were once on an episode of ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” with Mr. George, back when BadJocks was new and the idea of reporting on the bad things that athletes do seemed like a HUGE intrusion into their private world. Back then, ESPN would have never touched a story like this or a lot of the stuff that you see EVERYWHERE these days. We were, to put it bluntly, unique at that time with our raw coverage of the dark side of sports. I think the idea of the show (I was piped in via satellite from Michigan) was to get one of the good guys in sports–Eddie–to really lash into me and the stories I was putting out.

Only problem was, Eddie had never seen the site, and really wasn’t that familiar with what I did. So I had to explain it to him before we went on the air. I did get the chance to make the point that I wasn’t chasing after athletes while they were going about their daily lives . . . like the paparazzi likes to do today. Nope. We were just posting the stories that were already online somewhere. Mr. George was very gracious about the whole thing, and basically said he couldn’t understand the fascination with people’s private lives.

No controversy.

So, at this time I am willing to give the married football star the benefit of the doubt and believe him when he says nothing was happening, or going to happen when a little-known professional golfer Rachel Conner, 21, was pulled over for DUI at 2 am in Florida, with Mr. George in the passenger seat. According to cops, Conner blew a fairly impressive BAC of 0.137%, nearly twice the legal limit (not enough to make it into the World Famous BadJocks BAC Rankings). Conner claims to have only had “two vodka cranberry drinks”, but according our chart, if she weighs about 140 lbs, she would have had to have consumed at least 5 drinks in the hour before she was arrested.

George says the two are “just friends” and that she offered him a ride home and he thought she was sober enough to drive.

And we believe you Eddie.

For now.

Thanks to Dr. Gary Weitz for the link!

Source: TMZ

Boilermaker B-Baller Busted for Boozing, Biting Bar Bouncer Breaking up Brawl – David Jonathan “DJ” Byrd

There’s drinking and then there’s DRINKING. David Jonathan “DJ” Byrd, a guard/forward for the Purdue Boilermakers mens basketball team was probably the later before police arrested him early Friday morning.

It seems Mr. Byrd was at the Where Else Bar with former Boilermaker Kelsey Barlow when they were told to leave. After heading outside, the boys realized that Barlow had forgotten his wallet inside and tried to re-enter. When the staff refused them re-entry a fracas of sorts broke out and sometime during that fight, Byrd allegedly bit one of the bouncers.

Of course, cops were called at that point, and when the officer arrived he broke up the fight and arrested Byrd for public intoxication. His BAC at the time? A whopping 0.219%, nearly three times the legal limit. Still not enough to get him in the Top Twenty of the World Famous BadJocks BAC Rankings, but more than enough to now make him the “leader in the clubhouse” for a still young 2012. (At left, DJ Byrd’s mug shot.)

Despite visible bite marks on his arm, the bouncer refused to file assault charges against Byrd. In a public statement, Byrd called the whole thing “an unfortunate incident” while the university decided it was a little more serious and suspended the junior from the team.

Source: JCOnline