#139! Chess Coach Arrested - Robert Snyder, 50, the author of the book "Chess for Juniors" and founder of a club of the same name has been arrested on suspicion of child sexual assault. (Thanks to Shumpy for the link!) Boston.com

Chiefs Running Back Arrested After Altercation in Bar With Girlfriend, Other Woman - If you're going to be a big time sports star and carry on with several women at the same time, at least make sure they don't all show up at the same bar at the same time. Kansas City running back Larry Johnson was arrested Monday night after an altercation with his girlfriend early Saturday morning at a Kansas City bar. According to police, Johnson showed up with another woman at the same time the girlfriend did and the two exchanged words. Johnson then asked the bar to throw out the second woman, probably to make the girlfriend happy. The bar couldn't legally do that, and Johnson allegedly became irate after his girlfriend confronted his date. He then grabbed the victim by the shoulders and shoved her, causing her to fall onto the floor. (Newsday)

Soccer Player Repairs Own Bloody Penis, Returns to Game to Score Goal - Yes, you read that headline correctly and I'm not sure whether to call this guy a hero or a complete dumbass. Here's the basic story: Chavdar Yankow is a German soccer player for the team from Hannover. In a match over the weekend against Frankfurt a rival player kicked him in the groin. Said Yankow, "I ran towards the ball and my opponent, the Frankfurt striker Köhler, kicked his foot into my penis." Ouch! He felt some pain, but didn't really notice anything unusual until he went to the sidelines and noticed his shorts were full of blood. A quick trip to the locker room revealed the source of the crimson fountain: a four centimeter gash (about an inch and a half) on his penis! And here's where the story REALLY gets weird! Most guys would have passed out at that point and ended up in a hospital emergency room (I passed out the first time I read the story) . . . but not Yankow. He claims to have--I'm not making this up!--glued the wound closed and put a plaster on it. In the second half he was able to return to the field and not only play but scored the game-sealing second goal for Hannover which won 2-0. At right a picture of Chavdar Yankow in action. (Source - Eurosport.com) Thanks to Fark.com for the original tip to this story!

BadJocks Hazing Update: College Field Hockey Players Get Fined, Probation for Drunken Bash - It was one of the more incredible stories of girl-on-girl hazing we have ever reported here at BadJocks (original post): New members of the Frostburg State University women's field hockey team were forced to take part in an initiation ceremony that included massive amounts of booze (one girl registered a BAC of .365%, putting her at the top of the BadJocks BAC Rankings) and also saw victims pelted with flour, ice and eggs, and forced to sit in their own vomit and urine. This took place last December, but didn't make the news until May when one of the victims pressed charges. This week six current and former players pleaded guilty to hazing and were fined $300 each. Each young lady was also given a suspended 60-day jail term and placed on one year of unsupervised probation. Their convictions could also be expunged if the defendants complete 100 hours of community service. (Baltimore Sun) Thanks to GoBoSox for the link!

UPDATE: Rams Exec Reprimanded - Although the punishment for Samir Suleiman, an executive with the St. Louis Rams who left a threatening message for a local newspaper columnist, is not spelled out, team president John Shaw said Suleiman would be reprimanded. We think the ultimate punishment may be that he be forced to watch all of the Rams games this season . . . and keep his potty mouth shut. (STL Today)
Columnist: NFL Executive Boasts "I'm a (expletive) Throat Slasher" - It hasn't been THAT long since the glory days of the St. Louis Rams "Greatest Show on Turf" won a Super Bowl, but things seem to be going downhill fast at the NFL franchise . . . if you believe St. Louis Today columnist Bernie Miklasz. In a recent column, Miklasz said, ". . . no matter who coaches the Rams, the team's front-office executives owe that coach (Mike Martz) their support instead of back-stabbing him." Miklasz got a quick response from the organization, but not one he was expecting. Samir Suleiman, the Rams' director of football administration left this chilling voice mail message, "Do me a favor. Tell your source - because I don't believe they were your words - but tell your source that I'm not a back-stabber, I'm a (expletive) throat slasher, and he'll know the difference before it's all said and done." Wow, he sounds like a fun guy to work for! A spokesperson for the Rams confirmed that Suleiman left the disturbing message, but had not further comment. Miklasz claims there was no "source" and that it's an "open secret among media at Rams Park that the team's front-office executives routinely distribute anti-Martz leaks to friends in the national media." Anyone in the NFL front office care to weigh in? I think they'd have plenty to say if that comment had come from a player, don't you?  Read the complete column here (third article down.) Mr. Suleiman and his potty mouth can be reached at the Ram's offices at (314) 892-7267. (Thanks to Joe Littrell for the link!)

Former Fox Sideline Reporter Poses for Playboy - From our friends at SportsByBrooks.com - "Spurned Monday Night Football sideline reporter Lisa Guerrero recently announced on KLSX-FM in Los Angeles that she has posed nude for Playboy magazine. Her naked exploits hit the newsstand in December, not that there's much we haven't already seen, thanks to a racy 2002 photo layout in FHM magazine." Click here for slightly Not Safe For Work image from that FHM shoot.

California Jury Awards Girl Hazed by HS Soccer Teammates $100,000 - How much would you charge a gang of sweaty high school girls after they duct taped your hands and feet together, drag you down a hotel hallway, pile on top of you and touch you inappropriately? Okay, maybe you're not the right person to be asking that question, but a former freshman member of the Sanger High School girls soccer team was awarded $100,000 by a jury last week after they found the school district responsible for not preventing the attack. In their defense, Sanger Unified had claimed the students and coaches didn't do anything wrong, and that the kids were just "playing around." (ABC 30)

#138! Shades of Pamela Rogers Turner? Female Girls Soccer Coach/Gym Teacher Accused of Sex With Three Teenage Boys - It's the hottest trend of 2005: female teachers arrested for sex with underage boys. (We dubbed it the "Desperate Housewives Effect" after the hit ABC show.)  At one time Traci J. Tapp, 28, was only famous in New Jersey for being a former soccer standout at Cherokee High School and later at the College of NJ in Trenton. That all changed last week when the Hammonton High School physical education/health teacher--and girl's soccer coach--was charged with one count of sexual assault, two counts of aggravated criminal sexual contact and three counts of official misconduct. According to police, Tapp allegedly sexually fondled one 17-year-old male student after she invited him into her office in the girl’s locker room and also allegedly invited another 17-year-old to her home where the pair engaged in sexual acts . . . at her direction. (Her direction?) The third "victim" was a 16-year-old she allegedly invited to her home where they engaged in multiple acts of sexual intercourse during one night. Tapp was hired by the school in January 2001. (Hammonton News) Thanks to Matt Butler for the link!

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Sports Video of the Week: Cheerleader Tossed Through Basketball Hoop - This looks fake to me (and several websites agree) but it's still a funny video to watch: several burly guys in a gym toss a tiny cheerleader-type into the air and she appears to go right through the basketball hoop, barely rippling the net. They all pat themselves on the back and celebrate as she holds the back of her head, as if she knicked the edge of the rim on the way through. Watch it for yourself and let me know what you think. (Sites contains some slightly Not Safe For Work ads.)

Donna HS Football Hazing Update: Four Players Charged - It's been one of the biggest HS hazing stories of 2005 (in February we called it the "Weiner Whacker Hazing" after initial reports said victims claimed they had be struck in the penis): accusations of sexual assault caused star players to be suspended from the powerful Donna High School football team and coaches were fired for interfering with the investigation. Now things get even more serious as a Hidalgo County grand jury indicted four members of the team with felony sexual assault and indecency with a child. We won't repeat all the allegations, but one that stuck out to the grand jury was allegedly committed by former star quarterback Derick Anthony Castillo, 18, who told one victim he was going to rape him and held the boy down while he tried to pull down his shorts and put his latex-gloved finger in the kid’s anus. (Brownsville Herald)

Girl-on-Girl Action: #137! Young Female Coach Allgedly Caught in Park With HS Girl - Details are sketchy, but Kathleen O’Brien Erickson, 22, a former assistant coach at Tigard High School in Oregon, was arrested this week on charges stemming from custodial interference and sex abuse allegedly involving a teen. Police say they the teen’s parents had told them they were concerned about their daughter and what they called "continued unwanted contact" by Erickson who had previously been advised not to have contact with the 15-year-old. (KGW.com - reg required)

"Fat Kid" Loses Appeal, Can't Play Flag Football This Season - In a follow-up to a story we ran yesterday (see below), a Macomb County, Michigan judge refused to order a Sterling Heights flag football league to re-weigh or reinstate 11-year-old Kyle St. Peter. St. Peter, you may recall, was just over the 150 lb limit at his official weigh-in last month and was therefore not allowed to play over safety concerns for the other players. His father of course filed a lawsuit, claiming Kyle's civil rights were being violated, not because he couldn't play, but because the league refused to weigh the boy again. (He'd reportedly dropped to 147 lbs since the first weigh in.) On a positive note, a tackle football league in town has offered to let Kyle suit up this season. (Free Press)

Parents of 151 lb 11-Year-Old Sue League to Allow Him to Play Flag Football - Playing flag football is serious business here in Michigan . . . at least for 11-year-old Kyle St. Peter who wants to play just one more season of in a Sterling Heights flag football league. Only one problem: he's a point over the league's 150 lb weight limit . . . or at least he was three weeks ago at the official weigh in date. Of course now he's down to a svelte 147 and he and his parents think he should be allowed in the league and have filed filed a lawsuit in Macomb County Circuit Court, saying--We're not making this up!--that the Sterling Football Club was violating Kyle's civil rights. According to league officials, weight limits are part of youth football in most leagues with players grouped by age with a weight limit assigned to each group. This is done for the safety of the smaller kids who can be outweighed by as much as 50 lbs even with the weight limits. If a kid is too heavy for his division, he can to move up and play with older, heavier kids. St. Peter's father doesn't want the league to be forced to play his son if he is over 150 lbs, just to weigh the kid again and give him a second chance. (Free Press)