#51 is a Classic HS Coach Sex Scandal! Usually coaches who have sex with underage students get caught when the kids tell someone, but it's very rare that the coach rats HIMSELF out. But that's apparently what happened to 24-year-old David Lee Martin of Port Crane, NY. You see, David, who was a coach at Chenango Forks High School, wanted to be a Vermont State Trooper. He appeared to be well qualified until they slapped that lie detector on him and Martin was forced to admit that he had sexual contact -- including intercourse -- with a 15-year-old girl at least twice two years ago. Not only is David NOT going to be a trooper, he's also been charged with rape and criminal sexual act, both felonies. (WSTM)

Stupid Sports Video of the Week: Four Man Drunk Boxing - This video is exactly what is says: four drunk guys in someone's backyard putting on boxing gloves and going at each other all at the same time with predictable results. We suspect that among this crowd is a future Darwin Award Winner.

Latest Black Eye for U of Colorado Athletic Program: Golf Team Drove Two Hours to Visit San Fran Strip Club - Even the less popular collegiate teams for the Colorado Buffalos can't seem to stay out of trouble. Just as the uproar over impropriates on the football team started to die down comes word that on a recent golf trip to California, seven members of the team visited a strip club. And not just a quick trip to one across the street. According to the Rocky Mountain News, the golfers drove more than 100 miles from Stevinson, California--where the annual CU-Stevinson Ranch Invitational golf tournament was held on March 27-28--to San Francisco to visit what must be the world's best strip club. Unfortunately for the boys, someone found out about it and not only have they been suspended, but coach Brad Neher was also sidelined because the athletic department felt he "showed negligence" for allowing it to happen. (Rocky Mountain News)

From Bad to Worse: Duke Lacrosse Coach Resigns, Team's Season Official Cancelled, Scary Email Surfaces - Earlier this week, it looked like the boys on the Duke men's lacrosse team were making some progress: their lawyers pronounced them innocent, the prosecutor was starting to backtrack, and the protests were quieting down. Then, it was Wednesday and all heck broke lose: today, coach Mike Pressler who spent 16 seasons at Duke and won three Atlantic Coast Conference championships resigned, the school officially cancelled the rest of the season, and the cops released a particularly disturbing email from one of the players. In it, the player says he has "decided to have some strippers over" to his dorm room, "however there will be no nudity. I plan on killing the bitches as soon as the walk in and proceding to cut their skin off." It ends with the author adding in vulgar terms that he would find the act sexually satisfying and was signed with the player's jersey number. Cops also say the alleged victim told police she believes the players used false names and tried to make her think they were actually members of Duke's baseball and track teams. (USA Today) Our friends at TheSmokingGun.com have a copy of the email here.
UPDATE: University Prez Outlines Next Steps for Duke - Late Wednesday night Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead sent a letter to the Duke community outlining five specific actions he plans to take in light of the scandal surrounding the men's lacrosse team. In the letter, Brodhead said he was forming separate committees to examine a range of concerns, including:
• Examining the culture of the team by reviewing records of criminal and disciplinary actions taken against players in the program;
• Investigating the Duke administration's response to the sexual assault allegations;
• Examining the student judicial process and discipline procedures;
• Launching a Campus Culture Initiative, a self-examination "to evaluate and suggest improvements in the ways Duke educates students in the values of personal responsibility";
• Creating a presidential council, made up of people from the Durham community, national higher education circles and Duke, that will scrutinize Duke's responses to the incident and advise the president on whether the responses are appropriate and effective. (USA Today)

Strange Golf Assault: Man Shoots Up Former British Open Champ's SUV for Apparently No Reason - Tom Lehman, the 1996 British Open champion and U.S. captain in this year's Ryder Cup, was driving his 2006 Cadillac Escalade (a courtesy car given to Masters participants) to the Augusta airport late Tuesday night to pick up his son. On an expressway an older four door SUV passed him and Lehman heard an explosion. When he got out later to check, the golfer found a bullet hole in the rear driver’s side door! Later, police arrested Troy Willis Smith of Augusta after another shooting incident that same night. When the vehicle was searched, cops say they found weapons, projectiles and shell casings and immediately arrested Smith was then arrested on two counts each of aggravated assault and possession of a firearm in commission of a crime. (MSNBC)

Dwight Gooden Signs One Year Contract with Florida ChainGang - Former MLB star Dwight Gooden was sentenced to a year in prison for violating terms of his probation by using cocaine. This latest episode is just another in a long line of legal problems for the once-dominant pitcher. (Saint Petersburg Times)

Spring Explosion of HS Coach Sex Scandals!
#50! Charges expected to be filed against 54-year-old gym teacher/girls varsity basketball coach for relationship with former student starting when she was 15. (Green Bay Press)
#49! Head of English Dept, HS soccer coach accused of sex with 15-year-old. (WIVB)
#48! HS volleyball coach accused of having relationship with 16-year-old. (News Channel 5)
#47! HS football coach allegedly gets hummer from HS girl in car after school, then told her parents. (Mercury News)

Dolphins' Culpepper Cleared Of 'Sex Boat' Charges - It never sounded like they had the best case against Daunte Culpepper in the Vikings "Love Boat" sex scandal and a judge agrees, dismissing the charges. Unfortunately, Judge Kevin Burke denied a motion to dismiss charges against running back Moe Williams. (CBS 4) Get the complete history of the Love Boat on our Special Page here.

UPDATE:  Some of Our Hazing "Contestants" Have Been Identified - The guys in the bras appear to be from Williams College, the ones in the short skirts from Ursinus College, and the ones in the duct tape underwear are likely from Salisbury University. Still no clue on Edward 40-Hands at left. Is he a buddy of yours? Click here to see all the pictures.
EARLIER: More College Sports Hazing Pictures - What's the latest rage in college sports hazing? It seems to be making the freshman dress up in women's clothes . . . sometimes women's underwear. Oh, and duct taping beer bottles to their hands, which probably keeps it from falling out of their hands when they pass out. Unfortunately, we don't seem to be able to identify the victims in any of the pictures we found. Can you help us out? Click here to see all the pics

Back Off the Market - Anna & Kris Benson NOT Getting Divorce After All - Her lawyer, Jeffrey Bogart, said the former stripper will withdrew her divorce suit and said she planned to make up with the ex-Mets pitcher. Said Bogart, "I think Anna did a lot of soul-searching over the weekend. She directed me to dismiss the divorce petition." this has to be about her prenup, right? (NY Daily News)

BadJocks "Piñata Hazing" Update: Coach is Cleared - It's always hard to prove that someone knew something bad was going down and didn't do anything to prevent it. Apparently the laws in Texas aren't as clear as they need to be on this subject when it comes to hazing and, as a result, former Flower Mound High School wrestling coach Charles Michael Zascavage, 45, was cleared this of four counts of misdemeanor hazing. Charges against seven members of the team are still moving forward. (KRIS-TV)
BONUS: BadJocks original reporting of the story, complete with nasty pic.

It's Gonna Be a Barry, Barry Long Season: Padres Fan Throws Giant Syringe at Bonds - The normally sedate San Diego fans wasted no time this season expressing their true feelings to San Fran slugger Barry Bonds. In an attempt to make him feel at home in Petco Park on opening day, a fan threw a giant syringe at Barry as he was leaving the field. It landed at his feet and was quickly picked up with his gloved hand and tossed to a security guard who promptly asked Bonds to autograph it for him. (Okay we made that last part up, but it would have been cool if it really happened, right? Can't you see it now outside very ballpark Bonds visits this season: little kids huddling around the players entrance to the ballpark with giant syringes in their tiny hands, begging for an autograph? Priceless!) MSNBC

Hot Blonde HS Coach Arrested for Providing Booze for Boys - The images of Pamela Rogers Turner and Debra LaFave have barely slid off our computer screens then we have yet another young blonde coach putting herself in a compromising position with multiple underage boys. Ladies, haven't you learned by now that the little hormone monkeys will squeal about it to their friends . . . and anyone else who wants to read about it on the Internet? At this point, it doesn't appear that  Heather Tindle, 29, the assistant girls basketball coach at Axtell High School in Texas (and a middle school reading teacher), had relations with any of the boys, but police have arrested her on five charges of furnishing alcohol to minors. According to the boys, aged 16 to 18, Tindle was giving them a ride home from a game and offered to buy alcohol for them after she overheard them discussing drinking. Tindle then allegedly bought a case of beer and drove the five young males around on several country backroads in her SUV until it was all gone. Hmm, one young blonde female in a vehicle with five horny, drunk HS boys? Sounds like a recipe for BadJocks fun to us! We think there's more to the story, but for now, Tindle's been released on bond and resigned her coaching job at Axtell. At right, Heather Tindle's mug shot. (KCEN)

What's The Proper Golf Club to Use When You're 150 Yards Away & Want to Put Another Golfer's Head Pin High on the Green? - I suppose it depends on the weather conditions . . . which apparently were ripe for fun in Florida last week when Rodney Hearon, approached another golfer on the tenth hole at the Wekiva Springs Golf and Country Club in Longwood. Hearon and his partner wanted to play through, but the other guys argued that the course was full and there was a slow foursome in front of them. That apparently wasn't the correct answer and two argued and, according to police, Hearon swung a club at the other guy's head missing it by less than a foot. Yep, he was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. (Local 6) Thanks to Fark.com for the link!

Swirlie Ends in Head Injury, Players & Coaches Suspended - Ah, the classics! We never tire of hearing about high school athletes hazing one another. Case in point: five varsity baseball players at Lexington High School in South Carolina are under investigation after attempting to flush a junior varsity player's head in a toilet. Unfortunately for them, the victim struggle, they "accidentally" hit his head on the plumbing fixture, cutting his head open and--BONUS--aggravating an old back injury. According to the school district, all five players have been suspended from the team for two games and two J.V. coaches--who apparently knew about the incident--have been kicked off the team for the rest of the season. (WLTX)

#46! Private tennis coach accused of molesting pupil starting when she was 14 and continuing for about five years. (Sign On San Diego)

Duke Men's Lacrosse Team Sex Scandal Update: DA Says Charged Could Be Delayed - Last Friday, Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong said that even if DNA tests on Duke lacrosse players are completed next week, another week may pass before a decision comes on possible charges. (Herald Sun)

HS Hazing Update: Four Members of Utah Baseball Team Charged - Four members of the Wasatch High School baseball team were charged with class B misdemeanor hazing charges last week. This is the case where members of the team allegedly jumped on freshman in what's called a "dogpile" and things got out of hand. Yep, someone in the pile was poking fingers where the don't belong. (Desert News)

Duke Lacrosse Sex Scandal Update: Police Investigating Threats Made Against Team - In a strange twist on an already bizarre case, Durham police are investigating threats made against the Duke University men's lacrosse team as a result of the rape allegations against several members surfaced last week. According to cops, numerous phone calls and e-mails have arrived at the school's athletic office recently threatening threatened violence against the team. Authorities are are trying to determine who made the calls or sent the messages before they can determine whether any criminal charges can be brought. (NBC-17)
See Earlier Updates to This Story in our March 26 Archive here.

BadJocks Stone Cold Lock of the Week: MLB "Steroid Commission" Will Be a Scam - Like a lot of people, I applauded Commissioner Bud Selig for finally getting around to investigating the use of performance enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball, especially in light of the allegations made by the book "Game of Shadows." Nail the cheatin' bastards, we all thought! But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that MLB has much more to gain by clearing guys like Barry Bonds and Mark McGuire than it does by really digging up the dirt and getting to the truth. Just think about it: whenever the government puts together one of these commissions (and a former Senator is heading this one) they take months, if not years, to publish a final report. That buys MLB time while Bonds pursues the homerun record and Selig can say the league is vigorously looking into the allegations. These commissions also tend to publish reports with WAY too much information, clouding the primary issue in an attempt to discredit those who made the original charges. We'll hear about bits and pieces of their investigation over a period of time (mostly positive, I'll bet) and by the time it's done the average fan will be sick of hearing about it. And you know they'll be able to find some expert somewhere to dispute everything that Jose Canseco and the authors of "Game of Shadows" have documented. Some far-fetched, but almost credible explanation for the syringes, bulging muscles and dramatic increase in HR production. ("Someone could have been injecting steroids in baseballs!") In they end, they will confuse the public as to what is the truth and what are lies and will determine that, while there is some evidence that some pro baseball player somewhere might have taken steroids at some time long, long ago, the game is now clean, the records can stand, and we can all sleep easier knowing the "national pastime" has policed itself. You heard it hear first: the "Mitchell Commission" was created to cover this scandal up not get to the truth.