Jockstrap Hazing Update: Limestone says all 34 baseball players involved in hazing incident will have to perform community service.
Earlier: College Sports Hazing Trifecta Complete! Pictures of Limestone College Baseball Team Allegedly Stripping Freshmen, Covering Them With Chocolate Sauce and Molasses . . . In Women's Thongs? - Hot on the heels of Monday's Tiffin soccer team pictures and last Friday's U of Colorado volleyball team pictures comes photos from Limestone College in South Carolina where the guys on the baseball team like to go a little crazy on each other. According to reports, after receiving pictures of alleged hazing activities, the school forfeited three baseball games. According to Limestone athletic director Larry Epperly, "I think if they had to do it over again they would act in a different manner. These pictures are certainly embarrassing to the college and we're embarrassed this kind of activity took place, and it's our job to make sure it doesn't happen again." The photos show freshman players stripped to their jock straps (some look like they have ad the back of their shorts ripped off) and being doused with chocolate sauce and molasses while a crowd cheers and takes pictures. (Am I mistaken, or do these guys appear to be wearing women's thong underwear?) Once again, these images were posted on a public pictures sharing website where our source found them and turned them over to authorities at Limestone. (MSNBC - link includes video clip of pissed AD.)  More Pictures Here

New Alleged Hazing Photos: Men's Soccer Team Appears to Be Doing Some "Male Bonding" in Their Underwear With Booze and Duct Tape Handcuffs - Yeah, we had never head of Tiffin College before yesterday either, but is sure looks like a fun place to party semi-naked! The trend of posting pictures online continues with the alleged hazing of freshmen members of the Tiffin College (Ohio) men's soccer team. According to our source, up to 11 young men were welcomed to the team with an alleged hazing initiation, stripped to their underwear, their bodies "marked" with vulgar slogans, chained together with duct tape, and photographed holding degrading signs. (This must have been especially fun for Tony Iyayi, a freshman from Nigeria, who must have wondered about the male bonding rituals of his American hosts.) Twenty pictures--reportedly all of the initiation, although it's hard to tell if all of them are from the same event--were posted on a public picture website, and have now been distributed world-wide by what appears to be a gay photo site. As usual, the school was sent the pictures and we are anxiously awaiting word on how they plan to deal with it . . . although, according to this report in the Toledo Blade, the coach of the team, Ian Day said he thought publicity about the event had been overblown. Said Coach Day, "The players were given an option whether they wanted to participate or not. Some did, some didn't. And it happened five, six months ago, and I'm finding out now." Asked if he considered the incident hazing, the coach replied, "I'd call it guys thinking it was team spirit." MORE PICTURES HERE.

Colorado Volleyball Incident Update: School Says No Harm, No Foul, Get Back to Work, Nothing to See Here - In this day and age when schools are sued for what's perceived as the slightest bit of negligence, it's amazing to us that the University of Colorado has taken such a lax attitude toward possible hazing by members of its women's volleyball team. (see story and pictures below) Apparently, a page worth of pictures wasn't enough to convince Coach Pi'i "See No Evil" Aiu that his girls had done anything that wouldn't happen at a Girl Scout camp. Said Aiu, "I think for me it's settled. This does not seem to be the issue it was alleged to be." Well, of course it's not when you can look at college students sitting around playing drinking games with plastic cups and doing keg stands and assume there was no alcohol involved. A statement released by CU Associate AD Karen "Speak No Evil" Morrison concluded that, "The student-athlete featured in the photo said she was not drinking from the keg. Other photos on the Web site from the party, held last August, depicted freshmen members of the team drinking from generic red cups, but they did not contain alcohol." Yeah, well if you believe that, I have a nice bridge in New York I'd like to sell you. Note to Coach Aiu and the CU athletic department: you are now on record as having known about this annual event and also not taking action to stop it. Next year, when "the squirrel" doing the keg stand slips and goes face first into the keg and her parents sue you for millions, just hand over the money, 'cause you'll get eaten alive in court. BONUS: The Rocky Mountain News mentions BadJocks in the story here!

U of Colorado Alleged Hazing Update: Players Tell Coach They Weren't Drinking: Photographic Enhancement May Tell Different Story - According to a story in the Rocky Mountain News, after the pictures of the Buffalos women's volleyball team appeared on our page yesterday (see below), coach Pi'i Aiu met with the team and they assured him that no drinking or hazing took place. As for the picture of one player doing a keg stand? That was just a stunt and she wasn't actually drinking . . . or at least you can't actually see her drinking so it didn't actually happen. Said Aiu "They assured me there was no drinking involved. I wasn't there, but I believe them." BadJocks took the time to enhance the "keg stand" picture and it appears to us (see red arrow) that a long black tube starts at the keg and then runs parallel to the arm of the player identified as "the squirrel's". We're no expert on kegs, but could that be the tapper? If not, where is the tapper? For the love of God, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TAPPER! If you're not drinking and just doing a stunt, why not just have it flopping over the side of the keg? Click on image to see larger view. Think these gals are lying to their coach? Drop us an email at BadJocks at Yahoo.com with your two cents. (Rocky Mountain News)

BadJocks Exclusive: Alleged Hazing Pictures From University of Colorado Women's Volleyball Team - It's happened again! BadJocks gets the scoop on a possible new sports hazing story, this time from the University of Colorado which has had more than its share of bad press the past few years. And once again, the upperclassmen on the team decided to post the pictures on the public picture site WebShots. UPDATE: All the alleged hazing pictures have mysteriously disappeared from Webshots. Wonder why? Below is one of many pictures from what is described as an initiation ceremony (complete with original caption), featuring some of the underage frosh doing what appears to be some drinking . . . which we believe violates some University rules. Any official response U of C? MORE PICTURES HERE.

A Classic Shot: The Squirrel gettin in her first keg stand.
MORE PICTURES HERE.

Middle School Teacher Takes $1/Day Bribe From Kids to Get Out of Gym Class - It's an almost perfect scam: everyone gets what they want and no one gets hurt . . . unless you include the future health of our American youth, but that ship sailed a long time ago. Terence Braxton, 28, a gym teacher at Ward Middle School in Florida thought he had it all figured out: he'd collect $1 per day for allowing a kid to get out of class. No rope climbing, no dodge ball, no wedgies in the locker room. Nerds could avoid gym and he got to pad his meager teacher's salary, tax-free. According to the principal at the school Braxton may have collected more than $230 from about a half dozen students before some dimwit told his parents. Before you could say, "drop and give me 20," Braxton resigned his position and quickly left town. One source says several of the flabby middle schoolers tried to chase him down, but only managed about 10 steps before collapsing from exhaustion. (NBC 10)

What's Green and Red and Blows a .157% BAC? Not the Stanford Tree Mascot . . . Anymore- Stanford University, known as "The Cardinal "(singular, don't ask) has a tree in its logo. So a few years ago the snooty West Coast school thought it would be fun to parody modern college sports mascots by creating its own "tree" mascot that served no real purpose. Apparently, not having a real purpose was too much to take for fifth-year senior Erin Lashnits who was apparently bagged inside her costume on Feb. 9 during a basketball game against University of California-Berkeley. She must have been acting untree-like because officials pulled her from the floor and had her breath tested. While she won't make the Top Twenty of the BadJocks BAC Rankings, she did blow an impressive 0.157 %, nearly twice the legal limit for driving. As a result, she will no longer be allowed to dress as a tree at Stanford sporting events. At right, Erin Lashnits' picture taken from her days on the Stanford diving team. According to her bio information, Erin wants to be an astronaut. (Monterey Herald)

NHL Gambling Ring Update: A spokesman for the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice told ESPN.com that it is unlikely that additional people will be charged in connection with a gambling ring allegedly financed by Phoenix Coyotes assistant coach Rick Tocchet and a New Jersey state trooper. That, apparently, includes Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Gretzky.

#20! Terry L. Wright II, former volleyball coach Shawnee Mission East High School has been charged with sexual misconduct involving two underage girls on his team. (KC Star)
#19! Tatsuro Maeji, 47, a Japanese Olympic Windsurfing coach and official of the Japan Sailing Federation accused of performing indecent acts with a 17 year old girl he met over the Internet. (BYM News)

Maria Sharapova Alert! Russian Tennis Babe Turns Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model - On Valentine's Day 19-year old Russian superstar  Maria Sharapova was in New York City for the launch of the 2006 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. Why? She's in it! The tall blonde made quite a splash in this year's edition after being photographed at the Grace Bay Club in Turks and Caicos by legendary Sports Illustrated photographer Walter Iooss Jr. More Pictures here.
BONUS: US Snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler, who won the gold in the halfpipe at the Turino Olympics did a photo shoot for FHM in 2004. (Thanks to Fark.com for the link!)

No Soup for You! HS Basketball Fans Banned From Game for Inappropriate Chant - The administration warned students at Freeman High School in Virginia to only yell support for it's basketball team, not "inappropriate chants" against their opponents . . . especially not an individual player. (makes you wonder what they said, doesn't it?)  No one listened though (hey, they're teenagers) so the principal did what he had to: he banned ALL students from attending last night's game. Of the principal's action, school spokesperson Mychael Dickerson said, "He is trying to teach the students a lesson. There is a way to be responsible about the way you come out to a game and cheer your team. And there are things that seem irresponsible and inappropriate. In the midst of disciplining them, he is also trying to teach them a lesson." (WRIC)

In Case You Missed It: BadJocks Flashback to October 2005 - The Nude Curling Calendar Controversy - You may not have been paying close attention to women's curling back in October, but apparently some announcers covering the sport in for the Turino Olympics have mentioned the nude fundraising calendar that some of the gals in the sport posed for. Read our version of the story here. 

"Dirty Dozen" Skipping Town to Avoid Drug Testing? Twelve top Indian athletes selected for next month’s Commonwealth Games in Melbourne had gone missing, apparently to escape testing by the World Antidoping Agency, sources said yesterday. The so called "Dirty Dozen" failed to show up at a pre-event training camp were drug testing was supposed to take. The athletes have until February 26 to explain their absence or be banned from the games. (Business Day)