Just curious as to what you have against Vince Young. Are you a USC fan? The guy was Superman on campus at UT since he won his first game for the Longhorns and he had it made after that. A lot of these extremely gifted athletes aren’t so gifted upstairs so it isn’t a big surprise that he isn’t the brightest crayon in the box. Your postings were pretty harsh especially the fake Wonderlic Test, pretty creative, but only something someone would post if they really disliked the guy. So just wanted to know what your beef is with Vince Young. I’m a lifetime Texas native and fan so I didn’t laugh too hard with the post. 
Marco R.

Dear Marco:
You didn't laugh "too hard" but you did laugh, right? 'Cause it was a joke. You do understand humor, don't you? Just because we post a story about an athlete, doesn't mean we have a "beef" against them. As a Texas fan, we can understand why you're not happy with this coverage, but if we pulled it to make you happy, wouldn't we have to do it for fans at Oklahoma or Texas A& M? (As an honest Texas fan, I'm sure you've NEVER made fun of players or fans at those schools.) The point is Marco, the fact that you hated it, only means we probably are doing our job. But in the interest of fairness to Mr. Young, we have created a page that lists his many accomplishments over the years . . . along with some pictures the opposing fans have created to honor him on doing so well on the Wonderlic. Have you see the one of him on the special ed bus? I'll bet you're not going to like it, but click here to see it anyway. ("Vince Young for Dummies")
Bob Reno, Publisher, BadJocks.com

BADJOCKS EXCLUSIVE: We Have a Copy of the Test! The Truth Behind Vince Young's Incredibly Low Wonderlic Intelligence Test Score - Did BadJocks REALLY get its hands on a copy of the first test that the Texas QB reportedly scored a 6 on? An anonymous phone call from Indianapolis (the site of the NFL scouting combine) late Tuesday resulted in a faxed copy of a page with Young's name on it. The caller said it was supposed to shredded, destroyed . . . never to see the light of day again. And for good reason! But it somehow was spared and made it into our cold, clammy hands. After studying this document closely, we think we've figured out why Vince scored so low. Click here to read it for yourself. Earlier story and picture below.
NOTE: The test may only be able to stay up for a short time until the NFL's attorney's order us to take it down.

Update: Rumor About Young's Low Score Wrong - According to this report, former Longhorn quarterback Vince Young took the test again and scored 16. (Do you really want to brag on that one, Vince?) According to Young's relieved agent, Major Adams, "The combine officials assured us that score (6) was false and that the accurate score will be known when the combine results are given to each team." A GM from one team said he understood that the "test was improperly given, and I heard they're going to try and correct it." We're sure no money changed hands to get the NFL to keep administering the test until Young's agent got the score he wanted.
EARLIER: Bad News: Sources Say Former Texas QB Vince Young Scored 6 out of 50 on Literacy Test - Good News: It's Unlikely He'll Be Able to Read This and Sue Us If It's Not True! - It's no secret that the stock of former Texas quarterback Vince Young, who lead his team to the National Championship last season, has fallen recently. Now comes more bad news: according to sources at the NFL Scouting Combine, Young allegedly scored only a 6 on something called the "Wonderlic Test", given to all prospective players,  which is designed to test their intelligence. (A 20 indicates the test-taker has an IQ of 100, which is average.) According to those familiar with the test, IF Young scored that low, it would mean that he was basically illiterate . . . not a promising prospect for an NFL team looking for someone to manage a complicated pro-style offense. (Let the debates begin: Here's a list of past and present NFL quarterback prospects and their Wonderlic scores.)  It also doesn't speak well of the University of Texas, does it, if someone with basically a 3th grade education has made it through almost three years of study in Austin? You can take a shortened version of the test at ESPN's Page 2 here. (wonderlich. wonderlick) According to Paul Zimmerman's "The New Thinking man's Guide to Pro Football," some typical average scores by position are:
Offensive tackles: 26
Centers: 25
Quarterbacks: 24
Guards: 23
Tight Ends: 22
Safeties: 19
Middle linebackers: 19
Cornerbacks: 18
Wide receivers: 17
Fullbacks: 17
Halfbacks: 16
Halfwits: 8

Plea Deal in NFL Cheerleader Lesbian Sex/Bar Fight Case? Victoria Renee Thomas, one of two former Carolina Panthers cheerleaders arrested for her part in a Tampa bar fight last fall (she's the blonde) is negotiating a plea deal with prosecutors according to her attorney. Thomas, who's charged with giving a false name to an officer, a felony, and misdemeanor battery hopes to have the case resolved by the next hearing date, March 20. (TBO)

More Trouble for V-Tech Quarterback - Marcus Vick may be gone, but the legacy of heralded quarterbacks at the school being arrested before they even play their first game continues: red-shirt freshman Ike Whitaker was suspended indefinitely Thursday from Virginia Tech's football team by coach Frank Beamer due to a violation of team policy, although a search of local court records revealed Whitaker, 18 was charged this week with purchasing and possessing alcohol. (Daily Press)

Unusual Canadian College Hazing - The swimming & diving teams at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver are nationally recognized and one of the collegiate powerhouses in that country. But not this year. The school has suspended both squads from competing in a national championship after rookie members were subjected to hazing by more senior swimmers in September. But this isn't your typical college sports hazing: yes, there was drinking, but no one was touched. Instead, the frosh were asked to describe their sexual fantasies about upperclassmen on the team, and then were photographed simulating sex acts with each other while clothed. One of the victims complained, the school investigated, and the teams season is over. (London Free Press)

Go Speed Racer, Go! NASCAR Hits Driver With Lifetime Ban for Failed Drug Test - Driver Shane Hmiel is only 25, but it looks like he will never drive in another NASCAR event . . . ever. Officials of the racing league said late last week that Hmiel had failed his third drug test and was permanently banned from competition. It was just last June that Hmiel failed his second test. (NASCAR.com)

Little League Coach Arrest Season is Underway! Coach Caught With $10,000 Worth of Cocaine - And no, it wasn't part of a fundraiser to buy uniforms for the kids. (Click2Houston)

Shocking HS Coach Sex Scandal Update: Show Me the Money! Edward Kang, #153 for 2004, a volleyball coach at Kaiser High School in California has been ordered to pay $63 million to a former student who accused him of sexually abusing her. (Daily Bulletin)
#28! Assistant junior varsity boys' soccer coach caught in vacant house with HS girl. Playing house, are we? (Ledger-Enquirer)
#27! Girls softball coach accused of having sex with teenaged family member. (TVH 11)

#26! Coach Claims Sex With 15-Year-Old Girl Was Okay Because They Had "Covenant of Love" - Garry Unthank Jr., 23 a volunteer basketball coach at Community Christian Academy in Kentucky, was charged with having sex with a 15-year-old female player. According to police, Unthank began having sex with the girl in January at a relative's home. For some reason, she told her family, who then went to the police. Of course, Unthank admitted having sex with the girl, but told police it was consensual and said the two had entered into a "covenant of love." For those of you keeping score, the age of consent in Kentucky--while low--is still 16. (Cincy Post)
#25! Lady Coach Caught With Female Student - Jessica Rodriguez, a part-time girls' junior varsity basketball coach at Stockton Christian School in Stockton, CA was arraigned on charges she had an inappropriate relationship with a 15-year-old female student. (News 10)
#24! Gordon Spencer, former baseball coach and teacher at Wahama High School in West Virginia for nearly 30 years, was sentenced to five years in prison for third degree sexual assault and abuse after police say he sexually assaulted three of his female students away from school. (MSNBC)
#23! Derek Walcott, a coach at North Oldham High School in Kentucky has been suspended after being accused of having sexual relationships with two female students, both of whom were 18 at the time. Charges will likely not be filed against Walcott because both girls are older than 16, the age of consent in Kentucky. (Courier Journal)

Marcus Vick Crime Spree Update: "It Was a Cell Phone Not a Gun!" - Well why didn't you say that sooner, Marcus? That makes all the sense in the world now! You step out of your car in a McDonald's parking lot at night and wave a cell phone at a gang of teenaged boys and of course they're going to flee in terror. Vick, who was trying not to score lower than Vince Young on the Wonderlic test at the NFL Combines this week, maintained that he didn't say anything sooner because he was told not too. (USA Today) At left, a picture of an actual "cell phone gun" recently captured by German police and capable of firing four, 22 caliber bullets when certain keys on the keypad are touched. Also can be used to instantly text message homies to brag about scaring punks in fast food parking lots.

Former PSU Player Says College Basketball Coach Harassed Her - Jennifer Harris, a former Penn State women's basketball player filed a discrimination complaint against Nittany Lions coach Rene Portland last week, claiming that she was harassed by the coach to change her appearance because she wasn't "feminine enough.'' According to the paperwork filed with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, Harris, who is black, claimed that she told Portland that she was not comfortable in changing her appearance, and that Portland then "treated me differently from other team members'' and "threatened and humiliated me'' to try get Harris to quit or take a leave of absence. (Comcast SportsNet)

Eric Stratton, Rush Chairman, Damn Glad to Meat You! Soccer Team Trades Player for . . . Animal Protein? And you always thought that the Little League trade where they got that right fielder for a catcher's mask and a bat to be named later was the worst trade ever. Hah! Turns out a Romanian second division soccer club called UT Arad sold one of its players, Marius Cioara, to the Regal Horia squad for--we're not making this up--15 kilograms of meat or roughly 30 lbs. Unfortunately, Regal Horia got the worst end of the deal as Cioara, tired of the rigors of second division Romanian soccer (and really, who isn't these days?) retired from the sport and ran off to Spain for a job in construction. Said a disappointed Regal Horia official, "We are upset because we lost twice - firstly because we lost a good player and secondly because we lost our team's food for a whole week." (Reuters)

Hot Blonde Gym Teacher Pamela Rogers (Formerly Pamela Rogers Turner) Released From Jail Early for "Good Behavior" - Ms. Rogers, who was convicted of having sex with one of her students--13 year-old boy--was released from jail Sunday after serving only 198 days of her original 9 month sentence. (Read our original report from February 2005 here.) The reason given? She's smokin' hot! (Actually, it was good behavior, but that doesn't sound as interesting, does it?) Rogers still has 90 hours of public service to complete and will be on probation for more than seven years. Should she violate that probation in any way, it's back to jail for the former Ms. Monday Nitro. (News Channel 5)

Going Off Half Cocked? It's the Olympic Curling Streaker! Man Wearing Nothing But a Rubber Chicken Interrupts Great Britain vs. United States Match for Bronze Medal - From CNN's website: 
"Britain's match against the United States for the men's curling bronze medal was interrupted on Friday when a male streaker ran across the ice. (BadJocks has confirmed that this was the infamous UK sports streaker, Mark Roberts, although we didn't recognize him at first with the beard . . . or the chicken. Click on his website here for details and more pics.) With poultry for a loin cloth, the man vaulted the barriers and danced up and down the side of the ice sheet for several minutes before being bundled away by bemused rink attendants. As armed police ejected the man, naked into the cold mountain air, he was heard to plead in a Scottish accent: 'Please will someone bring me my clothes?'" Guess which gambling website he was promoting on his naked body? That's right, GoldenPalace.com. (CNN) At right, a picture of the man who streaked the 2006 Torino Olympic Games. More pictures here.
ANYONE KNOW WHERE WE CAN FIND THE VIDEO OF THIS? Email BadJocks@Yahoo.com if you do!
BONUS: You'd think this was the first time anyone streaked a curling match, wouldn't you? Well, according to our Top Naked People in Sports for 2005 Special Report, a Canadian man dressed like someone--and we're quoting here--from "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" ran out onto the ice at a Canadian match at a place called The Brier last year and dropped his pants. No rubber chicken here, but it does sound like alcohol, rather than the promotion of a gaming site, was the cause. Read our report of that incident here.

New Addition to BAC Rankings? Another Drunk Former Viking - We don't have a BAC on him yet, but NFL Hall of Famer Carl Eller was arrested at 3:30 am Sunday morning for driving under the influence after Minnesota State Police clocking him doing 97 mph in a 55 mph zone. (LA Times)