Cheerleaders Giving "The Shocker" Part 3 - Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know some of you are sick of this story already, but it seems to have some legs so we're going to update it just one more time. Of course, last week the big news was the Wichita State cheerleader giving the sexually charged hand gesture to a national TV audience during the game (picture and story below). There was some debate about what it actually means, but whatever your definition, it's not something to brag to mom about. Then came word that the girls were doing the gesture, not because of the school's unfortunate nickname--the Shockers--but because they were trying to make the letter "W", as in the first letter of the school's name. (Apparently the trick is to NOT pull in the thumb.) In fact, in the WSU basketball team photo on the cover of this year's guide, almost everyone on the squad is doing it. (See insert at right for sample and click here for the full image) Apparently there is a proper way to give the gesture so it doesn't mean the bad think and means a W, but given the current climate of confusion--especially given the team's nickname--we think The Shockers should drop it entirely. One question remains: if the cheerleaders are using it for the letter W, why is the chick in the Miss Bracker contest from Duke giving it to us? (See image and story below.) CBS Sportsline

Wichita State Cheerleader Gives "Shocker" Gesture to National TV Audience? Last week our friends at Deadspin.com mentioned an alleged incident during the NCAA tournament game between the Wichita State and Tennessee, where one of the cheerleaders for WS very clearly gave the hand gesture for "the shocker" a wrestling intimidation tactic that regular readers to BadJocks are familiar with. (FYI - Without going into graphic details, it involves a finger being put into an opponent's orifice where it doesn't belong.) Now, it is true that Wichita State has the unfortunate nickname of "The Shockers" . . . but we always thought that had something to do with farming, the school being in Kansas and all. Or is that "shucking?" Apparently, the young lady pictured above is familiar with the current slang meaning and wanted to pass that along to fans at home . . . or she's missing a finger. The most important question is: Does giving the shocker gesture mean you want to give it, or receive it? Hmm. Also, does anyone know what her name is? She doesn't look like any of the girls listed at the school's spirit team site here. For a larger view of the image (courtesy of a site called ehowa.com) click on the one above. (Thanks to regular contributor Shumpy for the image!)

Back on the Market: Anna Benson! - If you thought you ever had a shot with the loud-mouthed former stripper who reportedly got her husband, pitcher Kris Benson, traded from the Mets to the Orioles . . . now's your chance. According to published reports, Anna has filed for divorce and will soon be looking for a new man to embarrass with her antics. You may recall that at one point she told Howard Stern that if Kris ever cheated on her she would have sex with everyone on the Mets . . . batboys included. Anna's slightly Not Safe For Work website is here. (ESPN)

Chico State Softball Update: School Cancels Rest of Season as 12 Players Suspended for Getting Recruit Drunk - After a 17-year-old high school recruit got so drunk she had to be taken to the hospital, the Chico State University administration took the bold action of suspending all 12 players who were in attendance at the party. That's bad news for the 6 that weren't there because it means the rest of their season--and possibly their college softball careers--are over. (Mercury-Register) Thanks to CS for the update!

BALCO's Victor Conte Released From Jail, Calls Game of Shadows "Full of Lies" - Despite hundreds of pages of evidence to the contrary, disgraced sports nutritionist Victor Conte was released from prison today and immediately launched into a counter punch to the recently published book about MLB slugger Barry Bonds and steroids saying,  "I plan to provide evidence in the near future to prove that much of what is written in the book is untrue. It's about the character assassination of Barry Bonds and myself." (ESPN)

Duke Lacrosse Team Sex Scandal Update#1: Prosecutor Says Three Could Get 16 to 20 Years in Jail if Convicted - Apparently the only crime more serious than the combination of first-degree forcible rape, first-degree kidnapping, and first-degree sexual offense they are thinking about charging the Lacrosse players with is first-degree murder. (ESPN)
Duke Lacrosse Team Sex Scandal Update#2: Lawyers Say the Boys Are Innocent - Is it just posturing for the media, or do they really believe it? Today, lawyers who say they represent members of the Duke University men's lacrosse team insist their clients deny a sexual assault took place at a bachelor party two weeks ago. In fact, Durham lawyer Bill Thomas said the team is "looking forward to the results of the DNA tests to prove their innocence." (Fox News)

#45! Assistant HS football coach convinces girl to have sex with him in parked car in school parking lot. (Charlotte Observer)
#44! Popular gymnastics coach arrested for allegedly sending inappropriate emails to an 11 year old girl that he coached. (WSAV)
#43! Female basketball coach accused of violating 15-year-old girl. (NewsNet5)

Cheerleading Coach Provides Squad Booze Before Game - How bad would your HS basketball team have to be that your cheerleaders had to get drunk before a game in order to cheer them on? No telling how bad the team was at Galesburg-Augusta High School in Michigan, but the cheerleading coach Laura Millard, 26, must have had a good reason for allegedly providing alcohol to her squad back on February 28. Milliard could face up to a $1,000 fine, 60 days in jail and community service. (WMMT)

Barry Bonds Beware: MLB to Launch Investigation Into Steroids - From our "Day Late and a Dollar Short" Dept comes word that, according to ESPN, Major League Baseball will launch an investigation into past use of performance-enhancing drugs. Finally! Former U.S. Senate majority leader George Mitchell will be part of the group heading the independent investigation. We're not quite finished with "Game of Shadows" yet, but so far, as far as we're concerned there shouldn't be any doubt that Bonds, (along with Sosa, McGuire and virtually anyone who hit more than 40 home runs in a season after 1994) was taking something: steroids, human growth hormones, insulin, meat tenderizer or whatever. The real question is: so what if they come to the same conclusion we did? Are they going to wipe out all the MLB records for a decade? Take away wins from teams who had more than 50% of its players juicing? We may finally learn the truth but things will never be right again.

Duke Lacrosse Team Update#1: Student Protestors Create "Wanted" Poster of Team - Protestors continue to pressure members of the Duke men's lacrosse team and have created a poster featuring pictures of 40 of the 47 members--along with their names--under the caption "Please Come Forward." How soon before one of these kids cracks and rats out the three perps?  (USA Today)
Duke Lacrosse Team Update#2: The Smoking Gun is There! - Just when the players on the team probably thought this whole incident couldn't get any worse, our friends at TheSmokingGun.com got their hands on the search warrant used by North Carolina cops to investigate the sexual assault charges brought by an exotic dancer. Read it for yourself here.
A History of Drunken Trouble? Court Records Show 15 of 47 Duke Lacrosse Players Had Prior Arrests, Victim Was Allegedly Threatened With Broom! - According to court records, during the past three years nearly ONE THIRD of the members of the Duke lacrosse team have been charged with some kind of misdemeanors stemming from drunken and disruptive behavior . . . although all of the charges were "resolved" without anyone being convicted. Isn't that the way things are handled for rich kids at private schools? Three as-yet-unidentified members of the team are accused of sexually assaulting a stripper who was hired for a party on March 13. In a disturbing revelation yesterday, the victim claims in court documents that when she and another dancer began their routines, one of the men watching held up a broomstick and threatened to sexually assault the women with it. (Winston-Salem Journal)
ALSO: Season Suspended Indefinitely, Team Captains Deny Charges - It just keeps getting worse for the formerly #2 ranked Duke University men's lacrosse team. The squad dropped to #9 this week after forfeiting two games while police investigated allegations that three players sexually assaulted an exotic dancer who was hired for a bachelor party. Now comes word that mounting pressure on the players--none of whom seem willing to cooperate with police to identify the perpetrators--has forced the further suspension of their season. University prez Richard Brodhead announced that the suspension will last "until there is a clearer resolution of the legal situation involving team members." On the other hand, team captains released an unsigned statement that the sexual assault claims are "totally and transparently false" and that the results of the DNA tests they were forced to take will prove their innocence. Yet, others on the team have admitted that they had hired a stripper for the event and that underage drinking was going on. For his part, District Attorney Mike Nifong could only add, "I feel pretty confident that a rape occurred." (WWAY) Earlier updates to this story below.

Shots Fired as Neighborhood Gets Upset Over . . . Kickball Game? You remember kickball, don't you? Played similar to baseball, only instead of pitching you roll a large ball toward the batter and they try to kick it out of the park. Apparently, kickball is a big deal in Montgomery, Alabama where a dispute over a kids game in the neighborhood resulted in a confrontation between adults. On Saturday, one man was shot in the arm, and then police were called back to the same area Sunday when were two more people were shot. All because of a child's kickball game. (Montgomery Advisor)

Party! Softball Team Treats High School Recruit to Alcohol Overdose, Trip to the Hospital - You know, in the old days, you'd try to impress a top high school jovck with a tour a your facilities, one-on-one meetings with the coaches and maybe tickets to some kind of campus event. Not anymore! The Chico State women's softball team set a new standard this week when a 17-year-old high school recruit was rushed to a local hospital with what's being termed as an "alcohol overdose." According to a school spokesperson, the unidentified student became lethargic and unresponsive at a party before a softball team member called 911, and paramedics took her to the hospital where she appears to have completely recovered . . . although we're not so sure about the future of the softball team. (Sacramento Bee) Thanks to CS for the link!

Duke Lacrosse Alleged Sexual Assault Update: Other Players Could Be Charged for Not Stopping Rape - The news keeps getting worse for the Blue Devils: as 46 members of the team paraded into a lab to have their DNA tested, prosecutor Mike Nifong said some lacrosse players could be charged for not trying to stop the alleged beating and gang rape of an exotic dancer. Currently, cops are trying to determine which of the three males allegedly assaulted, beat and raped an exotic dancer who had come to a team party back on March 13. (Original story below.) Protests at the university moved into their third day as other students remain outraged that members of the team are refusing to cooperate with police in the investigation. A new element to the mix was added recently as it was revealed that the exotic dancer was black and the three players accused are all white. According to the school's student newspaper, The Chronicle, when police returned to the house with a search warrant two days after the incident they removed laptops, cameras cell phones, a bath rug, five fingernails, a bottle of KY Jelly and $160 of the reported $400 stolen from the victim. (The Chronicle)
BONUS: Shortly after BadJocks posted a link to the Duke men's lacrosse team roster, the school pulled it from its website.

Brawl at the Palace Update: Fan Found Not Guilty of Throwing Cup, Guilty of Punching Ron Artest - You remember John Green, don't you? He's the Piston's fan in the white baseball cap who you can clearly see throwing a cup onto the Pacer's Ron Artest that started the brawl at the Palace of Auburn Hills back in November of 2004. And yet, after watching that video the jury in Oakland County, Michigan on Monday afternoon found Green not guilty of one count of assault and battery, but guilty on a second count for his role in a brawl. That, despite the fact that Green admitted -in and out of court - to throwing the cup, though he claimed  that it was not directed at Artest. Sure. In case you missed it, below is a video from the original ESPN broadcast of the incident. Still chilling. (Free Press)

NFL Player Arrested for Dancing in the Street - There's a right place and a wrong place to dance . . . and apparently the middle of a Miami street at 3 am is a wrong place, especially if you are Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Dhani Makalani Jones, who along with a couple of young ladies was dancing outside a South Beach club in the early morning hours Sunday when officers asked them to clear the street. Everyone but Jones complied and he was promptly arrested for failing to obey an officer. (Miami Herald)

Cheerleader's Skimpy Outfits Banned . . . and It's Not in Texas! - Of course, last year a Texas state legislator tried to ban suggestive movements by high school cheerleaders, but was unsuccessful. Now comes word from the UK that the award-winning Spirit Shockers team, from Glossop won't be able to wear their crop-top uniforms after the snooty British Cheerleaders' Association said the crop-tops violate of new regulations which prohibit "exposure of the midriff." The group is worried that the uniforms--I'm not making this up!--might put pressure on young girls to diet and don't want them to look like "exotic dancers". At left, an example of the offending uniforms. (Manchester Evening News)

Sports Video of the Week - With the latest edition of Wrestlemania coming of this weekend we thought it would be appropriate to bring you this video clip of former WWE superstar Rowdy Roddy Piper at what appears to be a book signing. After a long-winded response to an audience member's question, Piper then applies his famous "sleeper hold" to the young man's neck with some interesting results. 

#42! Coach at Catholic HS Banned From Campus for Appearing in Gay Porn - Okay, technically, Josh Weast wasn't an employee at Mater Dei Catholic High School in Breese, Illinois, but for the past three years he has been allowed to use the gym to coach about 40 girls and boys. That is, until the school (probably a nun doing some "research") found out about Weast's other job: as an actor in several gay porn videos. Weast admits to making the films about a year ago and says he did it because he needed the money badly. (WQAD)

Baseball’s Best Burger? Minor League Team Invents Latest Gourmet Delight With Help of . . . Krispy Kreme? - Imagine: a large hamburger patty covered in cheddar cheese and two strips of bacon, but on a Krispy Kreme donut cut in half instead of a bun. That's what the Gateway Grizzlies, a minor league baseball team in the Frontier League hope will bring you out to the ballgame this season. Baseball’s Best Burger, which will officially debut at the Joe Buck All-Star Game May 6 at GMC Stadium. A picture of Baseball's Best Burger is at right. (Gateway Grizzlies)

You Little Devil! Highly Ranked Duke Men's Lacrosse Team Accused of Sexually Assaulting Stripper at Team Party - For some reason, college lacrosse teams seem to be getting into a lot of trouble this spring. Maybe it's that "we don't get any respect" attitude that rugby players used to have? Who knows, but we do know that all 46 members of the Duke men's lacrosse team had to provide DNA samples and submit to being photographed after a woman alleged she was sexually assaulted by three members. This isn't your typical dorm-room drunken party gone bad: according to reports, more than 30 members of the team showed up at house rented by three team captains for a party on March 13. According to cops, two women went to the house to dance and the men became aggressive and the woman left, but were asked to return. When they went back to the house, the two women were separated and the victim--reportedly a mother of two just trying to make an honest buck--was forced into a bathroom and assaulted by three men. Sometime around 1:30 a.m. on March 14 the victim called police from a nearby grocery store to report the assault. Since then, the university has forfeited two games while police continue their investigation and University President Richard H. Brodhead released a statement saying, "Physical coercion and sexual assault are unacceptable in any setting and have no place at Duke. The criminal allegations against three members of our men’s lacrosse team, if verified, will warrant very serious penalties." Because no one on the team is willing to come forward to identify the alleged perpetrators, cops have had to take pictures and get DNA evidence from everyone on the squad. Upset with the way the school is handling the incident and teams code of silence, about 75 people attended a candlelight vigil outside the house on Friday night. One protestor said he was "outraged that 40 Duke students know what happened and won't come forward" and angry that it took Duke two days to decide to cancel Saturday's game. Apparently, the game wasn't going to be cancelled until traffic on Duke sports message boards heated up and there were calls for protests at the game. Even if the assault allegations prove to be false, it might not be the end of this incident: according to reports there was also some underage drinking going on at the party. So, I guess now we play the waiting game. A complete list of Duke lacrosse team members are here, and it probably won't be long before some bookie starts listing odds on who'll get arrested. (Herald Sun)

Holy Crap! Bad Coach of Year? This guy didn't hit anyone, didn't steal from the school, or have sex with a cheerleader. So what did he do that was so bad? He wouldn't let an athlete on the team bus to get off to use the bathroom. Instead, the coach--who's been placed on administrative leave while the school investigates--allegedly forced the desperate jock to defecate into a bag and urinate into a cup. (Click2Houston) Thanks to Dan Luka for the link!
More Crappy News - Pair of high school students talk friend into defecating into bowl in cafeteria. Hilarity ensues when the kid does it and then puts in with the other dirty dishes. Details here.

We Have Arrived . . . Again! Online article titled, "Bad Behavior: Is Unsportsmanlike Conduct a Straight Thing?" quotes BadJocks Publisher Bob Reno extensively about hot topics such as hazing and HS coach sex scandals. Lavender.com

#41! The swimming coach at Seaholm High School in Birmingham, Michigan has been accused of having sexual relations with a girl--under 16--who had been on his team. (WXYZ) Thanks to Deledaga for the link!
#40! HS track coach arrested on charges of having sex with a pair of student athletes. (CBS 2) Thanks to Tom T. for the link!)

Judge Bitch Slaps Barry Bonds Lame Lawsuit Against Authors - Well, that didn't take long: a California judge denied Barry Bonds' bid to block the authors and publishers from making money on a book claiming the Giants slugger used steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs, and said Bonds' suit against them had "little chance of success." Is that the best your suits could come up with Barry? (Baltimore Sun)