Soccer Team in Trouble for Observing Fake "Moment of Silence" - Sports fans, you've all been there at a game where a former player or coach has recently passed away and they observe a moment of silence in that person's honor before the festivities start. That recently happened in the UK when the GSK Phoenix team paused before a match against Ifield Edwards to pay their respects to a fallen comrade. It wasn't until AFTER the game that Ifield Edwards found out that the player wasn't really dead and the whole thing had been a prank. Of course, they didn't think it was funny and reported GSK Phoenix to the proper authorities who say they stunt brought the game of soccer "into disrepute" (a little late for that) and will likely suspend the team. Let's all bow our heads for a moment and reflect on the stupidity of GSK. Amen! (IC Surrey Online)

Lack of Liquor License Forces Hooters Girls to Take to Streets in Protest, Wear Non-Revealing Clothes - Won't you think of the children . . . or at least the shapely young women who used to be children and have no other way to support themselves? The ladies at Hooters in Troy, Michigan (not far from the BadJocks Bunker and--we're told--a great place to watch the ballgame) were walking the street (in the non-prostitute sense) protesting this week after the city fathers decided not to transfer the liquor license for the restaurant when it moved to a new location in town. What, no beer with our chicken wings? Might as well have the gals dress up as nuns. For their part, the Troy city council thinks Hooters doesn't represent their town well. On the other side, well, there's young women in tight white tank tops and orange short shorts. Is there really a choice here? Hooters corporate headquarters is fighting the battle on two fronts: sending its waitresses outside to protest and filing a $1 million lawsuit. Sounds to us like the Troy city council better rethink their decision or someone's headed for a nasty recall vote. (Detroit News)

Here's How One Girls HS Soccer Match Post-Game Handshake Went This Past Week:
"Good Game"
"Nice Game"
"Great Game"
BAMM!
"Good Game"
"Nice Game"
"Anyone Missing Some Teeth?"
 - The girls might be finally catching up to the boys when it comes to high school soccer violence . . . and this one happened after the game. We're all for sportsmanship here at BadJocks, but the post-game handshake seems to becoming more of a opportunity for revenge than a show of respect. Is it time to mothball this old tradition? Case in point: a girls HS soccer game in upstate New York between Wallkill and Cornwall. Cornwall won 2-0 in what's being described as a typical playoff game until the girls started walking towards each other for the post-game handshake. At some point, Wallkill's Jasmine Crespi, 16, sucker punched Cornwall junior defender Ashley Thorpe in the face, knocking out three teeth and fracturing her jaw. A bloody Thorpe collapsed to the ground and as teammates rushed to her aid, Crespi and the rest of the Wallkill's team calmly got on the bus and drove away! Police were called and Crespi was identified as the perpetrator and authorities called her parents to ask them to bring her in. According to cops they refused! When officers said a warrant for her arrest would be issued if her parents didn't produce her by the next night, Crespi finally appeared in court accompanied her lawyer where she was charged with assault. As a result of the cheap shot, Thorpe underwent two hours of oral surgery and will have to have her jaw wired shut, likely meaning she will miss the rest of the season. (Record Online)

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Excited About the Great Deal You Got on Those Callaway Golf Clubs You Bought on Ebay Last Week? You May Not Be After You Read This - Orange County, CA cops raided the home and warehouse of an eBay entrepreneur this week and seized more than $1 million worth of golf equipment they say he was attempting to selling online. According to the cops, they went after Jason Paul Hughes, 32 after complaints from the Callaway Golf Co. that their equipment was being sold online below market value. WAY below market value. How could that be? Brand new sets of their clubs that normally sell for between $2000 and $3000 were going for less than $1000. Turns out, the items weren't really Callaway . . . or Titleist or Cleveland either. When they raided the warehouse officers found more than 1500 counterfeit pieces of equipment including golf clubs, bags, covers, balls and gloves all bearing the insignias of Callaway that had been illegally imported from China. Apparently you can import a fake set of Callaway clubs from China for less than $100. (Step 2: Find suckers on eBay. Step 3: Profit!) Officials estimate the fake gear was worth about $500,000 but have no idea how much may have been sold before the raid. Mr. Hughes' bail has been set at $1 million while he awaits trial on suspicion of possessing counterfeit products for sale, a felony. (LA Times)

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Say What? Youth Football Coach Accused of Giving Players Unwashed Uniforms

Mets Pitcher Tests Positive for Steroids in August . . . and We're Just Finding out Now? It seemed like Floyd Landis had barely crossed the finish line in the Tour de France and the French authorities already had a sample of his urine in their hands and the positive test results. Major League Baseball on the other hand, which has tried to portray itself as cleaning up its act recently when it comes to use of performance enhancing drugs, seems to be taking a little more time. According to the league, Mets pitcher Guillermo Mota arrived in NYC in August from Cleveland, and almost immediately tested positive for steroids. Yet, he kept pitching even into the post season, compiling a 3-0 record and with a 1.00 ERA. Now, of course, he faces a 50-game ban, to be served at the beginning of the 2007 season, but why did it take so long? What if the Mets had won the World Series using Mota? (NY Daily News)

Granny-Gate Rocks New Zealand Rugby Team - It's being called "one of international rugby league's darkest days." Why? Best as we can figure out, the great-grandmother of NZ hooker (we hope that's just a rugby term) Nathan Fien was a Kiwi. Nothing wrong with that, except to play for the national team, your parents or grandparents need to be from that country. You can't go further back than that. And apparently the New Zealand team knew about that little discrepancy and let Fien play anyway. But now they've been caught and, according to International Rugby traditions, granny gets the crap beat out of her by the Australian team. Nope, wait, we read the rules wrong. Actually, the Kiwis have been stripped of several of their wins and Fien is banned from the rest of the tournament. (NZ Herald)

Dumb: Vikings Fan Arrested for Throwing Beer Bottle at Tom Brady
Dumber: Season Ticket Holder Who Sold Seats Could Lose Them - By now, most sports fans know that Tom Brady and the New England Patriots mopped the floor with the Minnesota Vikings in the Metrodome 31-7 Monday night. What you may have missed after one of Brady's TD pass is a Viking's fan throwing a plastic beer bottle onto the field that narrowly missed him and several other Patriots. According to police that fan, Brad Reiland, 31 tried to leave the stadium in a hurry and stopped in the men's room to wash off his purple face paint . . . which is where cops found him. Reiland claims he only had one beer at the game . . . and maybe three or four when he started tailgating at 4 in the afternoon. While Reiland probably faces a small fine for disorderly conduct, the season ticket holder who sold or gave the seats to Reiland and his brother could lose the tickets as a result. (KARE 11)
More Hate for the Pats: Drunk Buffalo Bills Fans Beat Up NE Fan in Front of Pregnant Wife - The first line of this story says it all: "While his helpless, pregnant wife watched in horror, a Woburn man says, he was viciously beaten outside the Buffalo Bills’ football stadium last week by a liquored-up mob of New York fans embittered after the Pats crushed their team. " The guy was tailgating wearing a Red Sox cap and Patriots jacket and went to use a porta-potty. A small group of Bills fans started pelting the john with rocks and when he exited, they started beating on him and the guy barely made it back to his car alive. Unfortunately he has lost use of both is hands--at least temporarily--and suffered a black eye and head injuries. (Boston Herald)

#162! High School basketball coach pleads guilty to statutory rape after admitting to having sex with a 15-year-old female student in a school locker room last year. (First Coast News)
#161! JV basketball coach accused of entering the bedroom of a 17-year-old high school girl through an unlocked window last summer and touching her sexually. (KRQE)

Say What? HS Quarterback Arrested for DUI Thursday Night, Has Career Game Friday Night - The coach at Woodland Regional High School (Connecticut) claims he had no idea that star quarterback Alex Dorosh was arrested for DUI last Thursday, which is why the QB still played Friday in their big 47-to-15 win over Watertown High School. Dorosh reportedly completed 22 of 32 passes for 322 yards and threw for five touchdowns. The school says it will investigate now that it knows of the arrest. (WTNH)

From Our "What the Hell?" Files: Louisville Receivers Suspended for Shooting Woman With Paint Ball Gun as She Exited Haunted House

Busted! Pee Wee Hockey Coach Accused of Giving Supplements to Players - Think the use of steroids and human growth hormone among professional athletes doesn't have an affect on younger athletes? Jeff Kantner, head coach of the Reading Junior Royals Youth Ice Hockey Association's Peewee A team in Reading, Pa., is accused of giving 11- and 12-year-old boys glucose tablets, an over-the-counter supplement that boosts energy in adults. In his defense, Kantner, who has since quit his position, allegedly said he handed out the pills because his players were "eating too much candy." (NBC 10)

NBA Fan Banned for Year for Racial Slur - The regular season hasn't even started yet and pro basketball fans are already in mid-season form. Case-in-point: Orlando Magic season-ticket holder Hooman "Don't Call Me Homer" Hamzehloui allegedly called Houston Rockets center Dikembe Mutombo a "monkey" at a preseason game last week. As a result, Hamzehloui has been banned from the area for the entire season and had his season tickets revoked. (Toronto Sun)

HS Football "Semen Tossing" Hazing Update: Four Fairhaven HS Players Charged - You remember this fun story, don't you? At a camp this summer football players from Fairhaven High School duct taped a teammate to his a bed, beat him and then poured, uh, "bodily fluids" on him. Well, four of those players were arraigned last week on felony charges in connection with the incident and now face charges of indecent assault and battery and hazing. (Boston Globe)

Naughty Cheerleader Alert! HS Girl Caught in Sexy Lingerie Pics at Wild Halloween Party Sues School for Getting Kicked Off Squad - Last year at this time, students from Leland High School were attending a Halloween party and shortly thereafter someone posted pictures of that event on their MySpace page. Unfortunately, those pictures showed five members of the cheerleading squad dressed in lingerie and other partygoers drinking and smoking. And the school's code of conduct--that all jocks sign--no fun of any kind! The school district found the pics and suspended the girls from cheerleading for an entire year. Because of that, they missed both the 2005 AND 2006 seasons. On the other hand, some of the football players at the same party allegedly were only suspended a few games. The result? You guess it: lawsuit! The 17-year-old plaintiff, Jaimee Bruno, and her mother have now filed a sex discrimination lawsuit against Leland High School. The lawsuit also alleges that in the past, photos of a naked male athlete were posted on MySpace and no action was taken against him. (NBC-11 - link includes video clip.)

Jockey Banned for Using Electrical Device on Horse . . . During Warm-ups? Carlos Bautista, a quarter horse jockey in California, received a one-year suspension for allegedly using an electronic buzzer to shock a horse called Royal Medallion that he rode at Fairplex Park back in September. According to track officials, Bautista was accused of using the device  during the warm-up period Sept. 24 at the Pomona track. Even with the electrical enhancement, the horse still finished third. (Fox Sports)

Deputy Prosecutor Arrested for Allegedly Having Sex in Women's Rest Room During Seahawks Game - As usual, the lines were long to the women's restrooms during the Seattle Seahawks game at Qwest Field a week ago Sunday. When ladies finally got into one facility they discovered why their wait was even longer than usual: a man and a woman were in a stall together, and appeared to be having sex! That's not going to set well when you've been waiting to pee for an hour, so someone told nearby security staff who allegedly found the pair together . . . although not "in the act." According to police, the 39-year-old man "had been drinking and was argumentative" with deputies and he really should know better: according to reports, he's a deputy prosecutor in Thurston County (Spokane) and his partner was allegedly a paralegal at the same office. The man claims he was just "using the facilities" but officers pointed out that it was illegal for him just to be in the ladies room, even if he wasn't getting his football freak on. Even with that clever excuse, arrested for trespassing and obstructing a public servant and thrown out of the game. (Yakima Herald)

Spitting "Hazing" Sends Eight Band Geeks to the Sidelines - It was a typical Friday night football game for East Grand Rapids High School (Michigan). On the way out of the game, a band teacher noticed something unusual going on: eight members of the drum line surrounded a freshman band member behind the bleachers and spit on him. Not just once or twice, but repeatedly until he was one big loogie mess. Naturally, the teacher reported it and the eight were immediately suspended, but the nature of the incident seems to be in question. The school, of course, claims it was an isolated, one time incident and has nothing to do with hazing. Members of the drum line though, tell a different story: they freely admit that this form of "body fluid initiation" is a longstanding band tradition and the spitting, they say, is a friendly way to welcome a younger member into the band. (Anyone else feel the phlegm building up in the back of your throat?) Either way, the spitters were suspended for three days and must attend a class on decision making. (WZZM)

Duke Lacrosse Bombshells!
#1 - Victim Tells Second Stripper During Ride Home "Go Ahead Put Marks on Me" (ABC News)
#2 - Prosecutor Admits He's Never Spoken to Alleged Victim "About the Facts of That Night" - (Myrtle Beach Online)

White Fans at Pee Wee Football Playoff Game Wear Black Face and Afro Wigs to "Support" Their Team Against Squad of Minority Players - How do you even begin to categorize something like this? For goodness sakes people, it's 2006 and you still think this is cool and/or funny? It all happened last weekend at a pari of Pee Wee football (7-8-9-year-olds) playoff games in Cleveland between Hudson (mostly white players) and Shaker Heights (mostly Africa-American players). According to a local TV station, two young Hudson fans showed up in black face and Afro wigs, banging on frying pans. During the game at least one member of the Hudson crowd was overheard using the "n" word. And then, to make matters worse, some Hudson parents defended the racially charged actions by saying the pair were, ". . . two little boys, not the entire fans, that happened to wear part of the Halloween costume. They thought they were supporting their brother on the team." Oh yeah, that makes sense. On top of that, the kids walked up and down the sidelines dressed like that for BOTH games and not a single adult tried to stop them. The Hudson coach has since apologized to the Shaker Heights players and the program has drafted a resolution condemning the behavior, but not before two teams pulled out of the league. (WKYC) Thanks to Phillip H. for the link!
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Indiana University Swimmers Arrested, Kicked Off Team for Drunken Mischief - When campus police arrived at the scene, a number of young men appeared to be attempting to move a small Chevy from a parking spot into the roadway. Within a few minutes it was obvious that the young men involved were not only intoxicated, but also members of the highly ranked men's swim team. Four of them--all underage--were eventually arrested and charged will illegal consumption, criminal mischief and public intoxication. Oh, and they're off the swim team now as well. (Timed Finals) Thanks to R Silva for the tip!

NYU Golf Coach Resigns After Reports He Took Team to Strip Club During Florida Road Trip . . . Wait. NYU Has a Golf Team? - Even though he says it was all innocent, the head golf coach at New York University, Jay Donovan, was recently forced to resign after the athletics department learned he took the team to a strip club while they were in Florida last March for a tournament. According to Donovan, he got lost driving the team van and twice they passed the same strip club, and both time various team members asked to go inside. The coach relented and claims they were only in there one hour and that the school did not pay for anyone's drinks . . . although alcohol was consumed by an underage team member. The original story also goes into great details about the ongoing problems of the NYU golf team, especially with its star player and team captain John “Pepper” Pharr. If you ask us, the whole thing sounds like a bunch of rich crybabies with too much free time on their hands, taking advantage of an underpaid coach. (Washington Square News)