Tacky, Tacky, Tacky: Junior Varsity HS Football Player Prick Opposing Players During Post-Game Handshake With Hidden Pin in Gloves - A player for Layton High School's (Utah) junior varsity football team thought that members of the opposing team from Davis High had put some kind of chemical on the field before their game last Friday night. So, how do you retaliate against something like that? Well, if you're a 15-year-old player for Layton, you might decide to put thumb tacks in your gloves to give the opposing team a little bit of a poke during the normally friendly post-game handshake. Initially, when coaches from both teams found out they decided to handle it internally, but the father of one of the Davis players who was pricked decided to call the police and an investigation was launched into the incident. (Desert News)

The Latest Sports Hazing News:
College Rugby Club Suspended Indefinitely Because of Hazing Investigation - When the Lyndon State College rugby club held its annual alumni game on Saturday, Sept. 9 something happened afterwards. School officials aren't saying exactly what (this seems to be the theme today), but did involve some underaged drinking and that, it was "important to note hazing can occur regardless of the consent of the person involved in the activity." It's encouraging to finally see a college refer to read its own hazing policy, especially that pesky part about consent not being an excuse. Take note University of Iowa and Niagara University. (Caledonian Record)

Minnesota HS Investigating Possible Hazing by Football Team - The Byron School District in Minnesota isn't saying much about the incident, but those close to the situation say members of the Byron High football team have been suspended over an incident that happened away from school several weeks ago. (KTTC)

BadJocks Update: Alleged Surf Camp Hazing Case Sent to DA's Office - Remember this one? Adult counselors at the Oceanside Surf Institute are accused of throwing children into trash bins and forcing them to lick the inside of the can as punishment. (10 News)

Drunk Romanian Soccer Player Whips Out Gun During Game - Last week we had a story about a Bulgarian soccer player who stabbed the player who was sent in to replace him during a game. Now comes word from Romania that a soccer player who was pulled from a game for being drunk then tried to trip up linesman and players who ran past him on the sidelines. After one of those attempted trippings, a heated discussion ensued and the player, Ion Ciobanu pulled out a pistol. Fortunately, no one was shot, but police were called and Ciobanu was detained and fined and should be suspended from playing soccer for two years. (Bucharest Daily News)

Bad Jock of the Year Finalist? Soccer Coach Hires Mobsters to Beat Up Slacking Players - Now there's a coaching technique they probably don't teach you in college! A Russian soccer coach thought several of his players weren't playing up to their potential after the team lost two early season games it probably should have won. In fact, the players and the coach actually accused each other of taking money to throw the games. That didn't sit well with the coach who then did what most of us probably would have done: he hired mobsters to beat the crap out of them. How bad was the beating? According to police, the team captain, goalkeeper and a striker all required hospitalization for their injuries, which included one concussion. No word yet on how motivated the remaining players are but we can guess they'll be giving it their full effort in the future. (IOL)

College Sports Hazing Update: 17 Members of Baseball Team Will Miss Three Spring Games - Remember the hazing pictures of the Chicago-area North Central College baseball team? The players called it "a team bonding exercise" but the administration investigated anyway after photos of baseball players drinking (one shot shows them pouring six different kinds of hard liquor down one freshman's throat at the same time) playing a baseball game in their underwear and then parading around in women's lingerie, were posted online. Now those photos have resulted in seventeen returning players being ordered to perform community service instead of playing during the first three games of the spring season. (Daily Herald)

High School Tries to Stop "Hazin' and Homecoming" Tradition

Bobby Knight to Oklahoma Fans: Suck It, Whiners! - Okay, he didn't actually say "suck it", but he did tell Sooner fans that they won't be getting any sympathy from him after officials admitted mistakes were made the the loss to Oregon last weekend. Knight sited a Texas Tech basketball game against the sooner several years ago where the game clock failed to start right away and allowed the Sooners to tie the score in regulation and then win in overtime. At the time Knight complained and asked OU to forfeit the game which, of course, they didn't. So the former IU coach says the team can basically "suck it" now that the "'duck' is swimming in the other pond." (Lexington Herald Leader)

School District Cops Hide Camera in Ceiling of Boys Locker Room to "Catch Thief" - Someone was stealing items from the lockers of boys on the Sweeny High School (Texas) football team, so the school district cops did what any of us would have done. They installed a hidden camera in the ceiling of the locker room. Unfortunately, before they could uh, catch the thief, the boys found the camera and complained to parents who, naturally, were outraged. (Click2Houston)

Homosexual Slurs Thrown at Male HS Cheerleader, Quickly Followed by Punches - Gay-bashing of male cheerleaders is still apparently alive and well in Massachusetts, as a post-game incident after the Melrose and Malden last Friday demonstrates. According to police, a 17-year-old male cheerleader from Malden told them that as he was exiting the field with the rest of the squad following the game, an unidentified teenaged female from Melrose approached him and let loose with a few homosexual slurs. Ignoring the taunts wasn't enough as the girl's boyfriend (described as a " white male with a lip piercing and wearing a black hat") then allegedly punched the male cheerleader in the face and chest several times. Both schools have investigated and instead of arresting anyone they agreed this should become a "teachable moment," and planned concurrent diversity rallies at both schools next week. (Town Online)

Streakers "Inspire" Youth Rugby Team to Come-From-Behind Victory - We're not sure how you keep score in rugby, but if it's anything like American football, the Kahukura, New Zealand under-13 team was getting its collective butt kicked by their rivals in Auckland 24-7 last weekend when inspiration arrived in the guise of five naked men. Members of the team claim that their come-from-behind 26-24 was due to the sight of five unidentified adult males--believed to be members of a traveling rugby team--who decided to streak the game in front of them and their stunned parents. In fact, later in the match, another man streaked the same game wearing nothing but a yellow cape and was tackled by the referee. He managed to escape and none of the other exhibitionists have been arrested, but apparently the mental damage was done to Auckland as they were unable to score a single point the rest of the game. In a possibly related story an elderly New Zealand couple, Jan and Bryan Moran, say they spotted five naked young men playing rugby at the Rotorua Lakefront about 3.30pm on Saturday. Said Mrs. Moran, "We didn't stop to stare but it was just enough time to see naked bodies. It was quite funny. I must admit though, I don't particularly agree with them prancing around in the nude. There were a lot of children around."
But INSPIRED children, Mrs. Moran. (Daily Post)

HS Coach Sex Scandal Update: Teen Softball Player Who Ran Off With Married Coach Now Suing Him and League - Anyone remember the story from 2003 of Andrew Garver, the Beaverton, Oregon girls softball coach who went missing almost exactly three years ago today with a 15-year-old player from his team. At the time, police didn't know if she had been kidnapped, killed, or what, and a national manhunt ensued. (In BadJocks experience, the best places to look when a coach runs off with a teenaged girl are Vegas and Disney World. It's true.)  They disappeared until June of 2004 when a minor traffic accident in Tennessee resulted in Garver's capture and the revelation that the two had been living together quietly there as an engaged couple. In November 2004 he plead guilty to variety of charges and received 71 months in jail. Now, of course, the underage girl is ready to sue someone and has filed a complaint against not only Garver, but also the Aloha Baseball & Softball Association for emotional distress and negligence. She claims, among other things, that the league failed to "strictly prohibit romantic and sexual relationships between coaches and players." (Oregon Live)

#142! Boys soccer coach suspended after kissing girls in his classroom. (Tennessean)
#141! Former middle school teacher/coach arrested after cops find 3400 porn videos on his computer. (Herald Sun)
#140! Former history teacher/girls basketball coach Anne Ichord, charged with sexual misconduct with a 17-year-old male student. (Daily Democrat)

Father of HS Football Player Sneaks Into Opposing Team's Practice With Video Camera Claiming to Be College Coach - At 6'3 and 220 lbs, Rocco Colavecchia, the starting quarterback for Shenango High (PA) is considered a top prospect for several Big Ten programs. But apparently that wasn't enough for his dad, Frank Colavecchia, who admitted this week to sneaking into the practice of rival Mars High School a few days before the big game. He reportedly told gullible officials there that he was a college coach scouting one of their players and then was allowed to tape about a half-hour of the practice. Rocco then went on to throw for a school-record 457 yards in Shenango's 41-to-35 win last Friday, although dad claims his son never saw the tape and it was eventually destroyed. Wow! Imagine if the kid did see the tape? 1000 yards in a single game, anyone? (WGAL)

Catholic Ed Lobby Says: Sex Scandals At Catholic Colleges ‘No Surprise’- Catholic college girls hiring strippers for team initiations? Apparently members of the Catholic Education Lobby were not surprised back in May when BadJocks first broke this story . . . or a subsequent one about female lacrosse players at Manhattan College doing the same thing. In fact, turns out that all sorts of naughty stuff is going on right under the noses of priests and nuns . . . and some of it actually involves the students! Our favorite quote in the article comes at the very end: 
Yesterday's issue of Fairfield University’s campus newspaper features a column with a photo of condoms and the message, "Don’t be a fool, wrap your (or his) tool,” Reilly said.  “If this is faithful Catholic education, the Pope must be Dr. Ruth.”
Amen! (LifeSite.net)

Miami TV Stations Leads Local Newscast With Breaking Story About Excessive Charges for Teenaged Girls to Participate . . . in Middle School Cheerleading Club? You want the best for your kids, right? So what's wrong with paying almost $1700 for your little girl to be part of a traveling middle school cheerleading squad? I mean, if she's good, she might be able to, uh, get a college cheerleading scholar---well, more likely, she might be able to become a college cheerleader and meet a nice football or basketball player who'll get tons of money under the table from an agent before he graduates. It's the American dream! But right now, some Miami parents can't see that golden future for their girls and are upset that their kids will need $1700 in uniforms, training, and make-up just to be the best darn middle school cheerleaders they can be. The Miami-Dade School District has launched a massive investigation into these "exorbitant prices" because school clubs aren't supposed to charge any fees for kids to participate. And it must have been a slow news day in Miami because CBS 4 lead with this story in its newscast Monday. (CBS4 - link includes video clip)

Romanian Soccer Coach Banned for Headbutting Own Player - You know, sometimes you wish you were creative enough to make this stuff up.

Heckled by Opposing Fans, Cricket Bowler Banned for Ten Years for Throwing Ball Into Stands - Ten long years. That's how long Mark Vermeulen is banned from playing cricket. What did he do to deserve such a lengthy sentence? Allegedly he took the ball that he was supposed to throw at the batter or the wicket ( or whatever they throw at in cricket) and instead zipped it into the stands after some good-natured taunting by fans. Normally, you never get to read what the fans said before an athlete attacks . . . but not this time. According to CricketWeb.net--a source we trust implicitly--one comment aimed at Vermeulen right before he went nuts was believed to be, "if you take your sunglasses off then maybe you'll be able to see where you're bowling." Wow! Damn right you'd go nuts after something like that! Who wouldn't? We think it was well worth the ten years, Mark. You just can't let fans say stuff like that to you. (Cricket Web) 
Update: On appeal the ban was reduced to three years with two years suspended, meaning he and Maurice Clarett should be able to enjoy a game of cricket together in about 3-5.

How Do You Settle a Soccer Game Dispute? Pound Your Opponent's Honda Civic With Golf Clubs, Of Course! - This story makes so little sense when you read it, and yet, most regular BadJocks readers will find it very believable. Two families in Sheboygan, Wisconsin got into a dispute at a soccer game almost two weeks ago. After simmering that long, you'd think the young men involved, ages 15, 17, 17, 18, 20 and 24, would want to solve it with guns, knives, baseball bats or even their bare fists. But not these guys: their weapon of choice were golf clubs. And no, they didn't look to bust any heads, just the Honda Civic owned by a member of the rival soccer family. Only well, these guys aren't two bright and they actually destroyed not one, but TWO other Civics (a 2004 and a ' 97) belonging to perfect strangers that just happened to be in the same neighborhood before they found the ' 99 model they were looking for. Unfortunately the owner of the 1999 Civic and a friend saw this all happen and were stupid enough to follow these idiots back their home turf an confronted them, were more vehicles (and people) were struck with the golf clubs before police arrived and arrested 8 members of the same family . . . and presumably confiscated any golf equipment. (Appleton Post-Crescent)

New Hate Mail From Some College Boy - This email came in overnight in response to a link we had last week to a well-written article about hazing in the NFL in OutSports.com which also happened to quote a friend of the site, Prof. Hank Nuwer. Apparently that didn't set well with the enlightened college crowd who felt compelled to express their outrage at us. Which begs the question: How did such a small mind get into college in the first place?

You MORONS collaborate with OUTSPORTS.COM, the fag sports website? Do you know how sissy and wimpy and politically correct that website is? You have NOTHING on jocks acting badly now that it's found out you contract with a homosexual website. Wow...you guys really showed your sissiness by colloborating with such political correctness wimps. Nobody in our dorms trusts your site anymore.
MConway21

Breaking BadJocks News: Maurice Clarett Trial Over Before It Begins - The former Ohio State running back wanted to get a jump on the PeNFL (Penitentiary Football League) Draft and elected to forgo his last few months of freedom with a plea bargain that will likely make him the starter on the prison team for the next 3 1/2 to 7 1/2 years, depending on good behavior. Vegas odds makers wasted no time in setting the over/under for Clarett's stay in the slammer at 6 years. Our money's on 8. (Houston Chronicle)

#139! According to police, a 29-year-old youth football coach threatened to kill one of his players if he told anyone about their alleged sexual relationship. (KSAT)

Central Florida Football Player Tasered by Cops - You know the story isn't going to end well for the jock when it includes the phrase, "police were called to Denny's at 3 am." That would also be true for University of Central Florida senior cornerback Travonti Johnson. In the early morning hours Sunday, the manager of an Orlando Denny's called police and asked them to talk to Johnson and two friends who getting a little loud while dining there. Instead of leaving quietly, Johnson allegedly yelled profanities at the officers (at one time claiming that Orlando was a racist community) and wouldn't leave the restaurant parking lot when asked to by officers so . . . they tasered him. (A quick review of our fiels shows about 10 incidents of jocks being tasered in 2006, making us think it might be a good category for the 2007 scoreboard.) Johnson, 22, was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting an officer without violence. (Sun-Sentinel)

Naughty Cheerleaders Abound! 2006 Turning Out to Be One of the Best of the Worst - Of course, in 2005 we had the NFL Cheerleader Lesbian Sex Bar Fight, but so far in 2006 the sheer numbers show a dramatic increase in Naughty Cheerleaders. Why? Who knows . . . and who really cares? They're Naughty Cheerleaders! Shut up and enjoy.
School Board Fires Naughty Cheerleading Coach Who Allegedly Gave Booze to Girls at Christmas Party, Gave Lap Dance to Man Other Than Santa - The Page County School Board (Virginia) is making a list and checking it twice, and then voting to dismiss varsity cheerleading coach Tanya Merica, 25, on accusations she claims are totally unfounded. Ho, ho, ho. It was either a Christmas party to remember, or one of the greatest misunderstandings of all time. Some members of the squad claim that at the party in 2005, Merica served them alcohol and that at one point in the evening, gave a man in attendance a lap dance. And why wouldn't the board believe them? Merica does have--horrors!--her tongue and nose pierced. Of course, a number of parents, students and others told the board that nothing happened at the party, but that apparently didn't convince them as they voted to dismiss the coach anyway. (Daily News Record)
New Zealand Cheerleader Loses Job After "Inappropriate Hug" Given to Broadcaster - Apparently the professional sports cheerleaders in New Zealand are friendly . . . really friendly. Like Stacey Evans of the NZ Breakers who was fired after hugging Andrew Mulligan . . . with her arms AND legs when she jumped up on him on national television. Mr. Mulligan, in addition to being the host of The Crowd Goes Wild, is also a personal friend of Ms. Evans. But that didn't stop officials from ruling that the hug was inappropriate and firing her from the squad. After further review however, the league reduced the punishment to a warning, but asked Ms. Evans to keep her legs closed during future appearances. (Stuff)

Another Mention of BadJocks in the Media: Personal Web pages can lead to online fouls

And, from one of our Readers - This comes to us from Hayden T, who writes:
You think the headline re the Arlington, Mass. nude teacher ("Naked porch parade lands teacher in jail") was the Headline of the Year? I've got a better one! Just follow your link (below) re that same story. Over at the right is a list of "Related Articles." Click on the first one and it takes you to the follow-up story, re this guy resigning as a teacher. The follow-up story is headlined: "Teacher in NUDE FLAP leaves post". 
Now THAT'S the Headline of the Year!

For Those Keeping Score at Home: Maurice Clarett's trial (well, the first of many, anyway) starts today.

And This Headline of the Week: As Packers Losses Go Up, So Do Stadium Arrests (Damn drunk Cheeseheads!)