Top Ten Bad Jock Stories of 2006 - Includes Bad Jock of the Year!
Top HS Coach Sex Scandals of 2006
Top Naughty Cheerleaders of 2006
Top Naked People in Sports of 2006
Strangest Stories from 2006

Okay, so college sports hazings were pretty good to BadJocks last year. In addition to a number of other stories we've covered, we actually broke the story of the Northwestern Women's Soccer Team Initiation Pics and got a lot of national media attention. We also hope we raised the level of discuss about hazing in sports, why it happens and how it can be prevented. (See link at bottom of page for Dr. Susan Lipkins book on the subject.) But as this page will tell, sports hazing at both the college and high school level continue and appear to be getting more violent and sexual. Just check out the first story.

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Hazing Incident of the Year Caught on Tape: Video Includes Initiation Scenes Depicting "Highly Degrading Sexual Acts and the Use of Feces" - When one of our hazing experts sends us a link to a story and says the alleged acts are "reprehensible" we tend to listen. Four junior hockey players, aged 17 to 20 (all members of the junior AAA L'Action of Joliette in Quebec) face a variety of charges ranging from voyeurism and sexual assault to the production of juvenile pornography, all because of a videotape of one of them having sex with his girlfriend. As best we can understand the story, one of the players made the tape and shared it with his teammates. The girl involved was worried that the clip might make it to the Internet (damned Internet!), so she asked for the tape back. But not only did it contain footage of their love-making, it also showed a "sordid, sex-and-booze initiation party in the team's locker room with other women." How sordid? Well, the girl was so upset that she turned it over to her father (how'd you like to explain that one to dad?) who watched it and then went to police because the underage players are seen drinking heavily and committing highly degrading sexual acts and the use of . . . feces? Not exactly sure HOW the feces were used, but my guess is that it wasn't for medical research purposes. Not surprisingly, members of the hockey team are downplaying the seriousness of the tape claiming that, "It was just a regular initiation party. There was nothing illegal." Interestingly enough, the first reaction from the hockey team was to threaten the girlfriend's father with a lawsuit, complaining he had "no permission to use the tape." On the plus side, the team's president refuses to suspend any players until he personally reviews the tape which is currently in police custody. He'd better hurry though: at least one underage girl shown on the tape has come forward and claimed she was raped during the hazing. (CTV) Thanks to Hank Nuwer for the link!

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"Semen Tossing" Now Part of HS Football Hazing Rituals - For those of you out there who think sports initiation practices are nothing more than a "right of passage" that everyone goes through and that hazing has really changed in the years since you were in school, listen up: football players from Fairhaven High School (MA) may be in trouble for allegedly duct-taping a young player to a bed at a private sports camp, physically assaulting him and subjecting him to "gross and lewd acts including--wait for it--tossing semen in a cup on him. Allegedly the incident started with them putting Icy Hot in the player's jock strap and then went "downhill from there." That's one steep hill. According to the school, students who violate the code of ethics can be subject to penalties that range from a warning to banishment from Fairhaven athletics, but there is some question about jurisdiction in this case as the camp is a private event. Also: for some reason the Blue Devil's head football coach resigned a few days ago, after the investigation started and less than a week before the team's first game. (South Coast Today)
BONUS: Surfing instructors were told to stop hazing young students, including giving children "pink bellies" and putting them in trash cans after pictures appear on school's website. (10 News)

HS Cheerleaders Kicked Off Team for Hazing - If you read this story, it certainly appears that parents at Lawrence North High School near Indianapolis have been complaining about cheerleaders conducting hazing rituals for years but administrators haven't acted because they didn't have proof. Well, now they have proof in the form of a set of photos provided to The Indianapolis Star by a cheerleader's parent. In them victims are seen wearing blindfolds before being smothered in ketchup, olive oil and other food and then, for good measure, sprayed with a hose. Of course NOW hazing won't be tolerated at the school and six of the older girls responsible for the hazing have been kicked off the squad. While you're at it Lawrence North, you may also want to rewrite the part of your anti-hazing policy that reads "against a person's will." According to our friend--and hazing expert--professor Hank Nuwer, most victims agree to being hazed as a demonstration of loyalty to a group or because of sheer peer pressure. Most colleges have adopted a "willing or not" policy on hazing, although many like U of Iowa, refuse to enforce that part. (Indy Star)
BONUS: Just last fall, 7 members of the Lawrence North cheerleading squad were busted for drinking at a football playoff game. Remember? This is the story where cops gave them a breathalyzer during the game. It made our Top Ten Naughty Cheerleader Stories of 2005

Swirlie Ends in Head Injury, Players & Coaches Suspended - Ah, the classics! We never tire of hearing about high school athletes hazing one another. Case in point: five varsity baseball players at Lexington High School in South Carolina are under investigation after attempting to flush a junior varsity player's head in a toilet. Unfortunately for them, the victim struggle, they "accidentally" hit his head on the plumbing fixture, cutting his head open and--BONUS--aggravating an old back injury. According to the school district, all five players have been suspended from the team for two games and two J.V. coaches--who apparently knew about the incident--have been kicked off the team for the rest of the season. (WLTX)

Shocker! HS Coach May Have Been Involved in Lacrosse Hazing Incident - See if you can follow this one: members of the Dublin Coffman High School’s varsity lacrosse team were reportedly on a bus to Memphis, Tenn., for a tournament at the end of March. Something happened on the bus that caused a player to tell his parents, who then talked to school officials, who then gathered the boys together and asked--I'm not making this up!--if anyone "had fingers shoved up their rectum" during the Memphis trip. To their surprise, one boy not only raised his hand but at least four others said they witnessed the incident. According to police, the players said it happened after there was some discussion "between the parties about the glove and not being a believer in the glove." (WTF?) And, based on high school debate rules, to stimulate further discussion one coach allegedly held down a player with the opposing point-of-view while another player, wearing a black glove, inserted his hand into the player’s boxer shorts. The debate ended when the victim started screaming, "Get the (expletive) off of me, leave me alone," a clear violation of established debate technique.  Now here's the fun twist: one of the accused coaches has taken the classic stance that this was all just harmless horseplay (his attorney even used the time honored "Boys will be boys" line) and that it was being blown out of proportion because of "a few angry young men (players) that either dislike the coaching staff or aren’t getting any playing time and resent us." Yeah, admitting in public you had something like that done to you is the quickest way to get back at a coach. (Columbus Dispatch)
UPDATE: Cops Get Search Warrants, Search for Gloves

HS Drill Team Hazing: Girls Force to Run Naked Across Football Field - It's not just the sports teams getting in on the fun hazings anymore: police in Pleasant View, Utah are looking into allegations that new members of the Weber High School drill team (insert your own joke here) were force to run naked across the football field as part of an initiation. Now, before your brain really starts spinning, this happened at night with no one watching . . . or taking pictures that could be posted on the Internet . . . at least that we know of so far. (Desert News)

Indy Cheerleader Hazing Update: Newspaper Posts Messy MySpace Pics, Father Says Daughter Punched . . . in the Crotch? As we reported earlier this week, six cheerleaders from Lawrence North High School near Indianapolis have been kicked off the squad for hazing freshman. But now--to quote Paul Harvey--we have . . . the rest of the story. According to Robert Hampton, the father of one of the victims, his 15-year-old daughter and other freshmen were blindfolded and taken to an abandoned building at Fort Benjamin Harrison. Once there, the older girls dumped a variety of food items on them including cat litter and shaving cream. Oh, and for good measure, the older girls punched the freshmen in the crotch. Then they hosed the freshman off, leaving just fond memories . . . or so everyone thought. The whole thing would have stayed a secret--as it apparently has in past years-- except that the upperclassmen decided to post pictures of the event (example, right) on a MySpace page, which upset the freshman. According to Hampton's daughter, "They shouldn't have (done) that They should have just kept it in like they said they (would). But they didn't." Girls told parents, parents told the school and suspensions ensued. Before you think this is all just some innocent fun gone astray, the six who got the boot were also part of the squad last year that was caught drinking at a football playoff game just last fall. (Indy Channel)

HS Football Hazings Continue: Upperclassman Pulls Out 2 Foot Metal Rod, Tells Younger Boy "Defend Yourself" - We occasionally get email from people asking why we make such a big deal about sports hazings. "It's a rite of passage everyone goes though, what's the big deal?" they ask, often adding derogatory comments about my parentage. Normal rite of passage, huh? Try telling that to the 15-year-old football player at Center Grove High School (Indiana) who was, allegedly, assaulted by several teammates after practice last week. Among other things, the upperclassman pinned him to the floor while several allegedly took turns striking and kicking him. Not satisfied with that assault, another boy dropped his own pants and rubbed his buttocks on the victim's head. (Just typical locker room horseplay, you say? How about this last part?) And finally, one creative upperclassman pulled out a 2-foot long round metal rod, placed it next to the victim and told him to, "Defend yourself" then the older boy allegedly tried to shove the rod into the younger boy's rectum. Like anyone in that position, the victim screamed, (probably something along the lines of "Don't shove that steel rod up my ass!") alerting coaches who entered the room ending everyone's fun for the day . . . and possibly leading to assault charges. Yeah, sounds like a typical rite of passage to us. (Indy Star) Thanks to Duane S. for the link!

New College Hazing Incident: Soccer Players Stripped, Forced to Drink Keg - The entire men's soccer team at Hartwick College in upstate New York was suspended this week after an alleged hazing incident. According to local police, an 18-year-old member of the team reported that new members of the team were told to strip naked in a room at an off-campus residence over the weekend and then drink an entire keg of beer. Police were quick to point out that no one was injured in the incident and that the players removed their own clothes. (Daily Star)

The Perfect Evening? HS Hazing Incident Reportedly Included "Drinking, Paddling . . . and Cross-Dressing?" - Yeah, it's all good fun and games until someone's eye gets poked out by a broken bra strap . . . not that we would know anything about that sort of shenanigans. In a recently uncovered memo, written by the Athletic Director at Syosset High School on Long Island, the details of a hazing incident from last fall involving members of the football team are becoming more clear. Pretty much the entire varsity team was suspended for one week (including the last game of the season) for what is being described as a "Rookie Night" where younger players were not only encouraged drink, but also dress up as girls. After some further investigation, it was also discovered that some younger players were also paddled, which led to a few members of the team receiving the dreaded "additional consequences" . . . which were not spelled out in the memo, but we're sure they were serious. (Newsday)

Wrestler Testicle Hazing Update: School Expels Three Boys Over Incident - It all allegedly happened on a team bus in suburban Chicago on the way back from a wrestling match: upperclassmen from Argo Community High School allegedly took members of the freshman team, one by one, to the back of the bus. According to reports, while two boys held down a victim, a third shoved his testicles in the victim's face. This on a bus crowded with teammates and as many as four coaches . . . who insisted they didn't notice anything unusual going on. As a result, the school has suspended three of the coaches and expelled three wrestlers over the incident. (Chicago Tribune)

Iowa Cops Investigating Alleged HS Track Hazing Incident - For those of you who aren't regular readers of BadJocks, we should probably tell you that high school jocks aren't quite as sophisticated as their college counterparts when it comes to hazing. Occasionally there's physical violence, but by far the most common report--at least among the guys--is of attempting to stick fingers up one another guy's rear ends. "As a way of welcoming you to the team, my associates and I would like to give you your first proctology exam!" And that appears to be the case again at Eagle Grove High School where four young track stars could face criminal charges in connection with another one of those incidents. According to police, the track coach contacted them after a meet several weeks ago when rumors started flying that one boy was cornered in a tent and held against his will by three older teens, while a fourth teen "inappropriately touched the student from behind." Our favorite quote in the story comes from outraged student McKenzie Grandgeorge who said, "I, myself, think it was one of the sickest things they could do to someone. Whether he had shorts on or not it was still harassment and that kid didn't deserve it." Yeah, having shorts on makes all the difference in the world to you at that point. (KCCI.com)

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It's Here! BadJocks "End-of-the-School-Year Initiation Picture Blowout Bonanza"- You've waited patiently since Monday for our "Dirty Dozen," (initiation pictures from twelve colleges across the USA) that we've found online over the past few weeks. We wish we could say this is all there is out there, but that's not EVEN CLOSE to the truth. Given enough time and money we could probably post 100 sets like these, maybe more. Why? Well, first off, it's time to reveal the source for these, and all of our other initiation pictures: Webshots.com. Did you know that if you put in the term "initiation" into their search tool, you'll get more than 135,000 images. 135,000!!! Granted, not all of those are sports (most are those damn A/V geeks), so try just "soccer initiation." The result: almost 2800! "Lacrosse initiation or lax initiation?" More than 2200 combined. And the list goes on and on for every sport you can imagine. Some are just one picture of some guy with his head shaved like a monk, wearing nothing but women's panties with a half-empty 40 ouncer duct taped to his hand . . . others are entire sets that document a whole evening of fun.
Here's the Dirty Dozen.  
1) Catholic University Women's Lacrosse Team Initiation 2006
2) Quinnipiac University Men's Baseball Initiation 2006
3) University of California, Santa Barbara Lacrosse Initiation 2004
4) Wake Forest Women's Volleyball 
5) Fordham University Women's Softball Team Initiation
6) Elon University Men's Baseball Initiation 2005-2006
7) Fairleigh Dickinson Women's Softball Initiation 2004
8) James Madison University Women's Club Soccer - Double Play of the Day: Two different years from same team
9) Kenyon College Men's Baseball Initiation 2005
10) Princeton University Cheerleading Initiation 2005
11) Union College Women's Soccer Rookie Night 2004
12) University of Michigan Men's Lacrosse Initiation Pictures for both 2003 and 2004 - Another two-fer!

College Soccer Player Claims She Was Kicked Off Team for Refusing to Participate in Drunken Hazing Ritual - Over the past year, as we've reported more and more college hazing incidents, we've received quite a bit of hate mail from readers who claim that such rituals are beloved by all those who participate, and even if they are not, the are always strictly voluntary and have no impact on a player's standing on the team. So what would happen if a college jock refused to participate in an initiation that involved heavy drinking, being forced to wear diapers and perform simulated sex acts in public? According to Holly Krueger, a "walk-on" for the California State University, Dominguez Hills women's soccer team, the answer was clear: you're off the team. After scoring two goals in the team's pre-season games, Krueger was all but assured of a spot on the squad. According to a report that she submitted to the school and local police, Krueger and 14 other freshmen and newcomers to the team, where asked to one player's home and told to bring "$15 and a sports bra." The newspaper story goes into extensive detail about what allegedly happened that night, but readers of this site will hear very little new: players were forced to strip down to their underwear and wear adult diapers--and not much else--in public, had obscenities written on them in marker, were expected to drink heavily and perform the simulated sex acts on some pickles. Krueger says she complained to the school and never got an official response, but later found her team jersey (stolen along with her van) shredded on her porch. Interestingly, the older girls in charge of the event (according to Krueger)  claim the coaches knew what was going on. On top of that, we get this priceless quote from CSUDH athletic director Patrick "See No Evil" Guillen, "I've been at the university for 12 years. This is the first incident we've ever had, if indeed it's true. We run an extremely clean program here." So far CSUDH's response to these accusations has been to attack Krueger's commitment to the team and her possible motives for wanting to make this all up. (Daily Breeze)
BADJOCKS BONUS: The author of the original article gets hate mail for reporting the story. Welcome to the club.

More "Boys Being Boys?" HS Football Players Kicked Off Team for Dragging Teammate by Rope, Kicking Him in the Groin - It started out as a simple wedgie (probably not atomic) in the locker room after practice. Then the young football player at San Ramon Valley High School (California) was knocked to the ground and someone got the bright idea to tie a rope around his ankle and drag him around the room. To top things off, another teammate decided to kick him in the groin. Fortunately another player put a stop to it and called the coaches, but the four involved have been suspended from school and kicked off the team for their actions. (Mercury News)

HS Cancels Football Season After Player Gets Taped to Ceiling of Bus During Hazing Ritual With Adults Present - The football season at Alberton High School in Montana is over almost before it began. According to the school, the team's season has been canceled after after a hazing incident in which a younger player was taped to the ceiling of a school bus on a return trip from a road game WHILE school officials were present. However, according to Superintendent Jim Baldwin, head coach Art Walsh, another coach and the bus driver were apparently were unaware of what was going on . . . while a teenager was being taped . . . to the ceiling of a bus . . . as they sat five feet away. The boy's parents found out about the incident when pictures and a video of the incident started circulating at the school. Right now the school is calling the incident a "closed door" matter and are refusing to make any public comment, but the boy's parents are considering legal action against the district. (KUTV)
BONUS: More Western US HS Football Fun: Pranksters Kill Sheep and Hang it From Rival's Goal Posts

Busted for Hazing Part V: HS Cheerleaders Allegedly Threaten to Throw Urine-Filled Balloons on Freshman Girls - Wow! You know you go to a tough school when the cheerleaders are terrorizing the student body! According to reports, at least a dozen ninth-graders left Lakeview High School in St. Clair Shores, Michigan on Monday because they feared for their safety. Why? According to some angry parents, the traditional "freshman kill day" (what could possibly go wrong with a name like that?) got out of hand this week when a group of varsity cheerleaders allegedly threatened to assault younger girls with urine and/or bleach in water pistols or balloons. The freshmen were so fearful of the attacks that they left school early, prompting parents to confront embarrassed school officials. (Macomb Daily) At right, BadJocks recommends the SlingKing when you want to launch urine-filled water balloons at unsuspecting freshmen girls from up to a mile away. Bikini wearing is optional, but highly recommended.

Busted for Hazing III: Angry Mom Claims Cheerleader Daughter Forced to Wear Dog Collar, Walk Around on Leash During Camp - The mother of a freshman cheerleader at Mission Hills High School in San Marcos, CA has filed a claim with the school district after reports that her daughter and other girls were forced to wear a dog collar and walk on a leash during a summer cheerleading camp in July. Maria Bagai calls it a hazing incident and said she would sue if the district rejects her claim. (KFMB)

Parents, Coaches, Fans: You Can Prevent Hazing - We get lots of emails from parents, coaches and just general sports fans every time we run a story about high school or college sports hazings asking us if there's anything that can be done to stop them. Until now, we didn't have much of an answer, but now we do: we suggest that you read Preventing Hazing, by Dr. Susan Lipkins. Dr. Lipkins, of course, was our hazing expert during the Northwestern women's soccer team story earlier this year and has been a friend of the site's for more than a year. We just finished reading Preventing Hazing and can tell you that it is the first tool we are a aware of designed to help adults not only prevent hazing incidents from occuring, but also for dealing with the aftermath if your child is involved. This is a must-read for any adult involved in sports, from parents to coaches to athletic directors and everyone in between. It's time to stop being an innocent bystander (or maybe not so innocent) and take action and this book will help you do just that. - Bob Reno, Publisher (Click on the image to save 35% today!)