Former Florida State football player Kamari Charlton overstayed his visa during a trip to Singapore, and now faces punishment from that country. Authorities there say that he was apprehended for criminal complaints, and as a result, he might get caned.

Caning is widely used as punishment in Singapore, but Charlton’s case is unique, his defense team argues. His wife was in the country on a six-month medical visa, while he was on a three-month tourist visa.

Unlike most offenders who overstay, Maaran said, Charlton was not in Singapore to take advantage of its strong economy by working illegally. He overstayed by 169 days, according to court documents.
The former Florida State University college football player now successfully runs a construction company, his legal team says.

The case is reminiscent of the 1994 case of American teenager Michael Faye, who was sentenced to caning for vandalism in Singapore. After U.S. officials requested leniency, the Singapore government reduced the number of lashes he was given. –via CNN.

That’s just Singapore Being Singapore. Just so we’re all on the same page: caning really sucks. If you really want to see it, here’s a link that I’m calling Not Safe For Work. I’d say Remind me to never visit Singapore, but I don’t think you’ll have to.

How well-coached were Bobby Bowden’s teams? Look no further for that answer than Florida State offensive tackle Zerbie Sanders. Apparently the center forgot the snap count, which left everyone on the Seminole offense scrambling for his life. Well, everyone except Zerbie. Good job, son. See you at the Tampax Bowl against the Crimson…eh, maybe I shouldn’t go there. –Last Angry Fan.

Noted piece of ass Jenn Sterger is getting rid of her breast implants. The Florida State alum and former SI writer is looking for some way to get everyone’s attention again. Mission accomplished.

In an effort to reinvent myself, in a cut throat industry that was becoming more and more competitive the deeper I swam, I made the decision to go against the grain and remove my implants.

For reasons I explain in the upcoming December 2009 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, it was a difficult, yet necessary decision.[..]

I made an adult choice to get rid of the very things that were perhaps the only reason I started out on this journey. I then decided to bare that decision, along with my confusion and my soul for the public to bare witness. –Officially…Jenn, via So Yoked.

I don’t know if that “bare witness” was masturbatory innuendo or just a misspelling, so I just left it. Sterger, who recently has been pursuing work in independent movies, doesn’t mention in her blog post which “industry” has been giving her grief–sports journalism or film. But either way, there’s only so much ground one can cover by shaking your tits in everyone’s face. But it’s been an impressive run for someone that managed to parlay 10 seconds of airtime into a career. And even though her two breast friends will be out of the fold, I doubt this is the last we’ve heard from Sterger. And seriously, I’ll pay money for those implants. I really don’t get out much anymore.

If you gave up an hour or two of sleep to watch the pants-wetting finale between Florida State and Miami last night, then you made a wise investment, my friend.

Hurricanes sophomore quarterback Jacory Harris introduced himself to the world last night, throwing for 386 yards and 2 TDs, and running for a third, as the Hurricanes beat Florida State, 38-34, in a Monday night barnburner, reminding us that this was the rivalry in college football during the mid-1990s.

That said, anyone saying that the Hurricanes are ready to retake their old place on the national stage is overly sleep-deprived. Yeah, it was a great game to watch and a solid win for that program on national television, but get serious. Florida State is still Florida State, still featuring the Southland’s version of the Dear-God-please-retire-already head coach in Bobby Bowden. And even with horrendous goal-line clock management by the Seminoles and a low would-be touchdown throw from the awesomely-named Christian Ponder, Miami still let FSU drive the length of the field and gave them a chance to win the game on the final play. And whose idea was that squib kick to FSU for that final possession? Let’s just give ‘em the ball at midfield and see what happens. That’s not a decision that elite programs make.

But that aside, the real trouble for Miami lies ahead, where the ‘Canes will face three straight oppenents who all were ranked in the preseason Top 25. Miami now has nine days to prepare for the speakeasy triple-option attack from Georgia Tech, and then another nine days before rolling into Blacksburg for a shootout with Virginia Tech. And the week after that they play Oklahoma, who may be with or without their Heisman Trophy winning quarterback, Sam Bradford, whose had his shoulder popped in a sack against BYU Saturday like it was a 14-year-old Mormon girl.

If Jacory Harris and Friends are 4-0 coming out of that heap, then by all means, whip out the smoke machine and the camo and the orange jumpsuits. We’ll call Miami “back” then. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

We deliver your college baseball post for 2009 on the heels of one public university in Columbus, Ohio being pummeled by Florida State as the Seminoles advanced to their super regional yesterday. And we could spend the rest of this post quoting the ridiculous stat lines that came out of this game:

• Florida State shortstop Stephen Cardullo went 7-for-9 with 5 RBIs
• The Seminoles went 38-for-65 as a team (.585), with seven walks
• The Seminoles led 32-0 at one point in the fifth inning; FSU scored 11 runs in the fifth
• Ohio State’s starting pitcher Jared Strayer had a game ERA of ∞ after allowing seven earned runs before being pulled without recording a single out (oh, and he only faced seven batters)
• Weather was listed on the boxscore as: “Weather: More hotter, sunnier, nicer.”

Ohio State faced the Seminoles after being Georgia earlier in the day. Florida State was the Buckeyes’ fourth opponent in three days. And I think it was Ben Franklin that said Big Ten teams and prostitutes begin to stink after three days. Not that Franklin was an authority on those things; being from the Midwest and having syphilis really cancel each other out when you think about it.

Anyone who saw images from Saturday’s Florida-Florida State game knows that the weather and field conditions were a mess in Tallahassee.  It made for a sloppy game, but it also provided some halftime entertainment that was far superior to the typical “marching band makes formations” bullshit.

As you can see from the video above, the field was especially treacherous for Florida State’s tuba players, who pulled off a Keystone Kops routine almost perfectly.  I really hope that this is the Internet’s next big viral video.  I’d love to hear this set to “Yakety Sax” played by tubas, or see a new website called sadtuba.com, or maybe some Japanese tuba porn.  Wait, pretend I didn’t write that last one.

[The Sporting Blog]