Taylor Mattingly, the 24-year-old son of Kim Mattingly (pictured) and former Yankee great Don Mattingly, was arrested by police in Evansville, Indiana on Tuesday after he spit on his mother and pushed her to the ground. I thought this sort of thing only happened during the holidays.
Taylor also took out his anger on Kim’s furniture: he admitted to shattering a patio table, breaking a door and a window and throwing other furniture against the walls of Kim’s pool house.
Kim Mattingly told cops that Taylor’s fuse was lit in part when she canceled cable TV service at the ranch where he was staying. via.
Don and Kim filed for divorce in November of 2007, so Taylor’s stuck in Indiana while Daddy gets to be the Dodgers hitting coach in LA and hang out with Manny Ramirez and snort cocaine of the crevices of whomever he pleases. That family must be going through so much pain. I guess what I’m trying to say is, give the kid his cable back, and the two of you can bask in the healing power of television.

I don’t really know how you feel about teacher-student sex or coach-player sex at the high school level. Personally, I have a hard time looking at some 16-year-old kid as a “victim” when he’s hitting some hot 23-year-old teacher. But that’s me. And, apparently now, the state of Georgia, whose landmark decision from its state supreme court has changed the landscape on age-of-consent laws in that state.
Melissa Lee Chase, a former high school softball coach, had a 10-year sentence overturned by that court last month. The conviction, stemming from a relationship with a 16-year-old at her school, was overturned since Chase was not allowed to use the 16-year-old’s consent as a defense. From The School Law Blog at Education Week:
The age of consent for sex in Georgia is 16, although school personnel are subject to the state law, revised in 2006, that bars them from sex with those under their supervision. The 16-year-old was in Chase’s class, but their romantic relationship began later. The girl testified that she had initiated and “pushed” the relationship with the teacher.
Some site news for you: We’ll do our weekly power rankings and weekend picks tomorrow morning, and that will be it for the holiday. Until then, enjoy this video from The Superficial of Bar Refaeli squirming around in Ufford’s bed. He wishes. It’s SFW, but you’ll have to confirm that you’re over 18. Or lie. God, whoever thought of that needs to die. (thanks, Crista)
If we don’t see you tomorrow, have a great weekend.
Editor’s Note: This post has nothing to do with sports. We realize that. We don’t care.

Pedo watchdog Brandon shares with us the story of a strip club in Akron, Ohio (The rubber capital of the world! Wokka wokka wokka!) where police raided the place and seized an unusual piece of property–a 14-year-old girl.
Akron police vice officers served a search warrant Friday night at the Playhouse bar. The bar’s owner and manager were charged with illegal use of a minor in a nudity performance and child endangering.
Police Lt. Rick Edwards says officers saw some dancers have contact with customers, but not the 14-year-old. He says the club is not licensed as a sexually oriented business.
The girl was placed in county social services. Hehe, services. I don’t see the problem with recruiting some young talent. I mean, have you seen the women that work in strip clubs? They look like slabs of bacon in big hair and thongs. It’s like the late Johnnie Cochran always said. If she ain’t 18, don’t stick it ‘tween. But then Johnnie Cochran never lived in Akron. They play by their own rules in the Rust Belt. That’s the Rust Belt, right?
I know I'm not the only one farting up a storm after some wings and a gallon of light beer, so I thought I'd do my patriotic duty and spread the word about Under-Ease underwear in time for the gastronomical fartfest that is the Super Bowl.
“Under-Ease” is a revolutionary new air-tight underwear that contains a charcoal filter, which filters out noxious bodily odors before they can escape into the atmosphere and be blamed on the dog.
[Buck Weimer, the inventor] first dreamed of this concept one evening after a Thanksgiving dinner, when he and his wife, who suffers from an inflammatory bowel syndrome, were lying in bed, and she cut loose with a near-nuclear blast. Lying there, eyes watering, Buck resolved to do something, and, after years of research, he perfected and patented the design for Under-Ease.
"…Lying there, eyes watering, Buck resolved to divorce this foul woman." Hmmm… I wonder if it was a zucchini bread fart.
Personally, I LOVE that a husband designed these for his stank-ass wife. I'm really surprised it wasn't the other way around. Well, I bet women have thought of the idea before, but they probably failed in the invention phase. It's a known fact that women are terrible at science, and are only good for cooking and making babies and complaining about the ropes being too tight.
(Thanks to Michelle at American Inventor Spot for the heads-up. Michelle, to answer your question: yes, I will model the sac-free underwear for you.)