The Oakland Raiders’ long streak of excellence in the personnel department continued apace yesterday, as offensive tackle Cornell Green was arrested in Florida on domestic abuse charges. Huh. I didn’t realize domestic abuse was illegal in Florida.
Tampa police say Green became violent Saturday during an argument at his home there with the mother of his two children. Police say Green slammed 30-year-old Teriyonal Ebony Flowers into a wall, then struck her right arm with an aluminum mop handle.
The former player at Central Florida then fled the house. He was arrested at Tampa International Airport before a flight he had planned to take to Oakland, Calif.
Cornell Green is listed at 6′6″ and 315 pounds. You have to admire the chivalry of a man that size who still won’t hit a woman with a closed fist. Why, if chivalry is dead, it’s only because its boyfriend loved it TOO much.
Broncos wide receiver and renowned trouble magnet Brandon Marshall had a charge of disorderly conduct dropped against him yesterday after an altercation with his girlfriend. For a second, I thought it might have been an altercation with some sort of porpoise, but this happened in Atlanta, and the porpoise is generally considered a maritime creature. From Y! News:
Municipal Judge Clinton Deveaux dismissed the case after Marshall and his fiance, Michi Leshase Nogami-Campbell, both of whom were charged with disorderly conduct, refused to testify against each other.
Marshall, who was jailed for five hours Sunday morning after his fourth arrest in three years, is looking at possibly beginning the season at home just like he did last year. Marshall was banned from the opener following seven police-related incidents with his former girlfriend.
I have a hard time feeling sorry for anyone that dates this guy. But then there’s this:
While police looked on, the argument escalated and Marshall and his fiance began kicking and punching each other on the sidewalk outside his home, according to the report.
Oh, sure, let’s all judge a guy who trades punches and kicks with his girlfriend on the sidewalk. Let he who has not assailed his significant other with blows to the face cast the first stone. And then we’ll cast according to height. Sorry, short people.
A professional poker player killed his parents with the hopes that his inheritance could pay off his mounting debts, officials say. Ernest Scherer III (pictured) was arrested Monday and charged with murder after his parents, Ernest Jr and Charlene, were discovered stabbed and beaten to death last year.
Scherer’s parents were beaten and stabbed in their 4,000-square-foot, three-level home, apparently after returning from dinner at the country club the night of March 7. Their pajama-clad bodies were found a week later…
[Sheriff Scott] Dudek wrote that Scherer “did not appear to show much emotion” at the deaths. He seemed more interested in getting a look at the will, hoping that it would give him as much as $1.5 million, Dudek said.
Sounds like he didn’t have much of a poker face. I guess the Scherers had a full house… of death. Looks like this flop was a 1-8-7. He went all-in, all right — and the police called. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!
You ever hold a door open for someone, and they don’t say “thank you”? Jesus that pisses me off. Well, it turn out that the people who don’t say “thank you” are malevolent sociopaths.
A man faces assault charges after allegedly striking another man with a golf club in an argument over manners. Police told the Cape Cod Times that a 50-year-old man leaving a gas station in town on Monday morning held the door open for a 38-year-old man.
Police said the 38-year-old man did not thank the other man, who responded by uttering a sarcastic “thank you.”
The two men got into an argument before the 38-year-old went to his car to get a golf club, which he allegedly used to strike the victim several times in the stomach and legs.
Whoa, someone from Massachusetts is an asshole? No way. I wonder what his favorite baseball team is?
(thanks to Christmas Ape for the tip)
Bills running back Marshawn Lynch was charged with felony gun possession last week, and at the time it seemed like an odd arrest because the news story made no mention of why Lynch and his two friends were pulled over. Well, that’s because they were parked at the time. Parked suspiciously.
[P]olice approached the black Mercedes Lynch and two others were sitting in it was parked suspiciously with the engine running, and that the car didn’t have proper license plates.
Run-on sentence much, professional journalists?
“They (officers) knocked on the window of the car. Someone unrolled the window. They saw three people in the car and they could smell a strong odor - marijuana coming from the car. They had the occupants exit so they could further investigate to see if there was any marajuana [sic] in the car. What they found were four, not marajuana [sic] cigarettes - what they call blunts or swisher sweets that appeared to contain marijuana in them,” says [Captain Dave] Tankenson.
Sitting in a parked car getting high with a loaded gun doesn’t seem like the wisest idea, but on the other hand, it’s hard to get pissed at a guy with a great blog who was obviously the target of racial profiling. Besides, you can’t hate a guy with great fantasy stats. Unless you don’t own him.
Suns guard Jason Richardson has been suspended by the team for tonight’s game after he was cited for a variety of traffic violations, most notably going 90 miles per hour in a 35 zone while his toddler son wasn’t in a child seat.
[A]n officer clocked Jason Richardson doing 67 mph in a 40-mph zone in the area of 65th Street and Camelback Road shortly before 8 p.m. Sunday… [T]he officer followed Richardson onto 64th Street, where Richardson’s car hit speeds up to 90 mph. The speed limit there is 35 mph…
Richardson’s 3-year-old son was in the back seat of the car. Police said the little boy was not in a child seat, which is required by Arizona law.
To be fair, “The Simpsons” was about to start, and it was the first episode ever done in HD. And the opening credits got reworked! That’s a pretty big deal. We should be impressed he even remembered to put his son in the car.
[FanHaus]
