Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf has been indicted by a West Texas grand jury on drug and burglary charges, according to the Randall County district attorney’s office. Leaf, a 1998 first-round draft pick, had been accused of breaking into a Canyon, Texas, apartment on Oct. 30, 2008 and stealing a bottle of painkiller Hydrocodone.
The drug [...]
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Former NFL player Travis Henry was arrested earlier today in Florida for a bond violation. A U.S. magistrate ruled that he will remain in federal custody.
Henry and a co-defendant were arrested in Denver in October, after authorities in Montana found 6 pounds of marijuana and about 6.6 pounds of cocaine that Henry apparently sold. Federal [...]
Buffalo Bills fullback Corey McIntyre was arrested last week and charged in Florida with a misdemeanor count of exposure of sexual organs. Apparently, a 59-year-old Florida woman claims back in March she heard a muscular black man with dreadlocks banging on her window while masturbating.
Police located McIntyre, who fit the woman’s description, nearby. She identified [...]
NFL Hall of Famer Bruce Smith was arrested on DUI charges in Virginia Beach last week. He was stopped for speeding at almost two in the morning.
Smith refused a breathalyzer test, was ultimately arrested for DUI and then released a few hours later after posting bond. He has been arrested for DUI twice before but [...]
Free-agent NFL wide receiver Reggie Williams was sentenced to two years of probation for cocaine possession in a Houston case in which a Taser was used to subdue him this week.
Williams pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance Monday. A judge sentenced Williams to deferred adjudication. This means that, if he completes his probation [...]
Former NBA star World B. Free is suing Nike for marketing a commemorative basketball shoe in his name without his permission.
The former Philadelphia 76ers point guard alleges Nike’s planned June 12 rollout appears timed to take attention away the May launch of a World B. Free-authorized line of shoes and clothing made by a small [...]
Former Major League Baseball star Roberto Alomar and his ex-girlfriend have apparently settled a lawsuit in which she claims he made her have unprotected sex even though he had AIDS or HIV.
The girlfriend Ilya Dall sued Alomar in Brooklyn federal court in February for $15 million. Her allegations were never publicly corroborated. The court’s docket [...]
A Nashville, Tennessee man who was injured in an interstate collision with Washington Redskins player Albert Haynesworth is suing him for $7.5 million. Corey Edmondson filed the lawsuit against the former Tennessee Titan in Williamson County, Tennessee (just outside of Nashville) last week.
The collision occurred last December on Interstate 65. The police report indicates that [...]
The mother of New York Yankee pitcher Joba Chamberlain was arrested this weekend in Lincoln, Nebraska for selling meth to an undercover cop in February.
Jacqueline Standley allegedly sold “.6 gram of methamphetamine in a plastic bag” to an officer for $110 a few months ago, but toxicology reports on the drugs just came back from [...]
Former WBA welterweight boxing champ Antonio Margarito filed suit against the California State Athletic Commission this week. Margarito claims he was unjustly suspended by the Commission for allegedly hiding plaster in the knuckle pad under his gloves in his January 24, 2009 fight against “Sugar” Shane Mosley.
As he was preparing to fight Mosley, the Athletic [...]
