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Law & Order: the Tiger Woods Scandal Edition

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Considering “Law & Order” is known to adapt real life crimes, changing the plot just enough so it’s considered fiction, it was only a matter of time that the show would take on Tiger Woods’ troubles.

This Wednesday’s episode of “Law & Order: Los Angeles” features a skirt-chasing golf pro and his club-wielding wife. When police arrive to the scene, the injured golfer says his wife was just trying to save him from the swimming pool (instead of a wrecked car). Apparently this golfer didn’t know how to swim and his wife used a club to rescue her husband instead of a life ring and/or hook.

A spokesperson for the series claimed the episode strictly fiction. Of course, it is, technically, but writers have to find their inspiration somewhere. Besides, it’s not like we really know what happened to Tiger on Thanksgiving night.

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Baddour On Redshirting Academic Scandal Players

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So the question arises. If a player is caught cheating and put on probation by the honor court with the added sanction of not being able to represent UNC on the field should they be able to redshirt and essentially get the season back?

UNC apparently thinks so and Dick Baddour defends the decision. WTVD’s Mark Armstrong has the quote via Twitter.

Dick Baddour on using redshirts for Honor Court casualties: “Let’s talk about the Honor System in general. When they find that someone is guilty of academic misconduct they have various options they can follow. So there are hundreds of students that are not able to represent the university for a particular time period but then can come back and represent the university and that is normal. That’s not abnormal that is normal for that to happen so there’s nothing unusual about that and there’s no reason why a student-athlete shouldn’t have the same right or protection.”

Now, I am quite certain the great arbiters of The Carolina Way i.e ABCers will be along to tell us what an egregious violation this is. My response to that would be to ask them if it was their school don’t they think it would be pretty much done the same way? As for Baddour’s point, he is correct. If a regular student can come back from academic suspension or probation and still represent to school why not an athlete? Doesn’t the NCAA constantly tell us how student-athletes should be equal to regular students? This should be the same thing right?

Of course one could argue they are actually short circuiting the punishment but not really. The punishment as meted out by the honor court is probation and while on probation the player in question cannot represent the school. It is not a suspension. The players are not being required to miss X number of games as Deunta Williams and Kendric Burney have done for NCAA violations. It should be noted no one is talking about Burney redshirting even though he has missed more games than Ryan Houston.[Correction: Burney is in his fifth year which I forgot between yesterday and today apparently. He already used his redshirt.] The NCAA suspension precludes the possibility of a redshirt since a player would still have to sit the games he was suspended. The honor court punishment does not work that way and it is perfectly legitimate for these players to take the year of eligibility available to them and play again once they served their probation. As long as a player’s NCAA eligibility is not affected there should be no issue with a player availing themselves of the redshirt.

Also, I am not buying the notion that the redshirt opportunity means they are not being punished. They are. They have to sit a season and not play. For anyone who has played a sport at a high level, sitting out of live action matters. The players were put on probation and unlike regular students, their crimes are known to the world. Because of the media attention given this case and the acknowledgement by UNC that these remaining cases are all academic related, when a player is declared out for the season after a scheduled honor court meeting everyone knows what happened. The privacy protections afforded regular students get circumvented here. I do not want to make these guys sound like victims when they clearly created their own mess. However, the idea the redshirt year somehow cancels out the other aspects of their penalties is patently ridiculous in my mind.

And, no, UNC should not keep them from playing to make a point. They went through the honor court process and were punished like any other student. To do anything else would be acting outside the intent of the NCAA.

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Wayne Rooney Finds Himself In Another Whorey Sex Scandal

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Oh, to be a British headline writer when the country’s biggest soccer star finds himself in the midst of yet another sex scandal. According to the News of the World, Wayne Rooney had sex with a “£1,200-a-time” prostitute while his wife, Coleen, was pregnant.

The young lass at the center of the scandal, 21-year-old Jenny Thompson, claims that she and Rooney had sex multiple times, and says that the Manchester United star, “chased me with sex texts and paid in wads of cash. He didn’t seem to care he was betraying Coleen.”

According to Thompson, she met Rooney at a casino. The two exchanged numbers and a few minutes of smooching, then separated. It was then that Rooney started texting her in earnest, asking her if she “fancied meeting up” (sidenote: isn’t this the best part of UK sex scandals – the extremely British ways in which the sordid details are explained?).

Thompson told Rooney it wouldn’t be free, and he was apparently cool with that. Rooney then asked if she could bring a friend, and Thompson agreed.

A week later Rooney met the girls at the famed five-star Lowry hotel. “My friend and I made an effort,” said Jenny.

“We both wore identical black lacy bra-and-brief sets specially bought from La Senza.

“Wayne told us he’d never had a threesome before. He was shy and awkward – and me and my friend were left to do all the work.

“He didn’t want us to put on a lesbian sex show, he was more into two girls pleasuring him at the same time. But it was all over far too quickly.”

Highlight (lowlight?) of the interview? This quote: “I never imagined Wayne Rooney would ever be one of my clients. I know a lot of people call him Shrek but he’s actually not that ugly when you’re sat in front of him.” Well, then.

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Wayne Rooney Finds Himself In Another Whorey Sex Scandal

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Oh, to be a British headline writer when the country’s biggest soccer star finds himself in the midst of yet another sex scandal. According to the News of the World, Wayne Rooney had sex with a “£1,200-a-time” prostitute while his wife, Coleen, was pregnant.

The young lass at the center of the scandal, 21-year-old Jenny Thompson, claims that she and Rooney had sex multiple times, and says that the Manchester United star, “chased me with sex texts and paid in wads of cash. He didn’t seem to care he was betraying Coleen.”

According to Thompson, she met Rooney at a casino. The two exchanged numbers and a few minutes of smooching, then separated. It was then that Rooney started texting her in earnest, asking her if she “fancied meeting up” (sidenote: isn’t this the best part of UK sex scandals – the extremely British ways in which the sordid details are explained?).

Thompson told Rooney it wouldn’t be free, and he was apparently cool with that. Rooney then asked if she could bring a friend, and Thompson agreed.

A week later Rooney met the girls at the famed five-star Lowry hotel. “My friend and I made an effort,” said Jenny.

“We both wore identical black lacy bra-and-brief sets specially bought from La Senza.

“Wayne told us he’d never had a threesome before. He was shy and awkward – and me and my friend were left to do all the work.

“He didn’t want us to put on a lesbian sex show, he was more into two girls pleasuring him at the same time. But it was all over far too quickly.”

Highlight (lowlight?) of the interview? This quote: “I never imagined Wayne Rooney would ever be one of my clients. I know a lot of people call him Shrek but he’s actually not that ugly when you’re sat in front of him.” Well, then.

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Wayne Rooney Finds Himself In Another Whorey Sex Scandal

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Oh, to be a British headline writer when the country’s biggest soccer star finds himself in the midst of yet another sex scandal. According to the News of the World, Wayne Rooney had sex with a “£1,200-a-time” prostitute while his wife, Coleen, was pregnant.

The young lass at the center of the scandal, 21-year-old Jenny Thompson, claims that she and Rooney had sex multiple times, and says that the Manchester United star, “chased me with sex texts and paid in wads of cash. He didn’t seem to care he was betraying Coleen.”

According to Thompson, she met Rooney at a casino. The two exchanged numbers and a few minutes of smooching, then separated. It was then that Rooney started texting her in earnest, asking her if she “fancied meeting up” (sidenote: isn’t this the best part of UK sex scandals – the extremely British ways in which the sordid details are explained?).

Thompson told Rooney it wouldn’t be free, and he was apparently cool with that. Rooney then asked if she could bring a friend, and Thompson agreed.

A week later Rooney met the girls at the famed five-star Lowry hotel. “My friend and I made an effort,” said Jenny.

“We both wore identical black lacy bra-and-brief sets specially bought from La Senza.

“Wayne told us he’d never had a threesome before. He was shy and awkward – and me and my friend were left to do all the work.

“He didn’t want us to put on a lesbian sex show, he was more into two girls pleasuring him at the same time. But it was all over far too quickly.”

Highlight (lowlight?) of the interview? This quote: “I never imagined Wayne Rooney would ever be one of my clients. I know a lot of people call him Shrek but he’s actually not that ugly when you’re sat in front of him.” Well, then.

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