The police often question him, just because they find him interesting. His beard has experienced more than a lesser man’s entire body. His blood smells like cologne. He is the most interesting man in the world. He is Love Without Nagel, and he’s here to talk about his new Monday feature - the Biggest Thugs in Sports.

10 thugs for Monday

1. Rae Carruth

Carruth hired a man to kill his baby’s momma, then fled from police hiding in the trunk of a car with bottles of his urine, candy bars and a cell phone.

2. Dave Bliss, Carlton Dotson (Baylor)

Bliss- After Bliss resigned, it emerged that he had told players to make up a story about Dennehy being a drug dealer in order to pay for his tuition. The story was intended to serve as a cover-up for Bliss paying Dennehy’s tuition. The conversations were tape-recorded by one of Bliss’ assistants, Abar Rouse. Bliss had threatened to fire Rouse if he didn’t go along with the scheme, leading Rouse to record the conversations.

Dotson- On June 8, 2005, five days before his trial for murder was to begin, Carlton Dotson unexpectedly pleaded guilty to killing Patrick Dennehy. On June 15, Dotson was sentenced to 35 years in prison. He will be eligible for parole after he has served about half of his sentence.

**Side Note** Dotson orginally committed to UB
http://www.ubathletics.buffalo.edu/mensbasketball/news/mbb05-17-2000-signees.shtml

3. OJ Simpson

Come on. How about the whole “If I Did It, Here’s How I’d Do It” thing?

4. Leonard Little

After a drunken birthday in 1998, NFL star Leonard Little crashed into and killed another motorist, Susan Gutweiler. When tested, his blood alcohol level measured 0.19 percent. Little received 90 days, four years’ probation and 1000 hours of community service. Six years later, after the involuntary manslaughter conviction was wiped from his record, Little was again arrested for drunk driving and speeding. Little was acquitted of those subsequent charges on a technicality.

5. Ray Lewis

Lewis’ public image was tarnished following a Super Bowl party on January 31, 2000. Following this party, he was brought into the Atlanta Police Department for questioning, then arrested (along with his friends Reginald Oakley and Joseph Sweeting) and charged with the murders of Jacinth Baker and Richard Lollar. As we all know, he got off.

6. Mike Tyson

1978 - Tyson, 12, is arrested in Brooklyn for purse-snatching and sent to Tryon School for Boys.

May 1988 - Tyson dents his Bentley convertible in a traffic accident in Manhattan. He gives the $183,000 car to two cops, later resulting in their suspensions.

June 17, 1988 - Robin Givens and her family publicly accuse Tyson of domestic violence.

Aug. 23, 1988 - Breaks a bone in his right hand in a 4 a.m. street brawl with professional fighter Mitch Green in Harlem.

Dec. 12, 1988 - Sandra Miller of New York sues Tyson for allegedly grabbing her, propositioning her and insulting her at a nightclub.

Dec. 15, 1988 - Lori Davis of New York sues Tyson for allegedly grabbing her buttocks while she was dancing at the same nightclub on the same night as the incident with Miller.

April 9, 1989 - Accused of striking a parking attendant three times with an open hand outside a Los Angeles nightclub after the attendant asked Tyson to move his Mercedes-Benz out of a spot reserved for the club’s owner. The charges are later dropped due to lack of witness cooperation.

Feb. 10, 1992 - After nine hours of deliberation, Tyson is found guilty on one count of rape and two counts of deviate sexual conduct.

May 8, 1992 - Tyson is found guilty of threatening a guard and disorderly conduct in prison, adding 15 days to his sentence.

June 28, 1997 - Tyson is disqualified after the third round of his rematch with Holyfield after he bites Holyfield twice, once on each ear. Tyson claims he was retaliating for a head butt inflicted by Holyfield that opened up a gash above his right eye. Referee Mills Lane ruled the butt was accidental.

March 9, 1998 - Sherry Cole and Chevelle Butts filed a $22 million lawsuit against Tyson claiming he verbally and physically abused them March 1 at a Washington bistro after his sexual advances toward one of them were spurned.

Aug. 31, 1998 - Tyson’s Mercedes is rear-ended in Gaithersburg, Maryland. According to subsequent lawsuits, Tyson kicked one driver in the groin and punched another in the face before being restrained by his own bodyguards.

May 19, 2000 - Tyson is accused by a topless dancer in a Las Vegas nightclub of punching her in the chest and hurling expletives at her. Police were called to the scene, but after interviewing witnesses, including Tyson himself, they decided not to press charges.

May 1, 2002 - “I wish that you guys had children so I could kick them in the fucking head or stomp on their testicles so you could feel my pain because that’s the pain I have waking up every day.”

Tyson arrested for drugs

7. Ugueth Urbina

On November 7, 2005, Urbina was arrested by Venezuelan authorities on a charge of attempted murder for an incident that occurred a few weeks earlier, on October 16. Urbina allegedly attacked five farm workers on his property and tried to injure them both with a machete and by attempting to pour gasoline on them. On March 28, 2007, Urbina was convicted of attempted murder. Additional charges included illegal deprivation of liberty and violating a prohibition against taking justice into his own hands. He was sentenced to fourteen years in prison.

8. Ron Artest

-Applies for a job at Circuit City since the Bulls aren’t paying him enough
-Suspended for kicking a camera at a game
-Suspended for verbally confronting Pat Riely
-Something about a brawl
-Suspended for a flagrant foul
-Refuses to feed dogs, animal cruelty
-Arrested for domestic abuse
-Released rap album in 2006, this should be criminal… But it did sell 343 copies in its first week.

9. Latrell Sprewell

-Choked out PJ Carlesimo
-Choked out a woman aboard his boat “Milwakee’s Best”
-Sued by another woman for not paying alimony

10. Miami Football

1980’s Luther Campbell from “two live crew” pays players for good play.
1980’s 1990’s Miami cheats, advisors do work for players, rip off federal government for over $220,000 in Pell Grants to players
2005 Miami players record a song under the name “7th Floor Crew” references to lewd sexual acts, and racial references.
2006 FIU - Miami Brawl

Notables-

Michael Irvin

Come on

Michael Vick

Dog fighting, middle fingers, detained in airports, misses speech to congress, Ron Mexico

Allen Iverson

“Maiming-by mob” charge - was looking at 15 in the clinck
Concealed weapons
Threatens to kill cousin, 14 charges dropped
Skips practice, urinates in an Atlantic City Casino trash can

Lawrence Phillips

Choking women, trying to run over kids after playing pick up football.

Fictional- Care of Chad S.
Clubber Lang (Rocky III)

Clubber was placed in prison for five years for a low crime, but during his time being served he discovered boxing as a way to let out his frustrations.

Pushes Mick over!

Demetrius Harris (Playmakers)

-Fresh from a night of partying, DH and his teammate Kelvin are late heading to the stadium.
-The league drug-testing official visits the Cougars in the second episode of Playmakers, and DH gets tipped off that he’s on the list. Guard Dog tempts Leon with a way to get his mojo back.
-A man is shot outside a club, forcing DH to decide where his loyalties lie-with the team or with his posse.
-The brash, young running back DH can’t make it to the next half without getting high. The doctors assume that he is just dehydrated and when the doctor says that he has low blood sugar DH says “I’m no junky.” The doctors hook him up to an IV and tell him he will be good as new after he gets some fluids into him. However, DH knows that he is not dehydrated but in fact he is craving more crack, and says the “grip” is taking over.