Okay, what was the deal with yesterday? I know I’ve been pining for a day when Favre-centric news didn’t dominate, but things verged into “creepily weird” territory with two of Thursday’s stories.

First, we get word in the news that former Florida Gator basketball player Teddy Dupay has been arrested on charges of rape, kidnapping, and sexual assault. The article has the gory details:

Court records say the victim accused Dupay of taking her by force and raping her on the floor of Room 119-2 of the Stein Ericksen Lodge. According to the documents, the victim estimated that Dupay hit or kicked her 150 times after locking the door of the room. The victim said Dupay told her he would catch her and kill her family if she attempted to leave, according to court records.

In the report, Dupay said it got “a little rough” but denied raping her. According to court records, Dupay told investigators, “How can you rape someone you love?”

Officers who arrived at the lobby of the lodge reported that the victim had bruises on her outer right thigh, scratches on her back, large bruises on her back, large bruises on her upper arm and shoulder and a swollen eye, the court records said. X-rays taken following the incident showed the victim had two broken ribs, the documents said. Officers said the victim was sobbing uncontrollably when they arrived at the scene.

“Additionally, there was dried blood around her lips,” the court documents said.

But the coup de grace of the article was the very next paragraph:

Dupay posted $40,000 bail and was released on June 19. On June 28, Dupay played in a Florida alumni charity basketball game in Boca Raton sponsored by former teammate Udonis Haslem.

You gotta admire a guy who can go from assaulting and raping a girl to playing in a charity basketball game just over a week later. Good lord, Teddy.

Of course, this isn’t Dupay’s first brush with the law (or the news). It seems like only yesterday that Dupay was forced to give up his senior season at Florida due to allegations of having gambled on college sports. And, bizarrely enough, Dupay surfaced again two years ago (as brought to our attention by Deadspin) as a telemarketer in Utah.

If the announcement of Dupay’s arrest wasn’t enough of a sports flashback, former Rams kicker Tony Zendejas was kind enough to get his name in the news with his own rape and sodomy arrest in the greater Los Angeles area. Zendejas (not to be confused with former kicker Luis Zendejas) is basically accused of GHBing a chick for sex, then waking up with her in a motel room. For his part, Zendejas appears to be fighting the charges.

So if these things come in threes, who’s your guess for the next mediocre past athlete charged with a sex crime? What’s Hal Morris up to these days?