THE GOOD.....THE BAD.....THE UGLY

Enjoy a few stories within the sports world:



"Capitals Roadside Assistance"

By Greg Wyshynski
Thursday Apr. 29th 2010




Laich, so often the team's unofficial locker-room spokesman, didn't speak to reporters after the game.

The same Brooks Laich who, on the night his season ended prematurely, stopped when he saw Wangemann and her daughter stranded alone on Washington D.C.'s Roosevelt Bridge and then fixed a flat tire on their 2008 Acura while cars sped past him.

"You know how some athletes can strike you as real jerks? I think [the Capitals] are genuinely good people. He could have driven by like everyone else did, and he didn't," said Wangemann, who was headed home to Ashburn, Va. after watching the Capitals fall in Game 7.

"I was so touched by what he did. I was praying. I was that worried [about our safety]. The fact that he came up out of nowhere ... he was like an angel that night."


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http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/After-Game-7-loss-Capitals-Laich-fixes-tire-fo?urn=nhl,237745





"DIRTY DEEDS"

By Eric Heyl
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, April 30, 2010




A Senate panel today admonished adult film legend Jenna Jameson for her inadvertent yet instrumental role in helping trigger the most devastating domestic financial crisis since the Great Depression.

Following recent revelations that Securities and Exchange Commission senior staffers frequently viewed pornography on their office computers during the past several years, Jameson was taken to task for distracting the SEC from adequately policing the nation's financial system.

"Were it not for your thoroughly raunchy performances in videos such as 'Jenna's Depraved,' and 'Jenna Jameson: Uncut and Uncensored 2,' this country might well have avoided teetering on the brink of complete economic collapse," said Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev. "I don't believe it's unfair to assert that you've been a very, very naughty girl."

Jameson's appearance before the investigative panel came after it excoriated Goldman Sachs executives over the role the investment banking firm's allegedly shady business practices played in the financial meltdown. SEC officials recently came out of their locked offices long enough to file a civil lawsuit accusing Goldman Sachs of fraud.

Jameson's repeated contention that she was being made the scapegoat for the federal government's failure to properly regulate Wall Street fell on deaf ears.

"During the summer of 2008, SEC officials should have been monitoring Goldman Sachs' trading of high-risk derivatives," said committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich. "Instead, they monitored your sizzling exploits in the just-released adult video 'Burn.' Don't try to tell me you have no culpability in this."

Ensign, who recently was involved in a scandal involving his affair with a staffer, expressed irritation following the hearing over Jameson ducking questions that he said "absolutely demanded a response."

Said Ensign: "Never once did she directly respond to my repeated inquiries as to whether she wanted to get a drink with me sometime. To get that answer, we may have to subpoena her."




"He seemed like such a sweet guy too"

By:ESPN STAFF
Thursday May 6th 2010




Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor was arrested early Thursday after being accused of raping a 15-year-old girl at a Montebello, N.Y., hotel, police said.

Taylor, who has a history of drug abuse and runs-in with the law, is being charged with third-degree rape, which involves having intercourse with a minor, the Journal News reported on its website. Ramapo police said Taylor has yet to be formally charged.

Police said they would hold a news conference Thursday afternoon. They did not immediately respond to questions about the circumstances of the arrest and whether Taylor, 51, had a lawyer.

Taylor was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1999 and competed in ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" last year. He had a highly publicized struggle with drug addiction and has had multiple legal issues in retirement.

A quick, fierce and athletic linebacker who redefined his position, Taylor anchored the Giants' defense and led New York to Super Bowls titles in 1987 and 1991. He was selected to the NFL's 75th Anniversary All-Time Team.

A 10-time Pro Bowler, he was the NFL Most Valuable Player in 1986 and the NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 1981, 1982 and 1986. He recorded 132.5 sacks, which doesn't included the 9.5 sacks in 1981 when the statistic wasn't official.

In 2001, Taylor was convicted of possessing drug paraphernalia in New Jersey. The conviction stemmed from the September 1998 discovery in a hotel room of a butane torch and other materials commonly used to smoke crack.

In 1996 and 1997, he was arrested in South Carolina and Florida on drug charges. In those cases, he either admitted his guilt or agreed to enter a pretrial intervention program.

In 2000, he drew five years of federal probation for filing false tax returns and for tax evasion. Last November he was charged in Florida with leaving the scene of an accident.