- Having never been a member of an uber-disappointing Big 10 football team that is failing miserably under an allegedly brilliant new head coach, I can't say for sure what you would want if on said team. However, I can say with relative certainty that one thing you would not want is one of your teammates getting himself indefinitely suspended after being investigated for an alleged assault on a hockey player from your university’s team during the weekend. In other words, you would not want Michigan Wolverines football player Mike Milano as a member of your squad, not after he went full-on knucklehead less than 24 hours after his team dropped a terrible home loss to lowly Toledo, a Mid-American Conference basement dweller.
The university's department of public safety is investigating an alleged aggravated assault on Michigan hockey player Steve Kampfer, courtesy of Milano, that took place at approximately 2:25 a.m. Sunday in Ann Arbor. This isn’t just two dudes getting drunk and scrapping outside the bar, either; the incident report states that the Kampfer was taken to University Hospital. Police identified the alleged attacker as Milano. The 5-foot-7, 193-pound walk-on running back spent two years on Michigan's wrestling team, before making the transition to football last season and appearing in all of two games. He has yet to play this year and judging from this stunt, he’s not too concerned with playing in the Wolverines’ remaining games. Noted liar and scumbag/Michigan football coach Rich-er Fraud-riguez and the athletic department refuse to comment while the police investigation is ongoing, but allow me to comment for you: your boy Milano is an idiot. He reportedly lifted Kampfer up and slammed him into a wall, sending a guy who is a good enough, tough enough hockey player to be a fourth-round draft pick of the Anaheim Ducks. Michigan hockey coach Red Berenson doesn’t have the same problem as Fraud-riguez in commenting on the incident, saying of Kampfer that, “He just was a victim.” A great season just keeps getting better, eh Michigan football fans……
- Wow….who saw this coming? Pop skank Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie are getting a divorce. Also, who would have guessed that the couple would issue a statement asking everyone to respect their privacy? Other than everyone, of course. I mean, after the rumors that Madonna was getting after it with New York Yankees choke artist Alex Rodriguez, leading to the demise of A-Rod’s marriage, who would guess that the Material Skank would also be heading for divorce? Heck, it’s a stunner than the MS and Ritchie last this long, having gotten married seven years ago at a lavish ceremony in Scotland. Rumors of this divorce have been swirling for a while now and the last time the couple was seen together in public was in September, when Madonna took a break from touring to celebrate her husband's birthday at a London pub. So it just really, really breaks my heart to see a quality human being like Madonna….okay, you know what? I can't lie like that. For someone who has contributed so little to the world of music and made a career out of being a musical slut, I don’t have a ton of sympathy, especially not if she was hitting it with A-Rod while both of them were still married…..
- Now this is my kind of law enforcement official. The sheriff of a rural Texas county next to the Mexican border was arrested at his office Wednesday after being indicted on charges of being involved in a large-scale cocaine and marijuana smuggling operation. Who is this hero of the men in blue, you ask? It’s none other than Starr County Sheriff Reymundo Guerra, named in a 19-count indictment along with more than a dozen other people, working on ways to make lots of money to supplement his police salary by breaking the very laws he was supposed to enforce. The south Texas sheriff is charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana; accessory after the fact,. Those charges stem from an alleged suggestion he made to a co-defendant to use false documents to avoid apprehension. Top it off with charges of facilitating the drug trafficking conspiracy through use of a telephone and you have a law-breaking trifecta the likes of which you don’t often see. The first count alone carries a minimum of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life as well as a $4 million fine. Uh-oh! Normally this is not the side of the criminal struggle you like to see your sheriff operating on, but don’t be so harsh to judge Guerra. After all, he was only added to the indictment after the FBI searched his Rio Grande City offices in early September. So initially he wasn’t even counted among the bad guys in the case, but the FBI just had to throw him in. Guerra appeared before a U.S. magistrate judge in McAllen on Tuesday and was ordered temporarily detained pending a hearing Friday. The government is requesting that he be held without bail until trial, so hi chief deputy will run the department for now. That could be a problem, because who knows if that guy (or girl) is qualified? Can he or she pretend to serve and protect the people of his or her community with one hand while simultaneously helping orchestrate a massive drug-running ring with the other? Betcha didn’t consider that. Plus, Guerra is merely carrying on a great tradition of Starr County sheriffs taking part in drug rings. In 1998, Guerra's predecessor, Sheriff Eugenio "Gene" Falcon Jr., pleaded guilty to conspiracy after an informant posing as a bail bondsman paid Falcon $11,050 in bribes for inmate referrals. Additionally, sheriff’s in three nearby counties have been found guilty of drug-related charges since the mid-1990s. Welcome to south Texas, where the laws are loose and the law enforcement and criminals are one in the same.
- Maybe this will be just the spark that the Boston Red Sox need to propel themselves back into the American League Championship Series. Trailing 3-1 to Tampa Bay and looking to stave off elimination, the Sox are fighting for their playoff lives. The same may also be true of the famed red, white and blue Citgo sign over Fenway Park's Green Monster in left field. The sign, which is a mainstay of the Boston landscape and a visible icon to be see on any game broadcast from Fenway, caught fire Wednesday and in the blaze, some of the plastic panels on the sign melted and blackened. Fortunately, no one was injured, except for the sign of course. Steve MacDonald, a spokesman for the Boston Fire Department, said the flames and smoke, first spotted by bystanders and drivers about noon. Thanks to these good Samaritans, the flames were quickly put out. At this point, it is believed that the blaze was likely caused by an electrical short circuit. Damage to the sign was estimated at $5,000.The 60-foot by 60-foot sign -- situated atop of a building by the ballpark since 1940 -- includes more than 5 miles of neon tubes, lit by 250 high-voltage transformers. It was renovated in 2005 when the company switched it to light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Diodes or neon tubes, I don’t care, just get the sign back to full strength ASAP.
- What to do when you are stuck in the mountains for five days, cut off from civilization and fresh out of necessary supplies? To answer that question, meet Derek Mamoyac of Philomath, Oregon. Derek was climbing southern Washington's Mount Adams five days ago when he suffered with a broken ankle. Mamoyac was unable to call for help and couldn’t move very well, so he ate centipedes and drank water from creeks as he tried to crawl to safety. Earlier today, a dog from a search and rescue team located Mamoyac just below the 6,000-foot level on the west side of the mountain. A rescue helicopter took him to a hospital in Portland, Oregon, where he was listed in fair condition. Over the past five days, Mamoyac managed to add dehydration and swollen legs to his broken ankle, making for an interesting camping story if nothing else. “It's like waking up from a horrible dream,” said his sister, Sophia Mamoyac. Her brother started up the 12,277-foot mountain Sunday for a one-day climb and it wasn’t until Monday that family members reported him missing after he failed to show up for work. According to his rescuers, Derek was in good spirits and relatively good shape after being stranded for five days on the side of a mountain. I have to salute him for his toughness because had that been me, centipedes would not have been on the menu. Plus, although he was wearing water-resistant pants, insulated boots and gloves, Mamoyac admitted to still being very, very cold. “We put all our coats on him, and he was still shivering,” Bartlett said. Leading the charge to find Mamoyac was a rescue team led by Greg Varney with his search dog, Trulee, a golden retriever. Yet another reason to love dogs, finding a guy whose climbing trip turned bad as he was descending after reaching Pike's Peak at 11,657 feet, below the mountain's summit. That’s when Mamoyac stepped in some snow he thought was solid, but it gave way and he broke his right ankle tumbling down the mountain. Proving that mountain climbers are a different (and likely insane) breed, he then spent nearly four days crawling and dragging his feet through the snow. When his knees hurt too much to crawl, he said he would turn around and scoot backward. Varney pointed out that when searches drag on for as long as five days, the end result typically isn’t good. Glad to see this one buck the trend, so bet wishes for a full recovery, Derek….
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