Weekly Waste of Oxygen

This stories just keep on coming week after week. Tasering, gambling, assaulting it was a noteworthy week for idiots and morons. Here are your contestants:

1. Scott Olsen - This guy needs some anger management courses. He seems to weekly get in a different fight with a different teammate and then he runs multiple stop signs while being chased by the cops. The cops were even forced to use a stun gun on him so he would comply. He needs some counseling bad.

2. Phan Van Tai Em - Typically you know when your team is bad and you set expectations as to how far you believe you can make it in a tournament. But when you're the player of the year and on your national soccer team and you are playing in the asian cup you think maybe you wouldn't schedule important events on tournament dates. Like scheduling your wedding during the quarterfinals and then skipping out on the match.

3. Tim Donaghy - If you don't know what this clown did yet than you haven't been paying attention.

4. Ron Mercer - I was starting to worry there for few weeks that athletes were no longer going to the strip clubs. But fear not the former Celtics bust first round draft pick made the world make sense to me again. As he was arrested for aggravated assault stemming from a scuffle at a strip club and so was his friend who stabbed the bouncer. The world is still on its axis.

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Anonymous said…

Whats the deal with strip clubs? And why would you ever fight over a stripper? Its a stripper. It's not like you brought your girlfriend and some guy is hitting on her. She doesn't like you for you. She pretends to like you because you pay her to pretend to like you. If a guy has more money, she will like him better. Not a big deal; there are more strippers.

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