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...eager to pipe in on her more egregious offenses. As Daily News columnist Lenore Skenazy asserted, “She is too confident. Too competent. Too rich. She’s even too pretty.” If there is anything to be taken away from this scandal, it’s that in the courtroom of the American consciousness, it was Martha Stewart’s personality—and not her actions—which were being put on trial...
They have, too, in some ways. But the latest Canterbury Bulldogs scandal suggests football still has its seedy side. At least the coach's escapade involved a consenting prostitute. At the center of the current storm is a 20-year-old woman who has told police that in the early hours of Feb. 22, a number of players sexually assaulted her by the pool at a resort in the northern New South Wales town of Coffs Harbour. The woman, who was taken from the resort to hospital in an ambulance, alleges the assault involved vaginal, oral and anal penetration...
...vocabulary and lifestyle of some of England's Premier League footballers. The case of Wayne Carey - the great Australian Rules player who in 2002 was revealed to have been sleeping with the wife of his North Melbourne vice-captain - lingers in the memory. At the height of that scandal Carey's distraught wife, Sally, told the player's manager: "You're to blame for this. You're to blame, the club's to blame, I'm to blame. We let him think he could get away with anything...
...National Rugby League club wants to host the next scandal. Manly have hired Dave Millward, a 100-kg former corrective services officer, to watch over the players when they're out on the town. "They can still chat with girls and exchange numbers," he says, "but that's it. We arrive together, we leave together." In the rush to prevent more trouble, many people are missing the pathos: these tough, wealthy men need a babysitter to protect them from themselves...
Hnida's nightmare tale, reported last week in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, was the latest allegation in a growing scandal that has turned the Colorado football program upside down. No fewer than six women have come forward to charge that they were sexually assaulted by players during the five-year tenure of coach Gary Barnett. Other sources in the past few weeks have described a program in which players and recruits are routinely provided with sex and alcohol. Barnett made things worse when he sought to brush aside the Hnida charge. "It was obvious Katie was not very good," he told reporters...