"A search of the car revealed marijuana paraphenalia, two black hoodies, and a CO2 black powder gun."

Is there such a thing as a "CO2 black powder gun"? The two projectile-launching technologies seem incompatible, though once you get "football scholarship" into your head any incongruous paring seems possible.

I was wondering about that, too.

WVLT calls it a "semi-automatic pellet gun."

from the N-S:
"The three men got into a 2010 Toyota Prius driven by a woman and fled the area."

Contributing to the delinquency of a UT Football player. Serious stuff.

But seriously, that is bullshit (the higher bond for pot).

Bet it's a typo.

She was held this morning in jail in lieu of $119,000 bond.

Frighteningly easy to do unless you're cutting and pasting from an official document.

It was all just a big miscommunication. They were practicing defense & the coach told them, "Hold them up on the line!" & they thought he said, "Hold them up at the Pilot."

here seem to be focussing on every and any detail in order to avoid discussing the subject.

200 Voice Opposition to Housing Vols in West Knox
"They need to stay on their football field where they belong," say opponents of plan to socialize football players

From APB reports. KNOXVILLE - Coming on the heels of yet another lawless incident involving members of the University of Tennessee Volunteers football team, more than 200 people crowded into a West Knox County senior center Thursday night to express opposition to a proposed apartment complex intended to help university athletes integrate themselves into society.

Members of the group Really Opposed Citizens of Knox to Youths Training to Operate Productively in Society (ROCKYTOPS) attended the public hearing, held by the county, to express their criticism, concern and disdain for the plan to build the apartments on Debusk Lane between Lovell Road and Pellissippi Parkway. Among the worries were fears children at a nearby daycare center would be challenged to pick-up games of touch football, that the lack of athletic training facilities near the site would tempt the players to play in the street, and the dearth of player-favored Pilot convenience stores nearby.

The plan is being proposed by the Mayors' Decades-Running and Ongoing Plan to Kick Investments from Citizens of Knox into "Volunteers'" Opulent Lifestyles, Seriously (DROPKICKVOLS). Funding for the project is on Monday's Knox County Commission agenda.

Commissioner Mike Hammond, who represents the area and attended the meeting at the Frank Strang Senior Center, drew loud applause when he promised he will ask for a timeout and for officials to give personal foul and delay of game penalties to the football players arrested earlier in the day.

Hammond's promise addressed one complaint by many at the hearing - that the county is trying to rush the project through the goalposts without enough public input.

"Why can't we have a time out?" ROCKYTOPSer Monty Mossback asked. "You're not going to change our minds about this game plan because we don't like it."

Commissioner Colonel Doctor Richard M. Briggs, M.D., who also represents the area, said he opposes any more penalties or timeouts and wants the game over with.

"I'm going to line up and stop this play whatever they run," he said. "The fans here don't want it. Those people should stay on their football field where they belong and not on our streets where they don't belong. They could be a danger to the lifestyle to which the people here have become accustomed - which is to say, one where these people here don't have to see those people there."

Jon Lawler, head of DROPKICKVOLS, said it was a necessary adjustment to "living in the real world for 'those people' to rub elbows with 'these people.' You have no idea what it's like; you think you're well-to-do, but these athletes, they're pandered to and pampered and living in a sort of 'splendid isolation' - yet, they have no affluence and no influence over their circumstances unless they go pro and begin to make money."

"If they make money, they can come," replied resident Barbara Aryan...

ole miss put on ut. how much did missing jackson in the defensive backfield have to do with it? and how distracted was the team? the entire defensive unit did not look sharp - nor did the offensive line.

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University of Tennessee head coach Lane Kiffin announced Monday that freshman wide receiver Nu’Keese Richardson and defensive back Mike Edwards have been permanently dismissed from the football team.

What blows my mind is the two guys held up seemed to think this was some kind of honor. Laughed it off and said they thought the three guys should stay on the team! WTF Also, Richardson is the one from Pahokee that Kiffin took a lot of crap for making fun of the town.

another player busted

Back in the 70s, I managed a retail clothing store on the Strip, and I can definitively say that UT students did quite a bit of shoplifting. And not just athletes. And I doubt anything's changed.
Not condoning what he did, but this isn't particularly shocking. I think making a big deal of this subsequent incident is kinda piling on.

The plantation system that is DI football makes this kind of thing inevitable. You take kids from severely disadvantaged homes and throw them into the care of millionaire coaches and boosters who sit in air conditioned skyboxes drinking champagne and watching them sweat and bleed like gladiators in the Coliseum, and why the hell is anybody surprised when some of them fall by the wayside?

I've always respected Archie Manning for putting things into perspective when Peyton was getting praised for coming back for his senior year instead of going pro:

"Peyton's mamma's already got a house."

Here's a book on my holiday reading list:

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