Sean Taylor shot

Holy crap, what is wrong with people? If you have to be a greeter at WalMart, or pump gas, or ask would you like fries with that?, so be it, but get a job. Don't go shooting people while you're trying to rip off what they've worked for. From SI:

Washington Redskins star safety Sean Taylor was in critical condition Monday after he was shot during what police are investigating as a possible armed robbery at his home.

The 24-year-old player was in the intensive care unit following several hours of surgery at Jackson Memorial Hospital, said family friend Richard Sharpstein, his former lawyer. He remained unconscious early Monday evening.

Taylor lost a "significant" amount of blood because the bullet damaged his femoral artery, and doctors are worried about blood flow to the brain, added Sharpstein, who was at the hospital with the player's family and friends.

Taylor has had several problems on and off the field, including an incident two years ago in which he was accused of brandishing a gun.

The shooting came eight days after another invasion was reported at his home. According to police records, someone pried open a front window, rifled through his drawers and left a kitchen knife on a bed...

Not that Taylor is a beacon of light in the greater scheme of things, but still...I suppose I won't be surprised when the news breaks that this was a revenge thang. What goes around comes around, right?

addendum: Sean Taylor died early this morning.

The Crime Report

Michael Vick has turned his sorry ass over to get a head start on serving his sentence. I believe he is employing the Martha Stewart maneuver and hoping for leniency and sympathy. From SI:

Michael Vick surrendered to U.S. marshals Monday and will remain in jail until his sentencing on a dogfighting charge in three weeks.

The Atlanta Falcons quarterback is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 10 but turned himself in because he anticipates a prison term on the federal dogfighting conspiracy charge, according to a court document. Vick could be sentenced to up to five years in prison.

"From the beginning, Mr. Vick has accepted responsibility for his actions, and his self-surrender further demonstrates that acceptance," Billy Martin, one of Vick's lawyers, said in a statement. "Michael wants to again apologize to everyone who has been hurt in this matter, and he thanks all of the people who have offered him and his family prayers and support during this time."

Vick is being held at Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw until his sentencing, U.S. marshals told The Associated Press. The mixed-gender facility houses about 450 inmates...

Mr. Vick has accepted responsibility for his actions...are you kidding? He lied and loudly proclaimed his innocence until his cohorts turned on him. Now we're supposed to accept him as an upstanding citizen? Please. I maintain he should be dropped into a pit of vipers. See if they give him any more sympathy than he gave his loser dogs. Asswipe.

Barry Bonds is under indictment. Also from SI:

The home run king wasn't home free after all.

Barry Bonds was indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice Thursday and could go to prison instead of the Hall of Fame for telling a federal grand jury he did not knowingly use performance-enhancing drugs.

The indictment came just three months after the San Francisco Giants star broke Hank Aaron's career home run record, and it culminated a four-year investigation into steroid use by elite athletes.

But for all the speculation and accusations that clouded his pursuit of Aaron, Bonds was never identified by Major League Baseball as testing positive for steroids, and personal trainer Greg Anderson spent most of the last year in jail for refusing to testify against his longtime friend.

Then came the indictment -- four counts of perjury, one of obstruction of justice; a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison -- and Bonds' lawyers seemed caught off guard.

The 10-page report mainly consists of excerpts from Bonds' December 2003 testimony before a grand jury investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, or BALCO. It cites 19 occasions in which Bonds allegedly lied under oath...

Seriously, didn't everyone with two brain cells see this one coming? Why do *stars* continue to believe they are above the law? Ok, perhaps because we put them on pedestals and are willing to pay crazy amounts of money to watch grown men PLAY GAMES. It won't end until the fans insist it ends. Need proof?

Mike Tyson was sentenced Monday to 24 hours in jail and three years' probation for drug possession and driving under the influence.

The former heavyweight champion had pleaded guilty in September to a single felony count of cocaine possession and a misdemeanor DUI count.

Tyson had faced a possible maximum sentence of four years and three months in prison.

The charges stemmed from a traffic stop in Scottsdale last December.

Police pulled Tyson over after the boxer had spent the evening at Scottsdale's Pussycat Lounge. An officer said he saw Tyson wiping a white substance off the dashboard of his black BMW, and that his speech was slurred.

Authorities said they found bags of cocaine in Tyson's pocket and in his car.

Tyson told officers later that he used cocaine "whenever I can get my hands on it," and that he preferred to smoke it in Marlboro cigarettes with the tobacco pulled out, according to court documents. He also told police that he used marijuana that day and was taking the antidepressant Zoloft, the documents state.

Since his arrest, Tyson checked himself into an inpatient treatment program for what his lawyer called "various addictions."..

What kind of sentence do you suppose YOU would get for a similar offense? How is this guy getting away with this? Isn't he a known quantity by now? Sheesh. And let's not forget the twenty Ole Miss players mentioned earlier. May as well start 'em early, right?