VERO BEACH, Fla. (Dec. 4) - A Vero Beach man faces a domestic violence charge after authorities said he assaulted his girlfriend with a cheeseburger. An Indian River County Sheriff's Office arrest report said a 22-year-old man and his girlfriend got into an argument as they sat in a car in front of their home.
The report said the man would not let the woman out of the vehicle, so she threw his drink out of the car. In response, the man allegedly grabbed her arm and smashed the cheeseburger into her face. The pair got out of the car, and authorities say the man again took the McDonald's sandwich and put it on her face.
Remember back in August when many "experts" had the San Diego Chargers to possibly represent the AFC in the Super Bowl?...the same Chargers team who made it to the AFC Championship Game last year...
But what these "experts" forgot is that Norv Turner (photo, right) is the Chargers head coach...and after 12 games, San Diego has been one of the most underachieving teams in the league with a 4-8 record...
The Chargers had one of the most quality coaches in the league, but general manager A.J. Smith could not put his ego aside as he let Marty Schottenheimer (photo, below, left) after the 2006 season - a season where the Chargers went 14-2...
Just two years ago the Chargers were the best team in football under Schottenheimer...we all know San Diego lost their first round playoff game at home to New England that year...but how often do you see a head coach who just posted an .785 winning percentage get shown the door?...
Schottenheimer got treated unfairly by the Chargers...in the short term it looked like Smith made the right move after the Chargers got hot late last season and won two playoff games before succumbing to the Patriots in the AFC title game...
But in the long-term, Smith is getting exactly what he deserves under Turner - a team that is underachieving...this has been the trademark of many of Turner's previous teams when he was at Washington and Oakland...
Turner may be a nice man and a great offensive coordinator, but he lacks the pedigree to be a successful head football coach over a sustained period of time...he has been a head coach in the NFL for 11 years and Turner's overall record is 73-95-1....when he accepted the San Diego job, Turner had a mark of 58-82...
Smith (photo, right) had a good coach in Schottenheimer...in the two previous years before Schottenheimer, the Chargers were a paltry 6-26 under Mike Riley...in his five seasons as head coach at San Diego, Schottenheimer was 47-33 and had two division titles...when let go, the Chargers were on the brink of breaking through to the Super Bowl under Schottenheimer...
However, Smith's ego and bullheaded nature led him to get rid of a winning coach for a coach who is below average at best...that is why the Chargers are sitting at 4-8 and it couldn't happen to a better general manager...
Most bloggers probably reported this already, but it is worth a repeat for those who missed it...a few weeks back Iowa played at Minnesota...for some, the real interest is what took place in the men's room when 38-year-old married woman (photo, right), mother of three kids, had sex with someone she didn't even know in the men's stall...to top it off, her unaware husband was sitting in the stands watching the game...read on...
by John Brewer of the Minneapolis Pioneer Press A couple of University of Iowa fans took a break from Saturday's game at the Metrodome against the University of Minnesota to have some illicit sex in a Dome restroom, police said.
The duo — a 38-year-old woman and a 26-year-old man from Carroll and Linden, Iowa, respectively — turned a handicapped toilet stall into their love nest about 8:30 p.m., late in the Hawkeyes' 55-0 trouncing of the Gophers.
A crowd of intoxicated fans gathered in the restroom to laugh and cheer the off-the-field action, until an Avalon Security guard tipped off University of Minnesota police to the ruckus.
Officers had to interrupt the intimate moment to cite the couple for indecent conduct, a misdemeanor.
University of Minnesota Police Chief Greg Hestness said similar citations at the Metrodome or on campus usually involve public urination.
He said it was the first time in his six years at the U that his force has interrupted a sex act during a Gophers game.
Hestness assumed the woman was embarrassed about being caught: She initially gave a false name to officers and had to be identified by her husband before she was released.
The man was attending the game with his girlfriend, according to police.
"It's a long ride back to Iowa," Hestness said.
In a follow-up article in the Des Moines Register, the woman explains how the incident ruined her life... by Stacie Hupp
A Carroll woman who was caught having sex in the men's room at an Iowa Hawkeye football game in Minneapolis last weekend says she’d had so much wine before kickoff that she doesn’t remember walking into the restroom, the man she had sex with in a stall, or when the police opened the door.
What Lois Feldman, 38, will remember is the humiliation afterward.
“It’s ruined my life,” she said through tears today. “Not just the incident but the press.”
Feldman, a married mother of three, has been the target of Internet jokes and prank telephone calls today. She was fired this morning from an assisted living center, where she had been an administrator.
Feldman said her husband, Kelly, has been supportive. She said he faults himself for not going with her when she left her seat to use the restroom before halftime.
“I don’t know what happened,” Lois Feldman said. “But I don’t deny that it did happen because obviously there are police reports.”
Police ticketed Feldman, 38, and Ross Walsh, 26, of Linden for indecent conduct Saturday night.
A security guard who said he saw the two having sex through a gap in a men’s restroom stall flagged down campus police, according to the police report.
By the time an officer arrived, about a dozen people were cheering and laughing in the bathroom while Feldman and Walsh were inside the stall, the report said.
The officer pushed his way through the crowd, opened the door and separated Feldman and Walsh, the report said.
Police described both Feldman and Walsh as upset, drunk and uncooperative.
Chuck Miner, deputy chief of the University of Minnesota police department, said officers tracked down Feldman’s husband.
“I’m not sure how they made contact with her husband, but they needed her husband to help identify her” because she’d given the wrong middle name.
Miner said police didn’t measure the blood-alcohol level of Feldman or Walsh. Asked to respond to Feldman’s claim that she was too drunk to recall the incident, Miner said: “That’s probably an accurate statement.”
Feldman said she’d never met Walsh.
“I don’t know who this man is,” she said today. “I just found out his name in the paper last night.”
Walsh wasn’t immediately available for comment.
Carroll, Feldman’s hometown, is about 60 miles northwest of Linden, where Walsh lives.
Feldman, who describes herself as a light drinker, drank wine at the home of family friends before the football game.
She said she doesn’t remember how much she drank, but the party’s hosts refilled her glass each time it was low “so I’m sure I drank a lot.”
Feldman said her husband later told her he’d tried to talk her out of the game because she was intoxicated.
“He said I didn’t realize it was that bad,” she said.
Feldman said her husband accompanied her to the game, but their friends stayed home.
She said she remembers sitting in the stands one moment and the next “being slammed around by a cop and screaming.”
“Apparently I was panicked and very uncooperative,” she said.
Feldman said she “ran away” from her husband the Metrodome after the incident.
She said a woman she didn’t know offered her a ride home about 11 p.m.
Feldman said she gave her husband’s cell phone number to the woman, who called Kelly Feldman for directions to the couple’s hotel.
Lois Feldman said her attorney has encouraged her to fight the ticket.
“He feels I was taken advantage of in my state of mind,” she said. “This is not me. We’re a very good family. This shouldn’t happen.”
Miner, the campus police officer, said fighting the indecent conduct charge could be a long shot.
“It’s spelled out in the law in Minnesota that intoxication is not a defense to any crime,” he said.
This week's SEC Championship Game between the Florida Gators and the Alabama Crimson Tide will mark the sixth time these two teams have played for the conference crown since the inception of the title game in 1992...
These two schools met for the first ever SEC title game and four of the first five games championship games...Florida has won three of the five meetings... 1992 - #2 Alabama 28 #12 Florida 21 - Legion Field - MVP-Antonio Langham, cb, Ala 1993 - #9 Florida 28 #16 Alabama 13 - Legion Field - MVP-Terry Dean, qb, Fla 1994 - #6 Florida 24 #3 Alabama 23 - Georgia Dome - MVP-Ellis Johnson, de, Fla 1996 - #4 Florida 45 #11 Alabama 30 - Georgia Dome - MVP-Danny Wuerffel, qb, Fla 1999 - #7 Alabama 34 #5 Florida 7 - Georgia Dome - MVP- Freddie Milons, wr, Ala
Enjoy this 5:26 highlight clip of the 1992 game with Keith Jackson calling the game at legendary Legion Field...
Notre Dame must relieve Charlie Weis from his duties as head football coach of the Fighting Irish...
Speculation around the country is that Weis will survive the ax because it will cost the university a hefty sum of money in order to buyout his remaining years...however, there is also talk the buyout is not as much as many expect...
Weis looked like the savior of the greatest college football program in the land...during his rookie season, he guided the Irish to a 9-3 mark then followed up with a 10-3 record...after his first year, Notre Dame ripped up his contract and gave Weis a new 10-year deal to keep him in charge of the Golden Dome...
Everything seemed like a BCS title game would soon be within the Irish's reach...then quarterback Brady Quinn left...since losing Quinn, Weis has produced a miserable record of 3-9 last year and 6-6 this season...of the six wins, only one came against a team with a winning record - Navy...
Weis has had four years to prove his worth and he has shown that he cannot take the Irish to the next level...during these four years, Notre Dame's biggest rival, Southern Cal, creamed the Irish three of the four years including Saturday's 38-3 beatdown in which the Irish did not get a first down until the end of the third quarter...
Personally, a part of me wanted to see Weis succeed at Notre Dame because the guy was not some former football player who had connections to get into the coaching business...this guy never played college football!!!...he was just like the rest of us average Joes who busted his ass in order to climb the football coaching ladder...and for that, I admire him...
But the fit is not there in South Bend...even though Notre Dame is his alma mater, Weis has not embraced the alumni and university personnel...there is talk about his arrogance and rudeness...
However, that should not be the reason Notre Dame fire Weis...heck, some of the greatest coaches were arrogant jerks, such as Paul Brown and Adolph Rupp...if Weis was winning football games, the alumni would think it was great because "Charlie is his own man and does not kiss people's asses"...
Notre Dame should fire Weis for not advancing the football program to the elite level even though he has had some of the best recruiting classes over the last few years...
For instance, sophomore quarterback Jimmy Clausen has shown very little improvement over the last two years...under Weis' guidance, by now, Clausen should have shown marked improvement...that has not happened...
Right now, Notre Dame is a pathetic football program that is living off its prestige of 20 plus years ago...golden helmets, pep rallies, green jerseys, and Touchdown Jesus can only take a program so far...ultimately, on the field, Notre Dame is an overmatched team when it comes to competing against other teams for a 60 minute contest...
Losing to Syracuse and barely beating San Diego State is not acceptable for the Notre Dame football program...when Weis accepted this job, he also accepted the pressure and scrutiny that comes with the glory and generous salary of being the head football coach at Notre Dame...
And after four seasons, Weis has not lived up to his billing...there are standards at Notre Dame, and those standards are far from being met...he is paid to 1) win football games; 2) compete for the national title on a regular basis; and 3) uphold a reasonable standard for the football program...Weis has not met the first two criteria...
