Since there was no Treehouse Fort show this past weekend, the regulars (Matt Sussman and Tuffy) as well as yours truly lost a chance to discuss a great (or horrible, depending on your view) week of idiocy in the sports world. And I'm not about to let these sports figures off the hook, so here are this past week's nominees, with links below for you to read more on (pun totally intended), comment on and vote on via the weekly poll, with longer descriptions after the voting:
1. Larry Johnson, Kansas City Chiefs running back
How rude do you have to be to get on a list like this? How about spitting your drink in woman's face, which is exactly what Johnson did on October 10 at a local nightclub, for which he was charged with assault on Monday, October 27. This was the fourth time the former Penn State star has been alleged to have assaulted a woman in five years. As Sports Illustrated reported last week, Johnson's incidents all included "anger, alcohol and women" and he is now "seeking help to get better as far as getting my life on track." Good luck, man. In the meantime, ladies, stay far away from him!
2. NBA legend/TNT NBA analyst Charles Barkley
According to Newsday, when asked by the press recently about the state of the New York Knicks, Barkley, never one who avoids speaking his mind about anything, pretty much went over the line with a bad joke about fellow NBA legend Isiah Thomas overdosing on sleeping pills recently: "In discussing ways in which the Knicks should be improved this season, Barkley said, 'I think they have a better coach. This coach probably won't try to kill himself.'" Quickly realizing his joke wasn't funny, Barkley said, "That's
my fault."
Article comments
1 - Matthew T. Sussman
Larry Johnson beats up women, but Sargent inflicts damage to herself, so I'll go with her.
2 - charlie
As usual, it's a hard choice this week. Sargent would've been my vote if it wasn't Selig's turn to be a dimwit yet again. I mean, can you imagine the chaos that would've happened if the Phillies were up 3-2 or 2-1 after 6 innings this time last week and they started to celebrate a championship before Selig comes running out of wherever he was to say something like: "Hold off that celebration! Game's not over. 'Cuz I said so."? He's got my vote. (And contrary to what you may think, I'm not usually this hard on Selig, but I can see why a lot of people have been)