4 Penn State Athletes

Two Penn State footballers, and 2 Penn State basketballers were on the receiving ends of charges brought up from a drunk St. Patties Day brawl. The football players, WR Curtis Drake and DB Derrick Thomas, and the basketball players, Tre Bowman and Taran Buie received disorderly conduct charges.

What might catch your eye is that Curtis Drake and Taran Buie were both involved. Back last July there was an altercation outside of a McDonalds where both were charged with Disorderly Conduct after a fight. An online Penn State website stated that it was just a misunderstanding and the two were friends and just horsing around.

So much for that theory.

They weren't found out until still images of the altercation were spread around by the Penn State police department. They ended up being 4 of the 234 arrested for the drunken festivities of St. Patties Day. All four players charged are under 21 years of age, but no tickets for underage drinking have been brought up, because, well the Penn State police were too slow to find them. Police LT Robb has said that Alcohol is thought to be a factor.

DeAngelo Casto PF Washington State

DeAngelo Casto follows in the footsteps of Klay Thompson and Reggie Moore to become the third WSU basketball player to be arrested for possession of marijuana in just the first 3 months of 2011.

Police searched his off-campus apartment at around 1:20 AM on Tuesday morning and found the marijuana the led to him being charged with possession of less than 40 grams of marijuana. No other details have been released yet as to why they were searching his apartment in the early morning on Tuesday, but if you ask the Seattle Weekly blog it's race. Yup they just search every black mans apartment, going door to door apologizing to the whites. "Are you Caucasian? Yes? Well I'm sorry to awaken you from your slumber! Do you happen to know where any African-American's are staying? We'd like to search their apartments for drugs" That's probably not how this all happened, because you know, there is laws and rights and shit. But think what you want Keegan Hamilton, you brilliant writer you.

Three WSU football players have been arrested for marijuana possession since October 2010 as well, and GASP, they're African American. Come on Keegan, spark up this race war! Stir up the masses!

Bruce Pearl HC Tennessee

Tennessee got their asses handed to them by #8 seed Michigan in the first round of the big dance, losing 75-45 and being outscored by 42-16 over the last 20 minutes. Add that to the fact that Bruce Pearl was suspended over the first 8 SEC games this year due to NCAA violations you can pretty much say his future at UT is up in the air. Pearl, the president of the Jewish Coaches Association, has also never been past the Elite 8 in the big dance, and only won the DII championship once at the University of Southern Indiana. Sounds like a winner to me.

Venoy Overton G Washington

Washington standout Venoy Overton has averaged 6 points/game, along with 3.4 assists/game on 21.3 minutes/game has found him self in some deep trouble. More specifically deep in some 16 year old trouble.

Overton has been charged with furnishing alcohol to minors in an incident that happened back in January. Allegedly he purchased alcohol for two 16 year old girls and brought them to his sisters apartment, where they paid for the alcohol with sex. One of the two girls said that she felt like she had to have sex with him because of who he was, and after seeing the other girl do it. Then it "just happened." He wasn't charged with anything regarding that because of conflicting witness statements. The age of consent in Washington is 16, but prosecutors felt the case was troubling because of "situational pressure."

Don't feel bad for Overton, apparently he has enough money to pay the fine. Just look at the images he put on his Myspace/Photobucket, Overton on the right.

Klay Thompson G Washington State

Washington States star guard Klay Thompson leads the team in points and assists, and they recently got a big victory against USC. UCLA comes up next on the schedule, and he won't be playing. Why bench your best player? Well because he partied a little toooooo hard after the victory.

Klay, who's father was selected #1 overall in the 1978 NBA draft, was arrested for marijuana possession which led to his suspension. He was pulled over at around 11:00 PM for driving with a busted headlight. Police smelled marijuana coming from the car, which only he was in, and asked him if he had been smoking. Stupidly, because the cops have probable cause at that point to search the car, he said that he hadn't been smoking. He was put in handcuffs and when police acquired a search warrant they found 1.95 grams of marijuana. He was given a citation and released with a future court date.

Thompson leads the Pac-10 in scoring and scored 22 points against USC.

Alexis Wangmene F Texas

Texas Longhorns forward Alexis Wangmene has been suspended indefinitely by the Longhorns for a DUI arrest this past Saturday. Wangmeme is just a reserve on the team averaging 9.7 minutes a game, with 2.4 points and 2.4 rebounds per game. The Junior was pulled over at about 4:30 AM before being arrested on the drunken driving charge. No other details have been released regarding his arrest.

Jarell Eddie F Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech freshman forward Jarell Eddie was charged last week Tuesday with marijuana possession. After the arrest, Eddie didn't appear in their loss to Virginia, with the coach saying it was a "coaches decision". Due to a rash of injuries this season, Eddie was one of only 8 scholarship players that were on the Tech roster, and he has scored 2.6 points/game and 2 rebounds/game in 24 games. No other details of the arrest have been released yet.

JayVaughn Pinkston PF Villanova

JayVaughn Pinkston, a former McDonalds All-American, has been suspended by Villanova for the season due to an altercation at a off campus party that ended up with 2 kids in the hospital for treatment. The incident happened at a fraternity house, and Pinkston was charged with 2 counts of assault and harrassment. He allegedly knocked down a door before getting in the altercation, the door to a laundry room at the two kids who got beat up locked him in. The suspension is a university sanction, and not a NCAA sanction, therefore Pinkston will return with 4 years of eligibility left.