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We go to Iowa City to meet another sterling candidate for father of the year. Here’s the Press-Citizen‘s report on compassionate soccer dad Benjamin Doyle:

According to an Iowa City police criminal complaint, as officers were observing the City High boys’ soccer game at Longfellow Elementary School Wednesday evening, they witnessed a man run onto the field and attempt to pull his son out of the game.

Doyle told police that he wanted to remove his son because of bad grades, even though the school and the boy’s mom said his grades were good enough to continue playing on the team.

It’s nice he cares about his son’s academics, but he displayed a total lack of parental tact. He admitted that he knew he wasn’t allowed to go on the field and that he let his temper “get the best of him.”

Police charged Doyle with trespassing, a simple misdemeanor, while his son has been charged with having a crazy dad.

H/T Busted Coverage

Knicks guard J.R. Smith was arrested late Thursday night in Miami Beach after officers learned there was a warrant out for his arrest following a routine traffic stop. Yup, Smith had a warrant out for his arrest because he never addressed a past ticket for driving without a valid license.

Come on J.R., how hard is it to toss a check for a few hundo in the mail so you can avoid this sort of embarrassment? Or I guess if what your dad is saying about you is true, maybe you just didn’t have the money. Now that would be sad.

Another question is why Smith was pulled over in the first place. He’s in Miami Beach for the always popular Urban Beach weekend, the same setting where Gilbert Arenas and a teammate were arrested six years ago.

You know it’s a sensitive environment down there, J.R., so you gotta know better than that. Oh yeah, and that Young Money tattoo was looking fly.

A high school senior’s diploma was withheld after he Tebowed on stage during his graduation ceremony last weekend.

17-year-old Chuck Shriner played football for Fort Myers Catholic school and thought Tebowing after crossing the stage would make his ceremony “fun” and “memorable.” While his move elicited plenty of laughs, it didn’t go over well with the school’s administration. Shriner’s diploma was withheld at the behest of his mother, who is also a teacher at the school.

“They said what I did would give underclassmen inspiration to do something else, that it might lead to something else,” Shriner said about the administration’s reaction, according to the Naples Daily News. “So they were trying to set an example.”

Shriner actually had to clean the school’s gym as punishment, and his diploma was turned over to his mother who held it to discipline her son. Chuck unsurprisingly had no regrets.

“Moment in my life I’ll never forget, getting my diploma taken away for doing the Tebow on stage in front of (Principal John) Cavell. So worth it,” Shriner posted on his Facebook page.

Shriner shouldn’t be surprised about his punishment. Had he followed the news, he would have learned that a few students were suspended for Tebowing last December.

Chest bump to Sportress of Blogitude

Antonio Cromartie found himself in the most frightening of positions last year when in Miami he reportedly received word from his then-seven months pregnant wife that she tried to end her life. But all Terricka Cason Cromartie wanted to do was send a message to her husband, whom she assumed was cheating on her, when she allegedly sent these terrifying early-morning texts to him on May 6, 2011:

“God forgive me, I don’t want to die. What have I done?”

“I cut my wrists. I took those pills.”

The Jets cornerback immediately called the Randolph Township (N.J.) police, which knocked down the doors at the Cromarties’ home only to find Terricka and her two daughters safe and sound. She admitted to cops that she faked the whole ordeal because she believed Antonio, baby-daddy extraordinaire, wasn’t being faithful.

“She stated that she had no intention of going through with the act,” the police report said, according to the New York Post. “She said she was exercising her First Amendment right to free speech and could say whatever she wanted.”

Police told Terricka that she needed to undergo a mandatory psychiatric evaluation, but she refused and became “belligerent, uncooperative, irrational and argumentative,” citing that there wasn’t anybody to look after her kids. A child-protection agency temporarily assumed custody of the girls while Terricka underwent her examination.

Terricka made no direct mention on her Twitter page Sunday of the Post’s story, but did send out this rather cryptic tweet:

The Devil is Busy as always …. Believe non of what u hear & only half of what you see.. Good morning hope every1 has a blessed day

— Lady Cro(@iluvTERRICKA) May 20, 2012

Her suicide con wasn’t the first instance we know of where she intentionally tried to mislead people. So, we especially enjoy the irony of her telling people not to believe what they hear.

Photo via @iluvTERRICKA

Reggie Bush sent a tweet on Saturday that he probably would like to have back. The Dolphins running back was watching the UEFA Champions League final between Bayern Munich and Chelsea, and he came away impressed with Didier Drogba.

After seeing Drogba score a tying goal in the 85th minute and then the winner in penalty kicks, Bush tweeted about how beloved the Chelsea forward will be. At first he suggested that Drogba’s hair style would catch on in England:

Drogba is the black Jesus of England! Lol! Every black person in England about to get a perm now! Lol!

— Reggie Bush (@reggie_bush) May 19, 2012

OK, fair enough. But then Bush ventured into a questionable area when he suggested Drogba would have sex with a German woman later that night:

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A dad’s plans to speed so he could get his child and a teammate to their soccer game over the weekend sadly backfired.

41-year-old Juan Carlos Gallegos of Petaluma, CA, was arrested on Saturday morning after police caught him doing 104 mph on a highway. His reason for doing triple digits? He told police he was in a hurry to get the two 9-year-olds in his car to their soccer game so they wouldn’t be late.

Speed Racer was going so fast it took an officer nearly three miles to catch him.

According to the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, “Gallegos was arrested on suspicion of reckless driving and child endangerment and booked into Sonoma County Jail. Bail was set at $15,000 and his car was impounded for 30 days.”

LBS writer Del says Gallegos deserves a “Dad of the Year” nomination for his efforts. I say he’s an idiot.

H/T Busted Coverage

Harvey Updyke just cannot stay away from Alabama athletics. The die-hard Crimson Tide fan who allegedly poisoned trees on Auburn’s campus was asked by Alabama officials to leave the SEC softball tournament on Friday.

Here is Alabama’s statement on the matter via Andrew Gribble:

“Mr. Harvey Updyke was asked by University of Alabama officials to leave today’s softball game and he complied. Several months ago, the University issued a formal directive to Mr. Updyke stating that he is not to come to the University of Alabama campus. Mr. Updyke has no affiliation with the University of Alabama and does not represent the institution in any way. The University of Alabama will have no further statement on this matter.”

Alabama is the No. 1 seed in the tournament which is taking place at their home field — Rhoads Stadium in Tuscaloosa. You may recall that Updyke previously rejected a plea deal that would have kept him from attending Alabama athletic events. You take that away from Harv, you take away his life.

H/T Brian Rice via Kegs ‘N Eggs

A radio host in St. Louis had his “worst interview ever” this week when he confused Brooklyn Decker with Kate Upton.

Remy of “Mason and Remy” on 93.7 the Bull in St. Louis was interviewing Decker about her upcoming movie “Battleship.” They talked about the movie for the first few minutes, but things got awkward when Remy began asking other questions, such as her Carl’s Jr. commercial and Dougie dance. It was clear Remy had confused Brooklyn Decker for Kate Upton, another SI Swimsuit cover model. The audio from the interview is below:

Remy later called the interview his worst ever, and tried making it up to Brookyln with some poetry. As you can see from her Twitter conversation with SI’s Jimmy Traina, Decker found the entire thing to be pretty weird:

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We know the economy is in rough shape, but can times really be this tough? Just over a month after we saw a college basketball player get himself into trouble for stealing a taco from a street vendor, and we now have college football players getting arrested for stealing snacks. According to the Metro News, West Virginia junior Darwin Cook and senior Terrence Garvin were arrested Tuesday in Morgantown for stealing three bottles of Gatorade, a couple bags of chips, and a couple bags of pretzels from a Sheetz convenience store.

Cook, 20, and Garvin, 21, are facing misdemeanor charges after a surveillance camera showed them taking the items without paying and helping themselves to a plastic bag behind the counter to put them in.

“I have been made aware of the situation and am gathering facts at this time,” WVU coach Dana Holgorson told the Dominion Post according to the Metro News. “When all the facts are in, I will take the appropriate action.”

As The Big Lead pointed out, Holgorson has had to do a lot of fact gathering this offseason. Backup quarterback Geno Smith was also arrested last month after he was driving around drunk at night without his headlights on. The season can’t come soon enough for the Mountaineers.

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Delmon Young celebrated his six-year anniversary of throwing a bat at an umpire in a way that only he can: by getting drunk (allegedly), arrested, and possibly charged with a hate crime.

The Tigers outfielder was in New York prior to his team’s series with the Yankees when he got into it with some people outside the team’s hotel early Friday morning.

After the group was approached by a Jewish panhandler, Young shouted “F–king Jews! F–king Jews!” according to the NY Post.

The other people — a group of Chicago tourists — approached him and things got physical.

The Post says Young allegedly scratched one of the men and pushed him to the ground in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel. They say both groups went to their rooms, and that is when one of the men Young had injured noticed several scratches and called 911.

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