Griner was ejected from the game with 9 minutes left on the clock. This was after a previous 21 points scored by her during the game.

There was really no call for what happened on that court. I’m sure this woman’s teammates are quite embarrassed over her actions.

“There’s no place for that in sports,” Mulkey said. “It was ugly for women’s basketball. It was ugly that coaches were on the court, that benches cleared, and I will take care of that with my team.”

Given the low attendance at this game, I personally wouldn’t recommend running off the ones you’ve got.

NEW YORK — NBA or Europe, regular referees or replacements, the rules are the same: Two technical fouls is an automatic ejection, and anyone ejected must leave the floor.

Maccabi Tel Aviv wanted a pass on that rule Sunday.

The New York Knicks’ 106-91 victory over the Euroleague team featured a bizarre delay in the third quarter when the visiting coach refused to leave after he was ejected.

The game was halted about 8 minutes when Pini Gershon continued to linger near Maccabi’s bench — a delay that included a rabbi trying to intervene by asking the NBA’s replacement referees calling the game to allow Gershon to stay.

“I explained that this is not a regular game and the kids are watching and [it's] important that there will be peace and forgive him,” Rabbi Yitchak Dovid Grossman said of his discussions with the officials. “If you forgive him, I can speak to the children and say, ‘You also forgive. If you have a fight, you forgive.’ But he says this is the law, that you must obey.”

Gershon eventually left after a lengthy discussion with the referees, his assistant coaches and NBA security personnel. A security official said Gershon told them he didn’t care if the game was stopped before he eventually agreed to leave.

“He likes the crowd, the crowd likes him very much,” Maccabi’s Yaniv Green said. “They’re coming to the game to see him even more than they’re coming to see us. He’s quite a character, like you saw today.” (ESPN)

Classy. Just play the game like it’s supposed to be played and you won’t be ejected. Rules are rules, buddy!

Funny that they had to get a rabbi out there to get the coach off the court. I didn’t see that one coming. ESPN has a short clip talking about the Maccabi coach ejection.

Naaasty

So what is it this time?

During Miami Rock Fashion Week, Rodman attended an after-party at the Fontainebleau Hotel early early yesterday morning. There he became unwelcomely acquainted with one of the fashion models by reaching up her skirt and touching her where the sun don’t shine. Naturally she took exception to this familiarity and called the cops on Rodman.  Investigation into the incident is still pending.

And we didn’t think Rodman could get any trashier.

On March 10, 1999, the day before the #7 seed Gophers were to open the NCAA tournament against #10 Gonzaga, the St. Paul Pioneer Press ran a story detailing allegations of massive academic fraud in the men’s basketball program. Former basketball office manager Jan Gangelhoff had gone to the newspaper claiming she had written over 400 papers for at least 20 Gopher men’s basketball players over a period of several years, ending in 1998. The next day when the Gophers played Gonzaga, the University suspended players Antoine Broxie, Kevin Clark, Jason Stanford, and Miles Tarver since they allegedely had papers written for them by Ganglehoff in previous seasons. With their roster depleted, the Gophers lost to Gonzaga, the season came to an end, and an internal investigation at the University began.

By June of 1999 and in the midst of their investigation, the university had negotiated a buyout of the remainder of Haskins contract, worth $1.5 million dollars over three years. In the summer of 2000, Haskins came forward and admitted that he had paid Gangelhoff $3,000 for her services; this revelation came to light after Haskins turned his financial records over to the NCAA. In addition, more details were emerging in which Haskins was also accused of mail fraud in an incident regarding a recruits transcript, giving players cash, dismissing sexual harassment concerns against his players, as well as his staff trying to persuade professors to give his players inflated grades they had not earned. After the details of Haskins’ ever-growing involvement became more clear, the University initiated legal action to recover the buyout money. A judge ultimately ruled that Haskins must return just over half of the original $1.5 million buyout.

During this time an NCAA investigation was also underway. They agreed with the University that massive fraud took place under Haskins watch, and stripped the Gophers of all awards and titles dating back to the 1993-94 season citing “Lack of institutional control”. The banners and records stripped included:

* 1993-94: NCAA Tounrament 2nd round
* 1994-95: NCAA Tournament 1st round
* 1995-96: NIT 2nd round
* 1996-97: NCAA Final Four
* 1996-97: Big Ten MVP Bobby Jackson
* 1996-97: Big Ten Defensive POY: Bobby Jackson
* 1997-98: NIT Champions
* 1998-99: NCAA Tournament 1st round
* All wins and personal statistics between 1993-94 and 1998-99

In addition, the basketball program was hit with massive sanctions, including a loss of five scholarships over the following three seasons, recruiting limitations, and department-wide probation lasting four years. There was no post-season ban instituted by the NCAA, however then-University president Mark Yudof ordered a self-imposed post season ban for the 1999-2000 season. (source)

Tsk tsk, boys. You’d think that smart young men such as these would know better than to cheat. Riiiight. And to have the coach shell out 3,000 clams to buy off the manager and get her to write all these papers? That’s desperate and downright sleazy. What happened to coaches being a good influence on their players? I guess Haskins didn’t get the memo.

“I’ve got a tough job. I’ve got to put these guys from different worlds together, right?” Pearl said. “I’ve got guys from Chicago, Detroit … I’m talking about the ‘hood! And I’ve got guys from Grainger County, where they wear the hood.”

Lucky for Pearl, the people from Grainger County turned out to be some pretty laid-back folks, so they didn’t take offense to his foot-in-mouth attempt at humor. Needless to say, Pearl got on the horn quick and issued an apology the next morning.

“Unfortunately while I was trying to excite the crowd and encourage employees to give, I made an inappropriate joke. I certainly did not intend to offend anyone and I apologize to everyone, especially the people of Grainger County.

“In no way am I trying to justify what I said, but I’m disappointed that the focus has been placed on me rather than the charities I was there to help. My only hope is that the visibility of this mistake will encourage those who can to give to those in need during these difficult times.” (source)

Evidently Reggie Miller took a shine to Alex von Furstenberg’s (son of fashion’s own Diane von Furstenberg) fiancee Ali Kay. That would be a no, no. Stalking doubly so.

According to the restraining order, which was never filed, Miller is neighbors with von Furstenberg and Kay, and met her at a Fourth of July party last year. In early March, he ran into her at a grocery store, then waited outside for an hour until she left, before following her up the Pacific Coast Highway.

He also allegedly harassed her by phone, including sending her 53 text messages over the course of less than four hours.

He also told police that he later gave Sypher $3,000 to have an abortion, according to Louisville Metro Police reports The Courier-Journal obtained under the Kentucky Open Records Act.

But Pitino denied Sypher’s allegations that he raped her at Porcini, after the restaurant closed, and again a few weeks later at a different location, police records show. And prosecutors who have reviewed Sypher’s claims say Pitino won’t be charged.

On Wednesday, Pitino made a brief statement without notes and apologized “to my loving family, my wife, univeristy officials, as well as my extended family. … I let them down with my indiscretion six years ago and I’m sorry for that.”

He said he will continue to cooperate with the authorities regarding the extortion charges against Sypher.

…Sypher has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiring to extort money from Pitino in exchange for her silence about the alleged crimes, and with lying to the FBI. She has pleaded not guilty.

She reported the alleged rapes to Metro Police on July 9, about two months after she was indicted.

The Metro Police records show that the commander of the sex offense unit, who investigated Sypher’s claims and interviewed her twice in July, found problems in her accounts of both incidents — which he said raised questions about her credibility. (source)

Tsk tsk tsk. Pitino really should’ve have thought twice before engaging in an extramarital affair. For one, didn’t he realize that only jerks cheat on their wives? And second, stay away from the crazy if you insist on being that kind of jerk! In addition to all of the extortion that Sypher has been putting Pitino through, evidence is mounting (haha, get it?) that she has falsely accused Pitino of raping her. One of the dead giveaways? She accused him of sexually assaulting her during a time when records show the two weren’t even in the same state!

Both of these people have earned their spot here on Jockstrapjerks.com. Pitino for cheating on his wife, and Sypher for being an absolute b**ch and falsifying testimonies.