Sports Thread #1 For 3/24/10: The Woes Of Dwight Gooden Continue

Photo from NY Daily News Simmons

Oy

A drugged-up Doc Gooden, whose substance abuse crippled his shot at baseball immortality, was arrested after a morning rush hour accident with his son in the car, police said Wednesday. Gooden - a former Cy Young winner with the Mets who threw a no-hitter for the Yankees - was taken into custody after the 8:50 a.m. accident Tuesday in Franklin Lakes, N.J., police said.

Cops in the tony New Jersey suburb responded after receiving a 911 call, and arrested Gooden after the ex-major leaguer left the scene of the two-car crash on Old Mill Rd.

Gooden, 45, was charged with driving while under the influence of drugs, endangering the welfare of a child, leaving the scene, reckless driving and DWI with a child passenger. He has a 5-year-old son, Dylan.

A sad story continues to get sadder by the day.

MLB needed to get rid of this. And they did. Good.

Andy Reid and Eagles organization, for the sake of us all please settle on your quarterback plan for good as soon as possible. Thank you.

Ah ooooooooooooooh: Just when it seemed like the Washington Wizards were going to make Andray Blanche their new franchise player to build around, this whole bust up with Flip Sanders comes up .

Injury woes for the last two Big East teams in the NCAA tournament: A day after "Truck" Bryant was ruled out for good for West Virginia, Arinze Onuaku will be unavailable again for Syracuse in their Regional Semifinal against Butler tomorrow.

Update : Gosh, PETA are such attention whores. They really need to be forever ignored, as they latest desperate display of wanting attention is leveled at Mike Tyson:

PETA's latest gripe is with former boxer Mike Tyson and his new Animal Planet reality show, Taking on Tyson, which will show the "intensely competitive and bizarrely fascinating world of pigeon racing. Tyson has raised pigeons all his life but is a novice when it comes to pigeon racing.
"One wonders whether Mike Tyson -- as a self-appointed ambassador of and 'rookie' to pigeon racing -- realizes that just as losing racehorses end up in the glue factory, these gentle, loyal birds who race their hearts out in order to get home to their life mates often become lost in storms or have their necks wrung for failing to beat their competitors' time," said PETA president Ingrid E. Newkirk in a statement.
PETA sent a letter to the district attorney's office in Brooklyn to "make sure the production is not allowed to go forward if illegal activity is going to take place."