Want to measure the level of humiliation that the UGA football team is facing? Look no further than the lede paragraph on their student newspaper’s breaking news story on RedAndBlack.com:
“Another day, another suspension.”
It’s gotten that bad in Athens. Georgia coach Mark Richt has suspended six players from playing in the Aug 30 season-opener (as the No. 1-ranked team in preseason polls). Here’s your laundry list of Dawgs serving suspension time in the dawg pound:
(Note: UGA football being UGA football pictured to your right).
- Darius Dewberry: Seen on a hospital videotape overturning trash cans and causing other damage.
- Jeff Henson: Arrested and charged with public intoxication and urinating in public. (Also charged with a DUI last November; suspended for the Sugar Bowl.)
- Donavon Baldwin: DUI arrest in January, then suspended indefinitely after an unrelated incident at a bar.
- Fred Munzenmaier: Alcohol-related incident.
- Clint Boling: Reckless-driving charge.
- Michael Lemon: Charged with felony battery last month for allegedly punching a student and breaking his eye socket. Kicked off the team.
- (Unrelated, but still noteworthy) UGA VI (mascot): Dead.
Fellow UGA teammates Donovan Baldwin and Marcus Dowtin are now being treated for injuries suffered in a bar fight earlier Sunday morning.
Should be a fun banquet at the end of the season!



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