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More fun with the Bengals

By MATT TAIBBI  |  May 7, 2008

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Dennis Rodman is still out there and still crazy, arrested this past week for assaulting a woman in Century City, California. Apparently, he and a girl got drunk, argued, and Rodman grabbed her roughly, leaving a bruise. He is being investigated for felony domestic dispute, freed on $50,000 bail.

One guesses the cops might have let it slide had Rodman not been involved in several questionable situations with women, including a he-drugged-me-and-then-raped-me story a few years back (no charges were filed in that one, though it did end up before a civil jury; Rodman was eventually cleared). That and the fact that he’s apparently completely insane.

Rodman, who was briefly married to Carmen Electra, and was somewhere between the 1008th and 1390th person to sleep with Madonna, has recently been through a divorce and is said to be going through a “difficult time.” Let’s hope it’s a few years before we hear from him again.

When he's not googling "still Rodman after all these years" and “the mother and child reunion is only a black eye away,” Matt Taibbi writes for Rolling Stone. He can be reached atM_Taibbi@yahoo.com.

2008 LEADER BOARD
JIM LEYRITZ (EX-YANKEES)
| DUI manslaughter | 90
BRADY SMITH (EX-BC) | being a drunken slob of a would-be rapist | 89
BRANDAN WRIGHT (EX-BETHUNE-COOKMAN) | running dude over with an Isuzu for owing him $200 | 89
JEROME MATHIS (TEXANS) | choking pregnant babymama | 75
FABIAN WASHINGTON (RAIDERS) | red marks on girlfriend’s neck | 70
AHMAD BROOKS (BENGALS) | punching out chick in front of her kids, the asshole | 60
JAMES HARRISON (STEELERS) | punching girlfriend to facilitate a baptism | 60
ANDY CHRISTENSEN (NEBRASKA) | wantonly grabbing unguarded vagina in bar | 55
JEREMY ELDER (EX-ALABAMA) | late-night stickup | 55
CEDRIC WILSON (STEELERS) | punching girlfriend, but not in order to facilitate a baptism | 55
CARL ELLER (EX-VIKINGS) | DUI, tossing cops around like birdseed | 50
ADAM “PACMAN” JONES (TITANS) | being a menace to peaceful strip-club patrons everywhere | 50
MAURICE SIMMONS (USC) | being the wheelman for a Compton armed mugging | 50
SHAWNE WILLIAMS (PACERS) | harboring an accused first-degree murderer | 50
JOHN STEPHENS (EX-PATRIOTS) | sex-assault fugitive | 48
DAVID CORNACCHIA (FLA. EVERBLADES) | mid-flight assault, head-butting bystanders, exposing wine-shrunken wiener | 46
KEITH MCCANTS (EX-ALABAMA) | getting Tasered after hurling pliers and crack pipe at cops | 43
BRANDON PETTIGREW (OKLAHOMA STATE) | elbowing Stillwater’s finest | 42
RIAR GEER (COLORADO) | randomly assaulting two students, being an asshole | 40
JOSH JARBOE (OKLAHOMA) | bringing totally unnecessary .380 handgun to track meet | 40
LYNN KATOA (COLORADO) | campus assault | 40
KEITH MCLEOD (EX-PACERS) | being the latest Pacer alum to discharge a firearm in public | 40
DENNIS RODMAN (ex-BULLS, PISTONS, LAKERS) | It’s just sad, no joke necessary | 38
JORGE REYES AND JOHN WALLACE (OREGON) | being dumbasses and shooting .22 rounds into a neighbor’s house | 37
CHRIS HENRY (EX-BENGALS) | getting arrested way too many times | 35
STEFON JACKSON (UTEP) | hindering prosecution; attracting fugitives | 31
SCOTT SPIEZIO (CARDINALS) | flipping a car in the OC, staggering away from the scene, going mental at some random citizen | 31
CHANNING CROWDER (DOLPHINS) | leaving the scene, making good early impression on Bill Parcells | 30
DANIEL GRAHAM (BRONCOS) | ambiguous domestic-violence beef; hit a bedpost | 30
JASON HORTON (MISSOURI) | beating up “kitchen help” | 30
KENTON KEITH (COLTS) | refusing to leave a parking lot because he's a Colt and doesn’t need to listen to anyone | 30
TYRONE NESBY (EX-CLIPPERS) | ginormous child-support debt | 30
DAN ROONEY (STEELERS) | hypocritical defense of girlfriend-punching players, but only the good ones | 30
RICHARD TODD BURGER (EX-JETS) | leg-breaking for Internet gambling site | 28
BRITTON COLQUITT (TENNESSEE) | DUI, hitting a car, hitting tree stump, then walking away from the scene | 28
RYAN O'BYRNE (CANADIENS) | stealing a chick’s purse | 27
JASMINE PAYNE AND ASHLIE BILLINGSLEA (SOUTH CAROLINA) | weed, theft, more theft | 24
DONALD STRICKLAND (NINERS) | being belligerent and drunk, getting caught by cops on foot, playing for the Colts at one time | 24
XAVIER HICKS (WASHINGTON STATE) | putting rubbing alcohol in roommate's contact-lens case| 22
DEMARCUS GRANGER (OKLAHOMA) | stealing winter coat — in Arizona; refusing to appear | 21
RANDY NEWSOM (AKRON AEROS) | sold shares in his future earnings in dicey scheme that Ponzi would have admired | 18
GERALD JONES AND AHMAD PAIGE (TENNESSEE) | Cheech and Chong/Up in Smoke impersonation, while in car | 12
SHAUN WHITE (X-TREME SPORTS) | spraying fire extinguisher, acting like the little douchebag he is | 11
MIKHAIL MARINOVICH (SYRACUSE) | breaking into a school equipment room; adding another arrest to the family ledger | 10
DERRICK JONES (OREGON) | operating a less-than-one-ounce “drug house” | 1
KEVIN FAULK (PATRIOTS) | contributing to the cancer-like misery of Patriots fans | 0.5
BRYAN GRIER (MAINE) | weighing 344 pounds and power-carjacking in New Hampshire | INCOMPLETE (pending psych review)

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Comments
More fun with the Bengals
Matt - In reguards to your lovely Bengals article, just wanted to give you the heads up that the heart of your point - listing Bengals that were arrested (we will exclude your insightful comment on Steinbach seeing that you obviously have not had time to Wikipedia the meaning of Salary Cap) - makes no sense. Of the 6 players you listed, there are only 2 that are on the current Bengals roster. Consider this a friendly alert to get off the ESPN induced bandwagon while you still can. It won't be "trendy" for much longer. As an added benefit - here is a very good link I think you will enjoy - http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/nfl/20080419-9999-1s19nflrail1.html They are not even in the top 5 of teams with the most arrests in the last year?? Keep writin em'!
By Ryandg5 on 05/08/2008 at 1:19:04

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