In and On the Courts, This Week in Sports: Taylor/Cushing/Lebron/Saints Lawsuit

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Chris Fusco

This is what we will be following on this week on the blog:

• Lawrence Taylor Rape Charges: Beware of erroneous reports that the defense has a “witness” to prove LT’s innocence. The purported friend of the girl prostitute, who claims that her friend (the prostitute) told her that she didn’t have sex with LT, is a witness to nothing. She is not a witness to whatever happened or didn’t happen in that hotel room. She is only a party to a conversation that may have occurred after the alleged crime was completed. This is credibility of the witness’s case.

• Saints Lawsuit: The Saints invoked the arbitration clause of the employment contract with their employee and former director Geoffrey Santini, this act takes the case from the public courtroom and to private and confidential arbitration. Santini is alleging that Saints’ coaches, including head coach Sean Payton misused and illegal removed Vicodin. You have to wonder why the Saints did not do this before the lawsuit was filed. Anyway, the DEA investigation will continue. We will be watching.

• Brian Cushing: The Texans AP Defensive Rookie of the Year is just another steroid using cheater and liar about his positive test. Check out Ralph Vacchiano’s very fine piece in the NY Daily News. How any journalist could vote for him again for Defense Rookie of Year? All this shows is that cheating in professional sports by using steroids is becoming more and more accepted.

• Lebron James: This may not have much to do with the courts but if Lebron leaves the Cavs, do you think it may have something to do with the scandal of a fellow teammate having an affair with his mother, Gloria James? That has to violate some law of the clubhouse, doesn’t it?

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