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Male athletes acting badly.(University of Wisconsin)(Brief Article)
After several members of the University of Wisconsin football team had highly publicized run-ins with the law for off-the-field transgressions, a Madison newspaper decided to investigate further.
The Capital Times ran the names of all members of the Wisconsin football, basketball and hockey players through a computerized check of the Madison municipal court system, and chronicled the results. About 18% of football players, 12% of hockey players and 7% of basketball players had been charged with non-traffic offenses.
Of the 112 current football players listed in the 2002 media guide, 20 had been charged with non-traffic violations, including underage drinking and drunk driving. Another three players charged had left the team.
High-profile cases included Lee Evans being charged with possession of marijuana; Al Johnson being arrested twice for drunk driving; Brett Bell being charged with battery, disorderly conduct and bail-jumping for beating a man in December, and having a bar fight with a teammate in ...
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