Buckeyes in trouble

[Peake]

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/sp ... ml?sid=101


A pair of Ohio State freshman football players will be in court this week to face a misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.

Mike Adams, 18, and J.B. Shugarts, 19, were cited on Jan. 14 after being pulled over for running a stop sign at Pearl St. and E. 14th St., in the campus area.

They were not arrested.

Each has pleaded not guilty. Adams has a pre-trial hearing set for Monday and Shugarts for Wednesday, both in Franklin County Municipal Court.

The charge is a fourth-degree misdemeanor, punishable by a maximum of 30 days in jail and a $250 fine.

Messages to OSU coach Jim Tressel and team spokesperson Shelly Poe last night were not immediately returned.

Both players are offensive lineman who saw action last season, but both were injury-plagued.

Adams, from Dublin Coffman, is expected to take over as the starting left tackle this fall. Shugarts, from Klein, Texas, is expected to compete for a starting job at right guard or right tackle

[85inside]

maybe they were working on those "injuries"? LOL

[seofan_via_dublin]

Charges were dropped for lack of evidence

They were stopped for running a stop sign, the paraphinelia charge stemmed from that.

Judge dismissed the case for lack of evidence, the two voluntarily took a drug test and passed.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/stor ... FHeadlines

[theassassin]

lack of evidence..... that is convenient

[Orestes]

lack of evidence..... that is convenient

Of course the response.

They were picked up for running a stop sign. There was a pipe in the car. The police took the pipe. It came back clean. Both guys passed drug tests. Why should they be in trouble? If they were doing drugs, they would have failed the test.

[RiverRatRay]

This thread should have been titled, Buckeyes Wrongly Accused. I will always believe innocent until proven guilty. I hope none of us are ever headlines about something we weren't guilty of doing . I'm sending Ken Gordon of the Columbus Dispatch, who by the way is a friend of mine, an e-mail about this type of reporting. This type of tabloid reporting is to sell papers and there are those out there who eat this type stuff up, be it true or not.

Check out this one from Michigan....

click here

[RiverRatRay]

Players cleared of charges...click here for story