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We welcome back the Friday contempt list today, and there were plenty of potential candidates, even after the O.J. Mayo saga earned its very own contempt list yesterday.  For those that are new to The High Court, or if you’ve simply suffered memory loss, the contempt list exists to target those public figures, groups, or organizations that are guilty of actions or words that should, frankly, be punishable by jail time.  As I mentioned yesterday, I am encouraging all of our readers to participate each week.  You can submit your own contempt lists (anywhere from one to ten members on the list…all public figures in any walk of life are eligible) on the comments board, or you can simply choose to comment on our lists.  And we will take nominations throughout the week for The High Court lists.  You can email those nominations to chiefjustice@thehighcourtofsports.com.

In the spirit of the Academy Awards, the envelope please…

5.  Eric Musselman…The first-year head coach of the Sacramento Kings was suspended for two games by the NBA for his DUI arrest in October.  Musselman recently plead no contest to the charges stemming from that arrest, and he was issued his punishment by the NBA.  Musselman took the penalty in stand-up fashion, accepting accountability and responsibility for his mistake.  But it is never a good thing when the head coach of a franchise is arrested for anything, and that arrest, coupled with the fact that Musselman’s Kings are currently last in the Pacific Division has made for a very tough debut year in Sacto.

4.  The Brothers Reid…Andy Reid’s kids make Eric Musselman look like the AllState driver of the year.  With their folks out of town, 21-year old Britt and 23-year old Garret made Mom and Dad very proud by getting in trouble with the law early Tuesday morning just hours apart in separate incidents.  Britt Reid was arrested for allegedly brandishing a gun at another motorist and older brother Garret Reid was arrested after his SUV collided with another vehicle. The elder Reid brother reportedly admitted to using heroin earlier in the day, and law enforcement officials found drug paraphernalia and weapons inside his vehicle.  Not to be outdone, the younger Reid reportedly was found with guns and drugs at the Reid family home when officers came calling with a search warrant.  I don’t know about you, but I’d be willing to guess that whole McNabb/Garcia quarterback controversy might be taking a backseat for a while at Coach Reid’s house…

3.  The good people of Troy, Michigan…Troy is apparently a well-to-do suburb of Detroit, and these fine upscale people don’t want Hooters expanding in their fair city.  The city council has been blocking the liquor license for a new Hooters location in town, so the good folks at Hooters have just started operating two locations, the old and the new, located just two miles apart.  It’s simply wrong, I tell you.  Do these people have something against generously-packed tank tops?  Or orange hot pants?  It boggles the mind, especially given how perfect the fit for the new Hooters seems to be.  The area that this anti-Hooters faction wanted to keep the new restaurant out of is the Big Beaver commercial district.  And I am not even making that up.  People of Troy, Michigan…listen up.  If ever a Hooters was meant to be somewhere…it was meant to be in the Big Beaver. 

2.  The Speech Police…So it seems Joe Biden just isn’t really good at this presidential campaign stuff.  Biden, who famously went down in political flames in pursuing the 1988 Democratic nomination for plagiarizing the stump speeches of other politicians, stepped in it again this week by making Barack Obama out to be the first African-American politician able to speak, read, and bathe.  Seriously…what Biden really meant wasn’t anywhere near that bad, but he got slammed anyway.  He was trying to give Obama a compliment and ended up sounding like an ignorant racist.  I’m no Biden fan, but I have to defend the guy.  We are approaching a critical mass on this whole political correctness thing; there’s a good chance by 2032 politicians won’t even bother to speak at all for fear of getting killed whatever they say.  He chose his words poorly, but so what?  What if he had called Obama a raving baboon’s ass (in fairness, he may have already reserved that for Mrs. Clinton)?  A little sensitivity is a fine thing, but too much sensitivity leads to its own brand of intolerance.  Nick Saban knows how Biden feels (and I can’t believe I’m defending this guy again, either).  Saban recently made what were supposed to be off-the-record comments (and yet he mad them into a working tape recorder…nice…) to a group of reporters (smart move Nicky), telling a salty anecdote about what a Cajun gentleman had said to a LSU trustee who was a friend of Saban’s.  Saban did a couple of things anti-PC…One, he did his best Cajun, which turned out to be offensive (or so we’re told) and two, he threw out a little blue language (including the term ‘coonass’, which is also apparently offensive to Cajuns…at least those that don’t have T-shirts that read, ‘I’m with Coonass’).  Long story short, the Cajun speaking to the trustee had said Saban’s moving to Alabama was like, “the sonofabitch f**king my wife.”  And now Saban’s in trouble for referring to Cajuns as ‘talking funny’ (and I’d guess for that whole Coonass thing) and dropping f-bombs.  But hey, it could be worse.   Because speaking of f**king somebody’s wife…

1.  Meet San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom…Newsom was forced to admit publicly that he had carried on an affair with the wife of his campaign manager (umm…make that FORMER campaign manager) after Alex Tourk confronted him about the relationship.  Strangely enough, the affair appears to have occurred well over a year ago, when Ruby Rippey-Tourk worked for the mayor (or was that UNDER the mayor?…and how about that handle…Ruby Rippey?  Stage name, anyone?).  We have no idea what prompted the affair to come to Tourk’s attention after that length of time, but one applauds his decision to have the mayor stick it, er…shove it…oh never mind.  As for Newsom, we all worry about the character of our politicians, but it would seem sleeping with a valued colleague’s wife would make him a scumbag of the highest order.  But, if you’re looking for a silver lining…it would appear that there are some straight people in San Francisco (Damn…I hear the speech police coming…)…

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