Athletes and Bad Behavior

A Cook County jury today acquitted a South Side man of attempted murder of a police officer but found him guilty of aggravated battery with a firearm in the shooting of a Chicago detective during a chase more than four years ago. The jury deliberated...

I guess Ray Lewis was right when he said that crime in the AFC North would go up during the NFL lockout. OK, that isn’t exactly what he said, but whatever. Four players from the division have been arrested in the past 10 days, pulling the AFC North...

VH1 says Tanya Williams, estranged wife of former NBA player Jayson Williams, is not joining the cast of "Basketball Wives"...

Everyone who knows anything about the NFL understands James Harrison and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell are a green mile away from becoming BFFs....

Ron Artest has tweeted suggestions he may play with the British Basketball League's Cheshire Jets during the NBA lockout. As is frequently the case with Ron Artest, things remain up in the air, but a Cheshire Jets official told the team website that the...

In what could only be described as good timing, a court date scheduled Tuesday for Jets receiver Braylon Edwards stemming from a Sept 2010 DWI arrest has yet again been postponed conveniently two days after Gang Green defeated the Indianapolis Colts to...

The parents of a soldier from Yelm killed serving in Afghanistan who received a condolence letter with the wrong name are accepting an apology from Senator Maria Cantwell. Sgt. Sean Collins was living his childhood dream after joining the Army in 2005....

One of the newest Lakers has already found himself handcuffed. Not by a Boston double-team but by sheriff's deputies in Sacramento. Matt Barnes, the free-agent forward the Lakers signed for $3.6 million this summer, was arrested Wednesday on a felony........

Citing insufficient evidence, the Sacramento district attorney's office announced on Monday that it would not file domestic-abuse charges against Lakers forward Matt Barnes. Barnes was arrested last month on suspicion of domestic violence after an alleged...

--The Times' Mike Bresnahan outlines the challenges the Lakers will face in their three-game trip beginning at 5 p.m. Tuesday in Milwaukee. --The New York Post's Kathianne Boniello reports Lakers forward Lamar Odom is suing his ex-wife Liza Morales over...

Michael Vick has gone from the doghouse to the big house to the Hall of Fame in an extremely short period of time. The troubled quarterback's criminal past and subsequent jail time seem to be well behind him as he......