Talk about hitting rock bottom

[Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex]

Saw this when I browsing a columbus tv station's website. If this is true, then it's just a sad.

http://www.wbns10tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4306264

[Water Pony]

It is very sad. The AP reports:

Ex-Ohio State star Clarett accused of robbing couple

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former Ohio State University running back Maurice Clarett was accused of using a gun to rob two people in an alley behind a bar early Sunday and taking a cellphone, police said.
Clarett, 22, who helped the Buckeyes win the national championship in 2002, fled when the bar owner or manager, who knew Clarett and the victims, came into the alley and identified him shortly before 2 a.m., detectives said.

According to police, he left the scene in a white sport-utility vehicle with two other men and got only the cellphone from his alleged victims. Neither was hurt.

Clarett is wanted on two counts of suspicion of aggravated robbery, police said.

Clarett sat out the 2003 season after he was charged with misdemeanor falsification for filing a police report claiming that more than $10,000 in clothing, CDs, cash and stereo equipment was stolen from a car he borrowed from a local dealership. He later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.

Ohio State suspended Clarett for misleading investigators, and for receiving special benefits worth thousands of dollars from a family friend.

He later began an unsuccessful legal fight that went to the U.S. Supreme Court to be allowed in the NFL early. He was chosen by the Denver Broncos in last year's draft, but the team cut him in August.


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[LonghornFan68]

That's a damn shame. The kid had it all, but managed to make all the wrong decisions.

[Pony Up]

Well said. And very objective, I might add.
I doubt he'll ever play again, but I do hope he gets his act together.

[LonghornFan68]

Well said. And very objective, I might add.
I doubt he'll ever play again, but I do hope he gets his act together.

You can only hope that this wakes him up and causes him to rededicate himself to something positive.