Please excuse me if this is a honda, but I have to share it & I don't see anything on page 1:On Mike & Mike on ESPN AM 560 this morning in DEN, they're talking about an ESPN the Rag story about Clarett.Apparently, Clarett shows up on his first day in Dove Valley, the Donkey training camp. He gets into it with Rich Tuten, who is the Donkey's strength coach, had made some joking comment to him, & is build like a tree trunk and is twice as strong. After swearing loudly at length at Tuten, he stomps into Donkey GM Ted Sunquist's office & demands that Tuten be fired on the spot. When Sunquist doesn't accomodate Clarett, Clarett apparently then demanded to be traded immediately to another team.At this point in time, Clarett had not signed a contract with the Broncos (remember, the contract that had no signing bonus because he wanted it incentive laden to make obscene amounts of money for his on field accomplishments).------------------------------------------------------------Clarett apparently was also offered a shoe contract for $50,000, but turned it down because, "within 2 years, he was going to have his own line of shoes like Kobe Bryant".----------------------------------------------------------Clarett was apparently out on the practice field, when he realized that he had forgotten his water bottle. He turned to teammates & told them he had to go back to the locker room to get it so "he could get his goose on." It turns out that Clarett was loading the water bottle he took to practice & the weight room with Grey Goose vodka, which he was downing while working.-----------------------------------------------------------Sorry, no link. Strictly for your enjoyment. Mike & Mike were laughing their asses off this morning while relating these incidents.
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Please excuse me if this is a honda, but I have to share it & I don't see anything on page 1:On Mike & Mike on ESPN AM 560 this morning in DEN, they're talking about an ESPN the Rag story about Clarett.Apparently, Clarett shows up on his first day in Dove Valley, the Donkey training camp. He gets into it with Rich Tuten, who is the Donkey's strength coach, had made some joking comment to him, & is build like a tree trunk and is twice as strong. After swearing loudly at length at Tuten, he stomps into Donkey GM Ted Sunquist's office & demands that Tuten be fired on the spot. When Sunquist doesn't accomodate Clarett, Clarett apparently then demanded to be traded immediately to another team.At this point in time, Clarett had not signed a contract with the Broncos (remember, the contract that had no signing bonus because he wanted it incentive laden to make obscene amounts of money for his on field accomplishments).------------------------------------------------------------Clarett apparently was also offered a shoe contract for $50,000, but turned it down because, "within 2 years, he was going to have his own line of shoes like Kobe Bryant".----------------------------------------------------------Clarett was apparently out on the practice field, when he realized that he had forgotten his water bottle. He turned to teammates & told them he had to go back to the locker room to get it so "he could get his goose on." It turns out that Clarett was loading the water bottle he took to practice & the weight room with Grey Goose vodka, which he was downing while working.-----------------------------------------------------------Sorry, no link. Strictly for your enjoyment. Mike & Mike were laughing their asses off this morning while relating these incidents.
Sam Quentin
Footballguy
DoctorDetroit
Chocolate Thunder
Love those #### eyes
Csonka4life
Footballguy
That sounds like someone that is way too self absorbed to make it in the real world. I guess he will be in and out of jail till he does it get. By that time he will be an old and beaten down 50 year old......... 
Family Matters
Footballguy
So much to say, so little time to give a shiit. 
Nemesis
Footballguy
I read the article couple of days ago.......and it lists the "Grey Goose" story and the "attempted firing" story as wellIIRC, in the article, it also describes after he ran the slow combine 40 time, he consulted with a well known trainer. The trainer wanted him to work a regimen to increase his speed and Clarett got fed up and couldn't take it after a couple of days. Said to the trainer basically, "can't you give me something so I don't have to [work this hard].............(i think he ended up calling Boston's former trainer).
Cecil Lammey
Footballguy
He had a pretty good posse with him out at training camp. I remember the fans there with Clarett Bronco jerseys, and a couple with Ohio State jerseys on. Drinking stories about MoMo are all true. 
BoulderBob
Footballguy
The worship he received at OSU really did this kid in...
Family Matters
Footballguy
I hope you're not serious?
Family Matters
Footballguy
You heard about the attempted robbery didn't you?He had a pretty good posse with him out at training camp. I remember the fans there with Clarett Bronco jerseys, and a couple with Ohio State jerseys on. Drinking stories about MoMo are all true.
Cecil Lammey
Footballguy
Yeah, very sad it had to get to that point. Let me restate that his "good posse" was really a "good sized posse".You heard about the attempted robbery didn't you?He had a pretty good posse with him out at training camp. I remember the fans there with Clarett Bronco jerseys, and a couple with Ohio State jerseys on. Drinking stories about MoMo are all true.
Csonka4life
Footballguy
The 300 pound redneck biker and the 300 pound drug enforcer for an inner city drug gang are two candidates to make Maurice a gimp......... 
millertyme1
Footballguy
In case you were wondering about the latest:
http://mauriceclarett.wordpress.com/2009/0...80%99m-feeling/
http://mauriceclarett.wordpress.com/2009/0...80%99m-feeling/
Skeletor / Mo reunion in 2010?
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The Great Snook
Footballguy
Wow, talk about delusional.
bcr8f
Footballguy
Nahh. Then he would have made everyone pay who didn't pick hm.Like Randy Moss punished the Cowboys.
Sack-Religious
Footballguy
Incarcerated people can have blogs?
Hipple Long Ware & Peete
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I am pretty sure that he calls somebody and reads them what to post or something like that.
Das Boot
Footballguy
It's possible he has changed.
He's had a few years of prison and lots of long hours to think about the NFL chance he pissed away and how he has, at most and if he's lucky, one last chance to succeed.
No question he was a total jerk and worse before.
But I hope he has seen the light and decided to turn his life around.
And I hope he gets another chance at the NFL, and I hope he succeeds at it... but even if he's not NFL caliber, I hope he succeeds in living a respectable and happy life.
He's had a few years of prison and lots of long hours to think about the NFL chance he pissed away and how he has, at most and if he's lucky, one last chance to succeed.
No question he was a total jerk and worse before.
But I hope he has seen the light and decided to turn his life around.
And I hope he gets another chance at the NFL, and I hope he succeeds at it... but even if he's not NFL caliber, I hope he succeeds in living a respectable and happy life.
Das Boot
Footballguy
This is from his Wikipedia entry... I had forgotten some of the bad/scary details about his arrest. 
Robbery conviction
On January 1, 2006, police announced that they were searching for Clarett in relation to two incidents of armed robbery that took place at 1:46am outside the Opium Lounge danceclub in Columbus. Allegedly, with a .45 caliber handgun, Clarett robbed two people and then escaped in a white SUV with two unidentified persons. Clarett reportedly made off with only a cell phone valued at $150 belonging to one of the victims.[9]
Said Jim Tressel, his former coach at Ohio State, "I hope it's not true, but beyond that, I don't know much, but my reaction is, I was sad."
Clarett turned himself in to police shortly after 9 p.m., EST, on January 2, just as the Buckeyes were defeating Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Arizona, the very bowl game in which Clarett last played college football. He faced two counts of aggravated robbery. He was later released on $50,000 bond [10].
On February 10, 2006, Clarett was indicted by a Franklin County grand jury on two counts of aggravated robbery with gun specifications and five other counts. If convicted, he would be sentenced to up to 25 years in prison. His attorneys said that he denied every allegation, saying Clarett "intends to fight this indictment with the same vigor and resolve he displayed in taking OSU to a national championship."[11]
On February 22, 2006, Maurice Clarett pleaded not guilty to aggravated-robbery charges. He was released on $20,000 bail until his trial began. [12]
On July 26, 2006, Clarett fired his lawyers, William Settina and Robert Krapenc, two weeks before his trial date. The privately retained attorneys had filed a motion two days earlier saying they wanted to withdraw their counsel, claiming that Clarett was not paying their fees or cooperating in his defense. [13] [14]
At a status hearing held on August 9, 2006 pertaining to the January charges, Franklin County Common Pleas Judge David Fais increased Clarett's bond to $1.1 million.[15] This was due to Clarett's arrest earlier that morning (see below). On August 10, 2006, Fais ordered an additional status hearing which was held on August 11, 2006. This hearing had not been requested by either the prosecution or Clarett's defense team but was requested by Fais himself.[16] At the hearing, Fais delayed the trial until September 18, 2006, revoked the $1.1 million bond in the case and ordered Clarett to undergo a mental health evaluation.[17]
[edit] August 2006 arrest
In the early morning hours of August 9, 2006, Clarett was arrested in Columbus after he made an illegal U-turn and led the police on a chase in a sports utility vehicle reportedly belonging to his uncle. After driving over a police-mounted spike strip, the chase ended in a nearby restaurant parking lot.[18] [19]
Police said they were forced to secure a cloth around Clarett's mouth after he allegedly spit at the officers and called them "######s" during the arrest. According to Columbus Police Sgt. Mike Woods, the officers discovered a katana, a loaded AK-47 variant and two other loaded handguns in his vehicle along with an open bottle of Grey Goose vodka.[20] The police requested that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives perform a trace on the firearms to determine if Clarett violated Federal gun laws.
The officers used mace to subdue Clarett after attempts to subdue him with a Taser proved ineffective because he was wearing kevlar body armor.
Clarett was arraigned on the latest charges on August 10, 2006 in Franklin County Municipal Court in Columbus. During the arraignment, Judge Andrea C. Peeples set his bond on the charges of carrying a concealed weapon without a permit and failure to maintain current lane at $5 million. In setting the bond, Peeples agreed with prosecutors that Clarett is now a flight risk or could attempt to intimidate witnesses in his upcoming robbery trial.[21] Clarett remained lodged in the Franklin County Corrections Center, however, as the $1.1 million bond for the robbery charge was revoked by trial judge David Fais. According to a Columbus Dispatch report, Clarett, who was due to be tried for his January arrest, was in the neighborhood of one of the principal witnesses against him at the time the events of August 9 occurred.[citation needed]
On September 18, Clarett filed a guilty plea to the charges in a plea bargain that involved these events as well as the earlier robbery charges. He was sentenced by Judge David Fais to seven and a half years in prison, but may apply for early release after three and a half years. As part of the plea agreement, the prosecution agreed not to object to early release if and when Clarett applies for it. [22]
On December 14, it was announced that Clarett will be changing prisons to a close-security prison in a single person cell at Toledo Correctional Institution. He will be able to eat with and exercise with other inmates.
He is currently enrolled in a distance-learning program at Ohio University while he serves his sentence at the Toledo Correctional Institution. Clarett is trying to earn a bachelor's degree in Geriatrics and Gerontology.
[edit] Blog
As of 2009, Clarett is blogging about his life in prison on The Mind of Maurice Clarett daily; although he does not have internet access in the prison, he sends his entries to family members, who post them for him.
In a recent post, Clarett sums up his attitude by saying about prison by saying "Understand my struggle so you can respect my hustle. I am never coming back here, believe that. Never, I am cool on this. It is first-class living from the day I get out. I WILL NEVER SETTLE FOR LESS, EVER AGAIN. That goes for communication, personal relationships, housing, education, friendships, and travel arrangements. Everything. I have the fire in my eyes"
Robbery conviction
On January 1, 2006, police announced that they were searching for Clarett in relation to two incidents of armed robbery that took place at 1:46am outside the Opium Lounge danceclub in Columbus. Allegedly, with a .45 caliber handgun, Clarett robbed two people and then escaped in a white SUV with two unidentified persons. Clarett reportedly made off with only a cell phone valued at $150 belonging to one of the victims.[9]
Said Jim Tressel, his former coach at Ohio State, "I hope it's not true, but beyond that, I don't know much, but my reaction is, I was sad."
Clarett turned himself in to police shortly after 9 p.m., EST, on January 2, just as the Buckeyes were defeating Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Arizona, the very bowl game in which Clarett last played college football. He faced two counts of aggravated robbery. He was later released on $50,000 bond [10].
On February 10, 2006, Clarett was indicted by a Franklin County grand jury on two counts of aggravated robbery with gun specifications and five other counts. If convicted, he would be sentenced to up to 25 years in prison. His attorneys said that he denied every allegation, saying Clarett "intends to fight this indictment with the same vigor and resolve he displayed in taking OSU to a national championship."[11]
On February 22, 2006, Maurice Clarett pleaded not guilty to aggravated-robbery charges. He was released on $20,000 bail until his trial began. [12]
On July 26, 2006, Clarett fired his lawyers, William Settina and Robert Krapenc, two weeks before his trial date. The privately retained attorneys had filed a motion two days earlier saying they wanted to withdraw their counsel, claiming that Clarett was not paying their fees or cooperating in his defense. [13] [14]
At a status hearing held on August 9, 2006 pertaining to the January charges, Franklin County Common Pleas Judge David Fais increased Clarett's bond to $1.1 million.[15] This was due to Clarett's arrest earlier that morning (see below). On August 10, 2006, Fais ordered an additional status hearing which was held on August 11, 2006. This hearing had not been requested by either the prosecution or Clarett's defense team but was requested by Fais himself.[16] At the hearing, Fais delayed the trial until September 18, 2006, revoked the $1.1 million bond in the case and ordered Clarett to undergo a mental health evaluation.[17]
[edit] August 2006 arrest
In the early morning hours of August 9, 2006, Clarett was arrested in Columbus after he made an illegal U-turn and led the police on a chase in a sports utility vehicle reportedly belonging to his uncle. After driving over a police-mounted spike strip, the chase ended in a nearby restaurant parking lot.[18] [19]
Police said they were forced to secure a cloth around Clarett's mouth after he allegedly spit at the officers and called them "######s" during the arrest. According to Columbus Police Sgt. Mike Woods, the officers discovered a katana, a loaded AK-47 variant and two other loaded handguns in his vehicle along with an open bottle of Grey Goose vodka.[20] The police requested that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives perform a trace on the firearms to determine if Clarett violated Federal gun laws.
The officers used mace to subdue Clarett after attempts to subdue him with a Taser proved ineffective because he was wearing kevlar body armor.
Clarett was arraigned on the latest charges on August 10, 2006 in Franklin County Municipal Court in Columbus. During the arraignment, Judge Andrea C. Peeples set his bond on the charges of carrying a concealed weapon without a permit and failure to maintain current lane at $5 million. In setting the bond, Peeples agreed with prosecutors that Clarett is now a flight risk or could attempt to intimidate witnesses in his upcoming robbery trial.[21] Clarett remained lodged in the Franklin County Corrections Center, however, as the $1.1 million bond for the robbery charge was revoked by trial judge David Fais. According to a Columbus Dispatch report, Clarett, who was due to be tried for his January arrest, was in the neighborhood of one of the principal witnesses against him at the time the events of August 9 occurred.[citation needed]
On September 18, Clarett filed a guilty plea to the charges in a plea bargain that involved these events as well as the earlier robbery charges. He was sentenced by Judge David Fais to seven and a half years in prison, but may apply for early release after three and a half years. As part of the plea agreement, the prosecution agreed not to object to early release if and when Clarett applies for it. [22]
On December 14, it was announced that Clarett will be changing prisons to a close-security prison in a single person cell at Toledo Correctional Institution. He will be able to eat with and exercise with other inmates.
He is currently enrolled in a distance-learning program at Ohio University while he serves his sentence at the Toledo Correctional Institution. Clarett is trying to earn a bachelor's degree in Geriatrics and Gerontology.
[edit] Blog
As of 2009, Clarett is blogging about his life in prison on The Mind of Maurice Clarett daily; although he does not have internet access in the prison, he sends his entries to family members, who post them for him.
In a recent post, Clarett sums up his attitude by saying about prison by saying "Understand my struggle so you can respect my hustle. I am never coming back here, believe that. Never, I am cool on this. It is first-class living from the day I get out. I WILL NEVER SETTLE FOR LESS, EVER AGAIN. That goes for communication, personal relationships, housing, education, friendships, and travel arrangements. Everything. I have the fire in my eyes"
Hipple Long Ware & Peete
Footballguy
umm this postdates his jail time. "goosing" before a practice where you try and get guys fired seems about the antithesis of what he/his agent wrote there.
AhrnCityPahnder
Yinz-o-riffic
yellowdog
Footballguy
He was sentenced to 4.5 years + a mandatory 3 years for a gun specification. Scheduled to be released in 2014. Ohio Dept. of Rehabilitation & Corrections link.Incogneto said:
azgroover
Footballguy
This is fun.Rae Carruth(Wiggins)
Be sure to click to show photo. He looks like he's happy and doing well.
metoo
Footballguy
Rae has been busy:08/05/2004 FIGHTING
01/07/2003 MISUSE/UNAUTH-USE PHONE/MAIL
02/07/2002 PROVOKE ASSAULT
02/07/2002 BARTER/TRADE/LOAN MONEY
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tombonneau
Footballguy
BuckeyeArt
Footballguy
Clarett given OK to attend Omaha tryout
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)—Former Ohio State star Maurice Clarett believes he's ready
to make another run at professional football.
Clarett received permission Wednesday to leave Ohio to try out for the Omaha
Nighthawks of the United Football League. He served 3 1/2 years in prison for
having a hidden gun and holding up two people outside a bar, then spent 4 1/2
months in a community-based, lockdown dormitory.
Looking fit and relaxed in a gray suit, purple dress shirt and dark purple
tie, the 26-year-old Clarett did not speak before Franklin County Common Pleas
Court Judge David Fais.
As he was awaiting an elevator in the hall after the seven-minute hearing,
Clarett nodded yes when asked three questions: Did he welcome the opportunity to
try out for the team? Was he physically ready to play pro football? Was he
relieved that the judge granted his request?
Then he left to meet with a probation officer.
In asking for Clarett to be granted 30 days in Nebraska for the tryout,
attorney Martin Midian said, "We would like the court to not consider this as
any special treatment, but as a job interview—as would be the case for anyone
appearing before this court who might ask for such an opportunity."
Ohio State coach Jim Tressel sent a letter to Fais asking the judge to grant
the request.
"Please allow this letter to serve as validation that Maurice Clarett does
indeed have a legitimate opportunity for employment with the Omaha, Nebraska,
team in the United Football League," the letter read. "Please consider
allowing him to travel out of state to seek this opportunity."
Nighthawks GM Rick Mueller issued a statement Tuesday saying he wanted to
help Clarett take "positive steps toward being the good citizen and solid
family man that he aspires to be."
Mueller said the Nighthawks would try out Clarett as soon as possible.
Clarett, a prep star in Warren, Ohio, was an instant sensation at Ohio
State. He rushed for 1,237 yards while leading the Buckeyes to a 13-0 record
going into the national championship showdown against top-ranked Miami in the
Fiesta Bowl. Clarett scored the winning touchdown in double overtime, lifting
Ohio State to its first national title in 34 years.
The fall was just as swift as the rise.
Within months, Clarett had been declared ineligible by the NCAA for
accepting money from a booster. Clarett accused Ohio State of padding grades and
allowing football players to take easy classes, then sued the NFL to be
permitted to enter the draft ahead of the three-year waiting period. He
eventually lost in court, then was arrested on Jan. 1, 2006.
Former NFL running back Ahman Green, now with the Nighthawks, said he had
spoken with Clarett in recent days.
"He sounded very positive," Green said. "Hopefully we'll get him in by
the end of the week, if not early next week, and I'll kind of be his mentor."
Omaha player personnel director Ted Sundquist was general manager of the
Denver Broncos when they drafted Clarett in the third round in 2005. Limited by
a groin injury, he was cut during the preseason.
"He's truly on the path to trying to right his life and do what's right,"
Sundquist said Wednesday. "He has a little daughter and I know he's very close
to her mother.
"One of the things that really jumped out at me was the support he's gotten
from Jim Tressel, the fact he is back in school. everything in my conversation
with him, as I compare and contrast it to the last time I spoke with him, said
this guy deserves a second chance."
Another one of his attorneys, Nick Mango, said this was a fresh start for
his client.
"He's ready to move on," Mango said. "He's been extremely anxious. He
just wants to get out there and get going."
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)—Former Ohio State star Maurice Clarett believes he's ready
to make another run at professional football.
Clarett received permission Wednesday to leave Ohio to try out for the Omaha
Nighthawks of the United Football League. He served 3 1/2 years in prison for
having a hidden gun and holding up two people outside a bar, then spent 4 1/2
months in a community-based, lockdown dormitory.
Looking fit and relaxed in a gray suit, purple dress shirt and dark purple
tie, the 26-year-old Clarett did not speak before Franklin County Common Pleas
Court Judge David Fais.
As he was awaiting an elevator in the hall after the seven-minute hearing,
Clarett nodded yes when asked three questions: Did he welcome the opportunity to
try out for the team? Was he physically ready to play pro football? Was he
relieved that the judge granted his request?
Then he left to meet with a probation officer.
In asking for Clarett to be granted 30 days in Nebraska for the tryout,
attorney Martin Midian said, "We would like the court to not consider this as
any special treatment, but as a job interview—as would be the case for anyone
appearing before this court who might ask for such an opportunity."
Ohio State coach Jim Tressel sent a letter to Fais asking the judge to grant
the request.
"Please allow this letter to serve as validation that Maurice Clarett does
indeed have a legitimate opportunity for employment with the Omaha, Nebraska,
team in the United Football League," the letter read. "Please consider
allowing him to travel out of state to seek this opportunity."
Nighthawks GM Rick Mueller issued a statement Tuesday saying he wanted to
help Clarett take "positive steps toward being the good citizen and solid
family man that he aspires to be."
Mueller said the Nighthawks would try out Clarett as soon as possible.
Clarett, a prep star in Warren, Ohio, was an instant sensation at Ohio
State. He rushed for 1,237 yards while leading the Buckeyes to a 13-0 record
going into the national championship showdown against top-ranked Miami in the
Fiesta Bowl. Clarett scored the winning touchdown in double overtime, lifting
Ohio State to its first national title in 34 years.
The fall was just as swift as the rise.
Within months, Clarett had been declared ineligible by the NCAA for
accepting money from a booster. Clarett accused Ohio State of padding grades and
allowing football players to take easy classes, then sued the NFL to be
permitted to enter the draft ahead of the three-year waiting period. He
eventually lost in court, then was arrested on Jan. 1, 2006.
Former NFL running back Ahman Green, now with the Nighthawks, said he had
spoken with Clarett in recent days.
"He sounded very positive," Green said. "Hopefully we'll get him in by
the end of the week, if not early next week, and I'll kind of be his mentor."
Omaha player personnel director Ted Sundquist was general manager of the
Denver Broncos when they drafted Clarett in the third round in 2005. Limited by
a groin injury, he was cut during the preseason.
"He's truly on the path to trying to right his life and do what's right,"
Sundquist said Wednesday. "He has a little daughter and I know he's very close
to her mother.
"One of the things that really jumped out at me was the support he's gotten
from Jim Tressel, the fact he is back in school. everything in my conversation
with him, as I compare and contrast it to the last time I spoke with him, said
this guy deserves a second chance."
Another one of his attorneys, Nick Mango, said this was a fresh start for
his client.
"He's ready to move on," Mango said. "He's been extremely anxious. He
just wants to get out there and get going."
