Posted on 01/29/2008 9:58:09 AM PST by XR7
When Curtis Williams took the field for the Huskies' 2000 season opener, the University of Washington's media guide described him like this:
Senior, strong safety, 5-foot-10, 200 pounds. Named, in 1999, the team's best hitter. Led team in solo tackles. Went to high school in Fresno, Calif., where he was a top recruit. The seventh of eight kids. Pursuing a degree in American ethnic studies.
Here's what the media guide didn't say:
When Williams played against Idaho, he had a warrant out for his arrest. He'd been arrested every year he was here: 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000. He was a convicted felon who'd served time for choking his wife. Two other assault charges were pending against him. He was accused of cutting his wife's face, breaking her arm, breaking her nose.
Ordered to pay $283 a month in child support, Williams had paid nothing. Earlier in the year, he'd flunked two classes. If not for Swahili — a notoriously easy class at the UW and a favorite of football players — he would have been ineligible to play...
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
ping.
The News Tribune out of Tacoma actually had a very good editorial yesterday on the Husky team... saying something like: the best highly talented athletes whose natural environment is the police line up - worth reading on line. When is this kind of garbage going to stop?
When you find a cure for the human condition.... let me know.
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