Because I Can

Marcus Vick, the younger brother of Michael Vick, who has been nothing but trouble for Virginia Tech finally got kicked off the team. What was most revealing, though, was the information about an arrest:

Vick might have avoided dismissal had news not broken Friday that he has a
hearing on Jan. 17 for traffic violations stemming from a Dec. 17 arrest. He was
charged with going 38 in a 25 mph zone and driving on a suspended
license.
The offenses occurred the day Tech players began pre-Gator Bowl
preparations with a 1 p.m. team run in Blacksburg. In July 2004, Vick was
arrested for reckless driving and possession of marijuana. That arrest followed
an arrest earlier in the year on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a
minor. Those legal troubles led to his suspension from school for the fall, 2004
semester. He was reinstated with the stipulation that further trouble would lead
to his dismissal.

Information about legal problems that did not make the media until now. This is nothing new for the Vick family, as his older brother Michael, had a lawsuit drawn against him. According to the Smoking Gun,

a 26-year-old health care worker, was infected with the sexually
transmitted disease in April 2003 after an unprotected encounter with Vick at
the athlete's Duluth, Georgia home.

adding to that

Elliott's complaint also contends that Vick "apologized profusely" for not
telling her he was infected with the STD.

So that's the awful truth. But it cannot stay that way, of course. It has to get funny; it's on smokinggun.com, after all.

Elliot's lawsuit alleges that Vick has used the name "Ron Mexico" and, in a
related court filing, her lawyers are seeking Vick's admission that he used the
"Mexico" alias--and perhaps other fake names--"for the purpose of herpes testing
and/or treatment."

Ron Mexico. Wikipedia has a great section on this on their Michael Vick page. What's really fascinating, also, is that you too can come up with your own bogus name for just such an emergency as Vick's. All you need to do is to go to the Ron Mexico Name Generator. Marcus Vick's new pseudonym is Hank Bosnia.

Nomar Garciaparra's nickname is Guy California.

And Osama bin Laden is Kurt Zambia!

Labels: Other News Items