Thursday, July 28, 2016
Bryant pleads guilty to misdemeanor charge
CLEVELAND
Browns defensive end Armonty Bryant pleaded guilty Wednesday to a reduced charge stemming from a traffic stop on Christmas morning, but he isn’t out of hot water with the NFL.
Bryant pleaded guilty to attempted drug possession, a first-degree misdemeanor, in Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Common Pleas Court, according to court records. The charge was amended after Bryant was indicted in February on two counts of felony drug possession and pleaded not guilty.
Bryant, 26, has already been suspended for the first four regular-season games of 2016 for violating the NFL’s policy on performance-enhancing drugs and faces additional discipline.
“This will be reviewed under our policies,” an NFL spokesman wrote in an email Wednesday about Bryant pleading guilty to attempted drug possession.
Bryant was sentenced to 68 days of probation, which is scheduled to end Oct. 3. He received a suspended jail sentence of 180 days and was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine.
A passenger in the car of former Browns safety De’Ante Saunders, Bryant was found to be in possession of Oxycodone and Adderall on Dec. 25.
Butter sculpture savors Cavaliers’ NBA title
columbus
Fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers now have a new way to savor the team’s NBA title.
The Cavs are being honored with butter sculptures at this year’s Ohio State Fair, which opened Wednesday in Columbus.
The butter sculpture display includes life-sized Cavaliers’ mascots Moondog and Sir C.C., along with the Larry O’Brien Trophy. The trophy sculpture is about 4 feet tall, much larger than the actual award.
The display took about 2,150 pounds of butter and 500 hours to complete. The sculptors began by building wooden and steel frames to support the sculptures’ weight. They then formed each sculpture from 55-pound blocks.
Bettman: CTE link to hits ‘remains nascent’
st. paul, minn.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman’s reluctance to link hits to the head in hockey with a degenerative brain disease found in several deceased former players has reached Congress.
League attorneys have filed Bettman’s letter to Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal with U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson, who’s presiding over a class-action concussion lawsuit against the NHL. Bettman’s 24-page response to Blumenthal was dated Friday. He said research on the link between concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy “remains nascent.”
Bettman angered many former players last year with comments following the death of former NHL defenseman Steve Montador at age 35. Montador suffered from CTE. His family filed a lawsuit against the league that was eventually consolidated with the current class-action case.
In writing to Blumenthal, Bettman maintained a dismissive stance.
“The confusion in the press about CTE — no doubt further fueled by plaintiffs’ counsel in the NHL litigation — relates to the simple and incontrovertible fact that none of the brain studies conducted to date can, as a matter of accepted scientific methodology, prove anything about causation, a primary subject of your letter,” Bettman said.
Cowboys QB Prescott acquitted of DUI
starkville, miss.
WTVA-TV reports that a municipal court has cleared former Mississippi State quarterback Dak Prescott on charges of speeding and drunk driving.
The Dallas Cowboys draft pick appeared in Starkville Municipal Court to answer the charges, and was found not guilty.
Prescott was accused of driving 41 mph in a 25 mph zone, and with first-offense driving under the influence, a misdemeanor. Police said he admitted drinking at least one beer that night.
Police records show that one breathalyzer test was an “invalid sample” and a second was an “insufficient sample.”
Wire reports