Football RULES in Steubenville, Ohio

It would be nice if the stadium was empty for their games, especially void of any female, in protest. This whole affair was a "good ol boy" thing from the start. Football comes first, all else ..... follows ..

An Ohio high school student is back on his school’s football team after serving a little over nine months of a one-year sentence for rape.

Ma’lik Richmond, 18, of Steubenville, was found guilty last year – along with fellow student Trent Mays – of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl after a night of drinking and partying in August 2012. The case sparked outrage on social media after a picture emerged showing Mays and Richmond carrying the victim, who appears to be unconscious, by her hands and feet.

In an interview before the trial, Richmond told ABC’s Elizabeth Vargas he didn’t think it was rape.

“I didn’t rape anybody. I didn’t witness a rape going on. And if I would have thought that somebody was being raped or anything like that, I would have stopped it,” Richmond said.

Following his conviction, Richmond turned to the victim’s family and begged for forgiveness.

“I’m sorry to put you guys through this,” he said, crying.

Richmond was sentenced to a year at a juvenile detention center. He served nine months and was released in January.

A judge also classified the teen as a sex offender, a classification that will require him to report to an officer every six months for the next 20 years.

While some are criticizing the school for allowing Richmond back on the team, the Ohio High School Athletic Association says this is a local school decision.

“The OHSAA is bound by By law 451, which gives the school the authority to determine if the student can participate,” OHSAA’s Information Director Tim Stried said.

Fred Abdalla Jr., Richmond’s probation officer, defended the school’s decision to allow the student back on the roster.

“I think the boy should be allowed to play,” Abdalla said. “Ma'lik Richmond has done everything the court has asked him since he’s been sentenced.”

"The Rape in the Shoe"

"No checks, we want the $900,000 in cash, small bills, UP FRONT, before the game, and an airplane, gassed and ready, at the airport, and buses at the stadium for the team, and a doctor, we want a good doctor on the plane, and an Orthopedic Surgeon too, and, well, ah, a rape therapist."

COLUMBUS, Ohio — After a 76-0 victory over outmanned and over matched Florida A&M, Urban Meyer couldn't say for certain that his Ohio State team got a lot out of its meek non-conference schedule. “Obviously, at midnight next week, we’ll know,” the coach of No. 4 Ohio State said, referring to the Big Ten opener on Saturday against No. 24 Wisconsin. “Are we prepared? I like to think we are.”

There’s no doubt that Kenny Guiton is. For the third game in a row, the perennial backup starred in place of the injured Braxton Miller. Guiton set a school record with six touchdown passes — all in the first half — in a blow-out of historic proportions.

It was an epic mismatch between a team with national-title aspirations and a Football Championship Subdivision member getting a $900,000 guarantee.

FAMU, which picked up the sport in 1899, had never lost by so many points. It was the most lopsided Ohio State win since an 85-7 victory over Drake in 1935.

“We don’t want a pity party,” said Rattlers coach Earl Holmes, who made a point of saying the Buckeyes didn’t run up the score on his team. “I don’t have a problem with that. I don’t expect the coach to kneel. You play the game. You play for 60 minutes.”

At least it was decided relatively quickly. The Buckeyes (4-0) were up 21-0 in the opening 6 minutes and never looked back. Guiton, who completed 24 of 34 passes for 215 yards, tossed four TD passes in the first quarter. “I had all day,” Guiton said. “The coaches wanted to come out throwing the ball around and I thank them for the trust they had in me to be able to do that.”

FAMU (1-3) was behind 48-0 when it picked up its initial first down in the second quarter.

The stats were as lopsided as the score. Ohio State had a 34-2 edge in first downs and a 603-80 differential in yards.

“I wouldn’t say we’re unsatisfied,” tight end Jeff Heuerman said. “There’s always room for improvement. We’re not perfect.”

Miller, the Big Ten’s offensive player of the year last season and a Heisman Trophy hopeful this year, missed his second game in a row with a sprained medial-collateral ligament in his left knee.

Meyer had said Miller was probable to play against the Rattlers, but he never put on his uniform.

It didn’t take long for this game to get out of control, with or without him.

Another one

Golly, another PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL PLAYER raped a young girl, he was a hall of famer, no less. They are on my FACEBOOK, I didn't see an entry about it. Lawrence Taylor, old LT as he was known. He and Ben.