May 27, 2009 2:29 pm US/Eastern
Florida State Wide Receiver Arrested
TALLAHASSEE (CBS4) ―
If you've heard this before, you've likely read quite a bit about college sports. Another Florida State player has been suspended from the team. The latest suspension is for a campus brawl in the fall of 2008. Wide Receiver Richard Goodman is the third FSU football player who has been charged for their part in the fight.
Goodman surrendered to authorities and was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon causing great bodily harm. Goodman posted bond and was released from the Leon county jail.
Law enforcement said Goodman threw a chair that struck a woman in the face during a fight that broke out between Florida State football players and members of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. The woman suffered major injuries due to the fight.
Multiple FSU players have run into legal trouble over the past few years, but FSU is not alone in dealing with athletes who refuse to stay away from criminal activities.
Former University of Florida player Jamar Hornsby was arrested in May 2007 on felony charges of improper use of a credit card after he made nearly 70 fraudulent charges on the gas card of a Florida student who died in a motorcycle accident six months earlier. The charges were reduced to misdemeanors, but Hornsby was kicked off the team for his crimes.
Dozens of football players at Penn State University have been arrested in the past few years, and other schools like the University of Alabama have had players face major criminal charges recently. (Alabama linebacker Jimmy Johns was arrested for allegedly selling cocaine on the campus of Alabama in 2008.)
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