THE DAILY HERALD spoke to Chicago Bears General Manager (and the man responsible for drafting Cedric Benson) Jerry Angelo at a charity event over the weekend and got the first comments about Benson’s recent choppy waters in Texas:
“The thing that I am most disappointed in is the fact that he put himself in a position to be the victim… He’s done a real fine job in the off-season, (but) obviously this makes big story lines. That’s not good for business. Unfortunately we’re having to deal with it, and we’ll just wait and see how all the facts present themselves.”
Now that sounds like the proper defense for a 3.4 yards-per-rush running back.
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Let the Sturm und Drang continue.
Battle lines have been drawn on both sides of the Cedric Benson arrest, with both sides showing the savvy of average Americans regarding extended public media battles. In other words, they’re both screwing up in full view.
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In response to pictures from a UT co-ed showing large black men partying with white women in an attempt to humanize Benson, the Travis County Sheriff’s Office launched a multimedia counterstrike with a video showing a fuzzy surveillance video of a compliant and demure large black man with his head hung following directions without “cockiness” noted in the police report during arrest.
Seriously, does either side know what they’ve got themselves into? The police undermined their case by showing a polite young man following directions and a naive young woman sandbagged her own friend accidentally by showing many Texans’ worst fears in full color.
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Another day, another revelation about the tempest in a Texas lake. Today, we hear that one of Cedric Benson’s friends present on the boat over the weekend when he was arrested for boating while intoxicated and resisting arrest will provide a statement in Benson’s defense. What will we hear in that statement?
“”I called my dad and told him, ‘Call 911, my black friend is getting beaten up by police on Lake Travis,’ ” said Elizabeth Cartwright, 22, a friend of Benson’s from the University of Texas.”
Also, her fiancée took “dozens” of pictures during the assault and/or arrest. We look forward to those leaking from the court records. The red eye from the photos alone should create a sufficiently frightening villain for the press, much less the white tank top he wore in his mug shot.
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Cedric Benson created quite the boating brouhaha over the weekend. But the CHICAGO TRIBUNE reports that the Bears RB denies that he was, um, rocking the boat with local authorities.
Benson disputes that he was drunk & that he was resisting officers, claiming that it was the cops who were the ones acting rough. It was so traumatic for poor Cedric that he had to call out for his mommy:
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Bears RB Cedric Benson ran for 674 yards last season. Last night, Benson tried to run from an arrest and was pepper sprayed for his trouble.
Benson was boating “with about 12 or 15 others” near Austin, Texas when he failed an abbreviated sobriety test and refused to take a follow-up test on dry land. And then the fun started.
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What is it with Chicago Bears linebackers? I thought they were supposed to be tough guys. But based on Brian Urlacher’s latest antics, that’s quite the fallacy.
First, Urlacher used a sore back and neck as an excuse for his subpar performance last year. Then, he complained that he wasn’t getting paid enough. Then, he demanded more money. Then, he said he’d retire.
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Let Peyton Manning maintain his Mastercard. Have Tiger Woods gulp down his Gatorade. Allow Donovan McNabb to slurp up his Chunky soup.
But as far as athletes & product endorsements go, none of those guys can hold a jock strap to Roberto Garza and Super Bun!
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