The ASSOCIATED PRESS and ESPN report Wednesday:

Pro football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor has been indicted by a suburban New York grand jury on charges of rape, criminal sexual act and sexual abuse.

The indictment Wednesday comes after his May 6 arrest at a Holiday Inn. Prosecutors say he paid a 16-year-old girl $300 to have sex with him.

The former New York Giant was also indicted on charges of endangering the welfare of a child and patronizing a prostitute.

A preliminary hearing was scheduled for tomorrow in the case, which will now be canceled. Taylor will next be required to enter a plea, though the Rockland County District Attorney’s office is reportedly, “having trouble getting in touch with Taylor’s attorney.”

Taylor’s lead attorney Arthur Aidala is involved in another case currently on trial. Read more…

The NEW YORK POST reports Sunday that Lawrence Taylor has been involved in five domestic disputes with his latest two wives since 2002. The summary includes police being called to the Taylor home in Florida as recently as two months ago.

Taylor married his third wife, Lynette Gordon, in July 2007, but they were feuding months before the nuptials. Police responded to a domestic disturbance at Taylor’s home in Pembroke Pines, Fla., on April 7, 2007. The couple told police they were just arguing.

Cops returned to Taylor’s home on Dec. 28, 2008. This time the two were married and fighting over houseguests, according to a report. Another dispute erupted this past March 4. The police report said Taylor had a spat with his wife over “a family matter.”

Taylor was involved in two more domestic disturbances with former wife Maritza Cruz, disturbances which involved alleged physical abuse. Read more…

Lawrence Taylor is a free man tonight after posting $75,000 bond following a night in the Ramapo (NY) town jail on charges of third degree rape of a 16-year-old girl and patronizing a prostitute.

Taylor’s attorney Arthur Aidala said Thursday, “Lawrence Taylor didn’t have consensual sex with anyone last night. He didn’t have sex with anyone. Mr. Taylor is going to fight each and every one of these charges.” Taylor has yet to enter an official plea in the case.

Ramapo Police Chief Peter Brower would not comment today on whether Taylor knew the age of the 16-year-old alleged victim, though he said, “Ignorance is not an excuse to an individual’s age. ”

Despite the fact that Taylor, through his attorney, claimed today that he “didn’t have sex with anyone” on the night in question, forensic evidence gathered by Ramapo police at the hotel room where the alleged victim met Taylor may suggest otherwise. Read more…

After the news hit today that Lawrence Taylor was arrested overnight at a hotel in Suffern, NY., and charged with statutory rape, the WALL STREET JOURNAL contacted Taylor’s current wife Lynette Taylor.

Reached on her cellphone, Taylor’s wife Lynette said, “Im watching the news just like you. That’s it. I’m watching the news just like you.” Asked if she’d had any contact with her husband since the early morning arrest, Mrs. Taylor said a third time, “I’m watching the news just like you. Have a good day.”

An hour or so later, after Lynette was contacted by TMZ.com, she had a change a heart about expressing her opinion on the situation. Read more…

In New York at the NFL Draft this week, Lawrence Taylor was asked to reveal his only fondest memory of his own NFL Draft day:

(Inset: Giants War Room That Year)

Taylor said, “I don’t remember too much, I had 41 Coors Lights. So I couldn’t tell you.”

Taylor was also asked if he had his “family around” him on draft day.
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UPDATE (6:47 am PT): MIAMI HERALD has a confusing account of the Taylor arrest. Did he hit another car and try to drive off in a car missing one wheel? Not clear. Jump in the comments if you can figure it out.

Lawrence Taylor arrested? And here I thought that the first contestant on “Dancing With The Stars” to be hauled to jail this year was surely going to be Donnie Osmond. At least the booking went smoothly; LT surely knows the procedure.

There aren’t a lot of details, but TMZ was the first to report that Taylor was arrested at 9:57 p.m. on Sunday in Dade County, Florida, for leaving the scene of an accident, in which there was also property damage. I’ll leave you to examine his mug shot and ponder what was going on.

But more potentially damaging than any of that is the following graph from the TMZ report: Read more…

• Michelle Wie has her own blog where she can showcase some of her off-course talents - such as art work and wearing leopard & leather outfits.

• No one circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills - mainly because they keep putting themselves in disastrous situations.

• A Nigerian soccer player tries to earn a roster spot by smuggling heroin.

• A furious female Canadian boxer decides to beat up some British soldiers because they were “being gay” on the dance floor.

• Successful sales of a 5,000-calorie burger fills minor league team’s coffers, clogs minor league fans’ arteries.

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Trusting a known substance abuser when it comes to their habits and history with substance abuse is usually a prohibitively treacherous plan of action; only the most lurid, hopeless tales ring true, usually because only the most lurid, hopeless details ever propel a drug user to come clean and stop protecting their destructive habits. It’s the nature of addiction.

So when former Giants great Lawrence Taylor - arguably the most notable drug abuser in NFL history* - told the YES NETWORK that his very first drug test didn’t actually contain his urine, well, we were more than a little skeptical.

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Lawrence Taylor has been a been a busy man this week. When he isn’t scraping Plax or sending his son off to play football for a god-awful team, he’s out promoting a football video game called “Blitz: The League 2.” Good luck with that one LT.

Thankfully, the promo tour has Taylor talking about the only thing that would interest us about him these days: Strip club hand jobs and “two chickens f—ing.”

Taylor appeared on Howard Stern this week. Stern sidekick Artie Lange immediately led off the fun with LT telling a story about about meeting the HOFer years ago: “He said, ‘c We ran out of there. We thought he would take us to the bitches.” Read more…

When Lawrence Taylor entered the NFL, he changed the game forever. When teams saw that they were playing the New York Giants, offenses literally had to spend more time in practice figuring out how to keep L.T. from destroying their quarterback than they did actually running plays. When Taylor was on the field, he tore things up, and he wasn’t much different off the field either.

Taylor’s antics away from the game are well known. The parties, the women, the drugs, the hookers sent to opponents hotel rooms — these are the things that helped grow the L.T. legend. Still, no matter what the man did from Tuesday through Saturday when the Giants weren’t playing, he always showed up on game day. Of course, that doesn’t mean I don’t find it odd that now Taylor has advice for current Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress.

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