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Look OBC I’m in jail just like a scholarship player!

Over the past weekend there two things were going on here in Columbia; watching the SEC tournament & the annual St. Patty’s Day Celebration that is held in Five Points. Since USC was booted from the tournament most Gamecock football players decided to get their drink at the celebration.

If you read this blog regularly then you know Five Points + Gamecock Football players = paperwork for the Po Po. Ah yeah even the walk-on players for the Gamecocks know how to get themselves arrested. Go Cocks!

Mike Newton, a walk-on defensive back from Lexington, spent a night at the Richland County jail AKA; The USC Po Po Palace because he was charged with disorderly conduct.

The man (Richland County Deputies) responded to a report of a fight in the 2200 block of Blossom Street around 5:45 p.m. However there wasn’t a fight going on instead they found Newton and at least two other men throwing chairs at each other and spectators. The Man claims Newton and his band of drunken men “totally disregarded” deputies’ commands to stop, and used profanity toward the deputies.

Some believe the profanity was used in hopes of receiving a beat down from The Man like Kevin Young claims to have received some two weeks earlier. Since then SLED has opened an investigation into the Young incident and the preliminary findings are “Liar liar football pants on fire.”

Newton, a senior who sat out the 2006 season after transferring from Newberry, played five games on special teams last season. Under USC school policy any football player that is arrested is automatically suspended for at least 30 minutes. Since Newton is a walk-on and not a scholarship player he might be suspended at least one full hour.