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Hand it to Todd Marinovich to get chased by an OC cop for skateboarding and later arrested when the officer "discovered a small amount of methamphetamine, a metal spoon and a hypodermic needle" on the former number one draft choice's person.
And leave it to the former QB to also get tagged for resisting arrest, proving that old #13 still crumbles when blitzed.
This is the sixth time the USC Trojan, who led his team to victory in the 1990 Rose Bowl, has been arrested for drugs.
Two years ago he violated his probation by skipping out of his halfway home and three weeks afterwards he turned himself in and went back in the pokey.
When he was a spunky redheaded Raider rookie, this may have been cute, but now that Marijuana-vich is 38(!) it's become pathetic.
The Times reports that Marinovich is pleading not guilty to the charges which means that unless his lawyers can work the Skateboarding is Not a Crime defense, this might wind up being another ugly ending to another ugly chapter in the Trojan's never-ending downward spiral.
Marinovich was popped for a felony for possession of a controlled substance, and charged misdemeanors for unauthorized possession of a hypodermic needle and resisting a police officer. If someone wants to post bail for him, the judge made it an affordable $50k.
Some call him "Marijuana-vich" after he was arrested and jailed for three months in 1998 after pleading guilty to growing weed in his home.
This newest charge is almost an identical copy of an earlier arrest in late August of 2004, when Marinovich was skateboarding in Newport Beach and cops found meth and needles when they searched him, and also tacked on a resisting arrest charge. He was sentenced to 90 days.
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Skateboarding IS NOT a crime! Oh, well, shooting up meth, ummm, never mind.
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"...proving that old #13 still crumbles when blitzed."
That's not entirely fair. The Trojan faithful (and I'm sure plenty of those powder-puff blue wearing bruins) will always remember his game-winning completion to Johnnie Morton in the corner of the end zone as he was getting knocked down in the 1990 USC v. ucla game.
The argument could be made that Morton made that catch regardless of who was throwing it, he did have to go up high and then get a foot in at the corner, but Marinovich was still the QB.
...and trust me, people were already calling him Marijuanavich when he was an undergrad. Sure, personal responsibility is ultimately what defines how one lives one's life, but this was the kid whose father didn't allow soda and fast food and all the other things that make a kid a kid. When he got to SC he just went nuts, like an animal released from a cage.
He was the robo-quarterback coming out of high school, programmed by his dad to be a star, and now he'll probably end up a hobo-QB.
didnt Morton just fail his drug test after getting knocked the F* out in 30 seconds of his mma fight?