Former sports editor (& SJ.com poster) arrested in connection with bank robbery

have met Mario. he's good people. i'm saddened by this.

 

Fair enough.

 

Well, dammit, if they say you're going to taste the rainbow, you should be able to taste rainbow!

As for the robbery: I don't know this guy from a hole in the wall, but anyone who willingly goes into the York River must be pretty desperate.

 

Yeah, but we've reached new celebrity status...

 

I met Mario a couple of years ago when I interviewed in Newport News. He seemed like a great guy. I'm stunned.

 

I got a letter from an inmate once that said I needed to get a whole bunch of celebrities together at a local race track to have people try out for a new Dodge team and that Def Leppard needed to perform. It was REALLY weird.

Some day I may transcribe it all.

 

What was Sportschick in jail for?

 

Mario is a very good guy...one of the best designers I've ever been around. There's a lot more to the situation that I won't get into. But this definitely isn't Mario.

 

It's just refreshing to see an arrest story involving a sportsjournalist that doesn't include the word "underage."

 

I gave this some thought.

And no, I'm not one or two bad breaks away from robbing a bank.

 

Sadly, sometimes I wonder if I'm that close to doing something that extraordinarily desperate.

I'm not. But I can see why Mario may have been.

I hope he gets the help he needs. More importantly, I hope some of his former colleagues in this dog-eat-dog business come to his side and try to help him, if they haven't already.