Three Southern Miss football players injured in nightclub shooting

Just breaking. Players not yet identified. Press conference scheduled for 1:30 p.m. CST.

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20101114/NEWS01/101114006/USM+football+players+shot+at+nightclub

 

I never understand this garbage. I've been to a million bars in my day. I've never seen a shooting. I've never seen a gun.

 

Applebee's doesn't count.

 

The Hattiesburg American story linked above says that the cops have been called to the nightclub in question a total of 129 times this year. Sounds kind of par for the course.

 

I love the quote where the moron owner says that they've had stabbings there, but that was "years ago."

Like 2007.

 

Players ID'd --- defensive end Deddrick Jones, who has started every game this year; part-time starting linebacker Martez Smith and back-up linebacker Tim Green. All in stable, fair condition.

School says police told them none of the players were armed.

 

Martez Smith paralyzed from the waist down.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-southernmiss-playershurt

Apparently you've never been to an "urban" club.

 

Just looks like a big college town club to me in the picture.

 

No joke. Hell, I went to a club in freaking Lexington, Ky., and we all got evacuated after a gun went off. That club opened and closed about every three months. Cue the Chris Rock reference...

 

A few years back I was in NYC at club called LQ when I heard the distinctive sound of a glock going off.

Turns out some idiot had a loaded glock in the band of his pants and it fell on ground and went off-- hitting owner in leg.

 

HA getting drilled by the USM fanboi losers for daring to print facts. Ran a background story on Monday saying this was the third firearms incident involving Golden Eagle players since 2007. Fanbois put up a Facebook page calling for the university to ban the paper's beat writer for what they call the paper's "anti-USM bias."

 

Post above said the school said none of the players were armed. Not sure you can paint this the same way as kids getting busted with a gun.