Mug Shot Monday

Former UH quarterback Colt Brennan arrested in Kona for trespassing while ‘heavily intoxicated’

While going through old blog posts I was reminded that football player Colt Brennan was a former fascination of mine -- and naturally some readers gave me a hard time about it because he was a SEX OFFENDER. 

As Wikipedia recounts, Brennan, while playing at the University of Colorado in 2004, reportedly entered the dorm room of a female CU student, uninvited, and, according to the victim, "exposed himself and fondled her," a charge Brennan denied. Brennan, who was intoxicated at the time of the incident, was arrested and eventually convicted of felony burglary and trespassing (serving one week in jail along with probation until he graduated from college), but a guilty verdict for unlawful sexual contact was vacated by the court for lack of evidence. Brennan was court ordered to take a polygraph test about the incident and passed. 

Brennan later played for a junior college in Orange County, Calif., and then the University of Hawaii, before a brief pro career that ended after he suffered a brain injury (in a car accident, ironically).

So often you hear people parents and school officials say they "don't want to ruin" the lives of young men accused of sex crimes -- never mind that the victims' lives are often ruined or at least irrevocably scarred or altered.  So it got me wondering if Brennan really had been one of those phantom "kids who made a mistake drunk" back in college -- and sure enough I found he had been arrested several more times including THIS SUMMER. While I don't see any allegations of other sex crimes -- thank God -- it does sound like drug and alcohol problems have plagued him his entire life, which makes you wonder if he ever got the right "punishment" -- i.e., treatment -- at all. 

Colt Brennan arrested for DUI

Colt Brennan investigated for felony drug possession and DUI

During a brief stint in Washington 

Testosterone Fest

I guess it's safe to say that the annual ESPY Awards is the place to be for hot men. Here are few more of the hunky highlights from the red carpet (the original set is here):

NFL hunks Colt Brennan and Matt Leinert

Brett Favre and Dave Annable

NBA basketball player Marco Jaric and skier Bode Miller (damn, he's hotter than I remember!)

Pretty boys Zac Efron and David Beckham

And here's one more Bode Miller ... did I mention how hot he looked?

Page 1 Consider (07/15)

Colt's a Stallion: The Redskins reached a four-year deal with draft pick slash hottie X-offender Colt Brennan on Monday. (ESPN)

No Business: Does anyone really think George Bush -- the man whose oil company couldn't find black gold to save his life and whose baseball team TRADED Sammy Sosa(!) -- really has the business acumen to be telling anyone where to drill for oil? (AP)

Oh, Brother: After reading some of the lame non-secrets Christopher Ciccone was peddling in his new "tell-all" book about sis Madonna I was ready to tune the whole thing out. But Michael sent me this link with a bit of his "Good Morning America" interview and I have to say he said some pretty observant things, namely about Guy Ritchie's alleged homophobia, Kabbalah, and the three things his controlling former best pal can't control. (BBC)

Beach Boy: After defeating Roger Federer in the finals of the French and Wimbledon in less than two months, you'd think Rafael Nadal would be ready for a break from racket sports. (Telegraph)

Recipe for Disaster: The world definitely doesn't need another reality dance show -- particularly one that is equal parts "A Wedding Story," "So You Think You Can Dance," "Dancing With the Stars" and, not least, "Bridezillas." (NYT)

We Don't Need Another Hero: The life of Pfc. Joseph Dwyer, who became a celebrity of sorts when a photo of him rescuing a young boy in the early days of the war in Iraq was circulated around the world, ended tragically last month in North Carolina, where he died at 31 after suffering for years with post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction. The details of one man's inability to recover from the horrors of war are chilling. (EditorialObserver)

Here We Go Again: It seems Michael Verdugo, a contestant on this season's "Design Star" on HGTV, has an porn past, starring in bondage videos for Tom "Ropes" McGurk! Based on the photos though, Verdugo obviously doesn't know how to make a sex dungeon feel more cozy. (GayPornBlog -- adult link, of course)

Extreme Intervention: A new show that stars hotties Benjamin Bratt and Gil Bellows (remember him on "Ally McBeal" and as SJP's fiance in "Miami Rhapsody"?) is probably worth checking out, even if it sounds horrendous. (NYT)

Disco Inferno: Was the unreleased director's cut of "54," the 1997 film about the legendary nightclub Studio 54, actually a gay classic so revelatory that the studio wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole? People who saw it at a "secret" screening this week in Los Angeles sure seem to think so, and if Ryan Phillippe really is in nearly every scene -- and usually naked -- having sex with "dozens" of men as has been reported, then I tend to agree. (Towleroad)

Mommie Dearest: Just give it up, Lindsay! (Reuters)

Final Post: The world's oldest blogger has died at 108. Time to set up that Site Meter in the sky ...(CNN)

RIP: Charles H. Joffe, a co-producer of Woody Allen’s movies and the business expert in the talent agency that managed the budding careers of a host of high-profile comedians that also included Robin Williams, Billy Crystal and David Letterman, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles. 7/9 He was 78 and lived in Los Angeles. You may recall back in 1978, when Allen’s “Annie Hall” won the Academy Award for Best Picture, it was Joffe who picked up the Oscar at the ceremony in Los Angeles while Allen remained in New York playing clarinet in a gig with his jazz band. (NYT)

Colt Brennan Injured in Dawg Fight

Beach boy
When bad hair happens to hot guys
Colt gets lei'd, above; I think that's his girlfriend on the right, below
University of Hawaii quarterback and 2007 Heisman nominee Colt Brennan's college career may have ended on a sour note with yesterday's blowout loss to Georgia in the Sugar Bowl, but I'm still sweet on him nonetheless ...

Previously:

Sporting Goods: Colt Brennan

X-Offender: Colt Brennan

X Offender

Colt Brennan, Hawaii’s star quarterback and a Heisman Trophy candidate, is on the cusp of what could be a transcendent season. Now if he could just live down being a sex offender. (Via NYTimes)
Previously:

Sporting Goods: Colt Brennan

X-Offender: Colt Brennan

X-Offender: Colt Brennan

A second helping of University of Hawaii quarterback Colt Brennan. Part I is here.

Sporting Goods: Colt Brennan

Don't be fooled by the porn star name and body ... Laguna Beach hottie Colt Brennan really is the University of Hawaii's star quarterback, not the star of Falcon's latest offering, "Tight Ends" ... (thanks, Breck!) (Read about Colt's off-the-field struggles here.)