"Caddyshack" Groundskeeper Named "Bad Jock of the Year" for 2004

BadJocks.com - Where COPS meets SportsCenter, has named golf course groundskeeper Christopher Lehan as it's "Bad Jock of the Year" for 2004 after the employee of Sedgewood Golf Club in Kent, N.Y. was arrested this fall, while sitting in a golf cart--at night--with a loaded shotgun, hunting skunks who were damaging the course.

(PRWEB) December 17, 2004 -- Imagine the scene in the hit movie "Caddyshack" where assistant groundskeeper Bill Murray is going after a destructive gopher with plastic explosives. Now, change that to a skunk and a 20-gauge shotgun and you have the winner of the 2004 "Bad Jock of the Year Award."

Christopher Lehan, 36, an employee of the private Sedgewood Golf Club in Kent, N.Y. was arrested in September while sitting in a golf cart--at night--with a flashlight and a loaded shotgun after police received a complaint of shots being fired by neighbors near the course. When they arrived officers found Lehan had already killed three of the varmints and was totally unaware he had violated several hunting laws and was cited for carrying a loaded weapon in a moving vehicle.

According to BadJocks Publisher, Bob Reno, the choice is not always obvious, "People think we'll pick a professional athlete who's made headlines like Kobe Bryant or Ron Artest, but we prefer to focus on the smaller stories that really reveal more about the sporting world." Past winners have included a Texas high school cheerleader who shot a rival in the buttocks with a paintball gun, and the parents and coaches of disgraced Little League pitcher Danny Almonte who allowed the 14-year-old to play in the popular under-12 youth baseball league.

The "Bad Jock of the Year" Award is given out each year by sports/crime website BadJocks.com to the person involved in athletics who does the most damage to his sport . . . in this case golf course grounds keeping. The site also put out its Top Ten Stories for 2004, including a middle-aged transvestite cheerleader who was arrested for stalking a real high school cheerleader; a high school coach who got in trouble for buying coffee at an espresso stand while wearing nothing but a g-string; and British soccer fans who rioted by throwing garden gnomes at each other. The complete list can be found starting December 17 at the BadJocks.com website.

Established in February of 2000, BadJocks has grown to become the most popular sports/crime site on the Internet with more than 5000 unique visitors each day. Stories on the site--updated daily--run the gamut from the arrests of professional athletes all the way down to violent parents at T-ball games. The site also keeps a running scoreboard of select misdeeds, and this year has reported 10 Youth Sports Embezzlers, 11 Naughty Cheerleaders, 43 Streakers and Naked People, and an astounding 226 High School Coach Sex Scandals.

BadJocks.com also features the popular BAC Rankings which chronicle the blood alcohol content of those in the sporting world arrested for drunk driving. It now takes a whopping .23% BAC or better to make the Top Twenty. This past year, NFL quarterback Jeff Garcia joined this exclusive club.

For further information visit the website at http://www.badjocks.com.

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