Former "Dancing With the Stars" finalist Warren Sapp, shown with partner Kim Johnson, was arrested on domestic violence charges in Miami. (ABC)
The NFL Network yanked former football star and "Dancing With the Stars" finalist Warren Sapp from its Super Bowl show after he was arrested Saturday morning in Miami Beach on one charge of misdemeanor domestic battery.
The incident occurred early Saturday morning at the Shore Club hotel, according to an Associated Press report. The victim, who had a swollen knee and bruises on her neck, told detectives that Sapp started to choke her and pushed her down on a couch during an argument, and then grabbed her by her shirt and neck and threw her down again.
Sapp said he let the woman stay in his room but later asked her to leave. He said she fell when he tried to help her get off a couch.
In a statement e-mailed to the Associated Press, network spokesman Dennis Johnson said:
We have been made aware of the arrest of Warren Sapp by the Miami Beach Police Department. In light of these circumstances, Warren Sapp will not appear on NFL Network while we review the matter."
Sapp is set to appear before in court Sunday, according to Miami Beach police spokesman Juan Sanchez.
Comments
Here's something else the NFL should ban - Super Bowl beer ads. Why? Because they help kill kids. On Super Bowl Sunday, 30 million sets of underage eyes will be watching 5 solid minutes of A-B/InBev's sophomoric humorous alcohol ads allowing beer brands to burn into vulnerable developing brains. Funny, ha, ha...but oh so deadly. Every year 5,000 underage youth die from alcohol abuse. The country spends $60 billion annually to clean up the mess of underage alcohol-related harm, like car crashes, sexual violence, suicide, disease, educational and job failure.
Research and common sense tell us that the more alcohol ads kids see, the sooner they begin drinking and the more likely they will drink to excess and drink more often. Which leads us to declare that beer and alcohol ads during so-called "family friendly" TV sporting events are inappropriate. Go to FreeTheBowl.com to see what kids themselves think about being exploited
@mjs013
That was just stupid. "To ban beer Super Bowl ads." That will not be a solution to the problem you expose, and certainly will only be restrictive to an already much restricted market. What else? Prohibition?
Those teen pals out there who get to the booze don't even get the bright idea to drink from the T.V. It's a social issue and the problem is more complex than this simplistic causal relationship where a commercial is to be blamed for the many deaths alcohol causes. There's a responsibility for the consumer and for those sellers out there to be taken, but these childish thinkers insist that by cracking down on the ads will they solve the problem. Tell you what, in Mexico alcohol and tobacco commercials were forced into the late-night programming and any mainstream promotion for them in the T.V. or the radio was prohibited, and still, the averages for death and consumption indexes rose. More countries provide more examples. Say something useful, now.
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