Drunk or victimized, Benson has no Bears future

ESPN.com - NFL Nation - Blog found this 5/8/2008 on www.suntimes.com [flag]

Jay Mariotti: Who hasn't been there, on a boat with beer and bikinied beauties? But when Cedric Benson chose to throw a party on his new motorboat last weekend, at a lake in his native Texas, he had to know trouble could await him. Wasn't Lake Travis a popular drinking spot outside party-daffy Austin? Hadn't he been pulled over for safety checks several times in his boat? Weren't local police concerned about numerous boating-related fatalities, many fueled by alcohol? [link]

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Ced the Entertainer
Published 5/8/2008 at ESPN.com - NFL Nation - Blog
... No matter what happens in the Cedric Benson case, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti thinks the Bears should cut their losses with the running back. ...

Video Of Cedric Benson's Booking Released and Questions Continue to Mount
Published 5/9/2008 by Josh Alper at FanHouse
... All of the attention focused on this case has made it impossible not to wonder what the final verdict might mean for Benson's career. Chicago bloviator Jay Mariotti has weighed in, writing that the Bears should cut Benson based on his performance with no regard to what happened out on the water but he can't help combining the two anyway. ...

TWO LONGHORNS WEIGH IN ON BENSON
Published 5/15/2008 by Josh Alper at ProFootballTalk.com
... as did Jay Mariotti of the Chicago Sun-Times . There are at least two sides to the story, though, and none of his detractors are any more enlightened to what actually went down than we are. If Benson’s telling the truth, he took no less responsibility for his actions than any of the rest of us.

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