Still more unsportsmanlike conduct from Duck football players

Last updated on 11/19/2016

11/18/2016: In the RG here:

Holland [a recent UO graduate] claims that Darren Carrington, a wide receiver on the Ducks football team whom he had just watched play in the game against Arizona State, assaulted him early on Oct. 30, pushing him to the ground outside an apartment complex near East 15th Avenue and Alder Street.

His right arm broke on impact — a fracture to the head of the radius — and he said surgery may be needed. The radius is one of the two forearm bones. The head is part of the elbow joint.

Carrington’s identity as the attacker, Holland said, was unmistakable.

“He has a back tattoo that says ‘Carrington,’ so if that wasn’t enough, or that we recognized him anyway, it was a fairly good indicator who he was when he started taunting me,” Holland said.

Carrington was shirtless and had been costumed as The Joker — a villain from the Batman films — earlier in the night, as seen on Carrington’s Instagram account. While he was no longer wearing his Joker costume, Holland said, there was still evidence of Carrington’s white-face makeup. Holland said that Carrington was making comments such as “Yeah, that’s right; I am Darren Carrington. Oregon Ducks wide receiver. Number 7. San Diego. Best receiver in the country,” immediately after the assault.

11/17/2016: Duck football brings UO more of the publicity that money just can’t buy

Daily Emerald reporters Kenny Jacoby, Jarrid Denney and Cooper Green have the scoop here. Read it all. [Update: so much publicity that it’s crashed the Emerald’s server. Keep trying.]

The player is the same one named in the 2013 snowpocalypse attack against UO professor Sherwin Simmons. As the story explains, Coach Matt Helfrich’s student-athlete has since been in 2 locker room fights, one of which left the other player with a concussion. He also allegedly attempted to strangle his girlfriend, but the DA declined to press charges. Helfrich is still letting him play, the University is still letting him attend classes, and Duck PR flack Dave Williford is still refusing to let the athletes talk to the press. Fortunately our student reporters aren’t letting that stop them.