Hey Roger, I'll See Your 15...

Roger Clemens is deservedly being raked through the coals for his apparent relationship with a 15-year-old Mindy McCready. However, there is another story out there right now that isn't receiving nearly the pub it should: That Hall-of-Famer Karl Malone actually FATHERED A CHILD WITH A 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL! There is no grey area here. No wondering if the relationship between the star player and the underage girl was sexual, as there is in the Clemens story.

Malone had a child with a girl who was barely a teenager. That child, Demetrius Bell, overcame the odds he was born in to and has recently made news of his own when he was drafted by the Buffalo Bills.

Malone was 20 at the time and a sophomore at Louisiana Tech when he impregnated Gloria Bell, who was 13 at the time. Imagine how different the NBA record books would look had Bell and her parents decided to press charges against the budding NBA superstar.

Incredibly, Malone hadn't learned his lesson, or found his pack of rubbers, after previously fathering twins when he was 17 years old. It wasn't until one of those twins, Cheryl Ford, started making a name for herself as a college basketball star that Malone even finally openly accepted responsibility for her and accepted her in to his life.

He still hasn't accepted Demetrius in to his family at all, and as the Buffalo News tells it:

Bell didn’t even know Malone was his father until after graduating from high school. When they finally met, Malone told the 18-year-old Bell it was too late to be his father, and that Bell would have to “earn his money on his own.”
In a 1998 story in the Salt Lake (Utah) Tribune, Gloria Bell said, “Demetrius is ashamed that his dad doesn’t claim him. But I’ve told him it is not his fault.”

Unbelievable. And unforgivable.

Malone made roughly $100 million as a NBA player, and he could have easily slid the fatherless Bell family some monthly funds to help them through their lives. Having removed himself wemotionally from them, this was the LEAST he could do (eventually, when a court ordered that Malone pay $125/week for support, he challenged it as being "excessive"). Instead he completely disowned them and, in fact, banished them to rough life fending for themselves, while secretly Gloria Bell knew the truth.

Karl Malone is a rapist and a deadbeat dad.

Add that to his Hall of Fame plaque.

I always hated him as a player - his "stray" elbows and flying knees, his "I'm just a good old boy who drives a semi", and his ignorant comments when Magic Johnson announced he had contracted HIV. I thought about giving him DA NUTZ, but he's nowhere near being worthy of them. He is beyond douchedome.