A University of Iowa student was arrested during last Saturday's Iowa-Arkansas State game for repeatedly harassing a Hawkeye football player from her seat in the first row behind the Iowa bench.Brittney Mears, 22, was charged with third degree harassment for repeatedly yelling a player's name. The player was not identified in the criminal complaint, but a court order issued on Wednesday forbids Mears to have any contact with starting defensive end Adrian Clayborn.
Players get things yelled at them all the time during games. Virtually all of it gets ignored, and the ones who do the yelling rarely if ever get arrested. So what happened here?
Mears had been warned twice before about harassing Clayborn. Only two weeks prior to her arrest, Mears was given a deferred judgment, ten hours of community service and a year's probation for a July 27 incident in which she sent a "lewd" message to Clayborn's phone. She had been warned in June not to contact Clayborn but would drive past Clayborn's workplace and stare at him, according to police.
Clearly this is not a case of an athlete getting his feelings hurt by something being yelled from the stands. It goes much deeper, though the exact nature of Mears' harassment is not fully known. A number of professional athletes have had to deal with similar sorts of behavior directed at them. College athletes aren't immune either, it would appear.
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white trash stalker probably going after the Iowa football player.. Good to hear she got arrested!
I bet blk trash do the same thing.
How did she get his number?....mmmmmmm...bad break up...glad he aint got a bunny rabbit
I know this family her dad was a softbl coach for my daughter she alot like her dad full of herself but,I have to ask how is it that she had his number to send him that tm also he was with her at a softball game with her this summer. MMMM do you think that maybe he's just like all the iowa hawkeye players that because they think they are stars and the can do what they want with these young girls and throw them aside when they're done with them? I think maybe he was playing badly that day so he had to blame it on a girl maybe he's getting what he has given to others Maybe they should ship him back where he came from