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Topic: Lawrence Phillips


In the News (Thu 8 Jan 09)

  
  ESPN - Ex-RB Phillips allegedly ran into teens with stolen car - NFL
Phillips was charged with suspicion of attempted murder and domestic abuse and held without bail, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Web site.
Phillips was arrested and held on the domestic violence felony warrant.
Phillips signed with the Miami Dolphins later in the 1997 season, but was released after pleading no contest to hitting a woman in a nightclub.
sports.espn.go.com /nfl/news/story?id=2140010   (533 words)

  
  Lawrence Phillips - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Phillips played the 1996 and part of the 1997 seasons with the Rams before refusing to show for a team meeting and practice in a dispute with coach Dick Vermeil over playing time and being cut (a teary-eyed Vermeil at the time called Phillips potentially the best running back he had ever coached).
Phillips missed the 1998 season before attempting a comeback in 1999; he set NFL Europe offensive records with the Barcelona Dragons before returning stateside with the San Francisco 49ers, but was unable to complete the entire season.
At the time of the arrest, Phillips was wanted by San Diego in connection with two alleged domestic abuse incidents involving a former girlfriend, who claimed that Phillips choked her to the point of unconsciousness during one of the incidents.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lawrence_Phillips   (1228 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro -- Former NFL player Phillips held in Los Angeles
Phillips spent his teens in a West Covina group home and first attracted national attention for violent behavior when he was a star player at the University of Nebraska, according to The Times.
Phillips pleaded no contest and was sentenced to a year of probation, according to the newspaper.
Phillips was released by the Rams in 1997 and signed with the Dolphins later that year, only to be released after pleading no contest to hitting a woman.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/metro/20050822-0357-phillips.html   (800 words)

  
 TSN : CFL - Canada's Sports Leader
Phillips was charged with suspicion of attempted murder and domestic abuse and held without bail, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's website.
Phillips was arrested and held on the domestic violence felony warrant.
Phillips signed with the Miami Dolphins later in the 1997 season, but was released after pleading no contest to hitting a woman in a nightclub.
www.tsn.ca /cfl/news_story.asp?id=134219   (596 words)

  
 Miscellaneous Early Familiess, Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey
PHILLIPS FAMILY.— It appears that Philip Phillips, born Dec. 27, 1678, was the patriarch of the Phillips family of Lawrence and vicinity.
He was a son of Theophilus Phillips, and a grandson of a certain Ralph Hunt, of Newtown, L.I., and married Elizabeth, a daughter of the pioneer, "London" Ralph Hunt, The births of his children are thus recorded in the old town records of Maidenhead: "His daughter Hannah was born February 11th, 1702.
Some time after the Revolution Col. Phillips died in a stone house which stood on the site of the present residence of his grandson, James Gould Phillips, in Lawrenceville, opposite the churchyard, in an unmarked grave in which the remains of the old patriot are supposed to have found a resting-place.
www.genealogybuff.com /nj/nj-mercer-lawrence.htm   (3931 words)

  
 amw.com | Lawrence Phillips - Capture
Former NFL running back Lawrence Phillips is wanted by San Diego police in connection with a domestic violence case, where cops say he attacked his girlfriend twice.
Phillips, a former University of Nebraska football star, was drafted sixth overall in 1996 by the St. Louis Rams.
According to records, Phillips was the top offensive player for the NFL in Europe in 1999 after setting league records for rushing and touchdowns with the Barcelona Dragons, with 1,021 yards rushing and 14 touchdowns.
www.amw.com /captures/case.cfm?id=34187   (327 words)

  
 ESPN - Lawrence Phillips convicted of assault, facing 20 years - NFL
She said the car Phillips was driving first hit the front wheel of a bike and fishtailed.
Phillips was arrested that day and has remained jailed since.
Phillips was the top offensive player in NFL Europe in 1999 after setting league records for rushing and touchdowns with the Barcelona Dragons.
sports.espn.go.com /nfl/news/story?id=2620745   (480 words)

  
 Lawrence Phillips, UNL's Criminal-Athletes And "The Husker Curse"
In 1996 Phillips decided to forego his Senior season and was taken by the St. Louis Rams with the 6th pick in the NFL draft.
In October 1997 Phillips was charged with battery when a woman accused him of turning violent after she refused to dance with him.
The victim said that Phillips told her, "I’ll break your jawbone and pull the weave out of your head." The victim suffered a chipped tooth, cut lip and claimed to have temporarily fled out.
www.useless-knowledge.com /1234/aug/article327.html   (1144 words)

  
 ESPN.com: OTHERFB - Lawrence Phillips walks out on CFL's Alouettes
Phillips' only contact with the club came Monday morning, when he complained of knee pain in a brief phone call to an Alouettes trainer.
Phillips, who has run for 594 yards in eight games, apparently was still in Montreal when he called the trainer, Popp said.
Phillips signed with Miami later in the '97 season, but was released after pleading no contest to hitting a woman in a nightclub.
espn.go.com /otherfb/news/2002/0819/1419973.html   (400 words)

  
 Beware! Stats in NFL Europe are not what they seem - running back Lawrence Phillips returns to NFL Sporting News, The - ...
Phillips may be a changed man from the one who was accused of assaulting three women, as some believe.
It's true Phillips was awarded the offensive MVP in NFL Europe as a result of his league-leading 1,021 rushing yards.
But Phillips should be a better player than the one who was cut by the Rams and Dolphins if he continues to control his weight.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1208/is_31_223/ai_55410379   (986 words)

  
 Former NFL Running Back Lawrence Phillips Arrested - IslandMix
Phillips was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon, the district attorney's office said.
Phillips, a star at Nebraska before the St. Louis Rams made him the sixth overall pick in the 1996 NFL draft, got into an argument with several young men after the pickup football game Sunday in Exposition Park, Los Angeles police officer Sandra Escalante said.
Phillips has a history of high-profile trouble with the law going back a decade to his time as one of the nation's top college football players at Nebraska.
www.islandmix.com /backchat/showthread.php?t=99467   (564 words)

  
 Kronos Longevity Research Institute » KLRI (Layman Community)
Phillips has also held positions as Assistant Physician at Barnes Hospital in Missouri, Fellow in Metabolism at Washington University School of Medicine, Instructor in Medicine at Emory University and Staff Associate at Grady Memorial Hospital.
Phillips has also received the Elliot P. Joslin Research and Development Award from the American Diabetes Association and was listed in The Best Doctors in America in 1998.
Phillips received a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania in 1963.
www.kronosinstitute.org /1/8/58/governance/lawrence_s_phillips_md.html   (352 words)

  
 Dolphins News: Lawrence Phillips Cut
Phillips was entering his third year in the league.
While the entire story of this final chapter in Phillips' NFL career isn't known, one rumor has it that Phillips cleared out his locker and left the dorm yesterday before he was officially cut.
There have been indications for some time that Phillips was not performing as well as JJ had hoped and that JJ was already considering releasing him even before the latest reported incident in the nightclub.
www.phins.com /news98/News_9807251306.html   (506 words)

  
 Dead to the world: Lawrence Phillips - GOAZCATS.com Message Board
LOS ANGELES (AP) -Former NFL and Nebraska running back Lawrence Phillips was convicted Tuesday of seven counts of assault with a deadly weapon for driving a car at a group of young men, injuring three.
She said the car Phillips was driving first hit the front wheel of a bike and fishtailed.
Phillips was the top offensive player in NFL Europe in 1999 after setting league records for rushing and touchdowns with the Barcelona Dragons.
forum.goazcats.com /showthread.php?p=617669#post617669   (479 words)

  
 Lawrence Phillips convicted of assault
Phillips was charged with assault with a deadly weapon for trying to run over a group of teenagers with his car at Exposition Park near Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Aug. 21, 2005.
Phillips, who has remained in jail since being arrested, argued with the teenagers following a pickup football game, left the park and returned in a fl Honda, which he drove onto the field and into the group of young men.
Phillips was drafted sixth overall by the St. Louis Rams in 1996, but was arrested three times in 19 months and released for insubordination.
cbc.ca /sports/football/story/2006/10/10/cfl-phillips-conviction.html   (1410 words)

  
 Sweeq: lawrence phillips
Teresa Lawrence Phillips is the first woman to coach a Division I men's basketball game in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
Lawrence Phillips is the editor for the collection The Swarming Streets:...
Lawrence Phillips is a board member of the UK Network for Modern Fiction...
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 Martini Republic » Lawrence Phillips: American Idiot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The latest incident took place Sunday afternoon after Phillips, who is 6 feet 2 and weighs more than 200 pounds, had joined an informal football game with a group made up largely of teenage boys, police said.
Phillips, who has a long history of arrests for violence, apparently was angered when he couldn’t find his belongings after he played football with the youths, and accused them of theft.
After the dispute, Phillips left, but returned onto the field behind the wheel of the car and drove it toward the boys, according to police.
martinirepublic.com /item/lawrence-phillips-american-idiot   (342 words)

  
 KFFL - Lawrence Phillips, RB, Retired
Associated Press reports former NFL RB Lawrence Phillips was convicted Tuesday, Oct. 10, on seven counts of assault with a deadly weapon for driving a car at a group of young men, injuring three.
The Associated Press reports former NFL RB Lawrence Phillips has been ordered to stand trial on assault charges for allegedly driving a car into three teenagers who argued with him following a pickup football game.
Phillips faces more than 13 years in prison if convicted of all counts, said Deborah Brazil, a deputy district attorney.
www.kffl.com /player/6613/nfl   (158 words)

  
 AllSports (tm) Lawrence Phillips released by CFL Alouettes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
MONTREAL (Ticker) - Running back Lawrence Phillips, who has found trouble virtually everywhere he has played, was released Thursday by the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League.
"Lawrence Phillips did not meet the minimum behavorial standards expected from the Montreal Alouettes football club and has been released by the organization," the statement said.
In 1998, Phillips was released by the Miami Dolphins after he was charged with hitting a woman at a Florida nightclub.
www.allsports.com /cgi-bin/showstory.cgi?story_id=41224   (396 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - No coach ever solved Lawrence Phillips
They remind the world that on Jan. 2, 1996, Lawrence Phillips rushed for 165 yards and two touchdowns as the Cornhuskers crushed Florida 62-24 in the Fiesta Bowl to repeat as national champions.
Lawrence Phillips, on the lam, is playing pickup football with teenagers in a park.
Phillips' reinstatement was, as many suspected then and know now, a horrendous mistake.
www.usatoday.com /sports/columnist/lopresti/2005-08-22-lopresti_x.htm   (705 words)

  
 ESPN.com: NFL - It's not easy being Lawrence Phillips' agent
Phillips was nearly anonymous in Montreal, where the front-page story in Monday's Montreal Gazette was Saku Koivu's summer hockey regimen after overcoming cancer.
He must either believe deeply in Lawrence Phillips the athlete, or be low on clients.
Still, standing up and answering for his client while Phillips shows Montreal his taillights cannot be fun, especially for someone whose professional career has been all about taillights.
espn.go.com /nfl/columns/ratto_ray/1420204.html   (665 words)

  
 He's nothing but trouble - running back Lawrence Phillips, released by the St. Louis Rams, is not worth the trouble he ...
Take away his Week 1 performance against the Saints (125 yards rushing, three touchdowns), and Phillips' numbers are reduced to this: 3.2 yards per carry and five touchdowns.
If Phillips wasn't welcome in St. Louis--where poor play has become virtually acceptable--then he obviously shouldn't be playing for a playoff contender.
Still, Phillips had to be at least a little bit tempting.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1208/is_n48_v221/ai_20040952   (929 words)

  
 Lawrence Phillips back on again in CFL - FinHeaven & Co Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In fact, the enigmatic Phillips, the #1 pick of the Rams in 1996, will be in the starting lineup for the Alouettes, supplanting long-time feature back Mike Pringle.
How long Phillips lasts north of the border, however, remains to be seen, but he hasn't won many friends among his Alouette teammates to date.
This week, for example, Phillips, who left the team last weekend after a tiff with the coaches, only to return a few days later, was reportedly wearing sweatbands with a derogatory phrase that rhymes with 'yuck foo' written on them.
www.finheaven.com /boardvb2/showthread.php?t=4361   (319 words)

  
 Lawrence Phillips Stats, Statistics and Fantasy News - RotoWire.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Phillips gained 40 yards in 11 carries as his Montreal Alouettes won the CFL Grey Cup on Sunday with a 25-16 win over the Edmonton Eskimos.
Phillips suffered an unspecified knee injury and had to leave Sunday’s CFL Eastern Division championship game early in the third quarter.
With Phillips AWOL after walking out on the team on Monday, Montreal lost its first CFL game of the season on Wednesday, falling to 8-1 with a 48-37 loss to the BC Lions.
www.rotonews.com /football/player.htm?ID=636   (194 words)

  
 Sweeq: lawrence phillips
Lawrence Phillips began getting in trouble with the law when he was still playing...
Will Phillips ever be in a football uniform, let alone a Canadian Football League uniform,...
The Memorial to Lawrence Phillips, in St Margaerts Church, Southsea, Portsmouth.
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 Lawrence Phillips convicted of assault
Phillips was charged with assault with a deadly weapon for trying to run over a group of teenagers with his car at Exposition Park near Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Aug. 21, 2005.
Phillips, who has remained in jail since being arrested, argued with the teenagers following a pickup football game, left the park and returned in a fl Honda, which he drove onto the field and into the group of young men.
Phillips was drafted sixth overall by the St. Louis Rams in 1996, but was arrested three times in 19 months and released for insubordination.
www.cbc.ca /sports/football/story/2006/10/10/cfl-phillips-conviction.html   (1561 words)

  
 THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION | Interactive Programs
American Art at The Phillips Collection is an exceptionally thorough look at the 150 years of American art represented at the museum, showcasing more than 650 works of art.
Based on a major retrospective exhibition organized by The Phillips Collection, the program emphasizes Lawrence’s student years and his development as an artist, telling of his coming to live in the Harlem community and of his resolution to make a life in art.
Through Lawrence’s own paintings and archival photographs, we follow his progress from his breakthrough exhibition into the segregated art world of New York and on through the years as he created works that expressed the fl experience and showed the struggle for freedom, dignity, and justice.
www.phillipscollection.org /html/interactive.html   (691 words)

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