NFL Player robbed and Assulted Near Summer Bay

I noticed on the news report that they kept showing the Summer Bay Building in the background during the news story. It appears the player was found around the corner of Ida and Winnick, which is right behind Imperial Palace and right near the entrance to Summer Bay.

Sandy

Oakland Raider wide receiver Javon Walker beaten, robbed and left unconscious on Las Vegas street.


Richard

He was found near Winnick and Koval, not Ida.

From what I've read, he's a stupid man. He wasn't robbed of a large amount of money, as the above report said, but $3000. in cash AND $100,000. in jewelry. He was seen (clubbing at the "hot spots") flashing a heavily encrusted diamond watch all weekend, and squirting champagne at the "common people" in the clubs from his elevated booth. That's the same sort of behavior that caused one of his friends and teammates to be shot and die in his arms last December. He's a slow learner I guess.

His "career" is probably toast. He was beaten and sustained a very bad injury to his eye socket.

Nobody is reporting that the incident did or did not happen where they found him. Perhaps somebody could ask Victor. It may (or may not) have been a drop off job...

Fern

But Fern, to a police officer, $3,000 may very well be a "large" sum of money.

Mr. Walker certainly doesn't learn from past mistakes. Since his teamate was shot and killed over a similar champagne spraying incident (if I read the article correctly), you'd think he'd have learned perhaps the "common" people don't care much to be at the other end of the spraying. Or maybe he was using the cheap stuff and it was offensive to whomever he hosed down.

There's a new story today. The football player was released from the hospital and this is his version:

He had just gotten back to his room at the Bellagio around 5:30 Am when somebody knocked at his door. He opened the door and was confronted by three guys with guns. They forced their way in, beat him unconscious, robbed him, and somehow got him into a car. They then dumped him on Winnick.

For country music fans, this reminds me of a Colin Raye song, "That's my story and I'm sticking to it."

More info from today...Bellagio says they have over 200 cameras in the hotel areas, and their security and surveillance department has reviewed them for the time period. They say that the tapes are not consistent with what Mr. Walker stated to the media.

I was kind of wondering how they were able to get him from his room to a car, unconscious and undetected.

Fern

Fern Modena said:

He was found near Winnick and Koval, not Ida.

Fern

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I had just watched the new report on TV and had not read any of the reports. The news reporter was showing the intersection sign for Ida and Winnick. So that is why I assumed it was there. But Koval and Winnick is only another block over, isn't it?

It was the on TV that I saw the Summer Bay building.

Ida and Winnick would be where the Towers Building is. I think he was dumped down by building 4 or 5 on Winnick, but I am not sure. It would be almost a block east of where Ida & Winnick meet.

Fern

A very sad story indeed. Sad to say also it is not surprising that he's on the Oakland Raiders.

Marty

Fern Modena said:

There's a new story today. The football player was released from the hospital and this is his version:

He had just gotten back to his room at the Bellagio around 5:30 Am when somebody knocked at his door. He opened the door and was confronted by three guys with guns. They forced their way in, beat him unconscious, robbed him, and somehow got him into a car. They then dumped him on Winnick.

For country music fans, this reminds me of a Colin Raye song, "That's my story and I'm sticking to it."

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Four years of college and this is the best story he can create.

Kona Lovers said:

A very sad story indeed. Sad to say also it is not surprising that he's on the Oakland Raiders.

Marty

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We was a much loved player on the GB Packers (I think they drafted him). After going to Denver, he later landed in Oakland. While he's probably not the brightest person, he's not really a thug.

Stories here in Wisconsin also question the timeline and his version of the story.

One of our columnists intimated today that he (Javon) may not want "the real reason" to come out and may not be willing to press charges. Do you think that means he was with a lady who turned out not to be one, perhaps?

I think he's not the sharpest crayon in the box...

Timeshare Von said:

We was a much loved player on the GB Packers (I think they drafted him). After going to Denver, he later landed in Oakland. While he's probably not the brightest person, he's not really a thug.

Stories here in Wisconsin also question the timeline and his version of the story.

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"Hookers" have been mentioned here in Wisconsin.

derb said:

Four years of college and this is the best story he can create.

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He's a football player. It's not likely that he went to college to get an education.

T_R_Oglodyte said:

He's a football player. It's not likely that he went to college to get an education.

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You are right Steve, and sadly, he probably didn't get one either

Timeshare Von said:

"Hookers" have been mentioned here in Wisconsin.

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Hobbies are a good for a person...I'm happy he has picked up knitting. :hysterical:

chellej said:

You are right Steve, and sadly, he probably didn't get one either

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I don't know. He went to college to develop a set of skills that would enable him to obtain a high-paying job doing something he liked.

He got what he wanted out of his time at college, and the college got what it wanted from him.

To me the only "sad" element in the equation is for the college it's more important that he be an athlete than that he be a student. And that's just because he makes more money for the school as an athlete than he does as a student.

College is the NFL's farm system. They really ought to kick into the colleges fund when they draft a player from that college.

derb said:

College is the NFL's farm system. They really ought to kick into the colleges fund when they draft a player from that college.

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IMHO - create an upper level collegiate athletic program in which all restrictions on paying students to play are removed. Let the free market reign. That would eliminate all of the enforcement bureaucracy and attendant hypocrisy about "student athletes". The kids aren't there to get an education, and getting the kids an education isn't the school's priority. End the hypocrisy.

Making that change, those athletic programs that opt into that program would no longer be tax exempt. The facilities used to support the system would go on the local property tax rolls. The income from the enterprise would be subject to income taxes. Treat it like the business it really is, not like the academic endeavor everyone pretends it is. Again, end the hypocrisy.

The schools that want student athletes can then do it their way. The schools that want to continue to run big time athletic programs as commercial enterprises can continue to do so, without being hypocrites. If a school's boosters want to buy a national championship, more power to them.

Another plus is that the young athletes - who are the individuals who are really creating value - get compensated in accordance with the value they create. Right now they're held as serfs in a semi-feudal in which they receive only a fraction of the compensation they would get in an open market.

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College is the NFL's farm system. They really ought to kick into the colleges fund when they draft a player from that college.

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That doesn't happen because college football programs are big money makers for universities. Universities don't run big time football programs because they make some essential psychic contribution to the academic community. They do it because the programs make money. They make money in ticket sales that funds the overall athletic department budget. Beyond that, when a university fields successful teams, the overall giving to the university increases, and the caliber of student applicants often increases.

Universities don't need to be subsidized by the NFL for running a farm system. It's a system that operates to the mutual benefit of both universities and the NFL (and the NBA in basketball as well).

The ones who are taken advantage of in the whole system are the "student athletes" who are paid a pittance compared with the value they bring to the university.