Florida Sentinel Bulletin

In what has already been a terrible week for forward Lamar Odom, there is one more lowlight: Odom was arrested on a DUI charge early Friday morning in California.

Earlier this week, a slew of reports alleged that Odom had been battling drug addiction, and that his family—including wife, Khloe Kardashian—had been unable to locate him.

While the reports of Odom’s drug issues remain merely allegations, the reported DUI would be a very real problem for Odom. He was arrested at 3:54 a.m. after driving too slow on California’s 101 Freeway in the San Fernando Valley.

Odom is a free agent this summer, and though a handful of teams—including the Lakers—expressed some interest in him, there is little chance that anyone will pick him up now.

Last season, the Tampa Buccaneer secondary was the worst in the NFL. So the Bucs went out and signed Darrelle Revis from the New York Jets.

Without a pass rush, the question has been asked how much difference will Revis make this season?

Former Buccaneer and Indianapolis Colt head coach, Tony Dungy was asked that question.

As the architect of the famous Tampa 2 defense, the groundwork was laid for real Buccaneer history. That defense won Coach Dungy a Super Bowl with the Colts and a place in history.

On the Buccaneer defense, Coach Dungy said, it’s kind of backward, building a defense from back to front, rather than front to back.

“I don’t think you can build a defense that way with the rule the way they are. Having good corners and all that helps, but I don’t know you’re going to have may Hall of Fame corners who didn’t have good rushers in front of them.”

Coach Dungy said with the great Buc defenses, even with Hall candidates John Lynch and Ronde Barber, it began up front.

Coach Dungy said he has nothing against Revis and his skill set, or against Bucs head coach, Greg Schiano.

“I guess their thought is they’ll get more with more coverage. But to me, it starts with the rush. You have to disrupt the quarterback.”

Coach Dungy said he hopes what the Bucs are doing works, and he thinks their thought is they will get more with more coverage.

“It will only work if those guys can create pressure. They must have faith in them.”

Is Braylon Edwards’ career done after being cut Monday by the New York Jets?

Edwards, who has battled a leg injury, had been limited in recent practices and played sparingly in the preseason.

The Jets signed receiver Mohamed Massaquoi last week, an indication that Edwards was in jeopardy.

Also, Santonio Holmes was activated for the first time since undergoing Lisfranc surgery. His health after foot surgery is still questionable, though, by his own admission.

Victoria Duval, 17, dropped the first set to Australian Samantha Stosur, but the young American battled back to take the final two on Tuesday, pulling the biggest upset of the U. S. Open so far.

Duval overcame 35 unforced errors for her first ever Grand Slam victory, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4. The former U. S. Open champion was on the ropes in the third set, with Duval serving for the match up 5-4. But Stosur fought off two match points before Duval’s forehand winner buried the Aussie.

At times, Duval certainly showed her age and inexperience, but she was able to overcome both for easily the biggest win of her career.

During a press conference, legendary boxer Mike Tyson said that he “is on the verge of dying because I’m a vicious alcoholic.”

“I haven’t drank or took drugs in six days,” the former heavyweight champion said. “And for me that’s a miracle.” Following his career inside the ring, Tyson made cameo appearances in movies like 2009s The Hangover, and even starred in his one-man Broadway show.

Tyson is battling addiction and working on his third marriage.

ST. PETERSBURG — Delmon Young is back. Sort of.

The one-time future of the organization returned Thursday when he signed a minor league contract and reported to the Rays’ Double-A team in Montgomery, Ala.

If Young can prove in the next eight days or so that his swing is once again major league quality, then he could join the Rays for the September push for a playoff berth.

“Everything is in play,” Young said Thursday during a conference call. “Come down (to Montgomery) and if everything is going well, I’ll come back up. If not, I’m not. I’ll prepare myself the best I can to be ready in their eyes.”

NEW YORK—Dean Meminger, the former Marquette guard who played a reserve role on the New York Knicks’ 1973 NBA championship team, was found dead Friday in a Manhattan hotel room. He was 65.

New York City police said staff at the Hamilton Heights Hotel found Meminger unconscious and unresponsive inside a room and emergency medical personnel pronounced him dead. Police said there were no signs of trauma and that the cause of death hadn’t been determined. They said an investigation is ongoing.

This is a story so outrageous, that is just may be true. Allegedly, Lamar Odom is a crack cocaine user, which is the reason why his marriage to Khloe Kardashian is on the rocks, no pun intended. That also would explain his fall off from NBA Sixth Man of the Year in 2011 to an also ran on the NBA basketball court.

Lamar has allegedly gone off the rails with drug use … which is the principal cause of the crisis in his marriage to Khloe Kardashian.  As we reported Lamar went to a rehab facility a year ago this month and stayed for 3 weeks before bailing — and we’re told the problem was crack.

Sources say Lamar’s crack use was extreme before he went to rehab, but he cleaned up his act during the basketball season that just ended.  Sources say shortly after he hung up his jersey, he started again with a bang.

Khloe threw Lamar out of the house a few days ago after he rejected an attempt at an intervention.

Allen Iverson is prepared to officially announce his retirement from the NBA in the coming days, a source close to the native of Virginia told SLAM.

Iverson, 38, played his last professional basketball in Turkey in 2011. Before that, he appeared in his final NBA game, as a member of the Philadelphia 76ers, in 2010.

When he last spoke publicly, at a Sixers game on March 30, Iverson answered a question about continuing his career by saying, “My No. 1 goal is trying to accomplish to be the best dad that I can. And if basketball is in my near future, then God will make that happen. But if not, I had a great ride and I’ve done a lot of special things that a lot of guys have not been able to accomplish and people thought I couldn’t accomplish.”

Although he never won an NBA championship, he can boast career averages of 26.7 ppg, 6.2 apg and 2.2 spg as well as 11 All-Star game selections, a league MVP award, four scoring titles.

Also, Iverson still has some sick Reebok signature sneakers.