[vrwinger]

My point is this: How did the Philly media & the Philly police handle the Alan Iverson sitaution a few months back? With that in mind, subsitute the player, though not as popular as Iverson, is a star on a local team and the victim, who happens to be a police officer, and tell me how we hear nothing about it until a civil suit is filed? Something doesn't add up....

[Dante3]

An article in the Philadelphia Inquirer (Sept. 6) included the following statements:

"Mitchell, 34, said yesterday he was not permitted to comment on the suit. Eagels official declined to discus the suit, which also accuses team president Joe Banner and security director Butch Buchanico of defaming Haley.

"The suit claims that Banner phoned then-Deputy Police Comissioner Sylvester Johnson to tell him Haley had been harassing running back Duce Staley. And it accuses Buchanico of implying that Haley was a "hindrance, liar, vixen and temptress" by denying that she and Mitchell had been dating.

"The suit seeks to recover more than $2 milion from Mitchell, and the rest of the damages from the Eagles and the two officials."

The article reveales that Haley is a single mom (doesn't say how many children) and that she said that she wanted to break off with Mitchell because she found out he was seeing other women. They met in June 2001 at Bluezette, an Old City bar.