In November 2005, NFL Hall of Famer Michael Irvin was cited for possession of drug paraphernalia.

Police found a crack pipe in Irvin’s car after pulling him over for speeding. Irvin said the crack pipe was one of his friends, and he had it to help the person overcome a drug addiction.

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Irvin was charged with a misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia, which is a class C misdemeanor punishable by up to $500 in fines. He paid a fine for the charge.

Irvin attended the University of Miami, where he won a national championship in 1987. He entered the 1988 NFL Draft and was selected with the 11th overall pick by the Dallas Cowboys.

During Irvin’s 12-year NFL career, he won three Super Bowls, was a first-team All-Pro once, a second-team All-Pro twice, a five-time Pro Bowl selection and was inducted into the Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor. He was also inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2007.

Irvin retired in July 2000, due to a spinal cord injury he suffered in the previous season against the Philadelphia Eagles.

Dallas Cowboys rookie running back Ezekiel Elliott stands accused of domestic assault, though he denies the accusation.

A woman who claims to be Elliott’s “live-in girlfriend,” alleges that Elliott assaulted her several times over the past week, according to police reports from the Columbus Ohio Police Department, courtesy of The Dallas Morning News.

Ezekiel Elliott Accused Of Domestic Violence, Denies Claims

No charges have been filed in the case and Elliott has denied any wrongdoing.

The woman claims she was assaulted by Elliott, in the rear of a parking lot while sitting in the driver’s seat of her vehicle, according to the police report.

A timestamp on the top of the report indicates it was published at 2:40 a.m. on July 22. The location of the alleged incident occurred approximately two miles from Ohio Stadium where Elliott played his home games at Ohio State.

TMZ released the audio of the 911 call made by the alleged victim.

The call begins with a dispatcher answering and the woman referencing an earlier conversation where she was asked if she would need an officer to come to her location. She denied the request in the earlier correspondence with police, but requested their presence in her second call, obtained by TMZ.

“If there is anyway that I can have an officer out on scene,” the woman says. “I was going to wait until tomorrow to report it, until he left.”

The dispatcher asks what the relationship is to the alleged assailant and the woman replies, “it’s my boyfriend.”

“And he’s been doing it for the past five days,” she says.

Former Cowboys wide receiver and NFL Network Analyst Michael Irvin spoke to Elliott on Friday, which happens to be the former Buckeye’s 21st birthday.

Irvin asked Elliott if he laid hands on the woman and Elliott told Irvin he never got close to her.

“Michael, I never got within four feet of her,” Elliott told Irvin.

“He sounded pretty upset about the whole situation,” Irvin told NFL Network Host Rich Eisen.

Elliott explained that the two were in the middle of a break-up and she showed up at a celebration for his 21st birthday “uninvited,” according to Irvin.

Likely the same woman, posted several pictures to her Instagram account Friday with the following caption:

“Just for every women out there getting abused it’s time to put a stop to it,” she wrote on Instagram. “This has been happening to me for months and it finally got out of control to where I was picked up and thrown across the room by my arms. Thrown into walls. Being choked to where I have to gasp for breath. Bruised everywhere, mentally and physically abused. It’s not okay. So I want each and everyone one of you girls to step away now from domestic violence. You’re worth so much more. I got told it was called “tough love” I’m sorry if you love someone you don’t touch your loved ones.”

The caption was accompanied by photos showing bruises on a woman’s wrists and arms. He Instagram account has since been made private.

Elliott shot down the allegations with a statement through his father, released to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

“The reported allegations and Internet postings regarding our son are completely false,” Stacy Elliott said. “Ezekiel has done nothing wrong. The police have investigated this matter and eyewitnesses have verified the lack of any wrongdoing. The actual evidence in this matter clearly indicates what the real motivation was behind the police being called. We are confident that when the truth comes to light it will reveal the falsity of these claims. Ezekiel has been fully cooperative with the police and will continue to do so—along with cooperating with the NFL—moving forward.”

Elliott is alleging the accusations are a result of sour grapes on the woman’s part after he decided to stop seeing her romantically. Reporters on the Cowboys beat have been fed that message by multiple sources.

“Per a source,” Clarence Hill of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Tweeted. “Elliott broke off relationship and alleged victim said she would ruin him if he did.”

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Are NASCAR drivers athletes? This is a debate that has been raging on for ages. Yes, they sit in cars and some are fat, but it does take some skill to drive a car at intense speeds. Honestly, while I lean towards no, it still takes more physical effort than golf. But Brad Keselowski recently told a story that might change people’s idea of the sport.

During the press junket at Bristol Motor Speedway, Brad told a story about NFL legend Michael Irvin. Recently, Keselowski took the hall of fame wide receiver for a drive at the Texas Motor Speedway track.

“We ran two or three laps, I think, and we got out and he threw up all over and passed out and sat on the ground,” Keselowski told Fox Sports. “Here’s a guy who is a football player, arguably the most physically fit athletes probably on the planet — at least very well balanced in that sense — and he passed out in the race car and the reason for that is very simple — the mental challenge that it takes to be a race car driver affects the physical challenge because when the demands on your body or the demands on your mind get elevated as they do here at Bristol, you do things that you shouldn’t do that make the physical challenge harder.”

And while he did not specify when he did this, Irvin is still in incredible shape for his age. So the next step would be to get an athlete in his or her prime to do this: see how he or she feels about the intense heat and stressful situations.

“You hold your breath, you grab the steering wheel way harder than you need to grab it, you tighten up inside the car,” Keselowski continued. “The next thing you know you’re extremely fatigued no matter what conditioning level you have.  I don’t care if you’re Shaq, it doesn’t matter because the mental side of your body is telling yourself, ‘Oh crap,’ and it’s going to use all the strength you have no matter what your strength limits are.”

Again, it is hard to bash a NASCAR driver, especially since one wrong move could lead to a ten car pile-up. There is something inherently dangerous about driving a car at high speeds, but does that make them athletes? It is an answerless question that will likely be debated for decades to come.