Fred Kerley involved in fight at Grand Slam Track hotel, cops called

Steady Freddy kickin’ some arse

That post on x is from the future?

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Golly - It seems there was some disrespect displayed among the young women :(

Remember the “lazer focussed athlete storytelling” of Grand Slam Track? This is all this is - don’t worry about it….

"Word is?"

Didn't this board just spend the last 48 hours furiously typing about a rumor that turned out to be 100% false?

I',m not saying it didn't happen; it might very well have. But I hope your "evidence" is better than, "The word is ..."

The judge should let him off the hook if he agrees to stop prancing around in quarter length spandex

This Raestake guy is as entertaining as a solo Rojo pod.

Rae Edwards confirmed what I heard from a source - that Fred was arrested.

Fred and the boyfriend of his ex, Alaysha Johnson, got in a fight at the hotel. Alaysha tried to break it up and then got hit.

Cops came and according to Rae both men went to jail.

We wuz track world champion

Do we think he'll be allowed to compete in Miami?

I've long argued sports leagues / colleges, etc. do not have the expertise to be judges and juries. They need to let the criminal court system handle it.

GST let Kerley compete in the Kingston meet after he'd been arrested. How is this any different? The only difference is he'd compete 2 days after the arrest (men's short sprints doesn't start until Saturday) versus 3 months after being arrested, but that might make it even harder to suspend him as there isn't time to get to the facts.

GST has no obligation to let him compete, but without knowing any specifics, I don't have a real problem if they do. They are a sports league, not the morality police.

Update: He's been suspended which is the right gall. I failed to consider two things. 1) This happened at the meet hotel and 2) ITt's a second arrest in months so the odds of both being unwarranted and 'giving him the benefit of the doubt' go down from simple math.

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I don’t like this man Fred but anybody that streams about domestic violence is a loser

Kerley is a great sprinter but a wreck off the track

He's not the world's best 100 sprinter any more but could you imagine Lyles or Hocker constantly getting arrested?

As Fred might still be in jail when track meet takes place as only one Fred as can't be in two places at once

A well connected source has told me, he thinks Kerley has already been suspended.

The thing I wasn't thinking about in my previous post was the big thing that is different about this arrest is the location - the meet hotel. A fight at the meet hotel would be the equivalent of a fight at work so a suspension does make sense.

But in general, I don't want meets being forced to be the morality police. They don't have the expertise or resources to do that.