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Utah State’s Shawn Murphy poses for his portrait Wednesday, April 16, 2007, in Logan, Utah. He’s just a touch under 6-foot-4 and weighs 320 pounds, with long arms and quick feet. And his pedigree won’t hurt him either as the son of major league baseball player Dale Murphy.
In the NFL Draft’s fourth round, the Dolphins gave Chicago a seventh-round pick to move up five spots in the fourth round and take 6-4, 320-pound offensive guard Shawn Murphy, son of former Atlanta Braves baseball star Dale Murphy.
Murphy said while he likes baseball and finds it relaxing, football “was just the sport that stuck with me.”
”When football season came around, it was, like, it was more natural,” he said.
Murphy pointed out he and his family loves Florida after spending several springs in West Palm Beach, where the Braves used to hold spring training.
Murphy was switched to guard last season, only his second on the offensive line after spending the earlier part of his football career on the defensive line.
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Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Nancy Margaret Russo said Sean Levert recently admitted to having a $50-a-day marijuana addiction.
He said the habit began when he was 14.
He also had high blood pressure and wasn’t taking medication for it, Russo said in a telephone interview this morning.
Levert died late Sunday in Lutheran Hospital, where he was taken after he became ill in the Cuyahoga County jail. An autopsy is being conducted today. A spokesman for the coroner’s office said no “foul play or trauma” is suspected in Levert’s death.
Last Monday, Russo sentenced Levert, 39, to 22 months in prison for failing to pay nearly $90,000 to three children. The oldest child, Keith Potts, is an adult and in prison. Potts’ mother, Robbie Cayson, 39, was arrested in February and charged with leading a criminal gang.
Levert told Russo that the only medication he took was an occasional Xanax, which treats insomnia and anxiety.
He tested positive for marijuana while out on bond on the child support charges.
Court records show he had been convicted a half-dozen times of driving with a suspended license. He was convicted of being impaired while driving in 1993 and having an open beer can in his car in 1995, when he was also convicted of drug abuse. He successfully completed a two-year substance abuse treatment program.
Russo declared Levert indigent so that his money would go toward child support instead of fines and court costs, she said.
Cayson-Hutchin’s mother and numerous young relatives gawked from the house next door as police ushered eight people to a paddy wagon on Lenacrave Avenue. Her daughter and grandsons did nothing wrong, she said.
“The police took all my grandkids,” she said through her door. “They ain’t no gang.”
LMFAO - they’re good boys, right granny? Good to hear these thuglets and their skank mother are off the streets. Lock these social diseases up as long as possible.

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