didn't see it posted... Pistons' Ham hit by bottle; wife faces charge BY PERRY A. FARRELL Knight Ridder Newspapers http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/11174827.htm DETROIT - (KRT) - The wife of Pistons forward Darvin Ham was charged with assault Friday, hours after apparently she struck her 6-foot-7 husband in the head with a wine bottle. Deneitra Ham, 28, of Rochester Hills, called the Oakland County Sheriff's Office about 3 a.m. Friday to report that the couple had been arguing and that her husband, following the blow to his head, fell to the floor bleeding from the head. The couple's sons, ages 5 and 8, were sleeping at the time, according to a police report. Deputies arrived in six minutes to find Ham, 31, still on the floor, holding a rag and ice to his head, said Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard. Ham refused to be taken to a hospital and was treated at the scene for his head wound by firefighters, Bouchard said. There was no sign that the wine bottle broke, so Ham was not cut by the bottle's glass. He evidently sustained a blunt force injury, according to the police report. "A lot of wine bottles are quite substantial," Bouchard said. "If you get hit by one of those things, it can scramble you." Deputies arrested Deneitra Ham and booked her into the Oakland County Jail, where she spent the night before being arraigned Friday morning on a charge of domestic assault - punishable by up to 93 days in jail, Bouchard said. She was released on a personal-recognizance bond. "Unfortunately, domestic violence takes a variety of shapes and forms," Bouchard said. "Statistically, it's usually male to female, but we've seen it male to male and female to male, and so it's an equal opportunity danger." Ham, a Saginaw native in his second season with the Pistons, is on the injured list with right knee tendinitis. The Pistons said the incident was a personal matter, and team wouldn't comment. Ham did not attend Friday's shoot-around or the game against Toronto at the Palace. --- NOTEBOOK: The Jalen Rose Foundation announced that Rose, a former Detroit Southwestern and Michigan star, will award college scholarships to five Detroit high school seniors. Rose plays guard for the Raptors. The scholarships will amount to $50,000. The deadline for Detroit seniors to apply is April 22. Recipients will be announced in May. To receive an application, go to www.jalenrosefoundation.org; write Jalen Rose Foundation, c/o The Giving Back Fund, 6167 Bristol Parkway, No. 450, Culver City, Calif. 90230; or e-mail main(at)givingback.org. ... Pistons assistant Gar Heard said he talked with coach Larry Brown on Friday morning but said he didn't know when Brown would return after undergoing surgery Monday. Heard has coached the team in Brown's absence. ... Chris Bosh, a 6-foot-10 forward who missed Friday's game with a sore back, is second on the Raptors in scoring (16.4) and field-goal percentage (47.5) and first in rebounding (8.6) and blocks (1.34). He was the No. 4 pick in the 2003 draft, behind Cleveland's LeBron James, Detroit's Darko Milicic and Denver's Carmelo Anthony. --- © 2005, Detroit Free Press. Visit the Freep, the World Wide Web site of the Detroit Free Press, at http://www.freep.com. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services
She hit him with a bottle and, to add insult to injury, made sure it made the papers by calling the police. Will Darvin be able to live it down in the lockerroom?
