The Knucklehead of the Day award

Goes to Miami Dolphin Tight End Randy McMicheal. He has been arrested for the 2nd time in 13 months for assaulting a woman according to an article in today's Palm Beach Post.

Shame on you Randy a big guy like you for striking a woman. It's becoming apparent you're both a very small man and an animal.

By Marcus Nelson
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Dolphins tight end Randy McMichael was arrested this weekend on battery charges involving his wife for the second time in a little more than a year.

McMichael, 26, was arrested by the Columbia County Sheriff's Office on Saturday after an alleged early-morning altercation with his wife at a Waffle House restaurant near Augusta, Ga.

Police officers, who were responding to reports of a fight at the restaurant, noticed blood on the shirt of McMichael's wife, Cawanna.

Witnesses told police McMichael pulled his wife out of their 1984 Cadillac Coupe de Ville after an argument, giving her a bloody nose.

"At least four witnesses said he physically and forcibly snatched her out of the vehicle," said sheriff's Capt. Steve Morris.

Cawanna McMichael, 22, told police she was inadverdantly hit by some of her belongings when McMichael threw them out of the car. Cawanna McMichael was treated at the scene, and her husband was arrested on misdemeanor simple battery and criminal trespass charges. He posted bond from the Columbia County Detention Center and was released before 7 a.m.

On Saturday, police took just minutes to arrive shortly after midnight when a call came in that a couple was fighting at a Waffle House.

Witnesses said McMichael threw a cellphone at his wife inside the restaurant before Cawanna McMichael tried to drive off. They also said McMichael threw his wife out of the car several times during the struggle.

While at the scene, police smelled alcohol on McMichael. He admitted to drinking several beers and glasses of wine but refused to take a Breathalyzer test.

"He wasn't any trouble from the time we arrived, but we determined he was the primary aggressor in this assault," Morris said.

In June 2004 McMichael was arrested on a charge of aggravated battery on a pregnant woman after an altercation with his wife at their home in Weston. The charge, a felony, was dropped by a prosecutor who acknowledged a conviction in a jury trial was unlikely.