Drug center expelled Strawberry for sex, breaking rules

TAMPA, Fla. -- Darryl Strawberry was kicked out of a drug-treatment center and sent to jail for repeatedly breaking program rules, including a ban on sex between residents, according to court documents released Wednesday.

The former baseball star had many behavior problems at Phoenix House near Ocala, a state Corrections Department report said. Strawberry told his probation officer Tuesday he had sex with a female resident three days earlier.

Strawberry was transferred to Marion County Jail on Tuesday, his 40th birthday. Dressed in an orange and white jail uniform, Strawberry appeared briefly before a judge Wednesday to be advised of the charge against him.

Strawberry will be returned to Tampa to face Judge Florence Foster on April 1. Foster repeatedly has ordered him to undergo drug treatment rather than send him to prison for violating probation.

Strawberry's wife, Charisse, said Wednesday she did not feel comfortable discussing the situation.

"I have three very young children who are my focus right now," she said in a statement. "Unfortunately this is part of the devastation of the disease of alcoholism and addiction."

Strawberry could face up to 18 months in prison under a sentence imposed last year and then suspended pending completion of the drug program.

Padres' Darr was drunk

PHOENIX -- Padres outfielder Mike Darr was legally drunk when he rolled the SUV he was driving and died last month, authorities said.

Darr and Duane Johnson were killed in a Feb. 15 accident near the Padres' spring training complex in Peoria, Ariz.

Darr and Johnson weren't wearing seat belts and were ejected. Minor league pitcher Ben Howard, who was in the back seat, was wearing his seat belt and walked away with just scratches.

Darr's blood-alcohol level was 0.11 percent, The Arizona Republic reported on its Web site. The state's legal limit is 0.08.

Gooden pleads innocent

TAMPA, Fla. -- Dwight Gooden pleaded innocent to a misdemeanor charge of drunken driving.

Gooden's attorney entered the written plea and the 37-year-old former All-Star did not appear in court.

Gooden, who now works for the New York Yankees, was arrested in February when Tampa police said they saw him swerving while driving on an expressway. He had an open beer bottle in his 2002 Cadillac Escalade and was driving with a suspended license for failing to pay a fine from an unrelated traffic infraction, police said.

Gooden refused to take a blood alcohol test, police said.

Gooden retired from the Yankees last May, ending his major league career with a 194-112 record and a 3.51 ERA, striking out 2,293 in 2,800 2/3 innings.

Anderson out for season

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Mariners pitcher Ryan Anderson, 22, will miss his second straight season because of an injured left shoulder.

The 6-foot-10 left-hander, nicknamed the Little Unit because of his resemblance to Randy Johnson, is scheduled for surgery for next week to repair a torn labrum, part of the shoulder joint. He had surgery to repair a similar injury on March 6, 2001.

-- From wire reports