I already said that I was a fan of his work, so I was very disappointed to read Rick Olivares' half-baked profile of Smart Gilas import CJ Giles. In the story, Olivarez kept alluding to the trouble that has hounded Giles throughout his collegiate career and how he's using his stint with the team to gain redemption, but never mentions what happened.

Well, Giles was kicked off the Kansas University varsity team in 2006 for a series of off-court incidents. It started with a missed practice, a violation of a team rule, and a failure to maintain his grades, all of which led to a suspension. Then after coming back, he was involved in this:

Giles was cited by KU campus police for battering a female KU student Monday night. According to the police report, the 20-year-old woman told police Giles became angry with her when she wouldn't leave his apartment and he grabbed her by the ankles, dragged her off his bed and onto the floor. She told police he continued to drag her into the hallway as she tried to get away and then "struck her in the left side of her head by her ear" with his closed fist. She left the apartment and reported the incident to police at 11:30 p.m.

Giles admitted to police that he dragged the woman across the floor, according to the report, but he denied hitting her in the head. He was not taken into custody, but was given a notice to appear in municipal court Dec. 6 for battery.

The woman told police she was in Giles' apartment in Jayhawker Towers on Monday night when he received a phone call from another woman. Giles then told the woman in his apartment to leave, she said, and when she asked why, he told her his girlfriend was on her way to his room.

She told officers she was not aware Giles had a girlfriend and that when she asked him about it, he grew angry and grabbed her by the ankles.

The report also mentions that Giles was being sued at the time by the mother of his son (not his then-girlfriend) for lack of child support payments.

I know that all this happened three years ago, and Giles has made great strides in turning his life around (he transferred to Oregon State after leaving Kansas) and became part of the training camp of the Los Angeles Lakers last year. Giles might truly be on his way to redemption.

But it's shameful how Olivares just tiptoed around the issue, just to make his buddies like Noli Eala look good. We don't need more sportswriters who only write nothing but the true, the good, and the beautiful; we already have Quinito Henson.