Chip Banks

Linebacker Chip Banks, a San Diego Chargers holdout all season, has been arrested again in Atlanta for possession of cocaine and marijuana. Atlanta police said Banks, 29, was arrested Tuesday when officer B. L. Miller stopped a car, in which Banks was riding, to check on an expired tag. Banks and the driver were arrested when the policeman found the drugs. Banks, who played at USC, was later released on $4,050 bond.

Former NFL and USC linebacker Chip Banks was arrested after his car collided with another in north Atlanta, killing a 50-year-old woman, police said. Banks, 35, was charged with second-degree vehicular homicide, giving false information to officers, driving without a license and crossing the median, police spokesman Sgt. Melvin Denson said. Mattie Lee Chaney of Atlanta was dead at the scene Monday after Banks' car hit hers head on, police said.

Drug possession and sodomy charges against San Diego Chargers linebacker Chip Banks were bound over to Fulton County Superior Court today. Banks, 29, an Augusta native who now lives in Atlanta, was arrested by Atlanta police Wednesday after a woman told them he held her against her will and sexually assaulted her. Banks was charged with false imprisonment, aggravated sodomy, possession of cocaine and possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.

The Chargers traded linebacker Chip Banks to the Colts in 1989 for a third-round pick, which General Manager Bobby Beathard used to select wide receiver Walter Wilson. Wilson didn't last with the Chargers, but Banks has gone on to become one of the Colts' top defenders. Banks leads the Colts with six sacks and is third in the AFC. He was the AFC defensive player of the week in the Colts' opening-day victory over Cleveland, and he has one interception.

If the Buffalo Bills don't find linebacker Chip Banks before the start of today's National Football League draft, the Cleveland Browns could get Banks back but lose their first-round pick to the Bills. Banks was traded to the Bills last Friday to get the anticipated supplemental draft rights to University of Miami quarterback Bernie Kosar.

Former NFL and USC linebacker Chip Banks was arrested after his car collided with another in north Atlanta, killing a 50-year-old woman, police said. Banks, 35, was charged with second-degree vehicular homicide, giving false information to officers, driving without a license and crossing the median, police said. Mattie Lee Chaney of Atlanta was dead at the scene Monday after Banks' car hit hers head on, police said. Banks was treated at a hospital for facial injuries and was released.

Chip Banks has won his battle to get back in the National Football League. Now the Indianapolis Colts linebacker is trying to win his private war to stay in the league. Five days after he joined the Colts, Banks played in his first NFL game in nearly 22 months. The former All-Pro started and was on the field for 49 of 64 defensive plays and made a significant contribution to the 23-12 upset of defending AFC champion Cincinnati last Sunday.

Former USC and All-Pro linebacker Chip Banks has been arrested and charged with possession of crack cocaine and marijuana. Banks, 28, of Atlanta, was arrested Tuesday at a housing project known for drug transactions, police Sgt. P. L. Mitchell said. Banks dropped a brown bag containing one dose of crack and a bag of marijuana on the ground when police approached, officers said. He is serving a five-year probation for a March conviction of cocaine and marijuana possession, stemming from an October arrest.

For Chip Banks, happiness always has been just a holdout away. So when Banks says he's reporting to training camp three days early , you had better call your friends in Cleveland and say: "Did you hear the crazy news?"

Lives of the rich and famous, Trojan-style: As a USC freshman, William (Chip) Banks roomed with a former prep quarterback from San Diego named Marcus Allen. Both went on to stardom and fortune, though in separate locales. "Do you have a home in the Palisades like he does?" Banks' teammate, Clay Matthews, another ex-Trojan, is asking him. "Do you have a Ferrari and girls like he does?" Banks thinks it over. "Nah," he says. "I'm in the wrong town."

Colt linebacker Chip Banks was jailed for 5 1/2 hours in Indianapolis because of what authorities said was a mistaken warrant. Police gave this account: Banks was pulled over for weaving his 1989 Chevrolet Blazer in and out of traffic in a nightclub district about 2:20 a.m. Friday. No traffic charges were filed, but a computer check turned up an outstanding warrant for Banks' arrest on drug charges from Fulton County, Ga. Banks, 32, was booked into the Marion County lockup at 4:40 a.m.

The docudrama of Chip Banks' life is played out every day at a barnlike training complex on the drab flatlands of the city's outskirts. This is where the Colts practice. And this is where they wait to see what will become of the troubled 30-year-old left outside linebacker they acquired in a trade with the San Diego Chargers on Oct. 17. "I can't say that I don't think about it," says Duane Bickett, the Colts' Pro Bowl right outside linebacker who was Banks' teammate at USC.

The docudrama that Chip Banks' life has become gets played out every day at a barnlike training complex located on the drab flatlands that make up the outskirts of downtown Indianapolis. This is where the Colts practice. And this is where they watch and wait to see or hear what will become of the troubled 30-year-old left outside linebacker they took in trade from the Chargers Oct. 17.

Chip Banks has won his battle to get back in the National Football League. Now the Indianapolis Colts linebacker is trying to win his private war to stay in the league. Five days after he joined the Colts, Banks played in his first NFL game in nearly 22 months. The former All-Pro started and was on the field for 49 of 64 defensive plays and made a significant contribution to the 23-12 upset of defending AFC champion Cincinnati last Sunday.

The Chargers traded linebacker Chip Banks Tuesday and added a running back in separate deals that beat the National Football League's trade deadline by less than half an hour. The Chargers sent Banks, who has a history of drug problems, to the Indianapolis Colts in a conditional deal that will bring them at least one 1990 draft pick and maybe more, depending on how well the former USC linebacker performs in Indianapolis and whether he remains drug-free.

Looking fit and striking a penitent tone, linebacker Chip Banks appeared at his first news conference since twice pleading guilty this year to drug-related charges and asked that the San Diego Chargers take him back. "My problems were mine," Banks said. "I took the necessary arrangements to take of care of all my legal problems and everything else necessary for my personal recovery. . . . I would love to be a Charger again." Banks, a four-time Pro Bowl selection, has not played since 1987.