Former Laker Norm Nixon Busted for DUI.

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Cops blew the whistle on former Los Angeles Lakers great Norm Nixon when he was caught allegedly drunk driving. Nixon was called for illegal traveling by the California Highway Patrol around midnight last night when officers noticed he had no front license plate on his black Ferrari, according to TMZ.com.

Officers reportedly smelled alcohol and gave Nixon a series of sobriety tests, which the ex-point guard failed. The two-time NBA All-Star with two championships under his belt was booked and posted $5,000 bail, TMZ reported. Nixon, 53, who played with the Lakers from 1977 to 1983 then with the Clippers from '83 to '89, is married to actress/dancer Debbie Allen.

FORMER FOOTBALLER BRIAN BOSWORTH ARRESTED FOR DUI.

Former football star-turned-actor BRIAN BOSWORTH has been arrested for driving under the influence. The ex-NFL player, who made appearances in Three Kings and The Longest Yard, was taken into custody by cops in the early hours of Friday (06Mar07). The 43-year-old is being held in Hollywood on $5,000 bail. Bosworth played for Oklahoma before retiring three years into a 10-year contract with the Seattle Seahawks due to a shoulder injury.

CHARLES BARKLEY ENTERS JAIL FOR DUI SENTENCE.

Basketball great Charles Barkley began serving a three-day sentence in Arizona's infamous Tent City on Saturday, jailed by the same sheriff whose autobiography he endorsed 12 years ago.

"You come here when you screw up," Barkley said at a news conference hours after he reported at the Maricopa County jail. "I don't blame anybody for this situation but myself."

Barkley, 45, pleaded guilty last month to misdemeanor drunken-driving charges stemming from a New Year's Eve arrest after he left a Scottsdale, Arizona, nightclub.

A judge sentenced him to 10 days in jail, but his sentence was reduced in exchange for Barkley's attending an alcohol-awareness course.

At the news conference, Barkley sat next to Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed "Toughest Sheriff in America." Arpaio is known for giving inmates old-fashioned, black-and-white-striped uniforms, making some of them live in tents and reinstituting chain gangs, even for women.