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Football: Former Badgers player accused of threatening Alvarez

A former University of Wisconsin football player was charged Monday with threatening athletic director Barry Alvarez, tennis star Maria Sharapova and their families.
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Leonard Taylor Jr., 32, of Indianapolis, faces one felony stalking count and one misdemeanor count of telephone harassment. Online court records didn’t list an attorney for Taylor. His father told police Taylor has been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and hasn’t taken his medication for three months, according to the criminal complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court.