MARINOVICH JAILED ON MARIJUANA CONVICTION

No more delays-the ex-raiders quarterback begins his six month sentence.

Former Los Angeles Raiders quarterback Todd Marinovich will have a
different view of Sunday's Super Bowl than his onetime counterparts Brett
Favre and John Elway.

He'll be inside Orange County Jail, serving a sentence for felony marijuana
cultivation.

South Orange County Municipal Court Judge Ronald P. Kreber ordered
marshal's deputies to lead Marinovich away Friday to begin a six-month
sentence.

Marinovich, 28, had postponed his sentencing several times since his
September conviction, asking for time to find a private jail near his new
home in Sonoma County in which to do his time.

On Friday, Marinovich said he had not found a private jail or drug program.
So Kreber ordered him taken into custody.

As for the Super Bowl?

"I think he'll be watching it from the tank or the day room," Deputy
District Attorney Lori Silverman said after the hearing in Laguna Niguel.
"I don't think he's going to have beer and chips, though."

The former University of Southern California and Capistrano Valley High
School star was arrested March 24 after deputies found a marijuana plant at
his Dana Point home.

It was only the latest legal trouble for Marinovich, a once-promising
quarterback who was released by the Raiders in 1993.

In 1991, while at USC, Marinovich was arrested in Newport Beach for cocaine
possession. The next year, he was cited by Manhattan Beach police for
disturbing the peace.