Kevin Provencher: Sportswriter Pays the Price for Moonlighting as a Pimp

Kevin Provencher Sentenced to 2.5 Years in Prison for Running a Prostitution Ring

Whenever I tell people that I'm a sportswriter, they inevitably freak out and start pestering me with questions about how awesome it must be to go to work each day. Unfortunately, my answers tend to disappoint them.

Indeed, writing about sports is not the most glamorous job in the world, and it doesn't exactly pay well. I would tell you to go ask Kevin Provencher, but that might be a little difficult considering his current predicament.

Provencher was a 23-year veteran sportswriter for the Manchester Union-Leader in New Hampshire. The paper recently cut his pay, so he decided to come up with a way to bolster his income. For some reason, he settled on starting up a prostitution ring, and now he's paying the price.

According to the Boston Herald, Provencher has been sentenced to one to two-and-a-half years in jail after pleading guilty to counts of deriving support from a prostitute, procuring a person into prostitution, solicitation for prostitution, and witness intimidation. He was first arrested in July of 2009.

Prosecutors say that the 52-year-old Provencher advertised prostitution services on Craigslist, and that he rented hotel rooms in Massachusetts and New Hampshire where his workers would, ahem, entertain interested parties.

This would seem to be a good time to make some kind of witty remark. But to be honest, I got nothing. Instead, I will urge people to remember the words of Three 6 Mafia, who famously reminded all of us that it can be hard out here for a pimp.

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