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Terrell Owens has had a rough month. He still hasn’t been picked up for the next NFL season. He is suing an attorney who coaxed him into investing $2 million into a failed electronic bingo hall. And now he has a warrant out for his arrest. Here’s HLN.

“An arrest warrant has been issued for star receiver Terrell Owens. This stems from a child support issue?”

“According to a spokesperson, Owens failed to show up for a hearing because he had to go to an NFL workout. She says Owens tried to reschedule his hearing and that he’s deeply disappointed that anyone would misconstrue his nonappearance in court.”

Unfortunately, not only did he not attend his child support hearing on October 24, but also -- no one showed up to the free agent’s workout...which ended up occurring a day later. Mike Florio, of NBC’s Pro Football Talk said T.O. could have organized his calendar a little better.

“Apart from the fact that the workout occurred not on October 24 [the day of the hearing] but on October 25, life often requires some rock-scissors-paper-style prioritizing. In this case, going to court when required to do so is Gibraltar, and a voluntary public workout that can easily be rescheduled is a left-handed pair of kindergarten safety scissors.”

Owens is hoping to get the child support payments reduced because he says the payments are based on the about $11 million yearly salary he had with the Dallas Cowboys. As a Bengal, he made about a fifth that amount. Now -- he’s unemployed. (Video source: Fox Sports)

A writer for Bleacher Report says though he clearly needs a job more than ever, T.O’s missed court date only adds to the string of issues that could keep him from joining a team.

“Even the league's most desperate teams know full well that adding a player like Owens, who has driven himself and his teammates to distraction at every stop in his career, won't help anyone, unless he can somehow set his enormous ego aside and learn a full playbook in, say, a week or two.”

The judge in his child support case denied Owens’ request to lower his child support after he failed to appear for the hearing.