Art Schlichter, whose image was tarnished by...

Art Schlichter, whose image was tarnished by gambling after he made it to the National Football League, is in a Las Vegas hospital that specializes in treating chronic gamblers,.

The former Ohio State quarterback admitted himself for 30 days Monday, his lawyer, Charles F. Freiburger, wrote in a letter to Circleville (Ohio) Municipal Judge O. Charles Hosterman.

It is at least the third time he has been hospitalized for gambling.

Schlichter, suspended twice from the NFL for gambling, had been ordered to appear in court today on a $150 bad-check charge.

Schlichter, who lives in the Columbus, Ohio, suburb of Worthington, is charged by the Pickaway County Sheriff’s Department with cashing the bad check at a South Bloomfield service station.