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Cops: Man Threatened To Blow Up Oklahoma City Because The Thunder Got Rid Of Carmelo Anthony, Paul George, And Russell WestbrookThis past week, Oklahoma City police filed a search warrant to get information about a person who left two threatening voicemails in the general mailbox for the Oklahoma City Thunder. That person made the calls shortly after 1 a.m. on July 6 from a number with a Georgia area code—though the caller ...

Dickhead Fans Send Death Threats To Minor Leaguer Over No-Hitter-Ending BuntThe Trenton Thunder outfielder who busted up a combined no-hitter on Tuesday night with a slick push bunt up the first baseline triggered a benches-clearing fracas as a result. It turns out he’s also triggered a bunch of weird assholes, as he has gone on to receive death threats from dickhead fans, ...

Report: Florida Believes It Can Fire Jim McElwain With Cause Over Death Threat AllegationsEdward Aschoff and Mark Schlabach are reporting at ESPN today that University of Florida administrators are working out how to fire head football coach Jim McElwain without paying his $12 million buyout, with sources telling the Worldwide Leader that McElwain’s claims of death threats against his fa...

Is A New Mexico Basketball Player Getting Death Threats, Or Not? 

University of New Mexico men’s basketball coach Craig Neal asserted last week that his son, redshirt sophomore point guard Cullen Neal, was receiving death threats from Lobos fans. Via the Daily Lobo:...

Nike Global Director Of Athletics Threatens To Kill A Brooks Coach

Read this LetsRun article about Nike global director of athletics John Capriotti, red-faced and trailing a retinue of Nike lackeys, threatening to kill Brooks coach Danny Mackey for unknown reasons, and toss lightly with this episode of Alberto Salazar, red-faced and trailing a retinue of Nike lacke...

Roger Federer Finds "Bizarre Death Threat" Mildly Distracting

Roger Federer is in China, playing in the Shanghai Masters tournament along with most of the upper-tier tennis circuit. Yesterday, he had a first round bye, so he didn't play any tennis, and he also wasn't killed. The last bit wouldn't qualify as news were it not for the death threat that came Feder...

"When I Get A Clear Shot...": 25 Years Ago, Dale Earnhardt Received This Death Threat For His Ornery Driving

On May 17, 1987, Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Bill Elliott swapped paint and made a place for themselves in NASCAR lore. The Winston, a newly created all-star race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, came down to a sprint, with Earnhardt and Elliott jockeying for the lead. After bumping and nudging for two laps,...

99 Years Ago, A Pitcher Received This Death Threat

This is one of my favorite things I've seen in a while. Toward the end of a 34-win 1912 season, Smoky Joe Wood received this letter threatening his life....