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Patriots Safety Brandon Meriweather Accused Of Shooting Two Men During Brawl (MORE UPDATES)
New England Patriots safety Brandon Meriweather allegedly shot two men, one of them in the head, during a fight on Feb. 27 outside a house party in Apopka, Fla., according to John Morgan, attorney for the victims....
NFLPA Boss Says Union Won't Accept An 18-Game Season
NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith said last night that his members aren't interested in, and won't negotiate about, expanding the regular NFL season by two games a year. Here's what he told SI.com:...
American Lady Water-Athletes Did The Naked Pool Shoot Well Before The Brits
Upon seeing Saturday's "British Olympic Hopefuls Strip For Cash" DUAN! post, USA Water Polo associate communications director Greg Mescall sent word that his American water babies had done a similar shoot for ESPN mag's body issue in October....
Man Named Dokken Assaults Gopher Mascot Named Goldy
Before the rush to judgment commences, can we all agree that there is zero need for a buck-toothed mascot to obstruct the view of a 60-year-old guy who just wants to spend his Saturday enjoying some men's gymnastics? Cool....
Todd Bairstow Was Living The Fishing-Trip Dream Until He Got Death Rolled
If your worst nightmare involves a fishing trip in which you lose a finger to a gator that gets you in a death roll after latching onto leg for 40-some minutes, catch up with 28-year-old Australian mine worker Todd Bairstow sometime. He can tell you how it really feels....
This Is The Mug Shot Of A Man Who Interrupted His Haircut To Stab Someone With Scissors
It's not the half-headed man's mugshot, but it's similar. David Davis of New Haven, Conn., was arrested and charged with slashing another man who entered the barbershop while Davis was getting his haircut. The result: the Halfro....
Does Rubbish Refereeing Ruin Soccer? Debating The Dumbest Red Card Ever
The Spoiler is never one to jump on a bandwagon, in fact, we still love Nick Clegg, we don't think the Kings of Leon have, like, totally sold out and some of our best friends are bankers....
We Are All Dave McKenna XXXIV
Here's your daily link to Dave McKenna's brilliant "Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder," which we'll be posting until Snyder's dumbass libel suit slinks off to die in quiet shame. Of note today is another wretched attempt at litigious strong-arming by the wretched bully Snyder — this one invo...
Boom Goes The Student Sportscast: America East Report Is Uncomfortable, Hilarious
There is a lot going on in this America East basketball report from the University of Hartford's student-run TV station — so much, even, that tipster Christopher declares it "the next boom goes the dynamite." There's no instant catchphrase in this 30-minute segment (we've cut it down to the real h...
Max Pacioretty Was Seriously Injured In Last Night's Zdeno Chara Hit
Pacioretty suffered a severe concussion and a fractured vertebrae in last night's hard collision with Boston's Zdeno Chara. Montreal's left wing remains in the hospital and is out indefinitely. Chara will not be punished beyond the game misconduct. [ESPN]...
A Million Dollars and No Change for a Perfectly Humble Gamer
You can do a lot of crazy stuff when you win a million bucks. When he did, Wade McGilberry was approached by a long-lost relative with a pitch for buying into a pineapple farm. No thanks, Wade said. What he really wanted was a Harley. And with the dough he won from MLB 2K10, you're damn right he bou...
Olympian Matt "The Law" Lindland Will Steal Your Weed (Allegedly)
Was it a bad idea for Olympic silver medalist and UFC and Strikeforce veteran Matt Lindland let a dude named Gonzalo Aldana Gamboa grow weed on his Oregon property under the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program? Yeah. Probably not as bad an idea as running for local office as a Republican moralist nickn...
NFL Dream Job: The Miami Dolphins Are Hiring An Experienced Cotton Candy Maker
Last month, the MLB announced it was accepting applications for what was billed as a "dream job," or, watching somewhere in the range of 2,400 baseball games and writing about it. It sounded... fun. But the NFL may trump it with this opening, for an "experienced" cotton candy maker at the Dolphins' ...
Scary: Braves Coach Airlifted To Hospital After Being Struck By Foul Ball
Former major league and current Braves single-A manager Luis Salazar was standing at the rail of the dugout when he was hit by a foul ball off the bat of Brian McCann in the first inning of today's game.. Salazar was given oxygen, taken off the field on a stretcher, and airlifted to Orlando Regional...
TMZ Sports Is Dead, Long Live TMZ Sports
Writes the New York Post's Keith Kelly, "TMZ founder Harvey Levin has been having trouble trying to branch out beyond its comfort zone. He had plans to launch TMZDC covering Washington DC and had also started hiring sports writers and editors with the plan of doing TMZ sports. Both plans fizzled."...
Stanford Scholar-Athletes A Little Less Scholarly This Morning
Stanford is often lauded for graduating their players, and rightly so. But their record is a little less impressive after today's story in the Stanford Daily, which reveals that a semi-secret list of "easy classes" has been distributed to student-athletes for at least a decade. And there are some go...
NFL Owners Want More Money — From Each Other
In the past weeks and months, we've heard from numerous players about the pending lockout. They've all been on message, like good union members ought to be. But we've heard very little from the owners, who have been content to let the Commissioner and the lawyers give the public statements. This mig...
The Devil In Tampa: Remembering The Penny-Pinching, Snack-Policing, Nut-Cutting Days Of Vince Naimoli
In his new book, author Jonah Keri covers the rise of the Tampa Bay Rays under the stewardship of two Goldman Sachs alums and a private equity banker, who in 2008 managed to do to the rest of the American League what some of their former colleagues were doing to the U.S. economy. Before their arriva...
Blake Griffin Shows Hint Of Personality, Channels Mars Blackmon To Hype USC's Jordan Cameron
Mars Blakeman, nee Blake Griffin, took the time to film this promotional video for NFL hopeful Jordan Cameron, who played both football and basketball at USC. I'll leave the commentary here to tipster Brian, who wrote in with the link (sic): "This is kind of an odd thing, Why does this exist?" I a...
Fighting Illini Are Everywhere, Even In North Texas's Starting Lineup
None of these gentlemen are actually members of the North Texas Mean Green. They are, from left to right, current and former Illinois players Warren Carter, Jack Ingram, Rich McBride, Demetri McCamey, and Jamar Smith. We'd say it was a glitch or an honest mistake, but those five players have never b...