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Why Don't Players Use The League-, Team-, Or Union-Provided Driving Services After A Night Out Drinking?
Just about six months ago, the NFL had a particularly rough week with players being charged with driving while intoxicated. Lions DT Nick Fairley, Jacksonville wide receiver Justin Blackmon and Vikings fullback Jerome Felton were all charged with varying degrees of driving while intoxicated in the ...
You Can Blow Smoke About A Crime Problem, But NFL Players Are Relatively Law-Abiding By A Wide Margin
This morning, Jeffri Chadiha wrote a piece for ESPN about the attention that must be paid to the "dirtiest of the NFL's little secrets"—drunken driving, domestic violence and guns:...
![“You Realize A Lot Of Things [While In Jail]”: Josh Brent Before The Manslaughter Charge](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/187r6ipv3wgy8jpg.jpg)
“You Realize A Lot Of Things [While In Jail]”: Josh Brent Before The Manslaughter Charge
Until today, when he was arrested and charged with intoxication manslaughter for an overnight accident that killed his friend and longtime teammate Jerry Brown, all outward appearances in the press were that Josh Brent was maturing into a solid NFL pro. That after jeopardizing his career with a misd...
Cowboys DT Josh Brent Arrested On Charges Of Intoxication Manslaughter, Victim Reported To Be Member Of Cowboys' Practice Squad [Updating]
Many are reporting that the Cowboys' Josh Brent has been arrested today for intoxication manslaughter, and that the victim of the crash was Jerry Brown Jr., a Cowboys practice squad player. Brent is a nose tackle with three years of experience (profile here); Brown Jr. was a 23 25-year-old lineback...
Eliminating Kickoffs Would Ruin Football, According To A Kicker And A Kick Return Specialist
Yesterday, we discussed the possibility that the NFL will do away with kickoffs and instead institute a punt-or-4th-and-long option. On its face, the idea seems logical, maybe even preferable, if not necessarily a top-priority reform. The NFL can frame it as an issue of player safety, but truthfully...
![Two Virginia Tech Players Charged With Building, Setting Off Explosive Device [Update]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/1878cpmnb0rjwjpg.jpg)
Two Virginia Tech Players Charged With Building, Setting Off Explosive Device [Update]
Walk-ons Josh Trimble and Brian Rody haven't picked a major, but perhaps chemistry would suit them: the two were able to build some sort of explosive device, and set it off in an off-campus apartment last night. Unfortunately, both those things are against the law....
UCLA's Joshua Smith Raises Bar On Trend Of Airballed Free Throws, Airballs a Crucial Layup
UCLA needed help in beating UC Irvine 80-79 last night at Pauley Pavilion. That help came first in the form of the Anteaters' Will Davis missing free throws at the end of regulation that would have locked up a UCI win, and then in the closing seconds of overtime as referees swallowed their whistle...
Packers Lineman Gives One Hell Of An Answer To "Boxers Or Briefs?"
The great thing about Twitter is that you can ask an athlete anything—anything, truly—and you just never know when they're going to answer you and how. Take Packers guard Josh Sitton, for example, who held a little Q&A with his followers last night. Someone wanted to get a personal about his underga...
![The Marlins Are Reportedly On The Verge Of Basically Trading Away Their Whole Team [UPDATE]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/17hniyhoxq7rvjpg.jpg)
The Marlins Are Reportedly On The Verge Of Basically Trading Away Their Whole Team [UPDATE]
The MLB hot fucking stove is heating up early this year, folks! Check this shit out....
Late Contender For Most Infantilizing Headline Of The Year: "Dez Bryant Stays Out Past Midnight"
That's sitting atop this piece on ESPN-it's on ESPN's frontpage headline feed as "Cowboys' Bryant gets permission to be out late"-about Dez Bryant's 24th birthday, which is tomorrow. Dez has been living under strict rules, enforced by Cowboys employees and personal advisers, ever since he assaulted...
Hines Ward Likes To Pay For Sex With Women, According To Man Charged With Trying To Extort Hines Ward
A man who claimed to have evidence that retired Steelers receiver Hines Ward has a thing for soliciting prostitutes was arrested on extortion charges Thursday in Pittsburgh. The man, Joshua Van Auker, allegedly texted Ward's personal assistant on Wednesday with a threat to go public with whatever in...
Josh Beckett Claims That A Pipeline Company Is About To Kill Some Ocelots, So He's Suing
An ocelot is a species of wild cat, and there are only about 50 of them left in the United States. Just thought we should get that out of the way, since a lot of you were probably wondering what the hell an ocelot is just now....
Nolan Ryan Says Josh Hamilton Should Have Waited Until The Offseason To Quit Chewing Tobacco
Josh Hamilton had a gangbusters first two months of the season, and then, suddenly, fell off a cliff. His past drug and alcohol problems, combined with some cryptic statements about "disobedience to God," put everyone on high alert. But in August, he revealed that he was struggling with a demon less...
A Hornets Executive Somehow Flew Out Of New Orleans With A Loaded Handgun
As anyone who's flown anywhere in the last decade or so knows, flying can be a pain in the ass. So many restrictions on what you can and can't bring, not to mention that dreary routine of removing your belt and shoes and the loaded .38 that's registered under your wife's name. Unless you're the Horn...
Somehow Josh Cribbs Woke Up And Walked Away From This Brutal Head-Crunching Hit
On a day the NFL celebrated the end of its most pressing controversy, its lingering one rose again to prominence as Browns returner Josh Cribbs took a brutal hit from Dannell Ellerbe at the end of a first quarter punt return and lay motionless on the turf during tonight's Cleveland-Baltimore game ...
Packers Lineman Josh Sitton Is More Upset With Pete Carroll And Golden Tate Than He Is The Replacement Officials
Green Bay Packers guard Josh Sitton, whose angry postgame tweets made him an Internet superstar (and quadrupled his follower count overnight), appeared on The Jim Rome Show today and remarked that while replacement officials "have no idea what they're doing" and stated he'd go on strike if it was ...
Josh Hamilton's Off Limits List Keeps Getting Longer
Josh Hamilton has not played in a game since he took himself out against the Angels with what was then called a "sinus problem." He has missed the better part of a week since. For a while there, people weren't sure what was going on. Migraines, sinus headaches, depressed levels of intestinal fortit...
Josh Morgan Talked About Not Being Provoked By Cortland Finnegan Before He Let Cortland Finnegan Provoke Him
The Redskins might have had a chance to tie or even beat the Rams had receiver Josh Morgan not drawn a penalty by throwing a football at Cortland Finnegan toward the end of the game. Morgan should have known better, of course. But he also should have taken his own advice....
Josh Beckett Got Thrown Out At First By The Right Fielder
Ah yes, the old 9-3 in the scorecard (or the incongruous "J. Beckett grounded out to right" in the play-by-play)....
Yadier Molina Held Onto This Ball Like "A Man," According To Suddenly Unpopular MLB Employee
Normally, this would be about Josh Harrison absolutely destroying Yadier Molina at the plate during tonight's Pirates-Cardinals game. But, well, the person running MLB's Twitter feed is just so goddamn impressed with Molina's skill at holding onto a ball, in a play that forced the catcher to leave ...