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<em>SI:</em> Jovan Belcher And Kasandra Perkins Had A House Full Of Guns, And Belcher Was Joking About Them On Friday Night
Jovan Belcher and Kasandra Perkins kept "about eight guns" in their house and liked to go shooting together, according to a new report from Sports Illustrated. SI talked to Reggie Paramoure, a former teammate of Belcher's at Maine, and Paramoure provided them with a text-message exchange he had with...

Haunting New Details Emerge In The Jovan Belcher Murder-Suicide
The Kansas City Star has an exclusive story with chilling new details concerning the final moments of both Kasandra Perkins and Jovan Belcher, gleaned from multiple police sources as the investigation continues....

2006 Police Report: Jovan Belcher Punched Through A Window
CBS's Mike Freeman has tracked down documents from the University of Maine—where Belcher earned a degree in child development—that appear to confirm a story related by one of our commenters on Saturday, when news of the Belcher murder-suicide first surfaced....

Report: Jovan Belcher Was Drunk And Out With Another Woman The Night Before The Murder-Suicide
SI.com's Thayer Evans cites a law enforcement official who says Belcher was out "partying" on Friday night—and not with Kasandra Perkins:...

<em>Sports Illustrated</em>'s Peter King Says Goodbye To The Murdered Kasandra Perkins With A Haiku
Presented without comment: "The Adieu Haiku," by Peter King....

How Can They Play? Murder, Suicide, And The National Football League
This post, originally published by The Nation and reprinted here with permission, ran in advance of Sunday's Chiefs game. Consider it a counterpoint to Drew Magary's post that morning....

Here Is Bob Costas's Sanctimonious, Horseshit Editorial On Jovan Belcher
Here's Bob Costas dialing the smarm up to 11 in this referendum on perspective and sports by way of the Kasandra Perkins/Jovan Belcher murder-suicide. "Please," Costas intones, "those who need tragedies to continually recalibrate their sense of proportion about sports would seem to have little hop...

Friend: Belcher "Was Dazed, Suffering From Short-Term Memory Loss" After Last Start; Alcohol, Painkillers, Domestic Tensions Played Role In Murder-Suicide
Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, had separated two weeks ago in the midst of a dispute over the care of their three-month-old daughter, Zoey, a friend of Belcher's has told Deadspin. They'd only very recently reconciled. In email messages sent to us, the friend described Belcher a...

Why It's OK For The Chiefs To Play A Game Today
On its face, the idea of Romeo Crennel having to coach a football game mere hours after witnessing his own player, Jovan Belcher, commit suicide seems petty and dickish and greedy and lazy and stupid. I know that was my first thought yesterday when the NFL announced that the Panthers-Chiefs game wou...

Rick Reilly Deserves A Pass On The Chiefs "Suicide Prevention" Tweet
Almost immediately after Javon Belcher fatally shot his girlfriend and later himself Saturday morning, we've been aware of a Rick Reilly tweet that has offended some people. It's awkward, unfunny and derivative. That is to say, it is a Rick Reilly Original®. It's also from September....

Stop Retweeting That Obviously Fake Account That Popped Up Today Pretending To Be Jovan Belcher's Agent
This morning, Jovan Belcher didn't have a Twitter account. By early afternoon, @Jovan_Belcher came into the world. Here are the stupid tweets penned by the lunatic that created it:...

Profiles Of Jovan Belcher Ranging From 2008 Through This November Depict Him As An Underdog Story And Model NFL Citizen
Two extant profiles exist of Jovan Belcher, one written as Belcher was finishing up at the University of Maine in 2008, the other on November 21, 10 days ago. Taken separately, neither is particularly telling, except insofar as you learn that if there were warning signs related to Belcher's mental h...