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Tim Howard Suspended Three Games For Telling A Fan What Sounds Like "Fuck Your Mother"

Tim Howard has been suspended three games by MLS for what the league is calling an “inappropriate fan interaction”—in this case, telling a fan to “fuck your mother” or some variation thereof....

FIFA Suspends Lionel Messi Four Matches For Yelling At Referee

FIFA handed Lionel Messi a four-match suspension from international play today in response to an incident after last week’s Argentina-Chile match when Messi was seen insulting a referee. With only five matches left in a World Cup Qualifying process in which Argentina have struggled, there is a very ...

Index Pensions

This should be the most nonpartisan issue in America: don’t give middle class retirement dollars to high-priced Wall Street money managers for no good reason. And yet......

NFLPA To Steer Players Away From Bears If Illinois Passes Law Limiting Disability Benefits For Pro Athletes

The NFL Players Association will warn free agents not to sign with the Bears if the Illinois State Senate passes a new bill designed to cut off opportunities for workers’ compensation disability benefits to professional athletes at age 35, rather than the current mark of age 67....

Nick Kyrgios Fined And Suspended For Tanking

Apparently unamused by Nick Kyrgios’s tanking antics in a second-round match at the Shanghai Masters, the ATP struck the No. 14 ranked player with a $25,000 fine for “Conduct Contrary to the Integrity of the Game” and an eight-week ban from the tour. ...

Mariners Catcher Steve Clevenger Suspended Without Pay For Tweets

The Seattle Mariners responded to backup catcher Steve Clevenger’s dogshit dumb tweets about protesters by suspending him without pay for the remaining 10 games of the season. Here is the relevant part of the statement released by general manager Jerry Dipoto:...

Dangle Yourself From This Fitness Strap For Core Strength, And Also Pain

The gym looked like a South American greenhouse: paned with glass, painted in greens ranging from pastel to neon, studded with tropical foliage, an unevenly paved brick patio sprouting weeds, all surfaces blanketed in a thin film of dust. Everything was highly functional but had the vague look of di...

Rougned Odor Reportedly Suspended Eight Games For Trying To Punch Jose Bautista's Face Off

We all knew a big fine and suspension were coming Rougned Odor’s way, and now there are reports that MLB has finally settled on a punishment. MLB Network’s Jon Heyman reports that the Rangers’ second baseman will be suspended for eight games, and Yahoo’s Jeff Passan adds that he will be fined $5,000...

MLB Suspends Bryce Harper One Game

MLB has fined and suspended Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper for one game for “his actions” after he was ejected in Monday’s game against the Tigers. Harper will appeal....

Pittsburgh Riverhounds Player Suspended For Kicking The Shit Out Of Opponent [UPDATE]

The Pittsburgh Riverhounds are likely to lose their leading scorer for a long time, as Romeo Parkes earned an incredible red card by kicking the shit out of Red Bulls II player Karl Ouimette late in last night’s USL match....

Dee Gordon Banned 80 Games For PEDs

One of baseball’s most exciting players will miss half the season as Marlins infielder Dee Gordon has tested positive for PEDs, according to Major League Baseball....

High School Soccer Player Earns Two-Game Suspension For Sacking Opponent

Pine Forest (N.C.) High School keeper Cassie Sturtz earned a two-game suspension when she went Goldberg on an Pinecrest opponent late in her team’s 4-1 loss on Thursday....

Gary Bettman Upholds Dennis Wideman's Suspension, Provides Window Into NHL Investigation

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman upheld Dennis Wideman’s 20-game suspension for cross-checking a linesman from behind today, a widely expected ruling that Wideman will now appeal to a neutral arbitrator. Wideman’s primary defense, that he was concussed shortly before hitting referee Don Henderson—Widem...

Blake Griffin Suspended Four Games For Punching Out Equipment Staffer

The Los Angeles Clippers announced today that Blake Griffin will be suspended four games without pay, and fined an additional game check, for punching team equipment staffer Matias Testi....

Ducks' Shawn Horcoff Suspended 20 Games For Using PEDs [Update]

The NHL announced today that Anaheim Ducks center Shawn Horcoff will be suspended for 20 games without pay for violating the league’s performance enhancing substances policy....

ESPN Suspended Bob Ryan For Calling Mark Jackson A "Bible-Pounding Phony"

ESPN suspended regular TV presence Bob Ryan for calling colleague Mark Jackson a “Bible-pounding phony” and “con man,” among other insults, on the Dan Le Batard Show, as first reported by The Big Lead. Ryan appears regularly on Around the Horn and Sports Reporters, and sometimes guest hosts Pardon t...

Conference Suspends Referees Who Called Technical Foul On Team For Celebrating Buzzer-Beater

NSIC brass have suspended the referees responsible for Friday night’s debacle in Sioux Falls, when USF had an upset win over Division II rival Winona State stolen away by a technical foul called after Cougars fans and players celebrated a long-range, buzzer-beating three-pointer....

The Philadelphia 76ers announced that they suspended Jahlil Okafor—he of the multiple fights outside of bars and one of their only competent players—for two games. ...

Reports: Aldon Smith Suspended For One Year

Raiders defensive end Aldon Smith will be suspended by the NFL for one calendar year, according to numerous reports. The suspension stems from Smith’s Aug. 6 arrest for DUI (his third DUI arrest and fifth overall), hit and run, and vandalism. That arrest was the straw that broke the camel’s back and...

Corrupt FIFA Executives Suspended, To Be Replaced By Corrupt FIFA Executives

As was reported yesterday, save the not-unreasonable belief that a known whitewasher would break out the paint, Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini, and Jérôme Valcke have all been suspended for 90 days by FIFA’s ethics committee....