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Three Minor Leaguers Arrested After Wild Bar Brawl
On Sunday night, the Pittsburgh Pirates’ AAA affiliate Indianapolis Indians beat the Toledo Mud Hens, the Tigers’ AAA club, 6-2. After the game, several players from both clubs went to The Bronze Boar, a sports bar across the street from the Mud Hens’ stadium. Pirates prospects Gift Ngoepe and Dovyd...
San Francisco Police Union To Colin Kaepernick: What About Black-On-Black Crime?
These days, no storm of takes is complete until the president of a police union—a position often occupied by a screeching dipshit—has weighed in on the hot-button issue of the day. So obviously Martin Halloran, the president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, had to write a letter to ...
Florida State Strength Coach Found Asleep At Wheel, Arrested For DUI
Florida State strength and conditioning coach Vic Viloria was arrested on DUI charges early Saturday morning....
Devin Butler's Girlfriend Disputes Alleged Details Of His Arrest
Notre Dame defensive back Devin Butler was arrested and charged with felony battery outside of a South Bend bar last weekend. Police claim that Butler was involved in a fight outside of the bar, and tackled an officer to the ground when they attempted to break up the fight. Now Butler’s girlfriend H...
High School Athlete Charged With Sexually Assaulting Two Unconscious Women Gets Probation<em></em>
In April, East Longmeadow High School senior David Becker was charged with sexually assaulting two of his classmates at a party while they were unconscious. Prosecutors recommended that the three-sport athlete be found guilty, MassLive.com reported, on two counts of indecent assault and battery. The...
Six Notre Dame Football Players Arrested In Two Separate Incidents
Cops charged senior Notre Dame cornerback Devin Butler with felony battery to law enforcement while busting five other Irish players for things like weed possession and illegal handgun possession in two separate incidents last night....
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Brazilian Authorities Pull Two US Swimmers Off Flight Out Of Rio [Update]
This whole story about US swimmers Ryan Lochte, Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger, and Jimmy Feigen maybe or maybe not getting robbed at gunpoint by men who were maybe posing as Brazilian police officers is fishy and riddled with inconsistencies. Brazilian police cast doubt on Lochte’s story, and earlier to...
Report: Grizzlies Fired PA Announcer After Accusations He Made Upskirt Videos In Church
Rick Trotter has been calling Memphis Grizzlies games since 2006, but the team announced they’d fired him this afternoon after the Shelby County Sheriff’s office put out a warrant for his arrest. The warrant lists three charges for photographing persons without consent, issued today....
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Report: Russian Diplomat Uses Jiu-Jitsu To Disarm, Kill Would-Be Robber During Rio Torch Relay [Update]
Russian diplomat Marcos Cesar Feres Braga disarmed and shot to death a man who attempted to rob him while he waited in traffic after the Olympic torch relay today, according to Globo....
Glen Rice Jr. Arrested For Battery; Cops Find Guns And Money
TMZ reports that former NBA player Glen Rice Jr. was arrested in Georgia on July 25 after he allegedly assaulted ex-Tulane basketball player Jordan Callahan and then ran off with two bags containing guns....
Broncos Safety During DUI Arrest: "Hey, Obama, I Can't Wait To Meet You, Bruh. Tell You About This Bullshit."
Broncos safety Shiloh Keo was pulled over for having a busted tail light on Feb. 13, 2016. During the stop, cops determined that Keo was also driving under the influence, and he was arrested and charged with DUI. Keo pleaded guilty to the charge earlier this month, but in a police-car video obtained...
Iowa Football Player Playing <i>Pokémon Go</i> Mistaken For Bank Robber, Held At Gunpoint By Police
Faith Ekakitie, a rising senior defensive lineman at Iowa, was minding his own business—he had taken a walk to a park to play some Pokémon Go, as one does. That’s when he was confronted by Iowa City police with guns drawn....
Here Are The Ezekiel Elliott Police Reports And 911 Call
Earlier today, a woman posted photos on her Instagram account showing bruises that she wrote were the result of domestic abuse. The woman, Tiffany Thompson, is known to be Dallas Cowboys rookie Ezekiel Elliott’s girlfriend. Since then, Columbus police have released two police reports as well as a 91...
The Bicycle Cops At The RNC Ride Their Bikes Like A Bunch Of Dumbass Jamokes
The Republican National Convention has been marked by weirdo demonstrators, Alex Jones squawking, desperate brand exercises, and hundreds of bike cops. Meanwhile, RNC-attending sources tell Deadspin that the city is overrun with bike-mounted officers who ride like herbs. ...
Police Union Threatens Not To Work Browns Games Over Anti-Cop Instagram Post
In response to the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, Browns running back Isaiah Crowell posted a drawing of a police officer getting his throat slit on his Instagram account:...
Minneapolis Cops Walk Off Job At WNBA Game After Lynx Players Speak Out Against Violence
Four off-duty Minneapolis police officers working security at Saturday’s WNBA game at the Target Center quit their (freelance) jobs and walked out, after four Lynx players held a press conferencing denouncing violence committed by and against police, and the entire team wore warmup shirts mentioning...
Cops: Drunk Georgia Lineman Fell Asleep Behind Wheel, Wouldn't Wake Up For 20 Minutes
Georgia defensive lineman Jonathan Ledbetter was arrested on DUI charges early Sunday morning in Athens, Georgia. According to police, Ledbetter was found sleeping behind the wheel of his car, and was so drunk that it took 20 minutes to wake him up....
Police: Jaguars Linebacker Assaulted Woman Who Refused His Advances
Jaguars linebacker Dan Skuta was arrested and charged with misdemeanor battery in Orlando, Fla. during the early morning hours of June 19. The incident, first reported by CBS 47, allegedly involved Skuta hitting a woman who refused to give him her phone number....
Deputies: Tarvaris Jackson Pointed Loaded Gun At Woman, Threatened To Kill Her
Former Seahawks quarterback Tarvaris Jackson was arrested earlier today after authorities said he pointed a loaded gun at a woman he was arguing with and told her, “I’ll kill you bitch.” The arrest happened shortly after 3 a.m. this morning in Florida’s Osceola County; Jackson was booked into local ...
Winnipeg Jets Prospect Arrested, Tased After Allegedly Fighting A Cop At Disney World
Darren Kramer, a winger in the Winnipeg Jets organization who currently plays for the AHL’s Manitoba Moose, was arrested at approximately 1:16 a.m. Tuesday after allegedly fighting a police officer at Disney World and getting tased. According to police, Kramer scuffled with the officer so that his f...