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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey Tweets About The Cardinals While Students Camp Outside His Office To Discuss Gun Violence

After marching to the Arizona State Capitol today to demand gun reform, a group of student protestors headed over to Gov. Doug Ducey’s office to deliver him a signed letter with their requests. The governor’s staff told the students that Ducey was unavailable and could not meet with them, but the pr...

Video Emerges Of Former Astros Prospect Beating His Girlfriend After 2016 Practice

Former Houston Astros prospect Danry Vasquez has been released by his current Atlantic League club after video of a domestic violence incident became public this week. The video shows the player hitting his girlfriend multiple times after a practice with the Corpus Christi Hooks, the Astros’ Double-...

Aldon Smith, who was cut by the Raiders on Monday, turned himself in to San Francisco police today. He’s being held on a $30,000 bond for four domestic violence-related charges....

Aldon Smith Accused Of Biting Woman In Domestic-Violence Incident [Update] <em></em>

Former 49ers and current (suspended) Raiders linebacker Aldon Smith is wanted in connection with a domestic violence incident on Saturday night in San Francisco, according to a report from the Mercury News....

Roberto Luongo On Parkland Shooting: "Enough Is Enough. We Have To Take Action."

The Florida Panthers are playing their first home game since the mass shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. The Panthers are the only major league team in Broward County, and just a short drive down the Sawgrass Expressway separates them from Parkland. B...

Grandma: Rae Carruth Won't Get Custody Of Son Whose Mother He Had Murdered 

On Monday, Rae Carruth released a 15-page letter, with an added page as an introduction, and gave a phone interview to WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina. The former Carolina Panther has been in prison since his 2001, when he was convicted for conspiring to murder the mother of his child. Enough time...

Dallas Sportscaster On School Shooting: “Since It’s Almost Always A White Kid, There’s Just Nothing We Can Do”

Dale Hansen is a WFAA sportscaster whose “Extra Point” segments sometimes go viral; we’ve featured his work here multiple times. Yesterday, he turned his attention to the school shooting in Florida, one of eight already this year. An excerpt:...

Anthony Rizzo At Vigil For Parkland Mass Shooting: "Something Has To Change"

The day after a former student with an AR-15 killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo returned to his alma mater and gave an emotional speech at a candlelight vigil....

I Walked The Halls Of The School That Got Shot Up, And Yet I Feel Almost Nothing

What struck me was not that I was shocked, but rather that it felt as if it were my turn. It was my turn to hear there was a school shooting—17 dead, more than a dozen wounded—and find out it was a school whose hallways I had walked myself. I grew up in Coral Springs, in the northeast corner of Flor...

President Of The United States: Call The Cops On Troubled Kids More

This fucking deadbeat. This chickenshit moral dwarf. This cheap-shit dime-store fucking fraud....

Niners Linebacker Reuben Foster Arrested On Domestic Violence-Related Charges [Updated]

Reuben Foster of the San Francisco 49ers has been arrested on charges related to domestic violence, according to a report from the San Francisco Chronicle . Foster was booked Sunday at the Santa Clara County jail and held on $75,000 bail, according to the Santa Clara Sheriff’s Office....

Interim Panthers GM On Paid Leave After Ex-Wife Requests, Then Withdraws Domestic Violence Complaint

The Carolina Panthers placed interim general manager Marty Hurney on paid leave today after his ex-wife filed—then withdrew—a request for a domestic violence protective order. The request was first reported by the Charlotte Observer, which added that the protective order request also was denied by a...

NFL Ref Carl Johnson's Domestic-Violence Accuser Has Now Been Charged

In September, TMZ reported that Carl Johnson, an NFL line judge and the league’s former top ref, was under investigation for domestic violence in Louisiana. Johnson had been the NFL’s VP of officiating from 2010 to 2012, and since then had returned to the field. The investigation was due to a reques...

Report: FSU Quarterback Deondre Francois Investigated In Domestic Violence Incident [Updates]

The Tallahassee Democrat is reporting that Florida State quarterback Deondre Francois is being investigated in connection with a domestic violence incident that occurred early Wednesday morning....

Red Sox Pitcher Steven Wright Charged With Domestic Assault

Boston Red Sox pitcher Steven Wright was arrested Friday night in Williamson County, Tenn., and charged with domestic-related assault and prevention of a 911 call, according to local authorities. Both charges are misdemeanors, and Wright later was released from custody after he posted bail....

Former WWE Cruiserweight Champion Rich Swann Arrested For Domestic Battery And False Imprisonment

Former WWE Cruiserweight Champion Rich Swann was arrested by Gainesville, FL. police just after midnight on December 10 on charges of battery and false imprisonment. His alleged victim is his wife of nine months, Vannarah Riggs, who wrestles under the name Su Yung. The charge of false imprisonment i...

Chiefs Defensive Lineman Roy Miller Arrested And Charged With Domestic Battery

Kansas City Chiefs defensive lineman Roy Miller was arrested and charged with domestic battery Saturday morning in Jacksonville, Florida, reports ESPN:...

Jockey Punches His Horse, Gets Two-Week Suspension

An Australian jockey has been suspended for two weeks for jumping off his horse and punching it in the stomach before a race on Wednesday....

Steve Kerr On Government's Unwillingness To Address Gun Violence: "It's Disgusting And It's A Shame"

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr offered his thoughts tonight on the Sutherland Springs, Texas, mass shooting that left 26 First Baptist Church worshippers dead—saying that the government’s inaction on gun violence is a failure to prioritize basic public safety over the money of the firea...

Jerry Jones Mad At The System He Helped Create

Cowboys owner and NFL shadow commissioner Jerry Jones isn’t happy that a federal appeals court vacated Ezekiel Elliott’s injunction, thus clearing the way for the running back’s six-game suspension. Jones’s mood is to be expected, but—surprise!—he also isn’t happy about the extrajudicial process tha...