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MATT TAIBBI

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Low-flying Hawk

Sports blotter: "A different sort of 'making it rain'" edition
It has always surprised me that Seattle Seahawk tight end Jerramy Stevens didn’t figure more heavily in the sports-crime industry after he turned pro.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  March 21, 2007

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Crime without verbs

Sports blotter: Creative grammar edition
It’s getting to the point where you can write these sports-crime stories without verbs.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  March 14, 2007

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Da did, Ron-Ron-Ron

Sports blotter: "More from Artest" edition
The 2007 sports-crime season has its first repeat offender.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  March 07, 2007

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Making it rain

Sports blotter: "Contrary to the slogan, what happens in Vegas definitely does not stay in Vegas" edition
The hardest-working man in sports these days has to be Worrick Robinson, lawyer for the 23 year-old wunderkind of sports jurisprudence, Adam “Pacman” Jones.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  February 28, 2007

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His name was Robert Paulson

Sports Blotter: "The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club" edition
A bunch of former high-school football players from Murrieta, California, are in serious trouble after being booked on a variety of bizarre charges.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  February 21, 2007

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Starving Socks

Sports Blotter: "TruWarier Records Presents" edition
Weird, weird story out in California, and no surprise that Ron Artest is involved.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  February 14, 2007

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We bombed in Denton

Sports blotter: "Complaining about the refugees" edition
Anybody visiting southeast Texas these days is likely to hear a lot of grumbling about “those people” — the ones who came over from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  February 21, 2007

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Quaking in their cleats

Sports blotter: "Bad timing by Newsweek " edition
America’s leading health-fad-and-campaign-dreck news mag named Guilford College, a Quaker school in North Carolina, the “hottest for social conscience” in 2006.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  January 31, 2007

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When sportscasters attack

Sports blotter: "From downtown!" edition
Each sports season carries a relatively small number of sportscaster arrests, but the ones we do get it are usually memorable.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  January 24, 2007

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Chisley and his chisel

Sports blotter: "Penn State murder" edition
One of America’s longest-running sports-crime suspense stories may come to a close this week, as police are expected to arrest former Penn State defensive end LaVon Chisley in connection with the stabbing death of PSU senior Langston Carraway.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  January 17, 2007

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Who's your Padre?

Sports blotter: "Something is rotten in the state of Alabama" edition
The more jock arrests that pour in, the more obnoxious America’s cops seem.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  January 10, 2007

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Punch out!

Sports blotter: " 007-373-5963 edition"
What a way to start off 2007!
By MATT TAIBBI  |  January 03, 2007

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The new system

Sports Blotter: 2007 yearbook edition
Dontrelle Williams jumps out to an early lead in the race for newly-minted Annual Crime Champion award.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  December 27, 2006

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Number twenty-seven

Sports blotter: "Aww, the Denver Broncos!?" edition
Twenty-seven. That’s where the number of defensive-back arrests in the year 2006 now rests, after yet another high-profile bust last week.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  December 20, 2006

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Deltha force

 Sports blotter: "O'Neal drama" edition
The interesting thing about the DUI arrest of Cincinnati Bengal cornerback Deltha O’Neal last week isn’t that it marked the eighth arrest of a Bengal this year, or the 26th (according to my count) arrest of a major-college or pro cornerback since last winter.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  December 13, 2006

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Hot box

Sports blotter: "It's in the game" edition
Remember that South Park episode where Cartman froze himself for 600 years so he wouldn’t have to wait for the release of the new version of Nintendo Wii?
By MATT TAIBBI  |  December 06, 2006

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Surprise, surprise

Sports Blotter: "Not a busy week" edition
This sports-crime-column thing . . . most every week it’s some variation of the same old thing: dorm rape, huge bags of weed unearthed, an Indiana Pacer flashing a gun in a strip club parking lot at 3:30 am.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  November 29, 2006

A real stunner

Sports blotter: "The tasing refuses to stop" edition
Bob “The Bad One” Probert would have been proud.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  November 21, 2006

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D-Back rampage

Sports blotter: "And we do mean defensive " edition
The great 2006 defensive-back crime rampage continues.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  November 14, 2006

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Not quite through the fire

Sports blotter: direct-to-NBA edition
We know all about high-school-to-NBA athletes here in Boston.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  November 08, 2006
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