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Magnum farce

Sports blotter: "CSI: Binghamton" edition

By MATT TAIBBI | November 19, 2008

Sports blotter: "Late-night shopping" edition
San Diego State Aztecs basketball coach Steve Fisher lectures his players during the season about how to behave off the court, getting pretty specific about what he doesn’t want to see.
By MATT TAIBBI | October 29, 2008

Heightened anxiety

Sports blotter: "Attack of the seven-foot tall driver" edition
Look, it’s not easy being seven feet tall.
By MATT TAIBBI | September 03, 2008

Tiger trap

Sports blotter: "Walking in Memphis" edition
There are a lot of famously troubled college sports programs out there, the majority of them football teams.
By MATT TAIBBI | August 20, 2008

Street cred

Sports blotter: "This year's Xbox" edition

By MATT TAIBBI | July 23, 2008

A different sort of horse

Sports blotter: "The opposite of 'Celtic Pride' " edition
Remember former Celtic Chris Herren?
By MATT TAIBBI | June 11, 2008

Zip line

Sports blotter: "Guns and skimasks" edition
There was an extraordinary incident in Akron, Ohio, this past week involving 20-year-old Rydell Brooks, a sophomore guard on the UA Zips basketball team.
By MATT TAIBBI | May 28, 2008

Highway to hell

Sports blotter: "Not-so-free agents" edition
The former SEC linebacking great should be available, after being Tasered on March 28, following a bizarre loitering arrest in Prichard, Alabama.
By MATT TAIBBI | April 23, 2008

We got next

Sports blotter: "Title IX edition"
Two members of the University of South Carolina women’s basketball team were arrested for offenses that seem worthy of the best that men’s collegiate basketball has to offer.
By MATT TAIBBI | April 16, 2008

Ode to the Lonely Alumnus

Balls and pucks
Last Saturday my alma mater dropped a squeaker for the ages.
By RICK WORMWOOD | February 27, 2008

We're not going to talk about it

Sports blotter: "Super Bowl? What Super Bowl?" edition
We start off this week with a crime that occurred some place other than Arizona, a/k/a the place we do not mention, where the sports tragedy that did not happen did not take place.
By MATT TAIBBI | February 06, 2008

Return of the Pac

Sports blotter: "Never coming back to the NFL at this rate" edition
The sad thing about Adam “Pacman” Jones is that we won’t have him to kick around in columns like this much longer.
By MATT TAIBBI | January 23, 2008

Not-so-instant karma

After decades of curses and calamities, Boston’s sports fortunes are at an unprecedented high. So can we stop the whining?
No matter what happens over their next two games, the Patriots will not have gone undefeated in 2007.
By ADAM REILLY | December 19, 2007

Skell of the year

Sports crime: 2007 in review
Much less funny than usual, was 2007.
By MATT TAIBBI | December 18, 2007

Can't drive 55

Sports blotter: "Sammy Hagar" edition
This past week, we snared an early candidate for the next Justin Miller Award, given to the athlete who most bollockses up his professional-draft status with an avoidable pre-draft arrest.
By MATT TAIBBI | December 12, 2007