Sports blotter: "Not so high on the hog" edition
Here’s a depressing-ass story that tells you everything you need to know about the life of a retired mediocre athlete.
By MATT TAIBBI | July 16, 2008

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

Rooney doesn't rule

Sports blotter: "Pardon my French, but you're an asshole" edition
Funny, funny stuff coming from Pittsburgh — a relief, actually, to see some other city’s storied NFL franchise balls-deep in an ethical nightmare.
By MATT TAIBBI | March 26, 2008

Easy policework

Sports blotter: "No shit, Sherlock" edition
I’ve always wondered exactly how these gigantic defensive linemen think they’re going to beat the whole “physical description” aspect of post-felony police work.
By MATT TAIBBI | February 20, 2008

Frankly speaking

Sore loser misses the mark on Ferri’s Warwick triumph
Your superior correspondents were somewhat amused by comments made last week by Carlo Pisaturo in the Warwick Beacon .
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | December 05, 2007

Squish the fish

Sports blotter: "Dolphin crime" edition
Hey New England, can I get a “Sucks to be you, you got a DWI, you LOSER!”
By MATT TAIBBI | July 18, 2007

Touched by a taser

Sports blotter: "More Pittsburgh pimping" edition
Such was the fate of DerMarr Johnson, who just made himself the latest entry in what is becoming a shockingly long list.
By MATT TAIBBI | June 13, 2007

Pimping ain't easy

Sports blotter: "Hard out there for a pimp" edition
The funniest thing, of course, is that, in college, he played for a team called the Beavers .
By MATT TAIBBI | May 16, 2007

The new U

Sports blotter: Buckeye edition
Slowly, imperceptibly, the cumulative arrest record of current and former Ohio State University Buckeye football players is approaching the status of great football crime families, nearing the Olympus where live giants like Miami and Florida State.
By MATT TAIBBI | November 01, 2006

Big trouble in little Carolina

Sports blotter: tobacco road edition
I must have missed that chapter of The Purpose-Driven Life.
By MATT TAIBBI | June 26, 2006

Sports blotter: June 2, 2006

Copycat run-ins with Gilbert Arenas and Amare's mom
In what may be the highest-proﬁle Crips murder case since the Snoop Dogg “Murder Was the Case” incident, a Los Angeles high-school football star on his way to a full ride at Oregon was implicated last week in an investigation that reads like a Sociology 101 lesson in Crips hierarchies.
By MATT TAIBBI | May 31, 2006

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