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MATT TAIBBI

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To BB or not to BB

Sports Blotter: Red Rider Edition
It took a hell of a long time, but 2006 finally has its first college-jock-randomly-shoots-pedestrian-with-BB-gun offense.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  June 14, 2006

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Ballin' and stealin'

Sports blotter: special NBA draft edition
The time has come to take a jurisprudential look at the upcoming NBA draft.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  June 28, 2006

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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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Sports Blotter: the King James version

LeBron's Mom pulls a Carlo
In the most highly anticipated sports trial since the Marv Albert overbite case, Gloria James, mother of burgeoning NBA media supernova LeBron James, will finally face justice for her role in what has been hands down the most interesting sports DUI of the year.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  May 24, 2006

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Sports blotter: special Baghdad edition

A tale of Little League corruption most foul
Historical aside to the rain-soaked folks of New England: the Blotter this week comes to you from the scorching climes of pad 14 in Camp Liberty, Iraq, where I am embedded with the 615th MP “Bloodhounds” on assignment for Rolling Stone .
By MATT TAIBBI  |  May 22, 2006

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Student athletes gone wild

Plus sports anchor schadenfreude
It was a bad week for heavily recruited high-school sports prospects, as hotshots around the country were busted in an eerily congruent series of assault arrests.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  May 10, 2006

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Catch him if you can

This is what happens when you watch too may Steven Spielberg movies
Another first: the coach of an obscure Southern collegiate lacrosse team has been fired after one of his players smashed the window of a security vehicle using a . . . slingshot.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  May 03, 2006

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Great open road speed

Plus, another college rape case
Forget peanut butter and banana, Laurel and Hardy, Tango and Cash: almost nothing goes together quite like vehicular violence and football.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  April 19, 2006

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Pre-NFL Draft arrest watch

Updating the big board
Get ready, Phoenix readers, for the dad-gum funnest week of the sports-crime year!
By MATT TAIBBI  |  April 12, 2006

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Long way home to Foxboro

Belichick brings in a DUI legend
You gotta love Bill Belichick.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  April 05, 2006

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Comma self

This week's sports blotter
The “comma self” murder has for decades been one of the most important innovations in American-headline literature, a testament to both our national fascination with verbal brevity and to our sociopathic, codependent relationship to deadly violence: FLA. MAN KILLS WIFE, DOG, MOTHER, ACCOUNTANT, SELF.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  March 29, 2006

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Big play played

Plus, the latest on the sad tale of Dwight Gooden
Here’s a weird one, Boston sports fans.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  March 23, 2006

The Boston Phoenix J.R. rider bail-hearing incident of the week!

Plus, deadbeat-daddy jocks and Master P's firearms
Folks in my line of work — cataloguing weekly the crimes of professional athletes — have a built-in rainy-day strategy.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  March 16, 2006

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She heard something pop

Plus, the troubles of the Delaware Blue Hens
The world of sports journalism has for decades been one giant Willie Wonka chocolate factory for the tired cliché. And while sportswriters themselves are generally just literate enough to keep from confusing their products, the general public may be excused if it permits some cross-pollination.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  March 08, 2006

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Smelling like a Rose

Plus the best quote from a lawyer you will ever hear
The bad-seed stories just keep rolling in.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  March 01, 2006

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The daughter also sets, too

More apples falling near trees
Plus college hoop trouble, and a guy you should never call "Joey."
By MATT TAIBBI  |  February 22, 2006

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The son also sets

Sports Blotter
Most crime stories involving ex-athletes pushing 50 have the same plot: an end-of-the-line washout case, six weeks behind on his final car payment, and literally fleeing on foot from an army of outraged creditors and/or junk dealers punches out his wife/best friend/total stranger in an Ann Arbor pool hall in a dispute over an autographed merchandise sale gone bad.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  October 27, 2008

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Super Blot

Sports crime does the Super Bowl
With all due respect to Isaiah (J.R.) Rider — the NBA’s all-time arrest leader who solidified his first-ballot Sports Crime Hall of Fame status last week with a decisive post-retirement kidnapping bust — there really is no news in sports this week that doesn’t involve the Super Bowl.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  February 02, 2006

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The body electric

Why tasers and athletes don't mix
Oliver McCall’s career as a sports criminal is almost without peer or parallel; he makes Lawrence Taylor seem like Ann Romney.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  January 26, 2006
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