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MATT TAIBBI

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You go, Carl

Sports blotter: "This year's Otis Nixon award" edition
Former Minnesota Vikings defensive end Carl Eller is an early candidate for this year’s Otis Nixon Award, given to the athlete who most repeatedly shows up in the news following clashes with the criminal-justice system.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  May 21, 2008

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Recession busters

Sports blotter: "Realty bites" edition
It was only a matter of time before the plummeting real-estate market began to claim its first sports-related arrests.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  May 14, 2008

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More fun with the Bengals

Sports blotter: "Some things never change" edition
It was weird, wasn’t it, that brief period when the Bengals didn’t suck?
By MATT TAIBBI  |  May 07, 2008

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Fallen eagle

Sports blotter: "Trouble in Allston" edition
BC isn’t traditionally a high-arrest environment, though it has had its share of head cases, with former star running back William Green perhaps its most noteworthy.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  April 30, 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

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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

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One-man crime wave

Sports blotter: "Return of Chris Henry" edition
At this writing, a joint Google entry for “Chris Henry” and “10-cent head” shows only 39 hits.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  April 09, 2008

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Bear season

Sports blotter: Vacationland edition
we may have a new weird and unexpected pretender to the great sports-crime throne: the University of MaineWBlack Bears.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  April 02, 2008

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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

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Young people doing stupid things

Sports blotter: "Carrying a gun to a track meet" edition
“This isn’t fixin’ to stop me,” crowed a defiant Josh Jarboe.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  March 19, 2008

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Must be the genes

Sports blotter: "Brother to brother" edition
You don’t often see sports-crime legacies.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  March 12, 2008

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Patriot haze

Sports blotter: "Salt in the wound" edition
It’s a bad time to be a Pats fan.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  March 05, 2008

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Illegal use of hands

Sports blotter: "Personal foul" edition
It’s been a slow year so far for defensive-back arrests.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  February 27, 2008

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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

The enforcer

Sports blotter: "Real-life Rocky" edition
Once upon a time, the washed-up hulking athlete didn’t have very many employment opportunities.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  February 13, 2008

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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

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Keep on truckin'

Sports blotter: "A busy week" edition
No messing around with those long-ass crime-story write-ups this week.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  January 30, 2008

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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

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Hands of stone

Sports blotter: "Ex-Patriot" edition
Graham and Sauerbrun join a surprisingly long list of former Patriots who have been arrested in recent times.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  January 16, 2008

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Bronx bum

Sports blotter: "Hero to zero" edition
Man, there sure must have been some serious drinking going down on those great Yankee teams of the 1990s.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  January 09, 2008
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