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MATT TAIBBI

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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

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More pellet madness

Sports blotter: "something we don't condone" edition
I’m not sure if anyone knows what to make of this one.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  October 25, 2006

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Good times at the U

Sports blotter: "You don't come into the OB" edition
Remember when the University of Miami was an unbeatable football team? Watch the brawl (YouTube)
By MATT TAIBBI  |  October 18, 2006

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Bad Bolts

Sports Blotter: "Not Just for Bengals Anymore" Edition
The San Diego Chargers are making a belated run at this season’s NFL arrest title.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  October 11, 2006

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More taser madness

Sports Blotter: CFL edition
Please don't ignore CFL players who get tasered.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  October 04, 2006

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Nanook of the north

Sports Blotter: Alaskan edition
Well, it’s official now. The Cincinnati Bengals have surged past the Portland Trailblazers as America’s pre-eminent sports-crime family.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  September 27, 2006

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Taserama

Sports Blotter: Punter-Gatherer Edition
Okay, this is officially getting ridiculous.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  September 20, 2006

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Dr. Probert

Sports Blotter: Lexicography Edition
A lot of strange incidents involving minor-league baseball have colored the “Briefs” sections of national sports coverage this year.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  September 13, 2006

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Milwaukee's best

Sports blotter: Crime spree edition
The recent police interview of Latrell Sprewell in connection with charges that he spontaneously choked a woman while engaging in consensual sex with her on his boat poses a serious challenge to the comics of the sports-journalism world.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  September 06, 2006

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Always look on the bright side of life

Sports Blotter: Free Reardon Edition
For those of you Red Sox fans searching for a silver lining to this prolonged and ultimately fatal flesh-eating-bacteria case of a baseball season, there is this.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  August 30, 2006

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The Wizard of Pennsylvania Avenue

Sports Blotter: shooting at the White House edition
No one knows what the hell former Washington Wizard Lonny Baxter was doing last week when he allegedly fired his pistol out the window of his big-ass white SUV less than two blocks from the White House.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  August 23, 2006

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The tale of the tape

Sports Blotter:  Red Sox-Yankees Edition
Okay, so we know what the rivals’ all-time score is in terms of championship wins. It’s written — in hideously-stretched, mustard-stained bold face — on the reeking, pitted-out T-shirts of every 380-pound creep from the tri-state area. Jose Canseco re-enacts a bar fight in his Miami home (YouTube)
By MATT TAIBBI  |  August 21, 2006

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Nothing's shocking

Sports blotter: "Set tasers to 'stun' " edition
There must be some kind of secret scavenger hunt going on among pro athletes that requires participants to attach their names to Tasers or stun guns in the headlines of USA Today .
By MATT TAIBBI  |  August 08, 2006

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But it's a fake gun

Sports blotter: pellet gun edition
A lot of sports crime makes sense. Sebastian Janikowski arrested for just about anything: makes sense.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  August 02, 2006

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Cincinnaughty

The new "Most Arrested Team in Sports"
We’d better hurry. If the Phoenix and its readers don’t step on it and come up with a new nickname for the suddenly oft-indicted Cincinnati Bengals, someone else is going to do it for us. And it’s not going to be pretty.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  July 26, 2006

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Crimson pride

Sports blotter: Harvard football edition
The last pre-training-camp days of summer are always a bad time for collegiate and pro-football arrests.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  July 19, 2006

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When animals attack

Sports Blotter: Mascots Gone Wild Edition
If it's South Carolina, it's not really the Red Sox.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  July 12, 2006

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Remember the '80s?

Sports Blotter: All-Star Break edition
Times have been tough for professional baseball this year.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  July 11, 2006

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Take my wife, please

Sports Blotter: "Just a bit outside" edition
Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Brett Myers became the latest pro athlete to punch his wife in the face in public last week, committing the act right here in Boston.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  June 28, 2006

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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
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