Casting a light where the sun don’t shine
The Western Athletic Conference has suspended New Mexico State Mascot “Pistol Pete” the cowboy for the first game of the 2009-2010 basketball season as a result of the scuffle that broke out between Pete and Utah State’s Big Blue Ox mascot at the WAC basketball tournament earlier this month.
The Big Blue Ox, modeled after Paul [...]
Cincinnati Reds minor league pitching coach and former Reds star Tom Browning was arrested and charged with nonpayment of child support on Friday. Browning was drafted by the Reds in 1982, spent two years in the minors, 12 in the majors (123-90 with 3.94 ERA) and has coached for the Reds’ farm teams since 2006. There [...]
The NBA dropped a $25,000 fine on Mavericks owner and general-pain-in-the-ass Mark Cuban on Sunday for publicly criticizing the officials using the popular social networking platform Twitter after Denver’s win over Dallas on Friday.
Cuban’s “Tweet,” as the kids call it, can still be viewed on his public profile and reads as follows:
“how do they not [...]
Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert is being investigated for a scuffle with David Hall, a former vice president of Gilbert’s Rock Financial mortgage company. Attendees at a Detroit bar mitzvah witnessed fellow attendees Gilbert and Hall honoring the sacred event by engaging in a nose-to-nose argument. According to the Detroit Free Press, a witness reported [...]
Sophomore wide receiver Dezmon Briscoe and junior defensive tackle Jamal Greene have been indefinitely suspended from the Kansas program for undisclosed violations of team rules. According to head coach Mark Mangino, who is most likely inhaling a large meat-lovers pizza as you read this, neither player has practiced with the team since spring practice began [...]
New Orleans Hornets forward James Posey has been suspended one game by the NBA for throwing a ball at referee Gary Zielinski’s feet during the Hornet’s Friday night loss to the San Antonio Spurs. Posey threw the ball after Zielinski called a loose ball foul against Posey as he was fighting for a rebound as [...]
Denver Nuggets center Nene Hilario has been suspended for two games without pay by the NBA after head-butting an opposing player and making contact with an official in Denver’s Monday night loss to the Phoenix Suns.
Nuggets forward Linas Kleiza has been fined $25,000 by the NBA for verbally abusing an official after last Friday’s win [...]
Yahoo! Sports is reporting that members of the University of Connecticut’s basketball program violated NCAA rules while recruiting former UConn basketball player Nate Miles. The Yahoo! report claims that a host of rules were broken when Miles and has staff made impermissible phone calls to Miles and his inner circle and provided Miles with lodging, [...]
A federal court of appeals has upheld a $260,000 judgment against Allen Iverson for standing idly by while his bodyguard viciously beat another man in a 2005 bar fight. Assbeatee Marlin Godfrey has accused Iverson’s bodyguard, Jason Kane, of punching, kicking and hitting him with a bottle after Godfrey refused to vacate the VIP section [...]
San Francisco Giants pitcher Kelvin Pichardo was handed a 50-game suspension on Monday after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance as part of Major League Baseball’s drug program. The 23-year-old right-hander, who has never appeared in the majors, was optioned to Triple-A Fresno in March. Pichardo’s suspension will begin with the first game of the [...]