But, just a bit of hyperbole I am compelled to address:
If she had been a man with equivalent basketball talent, Holdsclaw would long ago have become our city’s greatest tragic sports figure.
Really. The greatest tragic sports figure. Even if you exempt Mets players, really? Iron Mike and a slew of other boxers? Ron Ron? Just in the same sport: Earl Manigault; Sweet Pea Daniels; Connie Hawkins; Charles Smith (yeah, I said it).
Who knows? Maybe, you were kidnapped, tied up, taken away and held for ransom.
Those days are gone forever
Over a long time ago
Oh yeah…
And how is it that you bust caps at someone and get a probation plea deal? Like to think a judge wouldn't allow that. Tons of judges around here make guys serve 24 hours on a 1st DUI but this Defendant is going to stand up and admit to shooting at someone and get probation?
At first, I thought "big deal - a dui", but then I added the bonus points for the great circumstances:
Broncos director of player personnel Matt Russell, right, was arrested over the weekend after hitting two cars in Summit County — one of them a Breckenridge police car.
Jason Whitlock wrote:...If Anna Benson was a man, she’d be best friends with prominent politicians. I’m serious.
Jay-Z can rap and boast about dealing crack cocaine to single mamas and all the other destructive nonsense that goes along with a male hustler’s life and still have dinner at the White House. But Anna Benson can’t be proud and celebrated for hustling in the sex industry?
This is sexism.
There’s more honor in selling sex than selling dope. Strippers and hoes rarely shoot each other...
Jason Whitlock once wrote that Jaguars fans were racist because they were clamoring for David Garrard to replace Byron Leftwich.
And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. - God
Heard something interesting on the BBC "More or Less" podcast (dedicated to investigating statistics and it usually disproves most of the numbers they investigate - fascinating and recommended)
Anyway, they were looking into whether or not NFL players are disproportionately involved in crime when compared to the population as a whole. And they cited a report from USA Today that shows that the answer is a resounding "no."
"The NFL arrest rate for active players is around one in 47 but in the general population the arrest rate is actually double that, it's about one in 25. It's a surprise. It seems like you hear about an NFL arrest every week but it turns out they're still better behaved than regular society."
When the general population numbers are broken down even further the NFL players look even more like model citizens. The Bureau of Justice's figures reveal that the arrest rate for men is one in 15.
Active NFL players are aged, in the main, between 21 and 34 and the arrest rate for that demographic is one in 8. The arrest rate for people of Aaron Hernandez's age - he's 23 - is a startling one in 6.
It must be pointed out that the figures are based on TOTAL arrests, not on the number of individuals who get busted. But still, I was surprised at what I heard.
"beautiful, with an exotic-yet-familiar facial structure and an arresting gaze."
The money part of it was that it was 7 in the morning when he hit a tree or something, in what was apparently a drunken haze, just a few hours before practice.
Aldon Smith was involved in a single-car accident this morning in San Jose and has been arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence and marijuana possession, authorities said. Smith was not injured in the crash. He was arrested at 7:02 a.m., taken to Santa Clara County's main jail and has since been released. His bail was set at $5,250.
Smith was on hand for Friday's practice, which began at 12:40 p.m.
Our resident Swamp boxing writer, the doc, could tell you that the uppercut can be a devastating blow, when fighting in tight.
The Baltimore Sun broke the story that Rice had been arrested, charged, and released. His attorney, Andrew Alperstein, claimed that Rice's fiancée had also been arrested in connection with the incident, which he described as a "very minor physical altercation."
That may be so; Atlantic City police aren't returning calls on the matter right now and the casino declined to comment on the incident. According to our tipster, though, word at the Revel early Saturday morning was that a woman—presumably the fiancée—had spit on Rice and that in retaliation, he uppercut her, knocking her completely unconscious.
The video on the Big Lead doesn't look too good for Raymell. Sorry for the TMZ video, but this is too damning not to post. Maybe she is just drunk, but if this is from a punch, she is out cold. Also not a good sign when an NFL player is unable to lift his GF. They should add that to the combine.
Some of the comments are hilarious:
looks like he got about 2.5 yards on that carry.
and, fittingly, bernard pierce swooped in to carry her the rest of the way to the hotel room
"She looks ready to go."
-Darren Sharper
An honest to God cult of personality - formed around a failed steak salesman.
-Pruitt
Spikes never would have made those comments if he was still on the Pats. And I don't understand what Mothers Against Drunk Driving have to do with this.
An honest to God cult of personality - formed around a failed steak salesman.
-Pruitt