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Wideouts gone wild
Late February is a heavy-arrest period in American sports, for the simple reason that the college-football season is over, spring practices have not yet begun, and they have not yet deployed armed alcohol-sniffing police robots on college campuses arou
Lock the liquor cabinet and hide the keys — it's that time of year again
By
MATT TAIBBI
| February 18, 2009
Blount's blunts
Let’s just say it’s been a while since we’ve seen a pound-worthy entry to the annals of pot busts, as we did this week.
Sports blotter: "Gone to pot" edition
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MATT TAIBBI
| December 17, 2008
Astro naught
Always a darned shame when we hear that the Clemens family has fallen on hard times.
Sports blotter: "More trouble for the Clemens family" edition
By
MATT TAIBBI
| September 10, 2008
Rooney doesn't rule
Funny, funny stuff coming from Pittsburgh — a relief, actually, to see some other city’s storied NFL franchise balls-deep in an ethical nightmare.
Sports blotter: "Pardon my French, but you're an asshole" edition
By
MATT TAIBBI
| March 26, 2008
Young people doing stupid things
“This isn’t fixin’ to stop me,” crowed a defiant Josh Jarboe.
Sports blotter: "Carrying a gun to a track meet" edition
By
MATT TAIBBI
| March 19, 2008
We're not going to talk about it
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.
Sports blotter: "Super Bowl? What Super Bowl?" edition
By
MATT TAIBBI
| February 06, 2008
Return of the Pac
The sad thing about Adam “Pacman” Jones is that we won’t have him to kick around in columns like this much longer.
Sports blotter: "Never coming back to the NFL at this rate" edition
By
MATT TAIBBI
| January 23, 2008
Bronx bum
Man, there sure must have been some serious drinking going down on those great Yankee teams of the 1990s.
Sports blotter: "Hero to zero" edition
By
MATT TAIBBI
| January 09, 2008
Do mess with Texas
The Houston Texans are like the soy cheese of the sporting world.
Sports blotter: "Houston has a problem" edition
By
MATT TAIBBI
| December 05, 2007
Surely you can't be serious
Early nomination for collegiate crime-dweeb of the year goes to Fresno State defensive lineman Jason Shirley.
Sports blotter: "Don't call me Shirley!" edition
By
MATT TAIBBI
| October 17, 2007
Texas two-step
The Texas Longhorns have been a real gift to the sports-crime-reporting industry of late.
Sports blotter: "Horns hooked" edition
By
MATT TAIBBI
| September 19, 2007
True Wizardry
Question: what do you do when your team decides to offer you, a mere 20 year old, $12.5 million over five years?
Sports blotter: "Puts up a brick!" edition
By
MATT TAIBBI
| August 08, 2007
Too high
One wonders, at times, if there is some kind of Norse God of sports crime.
Sports blotter: "T-High" edition
By
MATT TAIBBI
| July 25, 2007
Texas trouble
Some college-football positions just seem to be cursed, arrest-wise.
Sports blotter: "When's he going to talk about Michael Vick?" edition
By
MATT TAIBBI
| June 06, 2007
Pimping ain't easy
The funniest thing, of course, is that, in college, he played for a team called the Beavers .
Sports blotter: "Hard out there for a pimp" edition
By
MATT TAIBBI
| May 16, 2007
Oh ... uh, wow ... thanks?
Once upon a time, not all that long ago, holiday shopping was a fairly straightforward enterprise.
The Internet is a vast trove of very strange gifts
By
MIKE MILIARD
| December 07, 2006
Texas two-step
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the late ’70s musical getting an entertaining staging at URI Theatre, is quite a curious little time capsule.
URI stages a wholesome Whorehouse
By
BILL RODRIGUEZ
| December 05, 2006
Pre-NFL Draft arrest watch
Get ready, Phoenix readers, for the dad-gum funnest week of the sports-crime year!
Updating the big board
By
MATT TAIBBI
| April 12, 2006
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