Dutch-born Greg Halman, an outfielder for the Seattle Mariners in 2010 and 2011, was stabbed to death Monday in Rotterndam. His younger brother was arrested in connection with the crime. “A 24-year-old died this morning in a stabbing and we have arrested the 22-year-old brother of the victim,” a police spokesman told Rueters. Halman played [...]
According to Jim Gardner of ABC 6 News, JoePa’s time at Penn State has come to an abrupt end. Penn State Board of Trustees announces that Joe Paterno will not coach another game. Assistant coach Tom Bradley is interim coach. President Graham Spanier has resigned. Penn State Provost, Rodney Erickson has been named interim President. [...]
Joe Frazier is in his most important fight – against advanced liver cancer. Leslie Wolff, Frazier’s manager for seven years, says the former heavyweight champ was diagnosed four or five weeks ago and is currently in hospice. Frazier’s illness was first reported by the New York Post. Unfortunately, sources close to the 67-year-old boxer say [...]
Kansas City lost to the Baltimore Ravens 30-7 in Sunday’s wild-card round, officially ending their season. Next up for the Chiefs is finding a replacement for Florida-bound Charlie Weis, and according to ESPN’s Chris Mortensen, the Chiefs are “strongly considering” Denver Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy It’s not the first time McCoy’s name has been [...]
A gunman opened fire outside of a Safeway grocery store in Tucson, Arizona, yesterday killing six people and wounding 14 others. Today it has been revealed that one of the victims was 9-year old Christina-Taylor Green, granddaughter of Phillies senior advisor and former manager Dallas Green. Her father, John, is a scout for the Dodgers. [...]
Wow! This story took a strange turn. We just mentioned that Junior Seau was arrested for domestic violence early this morning. It turns out that after being released he drove his SUV off a cliff in Carlsbad, CA. Seau survived the crash but did sustain injuries. Based on these pictures of the crash from TMZ [...]
Former NFL and USC football great Junior Seau was arrested early this morning in San Diego. The incident allegedly occurred against his live-in girlfriend, but there is no word on her condition. Seau was booked into the Vista Detention Facility and released around 3:20 AM. Photo Caption: The Junior Seau Foundation aims to “educate and [...]
The rumors heated up last night and it seems that the deal is finally done. Randy Moss is now a Minnesota Viking. The Patriots were not going to resign Moss at the end of the year so they wanted to get as much as they could right now. What thy ended up with is a [...]
I guess all good things must come to an end. Tonight the Phillies lost 5-2 to the Mets ending an 11-game winning streak. This little fan was a bit too preoccupied to notice. No, she wasn’t eating some Chickie & Pete’s Crab fries. Wasn’t a Schmitter either. It was a good ‘ol fashioned boogie. As [...]
Well, that didn’t take long. After just one play in Friday night’s preseason game against Kansas City, Eagles WR DeSean Jackson left the game with an upper back injury. Photo Caption: DeSean shows us how many times you need to hit him before his back gives out. Safety Eric Berry popped Jackson, whose previous back [...]
Terrell Owens took to Twitter to write, “Hoping 2 b a Bengal w/in the 24hrs!!” And according to a source familiar with the situation, T.O. will sign with the Bengals tomorrow when he heads to Georgetown for training camp. According to the AP, The Bengals were his first choice, giving him a chance to team [...]
There was a pretty scary moment during the fourth inning of the Giants game tonight when outfielder Eugenio Velez was struck in the head by a foul line drive into the dugout. Velez was standing with his teammates when Pat Burrell sliced a fastball towards the visitor’s benches causing players to scatter and knocking Velez [...]
Georgia athletic director Damon Evans was arrested in Atlanta last Wednesday after being pulled over by a state trooper for driving erratically. In the car with Evans was 28-year-old Courtney Fuhrmann, who is not his wife. Or daughter. She is “just a friend.” And she must be a pretty good friend because when she decided [...]
The FIFA World Cup will begin this Friday and the OTR newsroom is getting ramped up. Since Americans are finally showing some interest in soccer, ESPN has stepped up its plan for this year’s broadcast. It’s about time. All 64 matches will be broadcast live with any games on ESPN or ESPN 2 also being [...]
This has been a rough year for Philadelphia sports fans. Their already tarnished reputation only got worse after a little tix for tricks issue, some tasering, and the now infamous projectile vomiting incident. So when this video of a child drinking beer at a baseball game surfaced, it wasn’t hard to beleive it happened in [...]
The Flyers and Blackhawks may be battling it out in Chicago, but there was another important game for the City of Brotherly Love tonight. Philadelphia Phillies right-hander Roy Halladay retired 27 batters, earning him a perfect game. Halladay was coming off a rough game against the Red Sox where he gave up seven runs in [...]
Colorado Rockies President Keli McGregor was found dead this morning in a Salt Lake City, Utah, hotel. McGregor was on a business trip with team chairman and CEO Charlie Monfort and executive vice president Greg Feasel. When his associates could not get a hold of him on the phone, someone entered his room and found [...]
The rumors were right, Big Ben has managed to get himself out of trouble once again. District Attorney Fred Bright announced today that he will not be filing any charges against the Steelers’ QB after a Georgia college student recently accused Ben of sexually assaulting her at a nightclub. “We are not condoning Mr. Roethlisberger’s [...]
There is sad news to report today as word spreads of the death of Matt James, a top Notre Dame prospect. James died early this morning in Panama City, Florida after an accidental fall from his third-floor hotel balcony. James was a senior at Cincinnati’s St. Xavier High School who passed on Ohio State to [...]
Adam Schefter announced today that the Eagles and Browns have finalized their deal. Schefter tweets: “Filed to ESPN: Eagles-Browns make 5-player deal: Browns get CB Sheldon Brown, LB Chris Gocong; Eagles get 4th and 5th rd picks, LB Alex Hall” That brings the Eagles to 10 picks for draft day: 1st, 2nd, two 3rds, two [...]
We’re very excited to announce that this week on “G. Cobb in the House” Alan Page will be joining us! OTR’s Micah will be co-hosting with former Eagle Ray Ellis so be sure to listen in at 7pm EST and call 1-888-346-9144 with your questions. Page spent 15 years in the NFL building an impressive [...]
If you haven’t heard of the “Pants on the Ground” guy from American Idol, you probably live under a rock. General Larry Platt’s audition for the show became the first big viral video of the year. Last week, Viking’s quarterback Brett Favre chanted the song in the locker room after his team beat the Cowboys. [...]
Texas Tech coach Mike Leach has been “terminated with cause effective immediately.” Leach was recently suspended after allegations surfaced that he twice locked receiver Adam James in a cold electrical closet because James had a concussion and wasn’t going to practice. People tend to look down on that type of stuff, so the firing should [...]
Chad Ochocinco was interviewed today about the passing of his friend Chris Henry. He fought back tears as he talked about the last time they spoke and how Henry was trying to do the right things in his life.
HBO Real Sports host Bryant Gumbel announced today that he had a malignant tumor, and part of his lung, removed two months ago. He broke the news while filling in for Regis Philbin on “Live! With Regis and Kelly.” When Kelly Ripa asked Gumbel to dance during a segment, he declined saying he had a [...]
