You may or may not have heard about the little incident involving Minnesota Timberwolves big man Kevin Love. On Saturday, Love took umbrage with Luis Scola of the Houston Rockets being on the floor. So, he decided to stomp on him as they ran back up the floor and the NBA certainly took notice. Love [...]
You may remember the end of last year’s Dallas Mavericks/Los Angeles Lakers playoff series. The Mavs were thoroughly embarrassing the Lakers, already up three games to none and absolutely pounding them in Game 4. So, Lakers big man Andrew Bynum decided that if his team was going to lose, he was going to go out [...]
On December 20th, Pittsburgh Penguins defensman Deryk Engelland thought he could make Jello out of the head of Chicago Blackhawks forward Marcus Kruger. The big man launched himself into his head and pasted him up against the boards. It was pretty nasty. And the NHL would tend to agree with that last sentence. Its Department [...]
The Washington Redskins have not made a ton of great decisions to put their team in position for success in 2011. See: thinking John Beck and/or Rex Grossman were good quarterback options. But, they’ve also had a lot of bad luck as well. See: Cooley and Moss missing a lot of time. Sadly, now two [...]
You may remember the story during the lockout of Cincinnati Bengals RB Cedric Benson beating the crap out of a former roommate. He eventually took a plea deal and spent a few days in jail. And apparently, Roger Goodell didn’t like it. Because, according to Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports, Benson is going to miss [...]
When word first broke that former Ohio State coach Jim Tressel was hired by the Indianapolis Colts as a game day assistant, there was a bit of outrage from fans and media. Here the NFL had just suspended Terrelle Pryor for five weeks due to NCAA violations that yielded the same discipline at the college [...]
We hear about athletes testing positive for PED’s quite a bit. But, it’s usually masking agents or other banned substances. Now, we have someone testing positive for HGH. It’s Mike Jacobs, a 1B for the Colorado Rockies, according to Michael Schmidt of the New York Times. “[T]he player to test positive for hgh is mike [...]
Anyone watch any hockey last night? It was a good ol’ fashioned to end all good ol’ fashioneds with the Boston Bruins thoroughly lambasting the Vancouver Canucks 8-1. And there was a bit of an incident. Shortly after Nathan Horton shoveled a pass to his left as he entered the Canucks’ zone, Aaron Rome decided [...]
Dan Carcillo’s main job for the Philadelphia Flyers is to be an obnoxious agitator, who gets his hands dirty and does a lot of the unpopular stuff (in theory while avoiding penalties). Apparently, it’s one thing to direct your ire towards the opposing team, just don’t direct it towards the officials. And that’s what Carcillo [...]
If you missed it, B.J. Upton went a little insane Wednesday night after he was called out on strikes in the ninth inning in a loss to the Toronto Blue Jays. Apparently, MLB didn’t appreciate it because he’s been suspended for two games. “#Rays B.J. Upton given a two-game suspension for Wednesday’s tantrum and plans [...]
Outside of Pittsburgh, you won’t find too many hockey fans that like Matt Cooke. He has a history of dirty play and it seems that this time the NHL wants to send a message. Cooke threw a completely dirty elbow to the head of New York Rangers defensman Ryan Donagh on Sunday. The NHL’s response? [...]
The NBA has suspended Memphis Grizzlies guard O. J. Mayo for 10 games for violating the league and union’s anti-drug program. The 10-game suspension comes without pay and will result in Mayo forfeiting $405,109 of his salary. The drug of choice? Dehydroepiandrosterone. The only drug in the English language to contain every letter in the [...]
This is quite the little story brewing out on Long Island, huh? Goaltender Evgeni Nabokov spent most of this season with St. Petersburg in the KHL. On January 20th, he signed with the Detroit Red Wings. However, because he played in the KHL, he had to clear waivers before joining an NHL team. So a [...]
This incident received very little attention and this suspension kinda sorta came out of nowhere. MLB has suspended Washington Nationals outfielder Nyjer Morgan for throwing a ball into the stands intentionally during a recent game against the Philadelphia Phillies. During the middle of the ninth, Morgan fired a ball into the crowd and struck a [...]
According to ESPN’s Chris Mortensen and Adam Schefter, Pittsburgh Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger will be getting a 4-6 game suspension. It’s a conditional suspension that will be dependent on Roethlisberger’s behavior and compliance with evaluators. Supposedly, the Steelers were bracing for a possible eight-game suspension, so this is a bit of a relief. But this [...]
According to SI.com’s Jon Heyman, Cincinnati Reds pitcher Edinson Volquez has tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. The 26-year old is currently on the 60-day DL following Tommy John surgery, but will be suspended for 50 games. What we don’t understand is how that suspension will occur while he’s on the DL, meaning that this won’t [...]
Boston Celtics big man Kevin Garnett will be suspended for Game 2 against the Miami Heat after throwing an elbow to the face of Quentin Richardson. Richardson was fined $25,000 for his role in a skirmish that essentially started when he went over to the Boston bench to have words with K.G. about a pick [...]
The Pittsburgh Steelers have traded former Super Bowl MVP and current marijuana smoker Santonio Holmes to the New York Jets in exchange for a fifth-round pick. In addition, it’s been confirmed that the former first-round pick will be suspended for four games to start the season for violating the league’s substance abuse program. That’s probably [...]
Colorado Avalanche power forward (it just sounds better with power in front of it) Darcy Tucker will be suspended for one game following an incident of excessive force on an icing play with the Los Angeles Kings’ Matt Green. The Kings eventually triumphed anyway and downed the Avalanche on Monday. Tucker will miss an important [...]
Maybe the Philadelphia Phillies knew what they were doing when they shipped Cliff Lee out of town. Ok, not really. But the Mariners’ Lee did get suspended for the first five games of the season after he threw at Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Chris Snyder on Monday. Of course, Lee can appeal, but we don’t see [...]
Washington Wizards’ knucklehead Javaris Crittenton will not appeal his season-long suspension, according to ESPN’s Marc Stein on Twitter. “Just filed to ESPN: Wizards guard Javaris Crittenton has elected NOT to appeal his suspension without pay for the rest of the season,” he tweets. Crittenton knows that he has no case whatsoever after pleading guilty to [...]
When you think about performance enhancing drugs, you probably think about baseball. But another bad-ass sport is throwing its hat in the ring: the PGA. Today, American golfer Doug Barron received a one-year suspension from the PGA Tour after it was discovered that he failed his drug test. He is the first player to be [...]
Tampa Bay Buccaneers starting safety Tanard Jackson was suspended on Tuesday for the first four regular season games of the upcoming season for violating the NFL’s Substance Abuse Policy. PHOTO CAPTION: Sit the f*#@ down Will Allen will take over the duties until Jackson returns to the playing field on October 11th against the Philadelphia [...]
So, Roger Goodell has decided to lay the smack down on Donte Stallworth, who drove drunk and killed 59 year-old Mario Reyes. He received 30 days in jail and two years on house arrest. Well, Goodell took it to the next level and thoroughly champed Stallworth. He is suspended indefinitely. “The conduct reflected in your [...]