The Philadelphia Flyers are already in a lousy situation against the New Jersey Devils. They are down 3-1 in the series, but it’s much worse than that. The Devils are killing the Flyers in most aspects of hockey. The Flyers can’t even carry it out of their own zone without a huge fight. And Game [...]
Nothing sucks more than having to make an example out of a couple guys and punish the whole team. The Nashville Predators are down 2-0 to the Phoenix Coyotes in the best-of-seven second round series and could use all the help they can get. So, suspending a guy who is tied for team lead in [...]
Wow. One one hand it’s kind of weird that Shea Weber didn’t get any punishment at all for his hit on Henrik Zetterberg, and now we see that the NHL is going to drop the hammer on Phoenix Coyotes forward Raffi Torres. Torres has been suspended for 25 games for his hit on Chicago Blackhawks [...]
As you surely have heard by now, the Miami Marlins have suspended manager Ozzie Guillen for five games for comments he made recently to Time magazine. Guillen had nice words for Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, and many people didn’t care for that. “I respect Fidel Castro,” Guillen said in the article. “You know why? A [...]
The free agent market for linebackers this offseason has been tepid at best. While other players were signing as soon as free agency kicked off, linebackers were largely chilling out at home hoping the phones rang. And perhaps the prize of the LB free agent class, Curtis Lofton, has sat the longest. A four-year man [...]
When will people learn? I just don’t get it. Does no one have a television or the internet? How many athletes and celebrities have uttered gay slurs and had the hammer come down on them for it? How many times do you have to see this happen and see their BS apologies before you realize [...]
We hear about – and write about – athletes getting arrested for DUI’s all the time. It happens constantly, but we suppose it’s a little different when your job as an athlete is to, you know, drive. We don’t know exactly what happened, but John Wes Townley was arrested around 4:30 AM Tuesday morning after [...]
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 [...]
