Sport Figures Being Bad in Public's Eye
Dave Bidini is the author of Baseballissimo and The Best Game You Can Name. It’s hard not to have a complicated relationship with sports. This is best understood from the perspective of those who hate sports; those who won’t ever read this story and who pass games on television the way I pass bags of […]
Continue ReadingThe NHL rulebook is 229-pages long. It contains detailed rules and procedures about seemingly every kind of infraction. Well, not every kind: not once do the words “lick”, “licking”, “tongue” or “kiss” appear. Enter Boston Bruins forward Brad Marchand. The 29-year-old has twice licked the faces of opposing teams’ players during this year’s Stanley Cup […]
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A player with the Thunder Bay North Stars hockey team has been charged with assault after he punched a rival coach at the end of a Superior International Junior Hockey League (SIJHL) game in Thunder Bay, Ont. last month, police said. The charge stems from an altercation at the end of the third game of the […]
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The London man accused of back-to-back stabbings Tuesday night that left one man dead and another injured was a former junior hockey player with a troubled past that involved severe drug addiction and an armed robbery conviction. Tony Huff-Williams, 35, of London, has been charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of 44-year-old […]
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CLICK HERE if you are having a problem viewing the photos on a mobile device SAN JOSE — Two months after his arrest in Los Gatos, Santa Clara County prosecutors have filed multiple felony charges against San Francisco 49ers star linebacker Reuben Foster, contending that he “dragged” his live-in girlfriend “by her hair, physically threw her […]
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CLICK HERE if you are having a problem viewing the photos on a mobile device SAN JOSE — Two months after his arrest in Los Gatos, Santa Clara County prosecutors have filed multiple felony charges against San Francisco 49ers star linebacker Reuben Foster, contending that he “dragged” his live-in girlfriend “by her hair, physically threw her […]
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Trevor Davis was a fifth-round pick in 2016 by the Green Bay Packers. (AP Photo) Some things are no laughing matter. Packers wide receiver Trevor Davis found that out the hard way Monday, when he was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport after making a joke about bringing a bomb aboard a flight to Hawaii. […]
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A 29-year-old man charged with three counts of second-degree murder in connection with the deaths of a woman and her two teenage children in Ajax, Ont., is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday. Police said they were called to a home on Hilling Drive, near Westney Road South and Lake Driveway West, at around […]
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Police have charged a man with second degree murder after finding a 39-year-old woman and her 15-year-old son dead in an Ajax home. Her 13-year-old daughter was also found in the home with life-threatening injuries, and died in hospital late Wednesday night. “It’s an isolated incident — it’s not a random attack,” Const. George Tudos […]
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A Calgary hockey player is one of two people facing charges after Airdrie RCMP and members of the Calgary Police Service (CPS) seized drugs, cash and guns from a Calgary home. Police searched a home in Forest Lawn on Saturday, seizing 1616 suspected fentanyl pills, 3.5 ounces of suspected fentanyl powder, seven grams of suspected carfentanil pills, […]
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