Posts under ‘Athletes Behaving Badly’

There is little that is more sacred to the Pittsburgh Steelers and their fans than the Terrible Towel, the yellow piece of cloth made famous in 1972 as a symbol for the Steelers. After Tennessee beat Pittsburgh, 31-14, Sunday to clinch AFC home field, running back LenDale White did something that will enrage the Steelers [...]

Jimbo Tartt of the University of Florida seems to have skipped his Global Economics class. The Sporting News’ Spencer Hall was looking at (what is allegedly) the Gators lineman’s Facebook page and found he recently joined a group called “Africa gives nothing to anyone — except AIDS”. (Screenshot can be seen here.) Got to expect [...]

I guess it comes as no surprise that the Dallas Cowboys are on the road to being torn apart by Terrell Owens. After all, he’s already left two teams after clashing with the starting quarterback. This time it’s Tony Romo who’s feeling the Wrath of Terrell, and this time some of the blame — in [...]

There are professional soccer players across Italy praying that Victory doesn’t name names. You see, he’s the the latest rent boy to come forward and claim that he beds down pro soccer players in Italy for cash. A lot of cash, actually. About $2,000 a pop, so to speak. 
“A lot of them are bisexual, they [...]

OJ Simpson was sentenced to 15 years in prison today for his role in armed robbery of memorabilia (and NOT for anything else he was alleged to have done in June 1994). He’s not eligible for parole for nine years so that should be enough time for the Bills to build up the franchise to win [...]

The National Hockey League has suspended Dallas Stars forward Sean Avery indefinitely. Avery has been blogged about a number of times here for both his on-ice antics (causing a rule change during the playoffs by waving his stick near the face of a goalie) and off-ice interests (interning at Vogue magazine).
The reason for the suspension, [...]

My partner was asking me this morning, “How can anyone be so stupid?” It’s a great question, as details of the weekend escapades of New York Giants receiver Plaxico Burress come to light. In case you hadn’t heard, the fool (allegedly) took a gun to a Manhattan club and (allegedly) accidentally shot himself in the [...]

In a fight last month that was televised on HBO, a boxer with the entertaining name of Trenton Titsworth kissed his opponent, Jesse Vargas, while the two were in a clinch. An angry Vargas threw a punch when the referee broke up the clinch.
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Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Matt Jones (photo right) took a shot at Joey Porter of the Miami Dolphins, after Porter criticized Jones’ felony cocaine charge. This is the same Porter who was fined two years ago for calling another player a “fag.”
“I don’t even know why he’s even thinking about me,” Jones said. “I mean, [...]

Apparently, Ryan Leaf has been a quarterbacks coach at West Texas A&M. And apparently, he has left sooner than anticipated. He was reportedly suspended from his duties for asking a player for painkillers, and today he resigned as coach. As Yahoo! Sports wrote, he had allegedly been asking players for “something a little stronger than [...]

University of Texas backup center Buck Burnette was kicked off the team by Coach Mack Brown after he posted this message on his Facebook page:
“all the hunters gather up, we have a #$%&er in the whitehouse”

Jeff Kent of the Los Angeles Dodgers has given $15,000 to help pass Proposition 8 in California, which would amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage. I had always heard that Kent was a major league jackass and this just confirms it.
In a disclosure filed with the California secretary of state, Kent listed his [...]

We’ve seen some strange story twists here at Outsports over the years. The whole Mike Danton saga comes to mind. But this one might take the cake. We reported 18 months ago that LA Times sportswriter Mike Penner had become Christine Daniels. Daniels wrote an LA Times column about it, was given a personal blog [...]

I’m pressed for time (headed to a softball tournament in Washington, DC this weekend) so here is a quick summary of some things I was planning to write about…
Drought update: The Phillies’ 3-2 win over the LA Dodgers gives them a 1-0 lead in the National League Championship Series. This is the 18th time since [...]

TMZ reports on their website (and their highly entertaining, snarky TV show) that former Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive tackle Warren Sapp is acting out behind the scenes of ABC’s “Dancing With The Stars.” Sapp, who retired after the 2007 season, is a contestant on the current season of the show. TMZ says that Sapp is [...]