Nantz Loses Two Houses, $1M Per Year In Divorce

The CONNECTICUT POST breaks down the divorce settlement of Jim and Lorrie Nantz, which the presiding judge claims was not impacted by Nantz cheating on his ex-wife with a 29-year-old woman.

The total alimony and support award of $916,000 a year is somewhat less than the more than $1.5 million Lorrie Nantz had been seeking in […]

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Aluminum Bat Maker Found Liable In 2003 Death

Back in 2003, Montana high school pitcher Brandon Patch was struck by a line drive from an aluminum bat in his temple during a game. Patch would die from the injuries four hours later; his family, quite understandably, eventually filed a lawsuit.

Their lawsuit, however, wasn’t against staff at the game or anybody else who was […]

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Frank McCourt Accuses Jamie Of Affair With Fuller

Finally, we have the big breakthrough in the McCourts divorce case. With Jamie McCourt attempting to get her job as Dodger CEO back after she was fired by club owner and husband Frank, the Dodgers filed legal documents today against Jamie’s claim that are akin to an atom bomb.

(Frank: Jamie McCourt had affair with Jeff […]

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SI: Frank McCourt Fires Wife - The Dodgers CEO

UPDATE: SI is now reporting Jamie McCourt has been officially fired, within the last two days. (LA Times confirms.)
LAT also offers:
Jamie McCourt is believed to be lining up investors for a possible effort to buy out her husband and gain sole control of the team. In addition, she is believed to have started calling prominent […]

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Pics Of Steve Phillips And Brooke Hundley Surface

Well, that didn’t take long. Thanks to Internet and its magical powers, we’ve already got more pictures for today’s big story. According to THE BIG LEAD, two ESPN staffers are claiming that this is the infamous Brooke Hundley, a.k.a. the woman Steve Phillips gambled half his net worth on:

(They seem like a happy couple. This […]

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Steve Phillips’ Affair Ends Like You Think It Would

If we were to tell you that Steve Phillips had an affair with a 22-year-old production assistant, how do you suppose that situation would play itself out? It couldn’t possibly end discreetly and amicably with nobody in his family the wiser, right?

(Weird, we figured her Facebook profile would be a boiled rabbit.)
No, in a surprise […]

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RichRod Falsifies Players’ Grades! (Well, Sort Of)

It would pretty well suck to be Rich Rodriguez these days. After all, the Detroit press seems to be on a witch hunt, except it’s not really a hunt, since RichRod’s already right there and they’re not looking for anyone else. At the same time, though they tut and moan about everything about the program, […]

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Dodger Owner’s Hell: Sell Or Keep Ex- On As CEO

It’s been fun following the media coverage of the McCourts’ separation today. Ken Rosenthal of Foxsports.com broke the breakup while adding that Jamie McCourt is “better positioned” to buy the team outright than her husband Frank.

(#F—ME)
That put Frank’s lawyer Marshall Grossman, who is also Erin Andrews’ attorney, on the defensive with the L.A. TIMES:
“Frank McCourt […]

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Chris Bosh Saves The Internet For 800+ Athletes

There probably aren’t any statistics to bear this out, but we’re pretty damned sure that the lowest ratio of IQ-to-income among all professions belongs to athletes, who display an uncanny ability to blow through unholy amounts of money as soon as they get it. That’s not news, of course, but it makes them prime targets […]

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Unsanctioned High School MMA? That’s A Lawsuit

One of the few problems MMA faces in gaining acceptance among American culture is that it’s, to the untrained eye, virtually indistinguishable from a common brawl. “Okay,” the person thinks, “they’re just taking swings at each other with their shirts off. And now one of them is bleeding so game over.” There’s plenty more to […]

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