Sportscaster In Same Building As Orlando Gunman

UPDATE (2:25 ET): Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer reports “the gunman has been apprehended.” Dyer’s spokeswoman reports Jason Rodriguez was located at his mother’s residence and caught by a S.W.A.T. “without incident.”
Scary stuff in Orlando today as Local 6 reports on a gunman terrorizing an office building in the Central Florida city:
The shooting took place at […]

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Wait, Lincecum Smokes Pot? That’s Unpossible!

You mean to tell me that the fellow in the picture below enjoys weed? What? Because I would have guessed he spends the off season reading the Book of Mormon, or cleaning oil-infested sea fowl. But there’s word today that Tim Lincecum was pulled over by the cops last week and charged with misdemeanor possession […]

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Indicted: Delonte West Could Soon Get Plaxico’d

Ruben Castaneda of the WASHINGTON POST reports that a Prince George’s County grand jury indicted Delonte West on six weapons offenses Tuesday stemming from a September incident in which he was arrested “on the Capital Beltway with three loaded guns and an 8 1/2-inch bowie knife.”.

26-year-old West is also charged with reckless and negligent driving.
While […]

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Former Raider Goes Nuts At Youth Football Game

And now, more punchy fun involving the Oakland Raiders, this time without Tom Cable. You may remember Jeremy Brigham (below) as a tight end for the Raiders from 1998-2001 (if so you have a good memory — he scored three career touchdowns). He now lives in the peaceful, leafy Northern California enclave of Pleasanton, where […]

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Mavericks’ Coach Popeye Jones Popped For DUI

When you wake up on Monday morning and see yourself all over the Internets looking like this, you know it’s not going to be a good week. Popeye Jones, who played for the Mavericks over two stints from 1993 to 2003, and is now an assistant coach with the team, was arrested and charged with […]

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SD Bail Bonds TV Commercial Targets Raider Fans

A San Diego bail bonds company had a TV ad done up specifically for this week. One guess why:

(One guess which frame I threw in there.)
Video after the jump.

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Claim: Stubblefield Threatened To Murder His Ex

KGO-TV in San Francisco reports that Dana Stubblefield is under a restraining by his former fiancee after she accused him of trying to kill her, among other things. After having already lied to the Feds about doing steroids in the BALCO case, Stubblefield could very well be sent to prison if the new allegations is […]

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Tom Cable Faces Abuse Allegations From Women

ESPN’s Outside The Lines reports this morning that three different women in Tom Cable’s life have accused the Raiders Coach of physical abuse in public document filings.

This morning ESPN aired on-camera comments from Cable’s first wife Sandy, as she accused the coach of punching her in the jaw during their marriage. Another woman, Marie Lutz, […]

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Finkelstein Lawyer: ‘They Chained Her Like A Dog’

Susan Finkelstein: Victim of circumstance, or the devil? Bensalem, Pa., cops said she flaunted her feminine wares to procure World Series tickets. Finkelstein says she was “just flirting,” with an undercover policeman, and had no plan to offer sex for tickets. Baseball fans are lining up for and against her (a SPORTSBYBROOKS poll ran overwhelmingly […]

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‘7 Restaurant’ Not Affiliated With Mike Vick. Riiight

Suppose - just suppose - there were a “7 Restaurant” that popped up in the middle of Virginia, just about 100 miles from where Michael Vick went to college at Virginia Tech. Also, just suppose there are pictures of Vick on the wall. And jerseys of his. It wouldn’t take too much of a leap […]

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