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Seattle Seahawks

Seahawks RT Locklear arrested


Sean Locklear

Just hours after beating the Redskins on Saturday, Sean Locklear was arrested for domestic abuse after allegedly grabbing his girlfriend around the neck outside Belltown Billiards.  Apparently, he was upset because she was dancing with another man and confronted her.  Locklear is being held without bail until his hearing on Tuesday.

Why hasn’t Mike Holmgren instituted a ‘no going out after games’ policy? Earlier in the year, Ken Hamlin was seriously injured in a bar brawl in October after Seattle beat the Texans.

You know how hockey players grow beards during the playoffs? Perhaps football players should stop hanging around their girlfriends/wives.

[SeattlePI]: Seahawks’ Locklear arrested for domestic violence

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NFL General

Coaching Carousel and Rumor Mill for Jan 16th

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Pittsburgh Steelers

When did NBA refs take over the NFL?

Everyone who saw the interception by Troy Polamalu knew the game was over and that Indy was toast. Well, everyone but Referee Pete Morelli, who stood under the replay hood and somehow declared that it wasn’t an interception. There hasn’t been such a blatant attempt at swinging a game to one team’s favor since Game 6 of the Western Finals between the Lakers and T’Wolves. The bias was so bad that a player from the winning team came out and blasted the officials.


I felt they were cheating us. When the interception happened, everybody in the world knew that was an interception. Don’t cheat us that bad. When they did that, they really want Peyton Manning and these guys to win the Super Bowl. They are just going to straight take it for them. I felt that they were like ‘We don’t even care if you know we’re cheating. We’re cheating for them.’

The way the refs were going, I wouldn’t have trusted them in overtime,” Porter told the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. “If we hadn’t won, they would have cheated us in overtime.

[ESPN]: Porter on refs: ‘I felt they were cheating us’
[Sports Matters]: A Reading From The Book Of Crazy
[SI]: NFL: Official made judgment call
[Yahoo/AP]: NFL says ref got Polamalu call wrong; no comment on Porter remark

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Indianapolis Colts

The Peyton Manning backlash begins


OLine’s fault

As expected, the “Peyton Can’t Get It Done” columns and blog entries are in full force today as the Colts QB (now 3-6 in the playoffs) choked away his best chance at a Super Bowl appearance. The worst part is that he came out in his post-game interview and threw his OL under the bus by saying they had “protection problems”. We’ll see how well they protect his $98M-whining-choking-ass next year.

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NFL General

Peter King is an idiot

I guess it’s part of my job to read every fat blowhard that writes a column for a national magazine but I want to gouge my eyes out whenever I have to read Peter King. From today’s Monday Morning Quarterback column:


New England is out of it. Startling. I was convinced they’d make a real run at a fourth Super Bowl.

Ummmm…. maybe that’s because you’re a moron who spends half your season living as a barnacle on the ass of Belichick? And of course, the other half is spent servicing Tom Brady.


The best two teams in football, out of the race in a 17-hour span. It’s why we all watch.

Perhaps the fact that Denver handily beat NE and Indy choked again proves they’re not the two best teams in football? Why don’t you go write another article about Montclair Field Hockey, you ass clown.

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NHL General

Hockey attendance in November best in league history

Reports of Hockey’s demise have been premature.  Games are drawing an average of 16,818 fans, which is about 91% of capacity and 24 out of 30 teams are even or better than their attendance from 2003.  The top increases are in Pittsburgh, with Sidney Crosby bringing em in, and Tampa Bay, even though they unceremoniously dumped their Stanley Cup winning captain.  Compare this to the NBA where attendance is down for 15 of the 30 teams, which Philly. Portland and Minnesota suffering the most.

[FoxSports]: Ticket sales show NHL’s back after lost season

[Sportsfilter]: NHL Attendance for November Best in League History

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Indiana Pacers

Artest for Magette off again

Despite Al Harrington’s big mouth, the Artest for Magette trade won’t happen because the Pacers are concerned with his left foot. Despite his ability to both write and paint with it, the Pacers are concerned that he might be be able to be reactivated this season due to a tendon problem. This leaves basically only the Golden State Warriors as possible suitors.

[SFGate.com]: Flirting with Artest

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NFL General

Detroit is trying too hard

You know the guy at the bar who is obviously trying too hard? Well, that’s Detroit. The Detroit SB XL Host Committee commissioned a panel of local experts to list the top 40 moments in Detroit sports history. Hey, look, we’re not just about Palace brawls, the Tigers, and Matt Millen! We’ve got 40, count ’em, 40 (!) great moments.

I don’t know. When you have to list Lions’ 12-4 season in 1991, when they didn’t even make the Super Bowl, that’s pressing.

[Detroit Free Press]: Super Bowl salutes Motowen sports’ top 40

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Washington Redskins

Athletes never get special treatment

I guess the Miami judicial system didn’t expect the Washington Redskins to make the playoffs either. The trial of Sean Taylor for pointing a gun at someone in an altercation was scheduled to begin Tuesday. However, in order to accommodate the Redskins playoff run, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Daniel Snyder Mary Barzee has postponed the trial until March. Taylor’s attorney actually argued that the trial would “create a hardship for Taylor and the Redskins.” So would getting butt-raped in jail. Well, I guess that’s only a hardship for Taylor.

[Miami.com]: Judge delays trial of Redskins player Sean Taylor

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Orlando Magic

Stevie Franchise wears out his welcome again


Stevie ex-Franchise

[Update] Reports are that Francis pulled a Scottie Pippen and refused to reenter the Sonics game in the fourth quarter.

For a guy nicknamed “Franchise”, Steve Francis sure does like to wreck them. The Orlando Magic have suspended him indefinitely for “conduct detrimental to the team”. (Does having the second worst assist to turnover ratio for NBA point guards fit that definition?) This is only weeks after a nice fluff piece in the Orlando Sentinal about Francis “growing up.”

WKMG in Orlando is reporting that the suspension is not related to the fight Wednesday night in Seattle but rather because of a series of transgressions in the past few weeks. Indeed, Magic fans have noted that Francis has basically sleepwalked through the last 5 games.

It’s yet to be determined whether Francis will be Keyshawned or traded immediately, although his trade value is nil right now. Hmmm… there’s someone else in Indiana with the same trade value.

[Orlando Sentinel]: Magic suspend Francis