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Cincinnati Bengals

Chad Johnson’s mouth makes the news again


Chad Johnson loves to talk. And talk and talk and talk. So, it isn’t surprising that every now and then he makes a fool of himself by barking like a pit-bull and biting like yorkie. It’s really no big deal when it comes to gridiron trash talk; Johnson’s gotta be used to wiping egg off his face by now, but people in the real world don’t seem to appreciate it when he doesn’t back up his promises.

Cincinnati resident Thomas J. Monahan is suing Funny Bone Comedy Club after Johnson failed to follow through with his promise to give away a Lexus that he had received for free from a Florida dealership. Apparently Monahan bought a bunch of tickets at $17 a pop only to have Johnson give the car to some nappy headed ho. Monahan’s son also got screwed out of a trip to the Super Bowl that Johnson had put up for grabs. But Monahan isn’t alone as five other plaintiffs are getting in on the action claiming that they were also denied trips that were promised by Ocho-Cinco during his stint as host of a comedy showcase at the club.

Damn Chad, if you keep flapping your lips like this and your list of “Who Covered 85 in `05” will be dwarfed by the new “Who Sued 85 in ’07” list, and nobody wants that. The NFL and its fans need your flashy grills, silly hairdos, big mouth and especially your choreographed TD celebrations. And after making it into the end zone only seven times last season, we need you to be on the practice field, not in the courtroom.

Links:

[Sports By Brooks]: Man sues Chad Johnson for alleged Lexus renege
[Cincinnati.com]: Chad Johnson added to lawsuit

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St. Louis Cardinals

Make sure your tattoo artist knows how to spell

Another bad tattoo

What better way is there to celebrate your favorite team’s championship win than by getting a tattoo?  You can go around commemorating the St. Louis Cardinals 2000 Worlb Series victory with an awesome tattoo.  What?  Oh, that’s supposed to  say 2006 World Series?  Damn.

Cards fan Jason Harris is suing The House of Ink in St. Louis for over $25,000 in damages.  Since it was on his back, he didn’t know about the errors until he showed his mother (“Hey ma, check this out!”) the following day.  The shop has offered to fix the work but Harris would rather get it removed at this  point.

We completely understand where he’s coming from.  A tattoo is supposed to be cool.  Now this tattoo was never going to be cool but now it’s a complete joke.  Hey, at least he didn’t try getting it in Chinese characters and end of with something like St. Louis Pigeon Moth Balls.  

We don’t have a photo of his wretched tattoo but it sounds like a job for Joe Sports Fan.

Links:
[The Smoking Gun]: What In The Worlb?

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NBA General

Bruce Bowen says Computer Nerdz are Computer Crookz


Bruce Bowen and his wife Yardley have filed suit against a Texas computer repair shop for over $2M after the company sold their hard drive containing personal information to another customer. The Bowns want $562k in economic damages, $1.2M in mental anguish damages, and another $500k in punitive damages.

The Bowens claim they took a faulty computer to the folks at Computer Nerdz, who told them the hard drive was fubar and that they would need a new one. Since the computer was still under warranty from Gateway, they could get a new hard drive for free and all they had to do was send the broken hard drive back to Gateway. Computer Nerdz gave them a bad drive, they sent it back and all was well. Until they were contacted by a woman who said Computer Nerdz sold her a “new” hard drive and she discovered all the Bowen’s personal information on it. Oops.

Here’s what probably happened: the Computer Nerdz thought they’d make a quick buck by fleecing Gateway’s warranty service then fixing up and selling Bowen’s old hard drive as new to an unsuspecting customer. Unfortunately, someone forgot to erase the hard drive first. The Bowens would be wise to settle this quickly out of court — we don’t expect Computer Nerdz to be in business much longer.

Of course, this had to happen to Bruce Bowen, the boringest man in the league. Why couldn’t the contents of Rich Eisen’s hard drive be out there?

Links:
[The Smoking Gun]: NBA Star Claims Hard Drive Foul

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General Sports

High school coaches of America take notice



Come here son, I’ll show
you the wrath of a coach.

If you thought that America was full of frivolous law suits, just wait until you get a load of what is going on in France. Jean-Louis Montero is a defender on the Troyes soccer club and a French cry baby who is suing his coach, Jean-Marc Furlan, because he was mean to him.

Montero claims he has been “subjected, for several months, to the wrath of my coach”, who has “called into question my honour and seriousness”. Now, we’ve never heard of having your seriousness questioned, in fact, we don’t even know what that means but this guy is definitely trying to act like this law suit has nothing to do with being benched by Furlan. But we knew the truth after he slipped up and revealed a little bit of insight into why he filed for defamation.

This has nothing to do with the fact I’m no longer playing. He has called my honour into question on numerous occasions,” Montero said.
“In an artical written on November 28, he (Furlan) said that I was no longer good enough to play in the first division. I have played 200 matches in that league.

Michael Jordan is one of the greatest athletes of all-time but it doesn’t mean that he didn’t suck at the end of his career. Take your benching like a man and don’t try to act like your coach being a prick is what got you there. Geez, what a baby; this guy wouldn’t last five minutes in a room with The General Robert Montgomery Knight.

Links:

[Yahoo]: Montero sues Troyes coach for defamation
[TeamTalk.com]: Troyes defender in coach complaint

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Indiana Pacers

When mascots attack!


An Indiana Pacers fan is suing the Pacers because he calims that Pacers mascot “Boomer” tackled him during a free throw shooting competition and caused permanent back damage.


In his lawsuit, Jackson says he attended the March 11, 2005, game against Golden State and was asked to participate in a free-throw shooting contest.

He initially declined, citing his recent back surgery, but was assured “there would be no reason for concern or injury,” according to the lawsuit.

After the contest, the lawsuit says, he began to leave the court but was tackled by Boomer. The employee who knew about Jackson’s bad back told the mascot about the surgery, and Boomer responded by kicking at Jackson’s legs, the lawsuit says.

If a guy can get $2.5M out of the Phillies fanatic because he hugged him too hard, imagine how much this guy is going to get from the Pacers for being tackled. As if the Pacers organization isn’t throwing enough money away as it is on Dunleavy and Troy Murphy.

Links:
[Indy Star]: Even the mascot is having legal troubles

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Golf

Fuzzy Zoeller suing over Wikipedia entry



I am no wife beater!

Fuzzy Zoeller is suing a company in Florida for “defamation, false light invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress” over statements that someone at Josef Silny and Associates, Inc. posted on Wikipedia. Since he can’t sue Wikipedia, he traced the IP address of the posting to the company and is suing them instead. Here is the offending passage:


Later Zoeller went public with his alcoholism and prescription drug addiction, explaining that at the time he made those statements, he was “in the process of polishing off a fifth of Jack (Daniels) after popping a handful of vicodin pills”. He further detailed the violent nature of his disease, recalling how he’d viciously beat his wife Dianne and their four children while under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol. He also admitted feigning a ruptured spinal disc in 1985 so as to be prescribed a multitude of prescription medication.

He sought professional help and mended his fractured familial relationships. In May 2006, Zoeller said in an interview with Golf Digest magazine that he hadn’t beaten his wife in nearly five years.

According to the lawsuit:


The false statements published by Defendant JOSEF SILNY AND ASSOCIATES, INC. tended to subject MR. DOE to hatred, distrust, ridicule, contempt, and disgrace in that they depicted MR. DOE as an alcoholic and prescription drug addict, who is possessed of a violent nature which had caused him to “viciously beat his wife and their four children”, and as someone who had committed the crime of falsifying ailment in order to obtain prescription drugs.

Yeah, we can see why Fuzzy Zoeller MR. DOE would be mad about that. While the offending passage has been taken out of the Fuzzy Zoeller wikipedia entry, it still remains on Answers.com and that’s probably how the Miami Herald was able to deduce the super secret identity of MR. DOE.

We hope Fuzzy doesn’t sue us for repeating the passage, after all, we can barely afford to put collard greens or whatever the hell we serve on the table.

Links:
[Miami Herald]: Golfer Zoeller sues Miami firm for Wikipedia posting
[Miami Herald]: Fuzzy Zoeller lawsuit pdf
[Answers.com]: Fuzzy Zoeller

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NFL General

Jan 17 in Sports History: 15-1 Vikings go down in the NFCCG


In 1999: Normally, a 14-2 team advancing to the Super Bowl wouldn’t shock anyone, but when the Atlanta Falcons faced the Minnesota Vikings in the NFC Championship game, few expected Atlanta to move on. The Vikings were, 15-1 and one of the most dominant regular season teams in recent memory. Minnesota, led by rookie Randy Moss and a rejuvenated Randall Cunningham rolled up a league-record 556 points and was rarely challenged. Still, the Falcons decided to take the field anyway as 11-point underdogs in the noisy Metrodome. The Vikings had a chance to ice it in the fourth quarter, but Gary Anderson missed a 38-yard field goal (his very first miss of the year) that would’ve put them up by 10. Instead of being down by 10 with 2:00 minutes left, the Falcons were able to force overtime with a Chris Chandler (who outgained Cunningham 340-266) to Terrance Mathis (who scored twice to Moss’ one TD) touchdown with :49 left. The Falcons defense bogged down the Vikings in overtime and Morten Andersen kicked the game-winner to send the “Dirty Birds” to the Super Bowl for the first time, where Eugene Robinson was arrested for propositioning a prositute and the Falcons were beaten by the Broncos. (For those who might not remember the Dirty Bird—, lucky you. It was cool like the Macarena was cool.)

In 1997: Normally getting kicked in your bag just nets a lot of pain and embarrassment. And chances are, you probably deserved it. But when Eugene Amos, an in-house photographer at Minnesota’s Target Center had the audacity to be in the way of a diving Dennis Rodman, his pain turned into a winning lottery ticket. Rodman, then a member of the Chicago Bulls, was scrambling for a loose ball, collided with a prone Amos under the basket and introduced himself Nike-first into Amos’ crotch. The NBA kicked Rodman harder, but in his wallet. He was fined $25,000 and was suspended for 11 games. Rodman also agreed to pay Amos $200,000. Since the suspension was without pay, Rodman cost himself over $1 million dollars and an infinite number of stupid points, even for him.

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Miami Dolphins

Marcus Vick sued for sexual battery

…but I LOVE you

A 17-year-old is suing Marcus Vick for $6.3 million accusing him of sexual battery upon a minor, fraud, and other chargers (too slow in the 40?).  According to the lawsuit, the girl started a two year sexual relationship with Vick when she was only 15 and he was at Va Tech.   Does she (and her grandma) want Marcus thrown in jail for statutory rape?  Nope, they want cash for “psychological trauma associated with the child sexual abuse perpetrated by defendant Marcus Vick.”

First off, while it’s illegal and reprehensible for Vick to take advantage of a high school girl, this lawsuit smells of a  shakedown.  Second, why does this surprise anyone?  Remember, before the 2004 season, Vick was arrested for providing underaged girls with marijuana, liquor,  and pornography.  You gotta figure he got around to nailing them.  It’s a simple  equation folks, marijuana + underaged girls + pornography = sex.  Or at least that’s what R. Kelly says.  The girl filing the lawsuit is one of the girls in the 2004 incident.  At the time, she invoked the 5th Amendment Rights at the trial  Now, she just understands it’s time to get paid.

She also accuses Vick of fraud because he told her her loved her to get her to have sex with him.  Holy Christ!  If she wins that argument, any man who’s lied to get laid (and that’s just about every man who’s gotten laid) is in serious trouble.

Links:
[Yahoo]: Girl suing former Virginia Tech QB for $6.3 million

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General Sports

Harold Reynolds wants at least $5M

The Smoking gun has a copy of the Connecticut lawsuit filed by Harold Reynolds against ESPN where he’s suing for breach of contract. According to Reynolds, he was never told why he was fired and in response to the allegations of sexual harassment, he claims that he gave a “brief hug” to the intern and she never expressed any discomfort and they even went to dinner at the classy Boston Market that evening.

Reynolds said that in March he signed a new six year contract with ESPN that paid him $1M per. “During negotiatons for any contract, ESPN raised no specific concerns about any past conduct or performance, and ESPN indicated no reservations whatsoever about Mr. Reynold’s continue employment with it.” Reynolds also claimed that ESPN did not adequately investigate the alleged misconduct and still has not given him a copy of his personnel file as required by CT law.

All this adds up to “at least $5 million, including interest and lost past and future earnings.” Ouch.

As one ESPN insider told us, interns can be related to pretty powerful people in the sports community, so we have to wonder who this intern was whose complaint will result in ESPN losing a decent baseball announcer and at least $5mil.

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[The Smoking Gun]: Announcer Sues ESPN Over “Hug” Firing

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Dallas Cowboys

Cowboys WR coach is suing McDonald’s



Now with more rat!

Todd Haley, who is known mostly for disrespecting and being disrespected by Terrell Owens, is suing McDonald’s for $1.7M because his wife and nanny found a six inch dead rat in their McSalad.

According to the lawsuit, Christine Haley had eaten part of the salad when she found a juvenile roof rat in it with its paws up and mouth open. Both women because violently ill and “endured long-lasting physical injuries”. The suit was filed because the McDonald’s didn’t follow through on their promise “to make things right”. Ummm… how do you make finding a dead rat in your salad right? Free nuggets for your lifetime? Advance notice of when those yummy Shamrock Shakes are coming? Basically, the only thing to “make it right” is money. And well, we guess $1,700,000 is the “right” amount.

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[SI]: Cowboys assistant suing McDonald’s