Dante Martin faces 77 months in prison after being convicted of manslaughter and felony hazing in the November 2011 death of Robert Champion. “This is something I will live with for the rest of my life,” Martin said in court in Orlando, Fla. Champion, a drum major, died as a result of injuries during an incident on a bus. Martin was said to have been the ringleader of the hazing....
Homicide came to the rescue of Jon Moxley and Eddie Kingston on AEW Rampage. The duo was being assaulted by Suzuki-gun during their Lights Out match against Minoru Suzuki and Lance Archer. Later, New York’s own Kingston took the mic to put Homicide over. He stated that the former TNA Tag Team Champion was his mentor. Furthermore, Eddie Kingston also added that New York was AEW’s hometown from now on....
But don’t get them started on the current uniforms. MORE: How much did the Rams improve this offseason? “I’ll never forget when I saw the Rams come out of the Coliseum tunnel for the first time in those beautiful gold and yellow uniforms with those Rams horns,” Fred Dryer, a defensive end for the Rams from 1972 to 1981, told ESPN. “If you look at the Rams horns right now, they’re a disgrace....
Cardenales de Lara – the team Castillo and Valbuena played for – confirmed the 33-year-old and 37-year-old had been killed in a crash on Thursday via Twitter. According to Yaracuy state governor Julio Leon Heredia, four men were taken into custody having allegedly been involved in causing the crash and robbing the players of their belongings. A third member or the Cardenales de Lara, former Arizona Diamondbacks player Carlos Rivera, and the driver of the vehicle survived the crash....
On “Jalen and Jacoby”, Rose said: David Jacoby hilariously responded to this question: The New York Knicks made some interesting moves in the offseason. They signed Jalen Brunson from the Dallas Mavericks in free agency. Brunson impressed for the Mavs in the last postseason. They also secured star guard RJ Barrett to a new four-year deal. Barrett is full of confidence heading into the new season. The New York Knicks have some good players on their roster, but given the team’s history in recent seasons, it is difficult to believe Barrett’s claim....
According to WSOC TV in Charlotte, the jury determined that Biffle did “intrude offensively upon the privacy” of his then-wife, Nicole, by installing cameras in their bedroom and bathroom. However, the jury awarded Nicole Biffle only $1 in damages, and answered “No” on all other claims against the former driver. The plaintiff had sought $9 million in damages. “What the jury said sends a loud message that they don’t believe there was wrong doing,” Biffle said (via WSOC)....
In a statement Wednesday, spokesman Brad Bohlander said university police notified the former Wolfpack receiver this month after the school discovered his wife's car received two campus parking tickets during the spring semester. MORE: Can NC State scare FSU? | Week 9 picks | Bowl projections The school had sent the Leaks a disassociation letter in November 2011 for providing improper benefits to two former basketball players, then referred concerns about him in September 2012 to the North Carolina Secretary of State's office after he spoke with ex-Wolfpack football player David Amerson....
The Allen County Coroner’s Office identified his body after a plant worker discovered his body in a log jam. MORE: Notable sports deaths of 2017 Hardy III was drafted in the second round of the 2008 NFL Draft and spent four years in the league. He played for the Buffalo Bills from 2008-10, then played for the Baltimore Ravens in 2011, though he never took a snap for the team....
Hamilton Police said Emery was identified as the victim of a swimming accident in the harbor Sunday morning. Staff sergeant Paul Evans said police received a call just after 6 a.m. that an adult swimmer did not surface and that the Niagara Police assisted in the recovery effort. Emery’s body was recovered just before 3 p.m. Sunday. Hamilton Police said a cause of death would be confirmed after a post-mortem....
“There isn’t a day that goes by since 2003 that I haven’t questioned that there were some things done that might have been beyond the rules that may have given them a 3-point advantage,’’ Hurney said of New England’s 32-29 win over Carolina in Super Bowl XXXVIII during his Charlotte radio show on Thursday. MORE: Theismann tests deflated footballs | Brady: ‘I’ve always played within the rules’ | Brady: ‘This isn’t ISIS’...
Following years of exclusivity, PlayStation seems to have changed its approach by making more and more games available on PC. Players are already able to play Marvel’s Spider-Man and God of War (2018), among many others that have been ported over to PC. Let’s look at all the details that were shown in the platformer’s PC trailer. Sackboy: A Big Adventure comes to PC along with another blockbuster from PlayStation Thanks to a video on PlayStation’s Latin American account, players have a glimpse of what’s coming from Sackboy: A Big Adventure....
Johnson fled from North Carolina to Pennsylvania following an altercation with a woman, thought to be his ex-girlfriend, which ended with him shooting her multiple times. The shooting was believed to be the result of a domestic dispute. Although the woman was transported to a nearby hospital and is now listed as in stable condition, it appears Johnson believed he had killed her and fled North Carolina. It is unknown why Johnson chose to go to Pennsylvania, but Pennsylvania State Police were notified that he had entered Adams County around 3 pm the day following the shooting....
Born in London, Ajayi is a lifelong football fan and supports Arsenal, while he is also an avid FIFA player. It will be the 26-year-old’s first season as a professional FIFA player, with the running back having played on streams against former NFL player Chad ‘Ochocinco’ Johnson and Men in Blazers’ host Roger Bennett. Ajayi said: “Philadelphia will always hold a special place in my heart. I am blessed to be able to represent the city through esports and to be one of the first pro athletes to become a professional gamer....
“There are all kinds of civil wars. There are civil wars that will kill our country in three days in winter. And it will be over in three days, but it will kill the country,” Girkin said in a clip with subtitles that was posted to Twitter on Sunday by Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. In the clip, Girkin added that Moscow could “collapse into a civil war with millions of casualties, with a complete collapse and defragmentation....
While Greg Hardy and Adrian Peterson gear up for training camp, the former Ravens running back is still hard at work trying to revive his career. In fact, a group of advocates that includes former Buccaneers and Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano is reaching out to teams on Rice’s behalf, according to ESPN. MORE: NFL single-season rushing leaders | Report: Cardinals sign tight end Jermaine Gresham Schiano coached Rice at Rutgers from 2005-07 before he declared his intention to enter the 2008 NFL Draft....
DIAMOND: Antonio Brown has turned into the worst kind of player About three hours after tweeting that, however, Mendenhall backpedaled on his comments. Mendenhall received a lot of backlash on Twitter for his initial tweet. After all, using the sentence “he had to catch balls from a racist quarterback” is a very strong thing to say. It’s not exactly the kind of statement you then retract within the same day....
Former WWE Creative writer Court Bauer joined Inside The Ropes this past week. Here are a couple of highlights: Thoughts on his former colleague Dusty Rhodes’s role on RAW last week: “The problem I have is that you’re going from Virgil to Dusty and Runnels to Rhodes. It’s just to me, that you’re playing to such a small margin of the audience when you do that. If you look at anything in the world of entertainment, you know you don’t call Tom Cruise by his real name, which isn’t Tom Cruise....
The Game revealed that he heard the moniker for the first time when McMahon coined the term backstage. Shane was actually describing that the group was getting over with the crowd due to their risque antics. Hunter explained: (H/T Fightful) If Triple H is to be believed, a simple conversation backstage gave the name of one of the most popular factions in WWE History. Sometimes, big things have small beginnings....
It has been well documented in the past that Alex Riley and John Cena had backstage issues back when both men were mainstays on WWE TV. Alex Riley shared a bunch of posts on his Instagram handle in which he challenged WWE legend John Cena to the first-ever “Sports Entertainment Union Match.” Riley also made it clear in one of the posts that Cena “has no choice” but to face him in the squared circle....
Rosberg’s triumph in Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix made him the seventh driver since 1950 to start a campaign with three straight victories. Adding in the three he won at the tail-end of 2015, Rosberg also became the fourth ever to rack up six Formula One world championship race wins in a row. All those who previously achieved such winning streaks went on to win the title that season. The caveat is that 2016 has a record 21 races and Mercedes gives its drivers equal status – and none of the drivers who enjoyed such hot streaks in the past had a teammate like Hamilton....
