Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant knew there’d be payback for having refused to do the rookie rite of carrying teammates’ shoulder pads during training camp. The check came due this week at the traditional rookie-picks-up-the-tab dinner. The damage: $ 54,896. The meal was supposed to be only for offensive players, but more than 20 [...]
Goodbye to Joe Torre. If nothing else in his tenure with the Dodgers, he was at least a class act. He probably got more out of his team the previous two seasons than anyone else could have. Unfortunately, this year’s edition of the Dodgers imploded for a variety of reasons. Much of the fault can [...]
It may have looked like Los Angeles Lakers player Ron Artest got pulled over for driving an Indianapolis 500 race car on the street, but he was really at the wheel of an Eagle Roadster, a street-legal ”kit car” with headlights, two seats and a Chrysler engine. The Eagle is no Indy car, but it’s still pretty quick. According [...]
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service sent a 2 million tax bill to a man who worked as a day trader in New York for less than a year. Friends said Marcos Esparza Bofill, who has since returned to his native Spain, received a 2,101,056.48 bill for his unfiled 2006 tax return, the New York Post [...]
Shaka Smart and the VCU men’s basketball program are enjoying a very good week. Smart has been given a contract extension and a retention bonus from VCU. And Smart also received a verbal commitment from a player, Treveon Graham, who could have a pivotal role in the program as a freshman in 2011. Smart’s contract [...]
Imagine your 21-year-old daughter being charged with bank fraud and sentenced to eight months of home detention. Haley Patterson, a former Compass Bank teller, was sentenced today to one-hour of imprisonment and eight months home detention for her role in a bank fraud scheme that took ,800 from older bank customers. That’s right, one hour. [...]
The Green Bay Packers have been through year after year of Favre retirement speculation — and a couple of his actual retirements — so forgive them if they don’t overreact to reports that Favre has told the Minnesota Vikings he won’t be back. “If he is retired, congratulations,” Packers linebacker Nick Barnett (FSY) said playfully, hamming [...]