Friday, September 19, 2014

Sports Gone Insane, Day Twelve: Some Odds And Ends

  • May we have seen the last of Jameis Winston?  Florida State University announced tonight that he is now banned for the entire contest tomorrow night -- tomorrow's feature prime-time contest between the defending champs and Clemson.  The investigation, continuing, into his inappropriate remark has seen his suspension doubled.
  • Sounds like it's not just the fans at Rutgers who are "classless" against Pedophile State.  The athletic director of the university made an off-color joke about the whole affair last fall.
  • Rex Chapman going beyond shoplifting and into grand theft:  $14,000 worth of it.
  • There was much criticism when the UFC reinstated Wanderlai Silva -- domestic abuser and all -- even with an evaded drug test that sends him in front of the Nevada State Athletic Commission next week.  His wife posted two YouTube videos -- one of him with a gun and the other of him high on cocaine.  On the basis of that, he's gone again.
  • Another UFC fighter, another MMA domestic violence, another person out:  Anthony Johnson, as evidence has been raised of incidents in at least 2009 and 2012.
  • Across the barrier into boxing:  Floyd Mayweather, in trouble with the NSAC?  Not as a boxer, though -- his status as a promoter and some of the practices out of his gym, revealed in a preview series (I believe on HBO) for the second Maidana fight.  Mayweather has a situation called "Dog House Rules" - "The rules are you fight until someone quits."  The NSAC wants to know how it was allowed for a 31-minute "round" under those conditions...  (The marijuana Mayweather was smoking nearby doesn't help matters.)

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