- Fines were so far down in the NFL in 2014, it almost wasn't worth covering them except to expose the farce that Roger Goodell was removing the pretense under which the charade on which the fines were based was going on.
- NASCAR: Kurt Busch effectively banned only a couple or three races, even though the civil judge said that the civil standard of proof had been met that the piece of shit beat his girlfriend.
- MLB: Rob Manfred and the Kansas City Royals, as previously noted.
- And now the NBA with the Game 4 debacle between Cleveland and Boston.
Kendrick Perkins on Jae Crowder. Was called a Flagrant-1 on the court -- was upgraded to a Flagrant-2 by the league, but Perkins was only fined.
Crowder eats this one from J.R. Smith, the Flagrant-2 costing him the rest of that game and Games 1 and 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.
But perhaps the biggest one appeared to be an intentional act.
Kelly Olynyk literally yanked Kevin Love's arm out of the socket. He's not only out the rest of that game, but the entire next series -- at least! Love was seen as one of the main supporting cast for the opportunity for LeBron James to return to Cleveland and give the city a long-lost title.
Olynyk will be suspended for the 2015-16 opener. 1 game.
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I think we are seeing a pattern.
And if it isn't stopped, someone's going to riot (or, worse yet, someone's going to kill somebody on the court with an illegal-in-sport act), and that's going to have nothing to do with outside forces like what felled the game Monday night in Baltimore -- and will fell far more.
We're seeing, in response to the nation's sports bloodlust, a demand for more blood, and not just from the NFL.
Perkins should've gotten two games, Smith's two-gamer might be a shade low, but how does Olynyk not get banned the first TEN games of next season or so for basically trying to take Kevin Love's arm with him??
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