Roundup: Video of a Marine Badly Beating a Cab Driver, MNF Ratings Down Again & the Fabulous Sports Babe
By Jason McIntyre
The TV rating for Baltimore and Cincinnati on Monday Night Football was abysmal. [Sports Media Watch]
Here’s a terrific profile of The Fabulous Sports Babe. [Grantland]
What is American Soccer? [What a Howler]
Crushing Debt Drove Me to Kosovo — And Then to Iraq. [The Billfold]
The Yankees lost to the Red Sox on a Jacoby Ellsbury walk-off homer single. [Herald]
Brent Grimes, Atlanta’s best cornerback, is out for year with an Achilles tendon injury. [AJC]
“Duke must receive a notice of allegations from the NCAA with the charges and what bylaws the enforcement staff feels were broken before the organization’s four-year statute of limitations expires” [News & Observer]
Josh Childress signs with the Nets. [NYT]
Oakland won its fifth straight and now lead Tampa by two games and Anaheim by 2.5 games in the Wild Card race. [Chronicle]
The nervous state of Tobacco Road. [CBS Sports]
BJ Upton lost his wallet. Twitter found it. [Rays Index]
“UBS whistleblower Brad Birkenfeld gets record reward from IRS [$104 million] for exposing tax evasion at the Swiss bank.” [Christian Science Monitor]
Marine flips out on cab driver, pounds him badly in brutal beating. Warning: Can be tough to watch. [via Adam]
According to the You Tube description, the cyclist only suffered a broken arm and leg after this crash. [via Cartmaniak]