Roundup: Ray Rice Knockout Video; Lance Stephenson's Birthday Invites & US Open Says Goodbye to CBS
By Jason McIntyre
The biggest story in sports today will be the video of Ray Rice knocking out his fiancee (now wife). If you missed it early this morning, go cringe watching it. [via TMZ Sports]
Sotonya (Soso) Jamabo, one of the best running backs in high school football, ran for 484 yards and six TDs Friday night. [Dallas Morning News]
Billy Bean’s return to baseball. [Fox Sports]
For people who like, or don’t like, sideline reporters. [Boston Globe]
Bob Welch’s June death ruled an accident from simply falling in the bathroom. [Mercury News]
Pretty harsh analysis of Kevin Towers’ 4-year run as GM of the Diamondbacks. [Arizona Republic]
Troubled Colt Lyerla, who was once a star tight end at Oregon but was injured during the Green Bay Packers preseason, was arrested over the weekend. He hasn’t kicked his drug problems. [Oregonian]
When DeSean Jackson was in high school, people told him he was about to ‘hit the jackpot.’ Hence the name of his record label, ‘Jaccpot.’ [XXL]
There were some bad performances Sunday, but the Chiefs may have laid the biggest egg, losing at home to Tennessee and losing two players for the season to injury. [KC Star]
Invites to Lance Stephenson’s 24th birthday had an imagine of him blowing out candles. Yes, from when he blew in LeBron’s ear. [Hot Clicks]
The Pistons got a giant new scoreboard! [Freep]
This was the last US Open to be televised on CBS. [NYT]
Tony Reali’s last day on PTI was Friday.
Terrifying helicopter crash in Russia. Gets scary around 1:16.[via Cartmaniak]
Check out the speed of rookie Aaron Donald, penetrating into the backfield to swallow Adrian Peterson. [via Dan]