DEVELOPING: Dodgers Found Partly Liable In Stow Beating

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The jury has come back and delivered a verdict in the beating of San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow on Opening Day 2011.

Stow's attorney maintained the Dodgers and then-owner Frank McCourt were liable for having lacked proper security forces at Dodger Stadium should fighting break out between Dodger and Giants fans.

The end result is that McCourt is absolved. The Dodgers are 25-percent to blame and the two men charged in the Stow beating- Louie Sanchez and Marvin Norwood are responsible for the balance.

The jury awarded Stow $18 million in damages, which means the Dodgers must pay about $4.5 million. Sanchez and Norwood would be responsible for the balance.

Here's the story from outside the courtroom

Opening Statements In Bryan Stow Case

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You had to get through a six-page written questionnaire, but 16 jurors were selected, eight men and eight women, to hear the Bryan Stow civil case against the Los Angeles Dodgers and Frank McCourt.

Stow suffered brain damage in the Opening Day 2011 beating at Dodger Stadium and is permanently disabled.
His lawyers say his lifetime care could cost $50 million and he will not testify in the case.

Patrick Healy is outside the courtroom


Four of the 16 will become alternate jurors, but the panelists will not know until the end of the trial which 12 will actually deliberate on the Stow case and deliver a verdict.

The Dodgers maintain that the security force they had at the Giants-Dodgers game was one of the biggest they ever had and that the responsibility for the acts of that day rest with Stow for wearing his Giants gear and two Dodger fans who beat him on that day.

An Interesting Thought... Will NHL Players Pull Out Of Sochi...???

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We all know what's happening over in Sochi...

And we all know what the US government has planned in case something gets past the Russian security service...

Phoenix Coyotes goalie Mike Smith has already said that he's keeping his family at home because of the security concerns, but what is the NHL thinking about it...???

Jeff Marek moderates the question...

US Ramping Up Plans If It Goes Sideways In Sochi

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The United States government is looking at their evacuation plans if terrorism rears its suspected head during the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has put up a security perimeter outside the town itself that takes nothing short of an act of Congress to access. The US military, in return, are having warships and aircraft within reach in case of necessary evacuations.

Richard Engel is watching from Moscow...
For now...


A video put up on Youtube by an alleged terror group from the Dagestan republic laid claim to recent blasts in Volgograd and claimed incidents were coming to Sochi as well...

CNN's Jim Sciutto centers around a "black widow" that the Russians are keeping their eyers on as a focus for possible violence...

Riley Cooper Apologizes For Slur, Fallout In 3, 2, 1... (UPDATED With Vick Responses)

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First, here's the apology...


Let's work backwards...
Cooper was at a Kenny Chesney concert and had a run in with security...
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The first half the HQ can't make out, but the second half has a "hard -er" and not a "soft -a" where that word is concerned...
Which means there is no term of affection used here at the concert...

Cooper admitted he was fined for his remarks by he team and the league wasn't too fond of his shenanigans either:

"The NFL stands for diversity and inclusion. Comments like this are wrong, offensive, and unacceptable."

And here's the statement from Eagles Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Lurie's statement:

“We are shocked and appalled by Riley Cooper’s words. This sort of behavior or attitude from anyone has no role in a civil society. He has accepted responsibility for his words and his actions. He has been fined for this incident.“

PM UPDATE: Marcus Vick, who the HQ has no idea what he's doing these days, decided to put a bounty out on Cooper when all of this went public...

"Hey I'm putting a bounty on Riley's head. 1k to the first Free Safety or Strong safety that light his (expletive) up! Wake him up please...."

Marcus has since deleted his Tweet...

But, to his credit, brother Michael came out and said that he didn't agree with his brother's assessment:

Jeff McLane of the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Michael Vick said, "I don't agree with what my brother is saying."

Idiot Storms Field At All-Star Game, Gets Spinebuster from Security

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Fox ignored this idiot as they should have...
But here's what they didn't show...


Just reminds us of Double-A taking care of business...
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Told ya...