(Reuters) – The NFL suspended New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady without pay for the first four games of the 16-game season, fined the franchise $1 million and took away two draft picks on Monday for their role in Deflategate. Here is a list of some of the more notable punishments doled out in sport: – Major League Baseball’s Alex Rodriguez was suspended for the entire 162 games of the
Tom Brady was suspended for four games and the New England Patriots were fined $1 million on Monday as the NFL came down heavy on its marquee player and its Super Bowl champ over the “Deflategate” scandal. The National Football League not only suspended the two-time NFL MVP without pay but also stripped the Patriots of both their 2016 first round draft pick and the 2017 fourth round draft pick
(The Sports Xchange) – Stephen Curry lived up to his Most Valuable Player status with 33 points as the Golden State Warriors brushed aside the Memphis Grizzlies 101-84 at FedExForum on Monday to even their Western Conference semi-final series at 2-2. Curry shot 11-for-22 from the floor, including 4-for-9 from three-point range, as well as adding eight rebounds and five assists. It was the point guard’s fourth 30-point game of
Guard Jeff Teague scored 26 points as the Atlanta Hawks held off the Washington Wizards for a 106-101 win in game four of their Eastern Conference semifinal series. Forward Paul Millsap scored 19 points and centre Al Horford had 18 points and 10 rebounds for Atlanta, who rebounded from a buzzer-beating loss in game three to level the series at 2-2. Washington, who were playing their third consecutive game without
By Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) – Hunched over burgers and chili cheese dogs at a Boston-area pub, a group of friends digested Monday’s news of punishment in the “Deflategate” scandal for the New England Patriots and star quarterback Tom Brady. Not surprisingly, there was a full menu of reactions – from praise to disbelief to condemnation – to Brady’s four-game suspension by the National Football League for using under-inflated footballs.
– Plug-in-hybrid and hydrogen-powered Mazdas are coming, by way of Toyota City. That’s right—imagine all the whole-grain, combustion-free goodness of a Toyota Mirai or a Prius Plug-In, but with the sexy, Mazda-shaped bodies you wouldn’t kick off your driveway in the morning. – – The two Japanese automakers want to expand their manufacturing cooperation beyond today’s Mazda-built Scion iA and Japan-only Mazda 3 hybrid, with the goal to electrify more
– Having cobbled together a psychotic supercharged golem to drop between the fenders of the Dodge Challenger and Charger, SRT needed a name. They found it in “Hellcat,” a moniker that had previously graced the WWII-era Grumman F6F, a stubby, radial-powered plane that could finally take the fight to Mitsubishi’s excellent Zero, the pre-eminent carrier-based fighter of the first part of the war. But given Chrysler’s history with cartoon bees and
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-A handful of the self-driving cars currently on the road in California have run into trouble—albeit allegedly not caused by the cars themselves. An investigation by The Associated Press has discovered that four of the 48 autonomous vehicles licensed for operation on public roads there have already gotten into some kind of accident. – All four of the scrapes reportedly happened at less than 10 mph. In two of them the car was in
– The Opel Zafira Tourer wouldn’t appear to be a chic or an epic choice for a strobe-light-and-string-bikini kind of spring break. This, however, was a different kind of road trip. A spunky grandmother rode shotgun and a supercharged six-year-old boy held court on a booster seat in the back. For purposes of context, we must point out it wasn’t our first European road trip. This particular family has a thirst