It’s a strange time in the sports media world after ESPN fired 100 employees on Wednesday. The massive staff chop spawned strong opinions about who did and did not deserve to remain at the network. Most of those predictably have come from your average Twitter troll - “You spilled Starbucks on yourself, Adam Schefter? Well at least you still have a job” - but some of have come from within the industry. Former Sports Illustrated writer Jeff Pearlman used Stephen A. Smith as the face of the problem with ESPN’s layoffs - and the industry as a whole. In an essay, which specifically noted it was not Smith’s “fault” that he is paid exponentially more than anyone who was fired this week, Pearlman decried
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The body of a one-year-old-girl was found under the couch of a house in Illinois that police described as being "in a deplorable condition" on Thursday, days after the toddler was first reported missing. Will County Sherrif's Office said that the body of Semaj Crosby was found around midnight on Thursday morning after sherrifs, along with the FBI, gained consent from Semaj's mother, Sheri Gordon, to search her residence. During a press conference Will County Sherrif's department said Semaj was last seen playing in front of the house on Tuesday afternoon wearing a long sleve shirt with a picture of a cat on the front.
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The delayed flight returned to the gate when he got back to his seat, and he was asked to get off the plane.
Blind in one eye, battered, bruised, starved and tortured, Elvira, a 7-year-old Shih Tzu, got justice this week when Macomb County Circuit Court Judge Edward Servitto handed down stiff sentences to her former owners. Demico Knight Jr., 21, of Clinton Township was sentenced Wednesday to six months in jail, while his mother, Sonja Sturdivant, 49, was sentenced to 90 days in jail. Knight, Sturdivant and Christopher Penn, 36, Sturdivant's husband, also were sentenced to 18 months probation and ordered to pay restitution. Medical costs and rehabilitation are up to $15,000 for the care of Elvira, who is living in a foster home The three had pleaded no contest to felony animal torture. On Halloween,
After an Arkansas father found out his 16-year-old daughter was in a sexual relationship with a 21-year-old man but there was nothing law enforcement officers could do, he posted a sign on his property that is getting a lot of attention.