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      Roberto Alomar served with injunction after threatening wife with a knife

      August 5, 2010 /
      Former major league ballplayer Roberto Alomar signs autographs on his arrival to the ballpark to watch the last MLB National League baseball game of the San Juan Series of the New York Mets against the Florida Marlins in San Juan, June 30, 2010. REUTERS/Ana Martinez (PUERTO RICO - Tags: SPORT BASEBALL)

      Former MLB star Roberto Alomar is in trouble with the law after he was served a domestic violence injunction for threatening his wife with a knife.

      The Tampa Tribune has the details:

      On Monday, he allegedly got into an argument with his wife, Maria Del Pilar Alomar. He approached her and with his bodyweight pushed her several feet back, according to court documents.

      At their home in June, Alomar yelled at her and pushed her with his chest. While being pushed back she fell to the floor, according to court records. Alomar called his family and his father called 911. Deputies were dispatched to the home, but a report wasn’t filed.

      In April, Alomar threatened her with a knife, according to court records. She feared for her life and called her father on the phone. She told him what was occurring and wanted to let him know in case she was hurt or killed, according to court records.

      When Alomar heard the phone conversation, he dropped the knife.

      You stay classy, Roberto Alomar.

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      2010 Tour de France: Armstrong misses out on sprint win

      July 20, 2010 /
      July 19, 2010 - Bagnieres-De-Luchon, FRANCE - epa02253649 Radioshack team rider Lance Armstrong of the US cycles to the finish of the 15th stage of the 97th Tour de France 2010 cycling race between Pamiers and Bagneres-De-Luchon, France, 19 July 2010.

      Per Bloomberg BusinessWeek:

      Lance Armstrong missed out on a Tour de France stage win today after being outsprinted at the end of the three-week race’s toughest day, which included four Pyrenean mountain climbs.

      The seven-time champion finished sixth of eight riders in the dash to the finish in Pau, after helping drive the pace of the breakaway group for about five hours. Pierrick Fedrigo won the stage, the 16th of 20, while Alberto Contador kept an eight- second lead in the overall standings.

      “It was full gas all day,” Armstrong, who hasn’t taken a stage this year, told reporters. “I’m not the best guy in the race but I still have the spirit of a fighter.”

      Defending champ Alberto Contador continues to lead the race by eight seconds.

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      Lance Armstrong says his Tour de France is “finished”

      July 12, 2010 /
      Radioshack rider Lance Armstrong (L) of the U.S cycles with team-mates during a training session during a rest day of the Tour de France cycling race in Morzine July 12, 2010. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (France - Tags: SPORT CYCLING)

      An unlucky Stage 8 led to a resigned quote from Lance Armstrong:

      Close the book on the Lance Armstrong era at the Tour de France. He has.

      The record seven-time champion wrote off his chances of victory in his 13th and last Tour, signaling the beginning of the end of one of the most celebrated and controversial careers in cycling history.

      The 38-year-old Texan’s hopes for yet another title were dashed Sunday after he got caught in three crashes — one of which brought him down — and struggled to keep up during two tough climbs in Stage 8, the race’s first foray into the Alps. He and his team said his hip got banged up, keeping him from pedaling hard.

      “My Tour is finished,” said Armstrong, who fell to 39th overall.

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      Cheated on your wife? Fine, just don’t ruin my football team.

      June 21, 2010 /

      Ben Roethlisberger was accused not once, but twice of sexually assaulting two separate females, while Tiger Woods admitted to cheating on his wife with multiple women, including at least one porn star.

      But neither of them hold a candle to Michael Vick in the category of most disliked athlete. The same goes for Al Davis apparently, seeing as how he was found to be the second most disliked sports personality among voters in a recent Forbes survey.

      From FOX Sports:

      For the second year in a row, Michael Vick topped a fan poll taken by Forbes as the most disliked national sports figure, myFOXphilly.com reported Sunday.

      The Forbes survey sampled sports fans and filtered out lesser-known figures like disgraced cyclist Floyd Landis and sports agent Scott Boras, who weren’t known by a lot of fans but really disliked by those who knew them.

      In the end, Vick was still held in a lower opinion than Ben Roethlisberger, Tiger Woods and Oakland Raiders’ owner Al Davis, with 69 percent of those polled disliking Vick.

      Davis was a surprising second with 66 percent, given the amount of bad PR that Woods (53 percent) and Roethlisberger (57 percent) had in the past year.

      Wait, Al Davis was second? So let me get this straight: you can commit adultery or be accused of sexual assault and still be more liked than if you ruined an NFL franchise. That’s kind of disturbing. I know I’m drawing a rather incomplete conclusion based on this unscientific poll, but I wouldn’t think that Al Davis would be ahead of Tiger and Big Ben on the most disliked scale.

      I guess it goes to show you how much Americans love their football.

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