From nydailynews.com
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Plaxico Burress
Plaxico Burress is a wide reciever for the New York Giants. He is number 17 and is 6'5 and 230 pounds.
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It all started to fall apart for the Giants on Thanksgiving weekend last year when they received a disturbing call in the middle of the night. Plaxico Burress had shot himself in the leg. The season was eventually ruined.
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It has been a short-lived offseason for the Los Angeles Dodgers, but already yet another story has arisen that makes the organization seem more like a soap opera than a Major League Baseball club.
Reports out of Nicaragua on Tuesday confirmed that Dodgers’ pitcher Vicente Padilla was treated and released for a gunshot wound to the leg.
The incident comes just days after the ugly developments of the McCourt’s divorce case became public with the...
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From bleacherreport.com
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Former Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress headed for Rikers Island earlier today after being sentenced to a two-year term for second-degree "attempted weapons possession." He had pleaded guilty to the charge after shooting himself in the thigh with his own illegal pistol in a Manhattan nightclub in November 2008. From Rikers Island he will be transferred to one of NY's many beautiful upstate prisons, just in time for foliage season and...
From gothamist.com
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- Plaxico Burress Has a Rough Start in Jail (gothamist.com)
- Plax settles in upstate (nypost.com)
Plaxico Burress, former Giants star and accidental self-shooter, is now an Ulster Correctional inmate. His mugshot was released and the Daily News analyzes the now clean-shaven "somber" Burress: "The ex-Giants star was also without his standard bling - two diamond earrings... sporting a white T-shirt beneath a green prison-issued top and appears to stand a little taller than his NFL listed height of 6-foot-5. Burress is staring straight...
From gothamist.com
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- New York Cops Call Gunshot Victim Plaxico (youbeenblinded.com)
Two years in prison. That's what former Spartan and Giants Wide Receiver Plaxico Burress got for the infamous incident where he shot himself in the leg at the bar. He plea bargained to that after facing 31/2 to 4 years if he was convicted in New York City on firearms charges. From the APNEW YORK (AP)—Former Super Bowl star Plaxico Burress(notes) was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison after accidentally shooting himself in the thigh at a...
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From blogger.com
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Prison Not Hard Enough: Plaxico Burress’ stay in prison is not arduous enough for the New York Post’s Douglas Montero. The hardened criminal gets protected from the general population for safety reasons, and his wife with her relevant “white Range Rover” was allowed to (gasp!) bring him real food. If forced to drop the soap, [...]
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From feedburner.com
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by Ryan WilsonFiled under: NFLTwo types of inmates end up in protective custody: those who have grown tired of getting the crap kicked out of them in the general population, and the relatively famous.* Plaxico Burress certainly qualifies as the latter, although it may have been just a matter of time on the former. In any event, Plax, who spent his first night as a convict at Rikers Island, was later moved to the medium-security Ulster...
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From sports.aol.com
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Plaxico before he was sentenced Two weeks into Plaxico Burress's stay at an upstate prison and word is that Plax is (1) always looking around him, (2) scared of his fellow prisoners, (3) hangs around another fellow high-profile inmate and (4) can't make microwave popcorn, according to the Post reporter who visited him and spoke to others at Oneida Correctional Facility.
As previously suspected, Burress is kept away from the general...
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From gothamist.com
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What are you doing this weekend? Catching a movie? Maybe heading out to the park? Whatever you're doing, it's better than what Plaxico Burress has planned. Just for the sake of a little Friday afternoon Schadenfreude, here's the mugshot of...
From villagevoice.com
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- Deadspin I-Team: The Case Of Plaxico Burress' Sweat Pants (deadspin.com)
Plaxico Burress today moved into his new home -- Oneida Correctional Facility in Rome, NY.
Oneida is the permanent prison home for the former Giants star receiver, said state corrections spokeswoman Linda Foglia. He was at Ulster Correctional Facilit...
From nypost.com
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