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BONUS - CRIME IN SPORTS - KERMIT VS RUDY
🕑 Added 2025-09-28 01:35:38 +0000 UTCThis week, James and Jimmie discuss the legendary fight from 1977 between NBA players Kermit Washington and Rudy Tomjanovich -- a fight that changed their lives and ruined a reputation.
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Fran Hitzke
Allan Langer in Australia, affectionately known as Alfie, he’s a huge character, big divining problem.
Natalie Meyers
Bad take on this one guys! Yikes! He saw him coming from at least half court. Would it be ridiculous if Rudy died? 😬
Christopher Camposeo
James, what about covering up the late 80s Phoenix Suns drug busts for the Patreon
Zachery C Turner
If anyone is curious…. spinal fluid tastes like almonds according to the EMT course I took in 2015
John Penrod jr.
Great pull Ryan
John Penrod jr.
Think you chaps are a little off base iam 60 and had a very difficult time listening to this I remember the aftermath and alot of articles and pix from this time also read the book .
David
Great episode, when I lived in Portland in the 90s ex laker Michael Thompson and Kermit Washington had a sports talk show together that was actually really good and he would talk about the incident occasionally...
Carlo Ferrarone
Hey guys, you should do an episode on Cecil “the diesel” Collins. Used to play for the Miami dolphins and was quite the scumbag with a long arrest record!
Ryan Fenton
Disagree with the guys’ defense of Washington here. But, another fantastic episode.
Stephen Tot
Finally Raja got arrested
Stephen Tot
Another great episode guys 👍
Lola and the Raydawggg
Awesome! I'm sure I'm not the reason for this episode, but I sent them an email a few years ago suggesting Kermit, complete with the fraud. Great job guys!
Sarah
Love the pictures here!! I have not noticed pictures posted on Patreon before have I been missing them?
Ginger Thomas
Kent Benson is from my hometown. He is a genuinely good person. Also—lots of us think Abdul-Jabbar saw him as a threat. Benson never played as confidently after that punch.
Sam is the Saltiest
I think you should do a bonus episode on Hope Solo (just her) I think she's had a couple more run ins since the Jerramy Stevens episode
D Coen
In Fairbanks Alaska there is a baseball game played on the summer solstice. it is collegiate summer baseball team, the Gold Panners. Something interesting to look into.
YeCrustModifier
Not being American, I had to look that fight up… oh damn :x
Elizabeth Freeman
Wow! What a punch!
Bunny
Has any one watched the Owen Hanson documentary? I think they should do an episode in him. I bet James can find lots more on him.
Stephen Watts
I always find it weird the things that Americans put Irish in front of that we don't do I swear we hate Irish Americans as much as you all do stop associating them and their behaviour with us 🤣🤣🤣
D Minus
Jimmie has done 1 Small Town Murder episode bonus, it would be great to hear him do a Crime in Sports episode
Kim Corgan-Hatfield
Wonder what the PSI was on that punch? Less damage has been done with a car.
Jon Brown (yes, real name)
Wow. So many Kentucky connections... lol. John Y. Brown, Jr. (no relation to me) was Governor of Kentucky when I was a kid. (Funny side note if you're a sports fan, and if we're close in age: His wife, Phyllis George, was a former Miss America, and was on "The NFL Today", with Bret Musburger, etc.), and Pee Wee Reese is from Louisville.
Christian Chambless
Maybe it’s been covered too much, but I feel like there’s a funky way to talk about Silvio Berlusconi, owned AC Milan and then was the prime minister a bunch of times in Italy
Logan Austin
Great episode! here are some wrestlers that would be cool to hear you guys cover! Joey Ryan Velveteen Dream Darsean Kelley Matt Riddle Brock Lesnar Alberto Del Rio Michael Elgin Stone Cold Marty Scrull And especially the Raja Jackson v Psycho Stu incident!
Tammy Hedrick
Wow! What a crazy story. I'm putting spinal fluid on my list of things I never want to taste.
M. M.
You have to cover Brandon Martin. A first round pick for the Rays who ended up committing triple homicide with a baseball bat. Another that I'm surprised hasn't been covered is Tate George, a former NBA player who might be better known for his mass investment fraud scheme. And a suggestion for a bonus episode is Anna Benson, the ex-wife of Kris Benson who may or may not have murdered two people.
Kramer and his Cougar MILF
Bahaha, James.... "Oh, I don't give a fuck which ones" 🤣
Kath Finn
He also crossed my mind while listening to this.
Jim Shaughnessy
There is the Scottish footballer Duncan Ferguson who got a prison sentence for on-field assault, and once got burgled and imprisoned and beat the shit out of the burglers
phil biebesheimer
Titus Young would be a good Patreon episode. Got arrested thrice in a week once.
Haiasi Eel
That punch was BRUTAL. But my question is why would anyone try to fuck with Kareem? He was trained by Bruce Lee for fucks sake!!
Crime in Sports and Small Town Murder
My marketing technique is working.
Nash essman
Im half in the bag and could only assume from the patreon notification that i was going to hear about a felt frog fighting sean astin
Rhoda Byke
Yay indeed Tim, yay indeed!
Tim Olson
Yay!!
