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Sports Photos: Check out new pics of everything going on today in the world of sports! (UPI) – Houston Astros pitcher Brandon Backe was arrested during what police called a riot at the San Luis Resort on Galveston Island. Backe was one of 10 people arrested Sunday morning, many ...
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Cuff ‘Em: Brandon Backe Exchanges Blows With Cop, Georgia Mooners Get Cuffed & An Australian BMX Riot
Busted Coverage: Booze, Ladies And Football — Brandon Backe back in the day makin’ the women smile.  “Cuff ‘Em” is a daily look at who’s in trouble with the law. It’s our hope to limit this to 5 sports-related morons, but it can be modified at our discretion or if there is a sudden outbreak of superior stupidity. When Houston Astros pitcher Brandon Backe goes to a wedding reception at a swim up bar he won’t take shit off anyone, especially a uniformed police officer. The right-hander went punch for punch with an officer after a wedding party got way out of ...

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Deadspin — ... The incident started at the resort's swimming pool bar. A guest shoved a police officer after the officer told him he could not bring an open container of alcohol into the area, and the incident escalated into a riot after the man — and others — refused to comply with the officer's commands, police said. " [WTAG] ...

BRANDON BACKE PUNCHED A COP
With Leather - Sports news and gossip, panda sex, and the occasional Toonces the driving cat Photoshop — Astros pitcher Brandon Backe attended a wedding at a Galveston resort over the weekend, and you know how wedding receptions are: you try to take open containers of alcohol into the pool, then you punch a cop and get arrested. The incident started at the resort’s swimming pool bar. A guest shoved a police officer after the officer told him he could not bring an open container of alcohol into the area, and the incident escalated into a riot after the man — and others — refused to comply with the officer’s commands, police said. At one point, police told Backe to back off but police said Backe struggled with ...

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