nytimes.com - 12/2/2008
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The Giants suspended Plaxico Burress without pay for four games in the aftermath of his accidental shooting. >
nydailynews.com - 11/29/2008
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DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Updated Saturday, November 29th
2008, 3:03 PM Talented but troubled Giants wideout Plaxico
Burress, adding to his litany of off-field woes, accidentally shot himself in the right thigh, a source and the team said Saturday. ...
Giants receiver Plaxico Burress accidentally shoots ...
nytimes.com - 11/29/2008
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Plaxico Burress on the sideline during a basketball
game at Madison Square Garden in November.
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Paul Helmke: Plaxico Burress Shoots Himself Into The Gun Debate
Huffington Post Entertainment Blog —
... is borne by the public as much as by gun owners themselves, and the Burress incident is just one more example of how a gun kept for protection is often used against its owner instead. Yet the costs of Burress shooting himself are not borne by him alone. His team is also paying the price, in medical costs, ...
SPORTS IS INTERESTING!!!!
Evil Beet Gossip —
... First, New York Giants wide receiver/supergenius Plaxico Burress accidentally shot himself in the leg when he brought a loaded gun into a Manhattan night club. The Giants have suspended him without pay for the rest of the season, but Mayor Bloomberg wants him to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law — which would mean three-and-a-half years in jail, under New York’s laws about carrying loaded guns. The video above is of Mayor Bloomberg making a passionate argument for Burress to serve jail time, and, personally, I agree with him. ...
Giants Say Burress’s Season Is Over
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New York Giants Hoisted by His Own Petard
jossip.com 12/1/2008 —
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot: Plaxico Burress of the New York Giants had just one of those days (nights?) post-Thanksgiving, when he walked into the Latin Quarter club and promptly shot himself in the leg…by accident, one ...
Giants Vendor Settles with Paralyzed Girl's Family for $25 Million —
Gothamist
In 1999, a NJ man who attended a Giants game--where he was served enough beer to have 0.266 blood alcohol level (legal limit is 0.08)--drove into oncoming traffic, paralyzing a 2-year-old girl and injuring her mother. Now it's revealed the Giants' beer vendor, Aramark, settled with the Verni ...
Plaxico Heads to Giants Stadium, Hospital Under Fire —
Gothamist
Plaxico Burress is at Giants Stadium to meet with team officials for the first time since he accidentally shot himself in the thigh . And the NYPD is why investigatinging why NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, which treated the Giants star, did not report the shooting to the police. ...
WING MEN —
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WITH the Jets and the Giants looking like they're both headed for playoff berths for the first time since the 2002-03 season, it's no surprise that they're scoping out the competition. Giants running backs Reuben Droughns and Danny Ware and Jets...
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