First they suspended Steve Philips, and now they fired him.

Steve Phillips is out at ESPN. The married baseball analyst was booted from his high-profile TV post after being caught in a sordid love tryst with a production assistant. The sports network stopped short of publicly saying Phillips, 46, was fired.

“Steve Phillips is no longer working for ESPN. His ability to be an effective representative for ESPN has been significantly and irreparably damaged, and it became evident it was time to part ways,” said ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz in a statement. But one well-placed source confirmed he had been canned.

You’re out! Phillips is canned

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Soccer is such a calm and passive sport. Well, at least the fans are. Usually the players are, well, falling down and clutching after their knees when a stiff breeze blows by them. How often do they go after referees after a few missed calls?

Twelve players of a Bosnian league football team were arrested overnight for attacking three referees after a match played in the southern town of Posusje, national radio reported on Sunday. Players and fans of the Posusje team attacked referees after the end of the the Muslim-Croat Federation’s First League match against Igman Konjic on Saturday. The players were angry over the referees’ decisions during the match that ended scoreless, the BH Radio 1 said.

SOURCE: RTÉ Sport: Players arrested for attacking refs

How bad must your high school football team for the coach to need to pull a knife on one of his players? Pretty bad, we must suspect.

A well-liked assistant football coach with Lakeland’s Kathleen High School was arrested Thursday night after authorities say he brought a locked-blade knife to a practice and threatened a 16-year-old player with it. Charged was Christopher Michael Campbell, 30, who works full time at a Publix supermarket and volunteers as an assistant football coach at Kathleen, according to Polk County sheriff’s deputies.

Campbell showed up at a practice on Wednesday and brandished the knife, deputies said. Having a weapon on campus is a violation of school board policy and a felony, deputies said.  Campbell of Lakeland pointed the knife in a threatening manner several times at one of the players, 16-year-old Otis Buford, “poking him and tapping him on the chest and on the helmet with it while also verbally threatening him,” deputies said in a news release.

SOURCE: Lakeland assistant coach arrested for having knife at practice