http://www.mail.com/people/105692-jovan-belcher.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.20/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/people/105692-jovan-belcher.html http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1762020-mourners-gather-funeral-chiefs-belcher.html DIX HILLS, N.Y. (AP) — Jovan Belcher was remembered Wednesday for the accomplishments of a life that ended so suddenly and violently. Several hundred mourners gathered for the Kansas City Chiefs linebacker's funeral near his hometown on Long Island. The 25-year-old Belcher shot and killed his girlfriend on Dec. 1, then drove to the Chiefs' practice facili... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:21:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1762020-mourners-gather-funeral-chiefs-belcher.html 2012-12-13T01:21:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1762484-charles-starring-chiefs-tragedy.html KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jamaal Charles took the handoff on the first play of the game, skipped to his right and found a crease. He slipped through the hole, made a subtle cutback and then raced to the end zone. On that 80-yard touchdown run against Cleveland, Charles looked as good as ever. What he's gone through made it even more impressive. This is a ru... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 23:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1762484-charles-starring-chiefs-tragedy.html 2012-12-12T23:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1757104-cowboys-player-death-raises-question-safety-net.html IRVING, Texas (AP) — San Francisco 49ers defensive end Demarcus Dobbs walked away from a one-vehicle accident on his 25th birthday last month and was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. Less than two weeks later, with the NFL rocked by the car crash that killed Dallas Cowboys player Jerry Brown and left his teammate, Josh Brent, facing a... Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1757104-cowboys-player-death-raises-question-safety-net.html 2012-12-10T22:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1756916-chiefs-to-normal-with-loss-to-browns.html KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Returning to normal for the Kansas City Chiefs is equal parts welcoming and frustrating. The players, coaches and front-office staff may never truly get over the murder-suicide involving teammate Jovan Belcher, which shook the franchise to its very core last week. But they've now played two games since their world was sent spinning... Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:59:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1756916-chiefs-to-normal-with-loss-to-browns.html 2012-12-10T20:59:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1755490-numb-cowboys-beat-bengals-20-19-last-second-fg.html CINCINNATI (AP) — Dan Bailey's 40-yard kick went straight through the uprights. The Dallas Cowboys had won an important game on a last-second field goal. They weren't sure how to react. Numb. Grieving. Distracted. The Cowboys were all those things on Sunday, dealing with the death of one teammate and the tribulations of another. Winners, too, though they ... Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:29:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1755490-numb-cowboys-beat-bengals-20-19-last-second-fg.html 2012-12-10T09:29:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1754872-cowboys-involved-fatal-wreck-were-close-friends.html IRVING, Texas (AP) — Josh Brent and Jerry Brown met in college, forming a close, unshakeable bond. Having realized his NFL dream, Brent was trying to help his roommate do the same. But Brent wasn't starting on Dallas' defensive line when the Cowboys kicked off in Cincinnati on Sunday. He was in jail, accused of driving drunk and causing a fatal accident t... Sun, 09 Dec 2012 23:39:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1754872-cowboys-involved-fatal-wreck-were-close-friends.html 2012-12-09T23:39:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1754594-cowboys-owner-jerry-jones-team-grieving.html CINCINNATI (AP) — The Cowboys bowed their heads, put hands over their hearts and honored a teammate killed in a car accident during a moment of silence before their game on Sunday, their minds never far from the NFL's latest tragedy. Dan Bailey's 40-yard field goal as time ran out gave Dallas a 20-19 win over the Cincinnati Bengals that provided a few sec... Sun, 09 Dec 2012 23:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1754594-cowboys-owner-jerry-jones-team-grieving.html 2012-12-09T23:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1754774-grieving-cowboys-beat-bengals-20-19-fg.html CINCINNATI (AP) — Numb. Grieving. Distracted. The Cowboys were all those things on Sunday, dealing with the death of one teammate and the tribulations of another. Winners, too, though they hardly felt like it. Dan Bailey kicked a 40-yard field goal as time ran out, sending the Cowboys to a 20-19 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals that ended a tough after... Sun, 09 Dec 2012 22:24:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1754774-grieving-cowboys-beat-bengals-20-19-fg.html 2012-12-09T22:24:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1754852-tragedy-rocks-nfls-regularly-scheduled-world.html The games go on. For the second straight weekend, tragedy rocked the regularly scheduled world of the NFL. It left families, friends, teammates and coaching staffs grieving over yet another senseless loss of life. It also left the league facing questions not only about efforts to safeguard players on the field but whether it's doing enough to help them st... Sun, 09 Dec 2012 21:32:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1754852-tragedy-rocks-nfls-regularly-scheduled-world.html 2012-12-09T21:32:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1754442-cowboys-involved-fatal-wreck-close-friends.html IRVING, Texas (AP) — Josh Brent and Jerry Brown met in college, forming a close, unshakeable bond. Having realized his NFL dream, Brent was trying to help his roommate do the same. But Brent wasn't starting on Dallas' defensive line when the Cowboys kicked off in Cincinnati on Sunday. He was in jail, accused of driving drunk and causing a fatal accident i... Sun, 09 Dec 2012 21:16:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1754442-cowboys-involved-fatal-wreck-close-friends.html 2012-12-09T21:16:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1753328-cowboy-charged-player-dies-auto-accident.html IRVING, Texas (AP) — Police charged Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Josh Brent with intoxication manslaughter Saturday after he flipped his car in a pre-dawn accident that killed teammate Jerry Brown. Irving police spokesman John Argumaniz said the accident happened about 2:20 a.m. Saturday in the Dallas suburb, hours before Brent was to be on a team fli... Sun, 09 Dec 2012 04:42:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1753328-cowboy-charged-player-dies-auto-accident.html 2012-12-09T04:42:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1752516-police-video-released-nfl-player-murder-suicide.html KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police released video Friday night that shows officers finding Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher asleep in his car just hours before he killed his girlfriend and later shot himself. The recording was among two dashboard videos made available by police nearly a week after the murder-suicide. The second video shows an offic... Sat, 08 Dec 2012 06:09:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1752516-police-video-released-nfl-player-murder-suicide.html 2012-12-08T06:09:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1751076-jailer-gi-wikileaks-case-needed-to-speak-up.html FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — An Army private charged with sending reams of classified documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks could have gotten his tight pretrial confinement conditions reduced by clearly explaining why he wasn't a suicide risk, the former commander of a Marine Corps brig testified Friday. When Pfc. Bradley Manning did speak up, his cra... Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:37:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1751076-jailer-gi-wikileaks-case-needed-to-speak-up.html 2012-12-07T18:37:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1749792-relative-woman-slain-chiefs-player-brought-joy.html BLUE RIDGE, Texas (AP) — The slain girlfriend of Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher was a loyal friend who brought joy to others with her smiles and laughter, a relative said Thursday at a memorial service for the woman. Belcher fatally shot 22-year-old Kasandra Perkins on Saturday at the Kansas City home they shared with their 3-month-old daught... Thu, 06 Dec 2012 23:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1749792-relative-woman-slain-chiefs-player-brought-joy.html 2012-12-06T23:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1749494-nfl-teams-offer-support-players-crisis.html KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Brady Quinn can't help but wonder whether he missed something in the final days of Jovan Belcher's life. Could the Kansas City Chiefs' quarterback have listened better to his teammate? Could he have noticed a change in the linebacker's temperament? Did Belcher utter something under his breath that may have let on that he was capabl... Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:52:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1749494-nfl-teams-offer-support-players-crisis.html 2012-12-06T20:52:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1744858-belchers-mom-loves-son-slain-girlfriend.html KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The days since Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend then shot himself in the head have been very difficult for his mother, who said Wednesday that the slayings have not diminished her love for the couple. Belcher's mother, Cheryl Shepherd, had been living with the Kansas City Chiefs linebacker and 22-year-old Kasandra Perkins to hel... Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:30:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1744858-belchers-mom-loves-son-slain-girlfriend.html 2012-12-06T00:30:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1745880-chiefs-players-pay-respects-to-belcher-service.html KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Heads bowed, somber past and present Kansas City Chiefs players turned out Wednesday for a memorial service for teammate Jovan Belcher, who killed his girlfriend and then himself over the weekend. Belcher fatally shot 22-year-old Kasandra Perkins on Saturday at the Kansas City home they shared with their 3-month-old daughter, Zoey.... Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1745880-chiefs-players-pay-respects-to-belcher-service.html 2012-12-06T00:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1746470-chiefs-brady-quinn-shines-time-trouble.html KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — This should have been a big week for Brady Quinn. The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback is coming off one of the best games of his career, helping his team win for only the second time this season. He's heading back to Cleveland, where he washed out as a first-round draft pick, brimming with confidence in his strong right arm. ... Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:39:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1746470-chiefs-brady-quinn-shines-time-trouble.html 2012-12-05T21:39:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1745974-costas-overstep-bounds-with-gun-comments.html NEW YORK (AP) — Clearly, Bob Costas stirred up a hornet's nest Sunday with a halftime commentary about Kansas City Chiefs player Jovan Belcher, who killed his girlfriend (and the mother of his child) before killing himself. On Twitter, someone posed this question: "Who put Costas on in the middle of a football game so he could spew his one sided beliefs?"... Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:57:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1745974-costas-overstep-bounds-with-gun-comments.html 2012-12-05T18:57:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1744440-column-chiefs-game-heal.html They played a football game in Kansas City the other day. Even as the headlines fade, the question remains. Was it the right thing to do given the tragedy that happened 24 hours earlier? There's no playbook for this sort of grieving. A Chiefs player killed his girlfriend — the mother of their infant child — then turned the gun on himself in front of the ... Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:52:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1744440-column-chiefs-game-heal.html 2012-12-05T15:52:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1744860-costas-wishes-time-to-talk.html NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Costas isn't backing down from his halftime comments on gun violence, but he wishes he had more time. The NBC sportscaster gave interviews Tuesday to Dan Patrick and Lawrence O'Donnell about his Sunday-night halftime commentary following Kansas City Chiefs player Jovan Belcher's murder of his girlfriend and subsequent suicide. Both int... Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:27:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1744860-costas-wishes-time-to-talk.html 2012-12-05T12:27:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1742094-belcher-told-cops-was-waiting-girlfriend.html KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher told officers who found him sleeping in his car outside an apartment complex hours before he committed a murder-suicide that he was there to visit a woman he described as his "girlfriend," but that she wasn't home. The apartment complex is about 10 miles from the Kansas City home Belcher ... Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:50:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1742094-belcher-told-cops-was-waiting-girlfriend.html 2012-12-04T21:50:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1740882-chiefs-picking-up-pieces-heartache.html KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs returned to work Monday at their practice facility near Arrowhead Stadium, trying to find a sense of normalcy after two days of unimaginable heartache. It proved nearly impossible to do. The locker that once belong to Jovan Belcher, the linebacker who killed his girlfriend and then turned the gun on himself S... Tue, 04 Dec 2012 05:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1740882-chiefs-picking-up-pieces-heartache.html 2012-12-04T05:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1740998-portrait-emerges-chiefs-players-tragic.html KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jovan Belcher walked off the field after his final practice, laughing and joking with Chiefs defensive tackle Shaun Smith about who would get into the game the most on Sunday afternoon. The two walked down the half-dozen steps and into the training complex, past the inspirational signs that coach Romeo Crennel regularly posts on th... Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:23:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1740998-portrait-emerges-chiefs-players-tragic.html 2012-12-03T22:23:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1739662-chiefs-beat-panthers-somber-arrowhead-stadium.html KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Brady Quinn tried to avoid looking at the empty locker when he arrived at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday. The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback couldn't bear the sight of Jovan Belcher's jersey hanging from a hook, just like it would have any other game day. "That's when it kind of hit me," Quinn said. "It was kind of tough to step back ... Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:57:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1739662-chiefs-beat-panthers-somber-arrowhead-stadium.html 2012-12-03T15:57:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1738998-normal-couple-stuff-chiefs-murder-suicide.html KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — As investigators search for a motive to help explain why Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend and then himself, a discordant picture of the couple began to emerge. Belcher and his girlfriend, 22-year-old Kasandra M. Perkins, had lived apart briefly earlier in the year but had gotten back together by Thanksgiving, a... Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:27:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1738998-normal-couple-stuff-chiefs-murder-suicide.html 2012-12-03T11:27:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1739050-broncos-patriots-falcons-win-divisions.html If NFL executives really adore parity, they must be wincing at the early division clinchings by the Broncos, Patriots and Falcons. Not to mention the Texans securing at least a wild-card berth, with nearly all of December still remaining. Sure, there could still be some close races, particularly in the NFC North and for the wild cards. But after Sunday's ... Mon, 03 Dec 2012 08:14:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1739050-broncos-patriots-falcons-win-divisions.html 2012-12-03T08:14:00Z