It's Always A Good Idea To Keep Your $20 Million Investment On The Sideline

As if the Miami Dolphins didn't already have enough problems this season. Some thought that Miami's signing of Joey Porter wasn't a shrewd move because of his injuries last season and his age. Others thought the acquisition of Trent Green wasn't smart because of his concussion last season. Many thought the drafting of Ted Ginn was a horrible idea because he was still slightly injured and Miami needed a quarterback(cough-Brady Quinn-cough).

If they thought those decisions were stupid, then they must really like the decision that Cam Cameron and his staff made on the Redskins' overtime winning drive in which they kept Porter on the sideline. Yes, instead of having one of their best players on the team out on the field, they kept him off of the field because they didn't feel he was familiar enough with the nickel and dime packages.

Coach Cam Cameron and defensive coordinator Dom Capers chose to limit Porter's participation because of all the time missed while recovering from Aug. 7 arthroscopic knee surgery, but also because Porter isn't familiar enough with the nickel and dime packages.

"He knows the base package extremely well," Cameron said. "We want to get to the point where he knows all three packages the way that he wants."

Well, that's great Cam except that with Porter out the Redskins rushed seven times for 45 yards to set up the game winning field goal. In fact, Clinton Portis gained about 1/3 of his yardage on that OT drive alone.

Even if he's not totally familiar with the nickel and dime he had to be a better option than "backup defensive backs Michael Lehan, Travares Tillman and Cameron Worrell", who were subbed in with the different packages. Though, it's just another great decision that Cam Cameron has made in his early days as the head coach of the Miami Dolphins.

Thou Shalt Not Play Yahtzee With Another Man's Significant Other

While this does fall a bit outside of the mainstream sports, some people can get pretty worked up over their boardgames. In case this, that enthusiasm led to a stabbing death over a game of Yahtzee.

In case you don't know what Yahtzee is(your grandma is probably gambling her social security checks away playing it right now!), Wikipedia breaks it down like this:

"The object of the game is to score the most points by rolling five dice to make certain combinations. The dice can be rolled up to three times in a turn to try to make one of the thirteen possible scoring combinations. A game of Yahtzee consists of thirteen rounds during which the player chooses which scoring combination is to be used in that round. Once a combination has been used in the game, it cannot be used again.

Each of the scoring combinations has a different point value, some of which are fixed values and others of which have the cumulative value of the dice. A Yahtzee is a five-of-a-kind and holds the game's highest point value of 50."

Now that you have a general idea of what game was being played, let's move on to the stabbing.

Apparently, Mark Kelvin Allen was playing Yahtzee with his friend's, Reuben Barnett, girlfriend. An argument over the game arose, and Barnett's girlfriend went into the bedroom where Barnett was and closed the door. Allen wasn't going to let that stop him so he "kicked the door off its hinges", and went in a stabbed Barnett twice in the abdomen.

Wow, that must have been some game of Yahtzee, if it makes you kick down a door and stab someone twice, leading to their death. Not even Joey Porter and Levi Jones took it that far during their cardgame altercation.