Man Who Said NFL Star Shot Him is Shot Again
The man who said he was shot by Indianapolis Colts wideout Marvin Harrison last year is in critical condition in a Philadelphia hospital after being shot again two days ago. Police found 33-year-old Dwight Dixon Tuesday night with multiple bullet wounds. He is in critical condition, according to a spokeswoman from Hahnemann University Hospital, The Associated Press reports. There have been no arrests in the case. In January Dixon was convicted of a misdemeanor for lying to police about his shooting. Dixon’s attorneys said their client lied because he feared retaliation by Harrison, a Pro Bowl wide receiver. Detectives determined that the gun fired at Dixon was owned by Harrison. The prosecutor dropped charges against the football star because there were conflicting reports of who pulled the trigger.

Infamous LeBron Dunk Tape Surfaces
Versions of one of the most talked-about videos in hoop history surfaced this week, putting to rest doubts of whether the current King of Slams was actually victimized by an up-and-coming NBA wannabe (WATCH HERE). Several weeks ago, rumors swirled that Xavier University’s Jordan Crawford, participating in Nike’s LeBron James Skills Academy in Akron, Ohio, threw a thunder dunk down on the basketball camp’s namesake. If the dunk would have been the only news from the academy, the story surely would have dissipated by now. But a far juicier tale emerged when Nike officials decided to seize the videotape, likely fearing that the footage of James as the dunkee would undermine his status atop Dunk Mountain. The officials argued that all spectators understand that videotaping is not allowed. But what Nike officials didn’t anticipate was how fast the dunk story would morph into court lore of Crawford’s defacing the King. They also didn’t count on another version of the video leaking out of the Nike compound. On Wednesday, however, the gossip video site TMZ.com and eBaumNation.com served up two different versions of the tape. TMZ’s cell phone video, though fuzzy and unsteady, indeed shows Crawford dunking over James in the paint during a pickup game. The eBaum Nation footage, apparently shot from the bleachers above the rim where the alleged defacing took place, is of slightly higher quality and has better sound. Truth is, while Crawford does deliver a pretty decent dunk, it’s far from the quality of bone-shaker that James – the bona fide Slam Master –– administers to foes on a nightly basis during the NBA season. Speaking to Sports Illustrated Web site, the amateur videographer whose tape was confiscated, Ryan Miller, confirmed that while the footage was not what he shot, it was indeed the dunk. “I am 99.9 percent sure that is the actual dunk,” said Miller, a 22-year-old recent Syracuse University graduate. “I was obviously in a different position on the floor, but it was the same reaction from the crowd, same everything. The footage they had before [the dunk] was also footage from that same pickup game. So that’s the dunk. Finally.”

 It looks like Indianapolis Colts star receiver Marvin Harrison is off the hook – at least for now – in a shooting that allegedly involved his rare, semi-automatic, foreign-made weapon. By the sound of Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne M. Abraham Tuesday morning, it is unlikely that the case of the April 29 shooting, which left convicted felon Dwight Dixon and three other people wounded at Harrison’s Philadelphia car wash, will ever be resolved. Why? Because Harrison and the victims, were largely uncooperative and provided “mutually exclusive” and contradictory accounts, Abraham said. “We’re not foolish,” Abraham told reporters at a news conference in her Center City office. “But knowing what happened and proving what happened are two different things. Do I prove my case? With these witnesses? I don’t think so.” From the beginning, Harrison has denied any involvement in Dixon’s shooting. He also denied that his unusual, Belgian, 5.7-mm, semiautomatic pistol has ever fired one of its armor-piercing bullets. “We’re confident of our police ballistics report,” Abraham said, stressing that the bullet that struck Dixon, 32, came from Harrison’s gun. She said that the 36-year-old Harrison had beefed with Dixon, who he had refused to allow into his nearby bar. “At this point, we have nobody,” Abraham said. “We don’t have anybody who will say they saw anybody fire a gun at anyone.”