Stiff Arm Trophy

Yahoo Sports: Pac-12: Matt Barkley shalt not call Vontaze Burfict ‘a dirty player,’ or other mean names

I don't know if Matt Barkley believes in "karma," or whatever his version of it is called, but I do suspect he felt like something was out to get him last Saturday night: Just a few days after calling out Arizona State linebacker Vontaze Burfict as "a dirty player" in the Los Angeles Times, Barkley was picked off by Burfict, forced into two other turnovers, sacked twice and generally harassed throughout a 43-21 loss, the Trojans' first blemish and Barkley's worst game of the young season. After that, even bringing up the "dirty player" thing again just feels like piling ...

Read original article.