Sideline Chatter: Brazilian soccer referee had a hair-trigger temper, and the hardware to back it up

Red card? Yellow card? How about an NRA card?tmpplchld Soccer referee Gabriel Murta, working in Brazil’s lower-level Amantes de Bola league, is facing disciplinary action after he raced to his dressing room and came back with a gun to brandish at a manager and players who had been accosting him.tmpplchld ___tmpplchld Headlinestmpplchld _At SportsPickle.com: “Jonathan Papelbon arrested after strangling man with 17 grocery items in ’15 items or less’ line.”tmpplchld _At TheOnion.com: “Adrian Peterson relieved to learn his wife gave birth to a healthy, disciplined baby boy.”tmpplchld ___tmpplchld Woe, Mustangstmpplchld Coach Larry Brown’s SMU basketball program has been hit with NCAA sanctions _ just as his previous teams at Kansas and UCLA were _ knocking the Mustangs out of NCAA-tournament play this season.tmpplchld But all is forgotten the moment Brown captures the first-ever Tarkanian/Calipari Award.tmpplchld ___tmpplchld Yards sailtmpplchld NFL teams set a new high for the first three weeks of the season with 730 accepted penalties.tmpplchld Or 3 1/2 times more flags flying than at the United Nations.tmpplchld ___tmpplchld Lock of the Weektmpplchld Don Pullman of Santa Clara, Calif., the 100-year-old who broke five age-group world records last week, has won 885 of the 890 events he’s competed in _ better than 99 percent _ since taking up seniors track at age 70.tmpplchld ___tmpplchld Kobe, cough, Kobetmpplchld Take that, you Kobe Bryant critics who say he never passes anything.tmpplchld He just passed his physical.tmpplchld ___tmpplchld Unnecessary roughnesstmpplchld Miko Grimes, the wife of Dolphins cornerback Brent Grimes, allegedly head-butted a police officer during a postgame confrontation in the stadium parking lot Sunday.tmpplchld She’s facing charges of disorderly conduct, battery, resisting arrest and helmet-to-helmet contact.tmpplchld ___tmpplchld Talking the talktmpplchld _Yankee Stadium patron Frank Vignuli, to the New York Post, after two beers in commemorative cups cost him $22: “I know why they’re commemorative, because I’ll never forget that I paid $22 for two Bud Lights.”tmpplchld _Ex-CBS golf commentator David Feherty, after an errant tee shot: “That ball is so far left, Lassie couldn’t find it even if it was wrapped in bacon.”tmpplchld _Times reader Bill Littlejohn, on the gun-wielding soccer ref: “Better red than dead.”tmpplchld _Ex-football coach Lou Holtz, to the Allentown (Pa.) Morning Call, on the state of his golf game: “While a lot of people want to shoot their age, I’m trying to shoot my weight. If I gain 5 pounds, I think I can do that.”tmpplchld ___tmpplchld Texas Hold’em Dept.tmpplchld The Longhorns got penalized 16 times for 128 yards in Saturday’s 30-27 loss to Oklahoma State.tmpplchld Or as Horns rivals gleefully call it, the yellow woes of Texas.tmpplchld ___tmpplchld (c)2015 The Seattle Timestmpplchld Visit The Seattle Times at www.seattletimes.comtmpplchld Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.tmpplchld