Is Russia fabricating the claim that Putin critic Artemi Panarin beat up an 18-year-old girl?
by Sam Fels from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#5EGMR)
It's probably easiest to start this layered story at the top. Artemi Panarin, star winger of the New York Rangers, is taking a leave of absence from the team as a story back in Russia broke today about him allegedly beating up a 18-year-old girl in a bar in Riga in 2011. While this may at first appear just the outing...