Sports, marriage and black-on-black violence

The black wife of Miami Dolphins star receiver Brandon Marshall has been charged with stabbing him in the abdomen with a kitchen knife during a domestic violence incident, according to a report from the Broward County, Florida, sheriff's office. Michi Nogami-Marshall, 27, has been charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, which occurred in their Southwest Ranches, Florida, home, according to the sheriff's report. His wife is being held in the county's main jail in Fort Lauderdale in lieu of $7,500 bond. The couple, who have no children, have been married one year and have been involved together for two and a half years, the sheriff's report said. The wife told police that she stabbed her husband "out of self defense," the report said.