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Ryan Fitzpatrick, Matt Ryan, Aaron Rodgers all had games in which they threw for 316 yards this season: nobody cares until Tim Tebow does it. Everyone's seeking meaning in random numbers, even asking for comment from "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, as if he was the first to claim the 3:16 verse as his own. More »
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Here is a very incomplete list of places in our great nation where you can watch sports while eating Chinese food today—as suggested by you, our readers. If you have more ideas, please let us know in the comments. All endorsements sic'd. More »
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Christmas is on Sunday, and while most public activity shuts down so the Christians and semi-Christians can worship American consumerism and baby Jesus, our nation's Jews will be eating Chinese food and watching hoops like it's just another Hanukkah weekend. What a world! More »
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This is too weird to believe if we hadn't received multiple tips about it, and here's WLW 700 host Bill Cunningham on yesterday's program relating that he, too, had heard about Xavier president Fr. Michael Graham's bizarre behavior during the brawl that broke out in the Crosstown Shootout. More »
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Oh, please. You know why Tebow memes exist? You know why they've, let us say, gone forth and multiplied? Because of columns like this, that's why. Here's the headline: More »
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God likes to talk baseball with Josh Hamilton. In the dugout before the tenth, before what would stand as Hamilton's career-defining moment for all of a half inning, he heard a still, small voice. It told him Jason Motte would start him off with a waist-high four-seamer. More »
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Tomorrow's New York Times has a short story on Nathan Whitaker, who is presumably among the most successful people in the football-media nexus, and presumably unbeknownst to you. More »
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"The match between Djokovic and Federer in New York was quite a spectacle, but it was nothing compared to Christ's victory over sin and death and Satan. 'And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.' (Colossians 2:15) Memo to Satan: Get over it. You have been defeated." [Christian Post, via Drop Shot Dispatch] More »
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Last week, an anonymous BYU grad offered his take on the Brandon Davies situation. (Davies was suspended from the BYU basketball team for having consensual sex with his girlfriend.) Our source described Davies's suspension as hypocritical and a preemptive public relations strike. Our readers had a few thoughts of their own. More »
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The more I think about what happened to Brandon Davies, the more I think it's hypocrisy. I was listening to Jim Rome and he was praising BYU for sticking to its principles. Pat Forde on ESPN was doing the same thing. But it is a double standard. If you're a regular student and you have any sort of sexual interaction, it's private. I know one person — not an athlete — who was referred to the honor code office, and it was only because her roommate told on her. Even if you go to your bishop and announce, "I'm fooling around with a girl," it will rarely go to the honor code office. Most times, guys who are drinking, having sex, smoking pot are not going to confess it, but I have friends who talked to the bishop about that stuff — I did it, myself — and it never even wound up in the honor code office. My hunch would be that another player ratted him out. A married player. More »
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We were cruising dating site Christian Partner For Life the other day, looking for a nice girl who does that hot thing where they wear a cross in their cleavage, and we stumbled across a singular honor for one Timothy Tebow. More »
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A Georgia pastor was arrested for protesting (without a permit) his son's high school's nickname, the Demons. Never mind that it's actually named for a WWII squadron. No one tell the pastor about Wake Forest; his head would explode. [WMAZ] More »
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Whatever your politics, there are plenty of good reasons to support "Los Suns'" Cinco De Mayo gesture. Amar'e Stoudemire's is not one of them. More »
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In the Israeli basketball league, cheerleaders are basically mandatory, so the more Orthodox teams put up with them even though fans would prefer that no one shake and/or display any "lady lumps." So they're expected to just....cheer? That's sick. [France24] More »
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"For me, being a Los Angeles Clippers fan for over twenty years has taught me firsthand about the spiritual dimensions of faith and suffering, and has helped me better understand my own Hindu tradition." [Huffington Post] More »
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Westboro Baptist Church, best known for disrupting soldiers' funerals and being generally batshit insane, are currently — at this very moment! — picketing outside the Stars/Coyotes game in Dallas. Because nothing saith "abomination unto the Lord" like Marty Turco's goaltending. More »
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Buried in a flimsy trend story about the, er....resurrection of "John 3:16" madness (courtesy of YouKnowWho, natch) is a more fascinating nugget about the true originator of the craze—who is serving three life terms in a California prison. More »
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If you squint really hard, the design on this PSU t-shirt may resemble a cross. And just like that — controversy! More »
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A fundamentalist Baptist church is making headlines for their upcoming book/album burning, but their website reveals a hidden treasure: the Index Of Ungodly Athletes. More »
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It's not because he got high (as we all know, the Pope smokes dope). The reason famous fish-person Michael Phelps won't meet with the Nazi Pope is buried deep in his family history, as revealed on his Wikipedia page. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5327867&view=rss&microfeed=true There may be nothing in the rulebook that says a mule can't play football, but there's another rule book out there that apparently does say something about girls not being place kickers. That was news to Kacy Stuart, a 14-year-old lass from Spaulding County, Georgia, who is playing for the New Creation Center Crusaders—a team made up of home school and private school boys. Well, she plays for them when the other team doesn't punk out or start quoting Bible verses at her. More »
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Today we grapple with the big questions. Like, if Jesus were around today and attending high school, what sport would he go out for? It's impossible to know for sure (Kurt Warner isn't answering his cell phone), but we guess football. We imagine that Christ would be an awesome placekicker ("It's hooking left, wait ... no, it's good! Another field goal for Jesus!"). More »
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Little Billy was a terror on defense — he had been living in the opponents' backfield all day. But then he took it one step too far. Yes, as you may have guessed from this photo, Billy was penalized 15 yards for "roughing Jesus," an infraction that also carries loss of down, plus possible eternal damnation. More »
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From a special column by God in the UK Guardian directed toward athletes who constantly thank him for their success: More »
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