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Chip Kelly Says He Wanted Sam Bradford <i>And </i>Nick Foles
The Eagles knew they were taking a risk when they stripped personnel power from GM Howie Roseman and handed it to Chip Kelly, who might be brilliant or crazy. Owner Jeffrey Lurie admitted as much in comments at the owners' meeting yesterday, and said the team could have been content racking up 10-wi...
Guy Who Punched Out Belligerent Lax Bro Regrets Nothing
The word hero is thrown around so loosely these days. But the guy who decked a Syracuse lacrosse player who had attacked two random people, then dared the police to arrest him for knocking the guy out with a single punch? Hero. (Police did not arrest him, because he's a hero.)...
MLB Investigating Claim That Marlins Pitcher Jarred Cosart Bet On Sports
We have no idea if Jarred Cosart bets on sports. (Maybe you do! Let's talk.) MLB doesn't either, but it intends to find out. After last nights emergence of screenshots of Twitter messages claiming to show the Marlins starter talking bets, MLB has announced that its Department of Investigations will ...
The Best-Selling Throwback Jerseys By State
Clothing company Mitchell & Ness has made its name on classic and retro gear. Using sales data from 2014, they've figure out which is the best-selling throwback jersey in every single state plus D.C. There are some obvious ones, but some definite surprises too....
Lots Of Athletes Are Identically Excited About This Mediocre Movie
That Angelina Jolie-produced movie about Olympic runner and World War II P.O.W. Louis Zamperini comes out on Blu-ray today. Know how we know? The totally organic announcements from a whole mess of athletes (as noticed by Dave Lozo):...
The Mets Are Holding Back Matt Harvey To Sell More Tickets
Let's argue about some stupid shit, because c'mon, that's the most fun thing about baseball. And the Mets will never let us down when it comes to providing the stupid shit....
Brandon Phillips Thinks Getting On Base Is Overrated
Hold on to your butts: baseball season must be approaching, because someone's saying dumb things about the value of getting on base. And, surprise, it's a guy who doesn't do it very often....
Adrian Peterson's Agent: "We Want Out Of Minnesota"
Adrian Peterson is under contract with the Vikings through 2017. He has absolutely no interest in playing out that contract, demanding either a raise or a trade, depending on the day and the audience. Yesterday was the most public trade demand yet, with agent Ben Dogra declaring that Peterson is fed...
Report: Browns Are Favorites To Appear On <i>Hard Knocks</i>
According to longtime Buffalo News writer Vic Carucci—who worked for the Browns from 2011 until 2014—Cleveland training camp could be the setting for this year's season of Hard Knocks:...
A Courtside View Of Pat Connaughton's Block
Notre Dame's OT win over Butler on Saturday was probably the best tournament game of the weekend, and it might not have gone that long had Irish senior guard Pat Connaughton not swooped in to swat down a Kellen Dunham shot with one second left in regulation. ...
Syracuse Lacrosse Player Clearly Had A Rough Go Of It Before His Arrest
Hayes McGinley, a redshirt freshman midfielder for Syracuse lacrosse, was arrested last Saturday night, March 14, and charged with two counts of second-degree harassment. Okay. But what happened to his face?...
The NFL Wants Two Teams In Los Angeles
The Los Angeles stadium game is getting serious: this week, NFL owners will hear two different proposals for new stadiums in L.A. And as the Los Angeles Times revealed yesterday, each stadium would be designed to hold two different NFL teams....
Rick Pitino Says Players Should Be Allowed To Skip College
It's only been since 2006 that high schoolers were banned from jumping straight to the NBA, so it's not as if the current system—which has mainly supplied a series of one-and-dones—has inertia on its side. But basketball programs want more: the Pac-12 presidents have pitched the Power Five on making...
Wisconsin Players Are Obsessed With The Stenographer
At the NCAA tournament, all player and coach interviews are transcribed by a stenographer, to be handed out to the media for ease of accurately quoting. It is, admittedly, a fascinating, fast-paced job, featuring a stenotype machine that works unlike anything most people have ever seen. ...
Three Bros Explored The Abandoned Astrodome
On Reddit, user "loserfame" shares a handful of photos from early 2012, when he and two friends snuck through a gap in the fence and found themselves inside the Astrodome, which hadn't been used since 2003. Beers in hand, they took to exploring the place, from the locker rooms to the field to up on ...
FIFA Turned A Huge Profit On The World Cup, Of Course
FIFA is bad. "Bad," as in many of the people who work there are bad, and they often do bad things to the sport of soccer and to the world at large. But let no one ever say that FIFA isn't very, very good at making money: it pulled in more than $2 billion in revenues last year, nearly all of that fro...