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Warrant: Aaron Hernandez Circled Victims Before 2012 Drive-By Murders

Surveillance footage shows an SUV driven by Aaron Hernandez circling the block near a Boston nightclub, waiting for a group of men to get in their own vehicle, before pulling up alongside it and spraying it with gunfire, according to a search warrant released yesterday. It's the most solid evidence ...

With more than a third of voters' ballots having been publicly revealed, it looks like Cooperstown will have four new members. [BBTF]...

Future Of NFL Playoffs Could Look Very Different

At a public forum at Manhattan's 92nd Street Y last night, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell sounded optimistic that the league's competition committee will soon approve an expansion of the playoffs to 14 teams, with the extra games possibly held on Friday or Monday....

Trademark Agency Rejects "Redskins" Application As "Derogatory"

Late last month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denied an application to register a trademark for "Redskins Hog Rinds," a product wholly unrelated to the Washington football team. The USPTO's reasoning for refusing the trademark is simple: It's offensive....

Here's What It Looks Like When You Jump On A Frozen Trampoline

This Vine is a couple weeks old, but Bob's Blitz brought it to our attention today, and it's freaking cold outside....

NBA To Pay $500 Million To Get Out Of The Worst Deal Ever Signed

Let me tell you a story about two geniuses. ...

Sabres Game Postponed Due To Being In Buffalo

The area could get a foot and a half of snow by tomorrow morning, so the Sabres have called off tonight's game against the Hurricanes. ...

Texas Booster Says Charlie Strong "Would Make A Great Position Coach"

Nearly everyone thinks Texas did right when they tapped Charlie Strong to be their next head coach—everyone outside of Texas, anyway....

Ohio State DE Was Suspended For Ecstasy

On New Year's Day it was announced that Ohio State's all-conference defensive end Noah Spence was suspended for three games, including the Orange Bowl. Now we know why. Spence's family says he tested positive for ecstasy, and had to argue his suspension down from a full season because the Big Ten co...

It Looks Like Some Bad Shit Is Going Down At UTEP [Update]

Two Texas-El Paso players, including the team's leading scorer, have been suspended indefinitely, and coaches and administrators won't give even the slightest hint of a reason. Now comes word that the FBI is involved. We think we have a pretty good idea of what might be going on....

Greg Maddux Will Not Be A Unanimous Hall Of Famer

Because one jackass just announced his ballot, and Maddux isn't on it....

Dennis Rodman's North Korea Trip May Be Falling Apart

Dennis Rodman has been gung-ho about his latest trip to North Korea, a matchup between former NBA players and DPRK all-stars as a "birthday present" for Kim Jong-un. He might be the only one. The Associated Press reports that a number of the players on the trip are expressing second thoughts about g...

Now <em>That</em> Was A Damn Football Game

We didn't know if Jameis Winston and Florida State could do it. That's not an impugnment of their talent, only a fact: These Seminoles, dominant on both sides of the ball, hadn't trailed in a game since September. But that's what practice is for, and every week, FSU runs a drill. The first-team offe...

Jameis Winston's Accuser Didn't Have A Chance

The decision not to charge Jameis Winston didn't teach us anything about the Florida State QB's guilt or innocence, but it did hammer home an old lesson: The system is stacked against sexual assault victims....

MMA Fighter's Nose Probably Shouldn't Look Like That

This here is a photo of cage fighter/tomato can Andy Eichholz, who was KO'ed 15 seconds into his fight against Wade Sauer over the weekend. I'm no doctor, but that nose looks like it wants to be an ear....

YOU ARE OLD: Bradley Beal Wore "23" Because Of LeBron, Not MJ

Bradley Beal always wore the number 23, from AAU ball to preps to his single year of college. He had to switch to No. 3 when he was drafted by the Wizards, since that number's unofficially retired for one Michael Jeffrey Jordan. You'd think Beal would be honored. But no, it turns out, he wore 23 bec...

An FSU Teacher Loses The Battle Against Football Culture

The most disturbing part of the scandal surrounding Jameis Winston—sexual assault allegations that the state attorney declined to bring to trial—was the reaction on campus. Threats, conspiracy theories, victim-blaming and witness intimidation. It was frustrating to those FSU teachers who figure coll...

Two Of The NFL's Strangest Streaks Say The Chargers Will Be Champs

Let's be quite clear about this up front: We don't believe there's anything to this, any more than there was to the (now broken) streak of Redskins home games predicting the Presidential election. It's, statistical noise. But as far as random quirks go, these are pretty fucking weird....

Meet The Man Behind Hockey's Greatest Prank

I know this might be hard to believe, but once upon a time, the Buffalo Sabres were fun....