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Brandon Weeden Is Too Old To Have High School Stats On A Scouting Site

Brandon Weeden is older than the average rookie due to a minor-league baseball stint before a return to football. That's why it was funny when a Browns' program accidentally listed him at 129 years of age. An actual discrepancy in Weeden's football career, however, is much more telling of how veter...

Ivan Johnson Doesn't Care About Your Backboards

The Atlanta Hawks held practice today at Butler University, and forward/scariest NBA player candidate Ivan Johnson ruined it for everyone by cracking the backboard. Practice ended after that. Nice job, Ivan....

Mark Sanchez Silenced Tebow Supporters While Throwing For The Third-Lowest Passing Yards In His Career

Guess what, Mark Sanchez haters? Mr. Poise 2009 has made you all shut up. During the Jets' two-game strugglefest (with losses to the 49ers and Texans), Tim Tebow supporters wanted Sanchez replaced, crying, "tim tewbow as stater job!" But now, with the Jets routing the Colts on Sunday, Sanchez can w...

Listen To A Dallas Radio Host And A <em>Baltimore Sun</em> Reporter Call Each Other Names Because Of Tony Romo

Remember when Tony Romo hung up on Baltimore reporters but really didn't? Well, now you have to, because it's still a story. A story that involves even more HOT AUDIO....

Witness The Chaos That Tony Romo Wrought After Possibly Hanging Up On Some Reporters [UPDATE: WE HAVE HOT AUDIO]

The 2-2 Cowboys are playing the Ravens Sunday, and today Tony Romo had a standard conference call with Baltimore reporters. After some questions about Romo's consistency and such, his phone was somehow disconnected. Did Romo intentionally hang up on the media? Jeff Zrebiec and Aaron Wilson of the B...

Danny Tamberelli (Little Pete from The Adventures of Pete and Pete) is taking questions at Gawker. Ask him stuff!...

Why does 2013 free agent Nikola Pekovic want to stay with the Minnesota Timberwolves? "I like all the stuff."...

Tracy McGrady Is Going To Play Basketball In China

Unable to find an NBA team to sign with for the upcoming season, Tracy McGrady is going overseas to play basketball. The former star will join the Qingdao Eagles of the Chinese Basketball Association, immediately making him one of the biggest stars in China. He's on a one-year contract, and Chinese...

Mark Cuban Twists Deron Williams's Words To Make Williams Seem Unhappy With The Nets

On Monday, Deron Williams told reporters that he decided to stay with the Nets instead of signing with the Mavericks due to the absence of Mavs owner Mark Cuban (who was filming an episode of Shark Tank at the time) at the free-agency pitch. Today, Cuban fired back at Williams, but chose to call Wi...

Hunter S. Thompson Was "The Bad Boy Of Our Neighborhood," According To Some Dumb Snitch's Letter In An FBI File

Cody Winchester of the Argus Leader just posted the FBI's file on Hunter S. Thompson on his Tumblr, and it looks like the agency was keeping close tabs on Thompson during his failed bid to run for sheriff of Pitkin County, Col. in 1970. Looking through the pages, it seems that the FBI first took in...

Manute Bol's Son Is 6'5" And In Seventh Grade

When basketball legend Manute Bol passed away in 2010, he left behind 10 children. Bol Bol, one of his sons, is in seventh grade and already 6'5". And yes, he plays basketball. In the above video from a recent camp in Indianapolis, the gangly Bol resembles a middle-school version of his father. Cons...

Wes Welker Had To Explain His Joke To A Bunch Of People Who Knew He Was Joking

Wes Welker had an excellent game against the Broncos on Sunday, catching 13 passes for 104 yards and a touchdown. He also did something after the game that caught people's attention. During a postgame interview with CSNNE, Welker said, "It's definitely nice to stick it in Bill's face" (in reference...

Like Everyone Else, DeAngelo Williams Doesn't Care About Your Fantasy Team

Panthers running back DeAngelo Williams had a disappointing game on Sunday, carrying the ball six times for six yards and fumbling once. Overall, it has not been a good season for Williams (Week 1 line: six rushes for a loss of one yard and one catch for five yards), and it didn't make him feel bet...

ESPN Goes With A "KKK-Rod" Headline, Quickly Changes It After Common Sense Intervenes

Last night, Wallace Matthews of ESPN needed a headline for the note about Alex Rodriguez striking out three times in his Rapid Response blog. What to go with? Something silly like "A-Whiff"? Maybe even something plainly informative like "A-Rod's bad start"?...

Deadspin Up All Night: Sugarfoot

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. The Cardinals-Rams game is tonight, so you can converse about that. Tonight, take a moment out of your time to think about a cow you know....

Bobby Valentine Bicycles Off Into The Sunset

Here's Bobby Valentine making his great bike escape from Boston reporters today. He was nice enough to hold an impromptu press conference after reporters caught up to him. And then he pedaled on, bicycle against the traffic, borne back ceaselessly into unemployment....

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A Boise State Equipment Truck Hit A Cow, And Someone Took A Picture Of The Aftermath [UPDATE]

Brian Murphy of the Idaho Statesman tweeted this picture he found of what happens when the Boise State equipment truck hits a cow. There's manure and blood everywhere. Everywhere....

Right After Bobby Valentine Gets Fired, ESPN Runs A Segment About Why He's Still The Manager Of The Red Sox

ESPN was covering the breaking news of Bobby Valentine's firing when the network accidentally aired a pre-recorded Tim Kurkjian segment, one that was presumably meant to air under the (unlikely) condition of Valentine returning as the Red Sox's manager for 2013. Oops. Chris McKendry did her best to ...

Curt Schilling Might Have To Sell His Bloody Sock In Order To Pay Down His Debt

The Red Sox have had a bad year, but Curt Schilling's has been worse. At least the Red Sox have money. Schilling's video game company, 38 Studios, filed for bankruptcy in June. Even worse, 38 Studios owes around $150 million to creditors, including a $100 million loan from the state of Rhode Island....