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Mike Francesa Goes Nuts Over James Franklin Icing The Kicker In A Blowout
In the last few seconds of Penn State’s 56-0 demolition of Georgia State on Saturday, the Panthers lined up to kick a field goal and at least get some points on the board. The 31-yard attempt went through the uprights, but Penn State coach James Franklin had called a timeout just before the ball was...

The Shovel Pass To Travis Kelce Is A Cheat Code
Two weeks into the season, the Kansas City Chiefs have the most entertaining offense in the league. They shoved 42 points right into the Patriots’ faces by using a read-option scheme, letting Alex Smith sling it, and deploying rookie running back Kareem Hunt like prime-era LaDainian Tomlinson. Yeste...

Kevin Durant Trashes Former Coach, Teammates On Twitter
Thanks to the eagle eye of Twitter user @harrisonmc15, we get to enjoy these since-deleted tweets from Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant:...

Big3 Files Defamation Lawsuit Against Champions Basketball League
The Champions Basketball League, an independent pro league that has repeatedly failed to start its inaugural season after taking hundreds of thousands of dollars of investment from regular fans, sued Ice Cube’s Big3 league for $250 million earlier this month. Today, the Big3 filed a counter defamati...

The White House And Fucking Tucker Carlson And That <i>Dilbert</i> Shithead And All The Rest Of Them Won't Stop Talking About "MSESPN," They Won't Stop, They Will Never Stop, And The Sweet Release Of The Void Is Calling
Here’s what the president was thinking about this morning:...

Report: NBA Would Prefer Teams Lie About Injuries
Adrian Wojnarowski has another scoop related to an upcoming NBA board of governors meeting, during which potential rule changes will be voted on, and this one makes the league look pretty stupid:...

Report: NBA Board Of Governors To Vote On Lottery Reform
ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski is reporting that a new NBA draft lottery system is one step closer to becoming a reality. According to Woj, the league’s competition committee has recommended a reform proposal that was created by the NBA, and the league’s board of governors will now vote on the proposal o...
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Offensive Lineman T.J. Lang Has Some Issues With Pro Football Focus [Updated]
Pro Football Focus has consistently ranked Lions guard T.J. Lang as one of the best offensive linemen in football. This doesn’t seem to have curried any favor with Lang, who went on 97.1 The Ticket yesterday and called the site “absolute garbage.”...

Good Job, ESPN
During today’s White House press briefing, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to comment on SportsCenter host Jemele Hill’s recent tweets about Donald Trump, in which she described the President and his policies as white supremacist. Hill was publicly reprimanded by ESPN for her tweets...

Shohei Otani Is Reportedly Coming To MLB, Despite Its Best Efforts To Keep Him Away
Japanese baseball star Shohei Otani, who is in the midst of a Ruthian season for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters—the two-way stud had a 1.86 ERA and 174 strikeouts in 140 innings, to go along with 27 homers and a .322/.416/.588 triple slash in 2016—is reportedly ready to play ball in America. He’ll...

Kevin Durant Has Never Been Less Mad, And He Has The Shoes To Prove It
Kevin Durant earned himself a lot of haters last offseason when he left the Oklahoma City Thunder and joined the Golden State Warriors. Now he’s an NBA champion and a Finals MVP, so he’s definitely not still sore about all those mean things people said about him. He’s definitely not still mad about ...

Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week: Tom Savage Gets The Hell Out Of Here
Welcome to Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week, a recurring feature in which we celebrate the worst quarterback play the NFL has to offer....

Adrian Peterson Wanted To Run It Up The Vikings' "Donkey"
Adrian Peterson’s revenge game wasn’t meant to be. In his first game as a member of the New Orleans Saints, going against his former Minnesota Vikings squad, Peterson finished with just six carries for 18 yards. The only memorable moment he produced was getting caught yelling something at head coach...

Looks Like David Johnson Will Be Out For A Long Time
Cardinals do-it-all star running back David Johnson left Sunday’s game against the Lions after injuring his wrist in the third quarter. Johnson reportedly dislocated his wrist, and based on what head coach Bruce Arians had to say to reporters today, the Cardinals are probably going to be without Joh...

NFL Appeals Injunction In Ezekiel Elliott Case
The NFL filed an appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit today, seeking to overturn the preliminary injunction that United States District Court Judge Amos Mazzant handed down on Friday, which prevented the league from suspending Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott six games for violating...

Andy Dalton Stunk And Then Got A Hat Thrown At Him
It’s almost impossible to have a conversation about the NFL that doesn’t include a discussion of how many bad quarterbacks are in the league. But something gets lost when focusing this talk on just the Scott Tolziens and Josh McCowns of the world, and that’s the reality that many NFL quarterbacks wh...

Okay, Seriously, What's Going On With Antonio Cromartie's Penis?
Free-agent cornerback Antonio Cromartie’s wife, Terricka, recently gave birth to the couple’s sixth child. This is the 14th child that Cromartie has fathered, and the third that has been born after he had a vasectomy....

NFL Suspends Josh Brown Six More Games, For Some Reason
The NFL’s initial investigation into allegations of domestic violence against former Giants kicker Josh Brown, which resulted in a one-game suspension, accomplished nothing. Even less is accomplished by the fact that the NFL has reportedly decided to suspend Brown for an additional six games....

Hello, Kareem Hunt
The Patriots got shoved into a trash compactor last night, and watching it felt wonderful. Alex Smith’s passable and shocking Aaron Rodgers impression may have been the most impressive part of the Chiefs’ performance, but the part that was the most fun to watch was rookie running back Kareem Hunt ma...

FS1 Won't Be Airing Jason Whitlock's Latest Colin Kaepernick Skit
On Tuesday, All Takes Matter co-host Jason Whitlock started an internet firestorm with this tweet:...