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Pitt RB James Conner Diagnosed With Lymphoma

University of Pittsburgh running back James Conner was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma this week, as he announced yesterday. In a school press release, Conner said:...

Packers running back Eddie Lacy had five attempts for four yards and one catch for a loss of three yards in last night’s game. His lack of touches was due to him missing curfew on Wednesday, according to ESPN’s Rob Demovsky. Running back Alonzo Harris also missed curfew; he was cut before the game. ...

Who Will Free The Cursed Soul Trapped Inside This Matt Stafford Statue?

This custom-made, 62-inch wooden statue of Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford is currently on sale for $1,500. It is imperative that someone out there buy it and destroy it, so that the curse binding a tortured soul to it for all eternity can be broken....

Report: LSU Came Close To Replacing Les Miles With Jimbo Fisher

LSU and football coach Les Miles seemed destined for a split at the end of the season, thanks to some profuse and premature leaks, but after Saturday’s win over Texas A&M, athletic director Joe Alleva announced Miles will return. According to four sources in Thursday’s report from The Advocate, the ...

Factory Of Sadness Gets A Sadness Upgrade With Browns Montage Set To Adele

Lions fans had their spirits crushed with the Packers’ game-winning hail mary Thursday night, but let’s not be so quick to forget fate beating down Browns fans on Monday night with a game-ending kick-six. Charles Wulf used the loss as a prompt for his compilation of Browns lowlights set to Adele....

The Facemask Penalty On The Lions Was The Right Call In The Moment

This will sound self-contradictory and bring consolation to absolutely no one, but the facemask call that extended the game and gave the Packers the chance to win on a hail mary was the wrong call—and one that no official should be blamed for making....

Mark Brunell Fondly Recalls The Time Brett Favre Tortured A Deer To Death

CBS Sports published a kind of oral history of Brett Favre, in which former teammates, coaches, and friends shared their fond memories of the ol’ gunslinger, and hooooooly shit get a load of this story from Mark Brunell:...

The 49ers' Front Office Is Still A Huge Mess

It’s hard to imagine a football team having a worse season, top-to-bottom, than the 2015 San Francisco 49ers. Things stayed messy last night, with various reports stating that team president Paraag Marathe is being shuffled off to a lesser role within the organization, a move that will apparently ta...

No One Has Ever Seen A Hail Mary Like Aaron Rodgers's

The thing that stands out, amid all the craziness in Green Bay’s miracle 27-23 win, is just how damn high that pass went. It flew about 70 yards in the air, from Aaron Rodgers to Richard Rodgers, a heave that not many quarterbacks are capable of, but it’s the height of the thing, more mortar than mi...

Business Owned By Father Of Alabama's Rashaan Evans Burglarized In Craigslist Hoax

A venue for parties and gatherings owned by the father of Alabama sophomore linebacker Rashaan Evans has been broken into twice in the last month as a result of a Craigslist hoax, he told AL.com. According to Alan Evans, a post went up on Craigslist a couple of weeks ago that said the business was g...

Cousin Of Giants Safety Killed In San Bernardino Shooting

New York Giants safety Nat Berhe is from San Bernardino, Calif., where yesterday’s mass shooting took place. Today, he announced that one of his cousins was killed in the shooting....

Nick Saban To Media: Talk To My Dang Soda Bottle

Nick Saban is on a nice little streak of press conference hijinks. He followed up last month’s cussin’ and marriage advisin’ by getting fed up with questions about his defensive coordinator possibly becoming the new head coach at Georgia, and then kindly instructed the media to talk to his soda bott...

The B1G Tight End Of The Year (Award) Belongs To Jake Butt

Michigan’s Jake Butt is one of the tightest tight ends in the nation, and was chosen as the Big Ten’s Kwalick-Clark Tight End of the Year. Butt, a junior, has 48 receptions for 620 yards and three touchdowns so far this season. He’s always shown immense potential, but really flourished this season u...

Reports: Mark Richt Will Be Miami's Next Coach

According to numerous reports, former Georgia Bulldogs head coach Mark Richt will be the next coach of the Miami Hurricanes. The news was first reported by Canes Insight. ...

Stan Kroenke Wants The Rams Out Of St. Louis So Damn Badly

We’re nearing the end of Escape To L.A. race that the St. Louis Rams, San Diego Chargers, and Oakland Raiders have been running for what seems like forever now. Given that neither team has gotten an attractive offer to stay in their current cities, the Chargers and Raiders appear to be most likely t...

Why Did Navy QB Keenan Reynolds Disappear From ESPN's Heisman Fan Vote? [Update]

Navy quarterback Keenan Reynolds has been crucial to the program’s success this season. The 9-2 team’s spread option offense relies on his abilities to pass and run. When Nissan and ESPN partnered up to allow the fans to determine one Heisman vote, Reynolds received a lot of support. But, for some r...

Bill Belichick Is Extra Grumpy This Morning

The Patriots are notoriously cagey when it comes to talking publicly about player injuries, which is why it was kind of weird to see the team release an official statement about Rob Gronkowski’s knee injury. At this morning’s press conference, head coach Bill Belichick was asked why the team decided...

Security Guard Chokes Panthers Fan

The video above, taken at last week’s Panthers-Cowboys game, shows a Cowboys Stadium security staffer choking a Panthers fan....

Ben Roethlisberger's Trying Really Hard To Pretend He Doesn't Have A Concussion

Ben Roethlisberger is a resilient guy who will generally try to play through just about any injury, but his brain bouncing off the inside of his skull is a bridge too far. The Steelers quarterback took himself out of Sunday’s game against Seattle, and he’s still suffering the effects. The team’s ada...

The Browns Fan Videos Just Keep Getting Sadder

Browns fans are in that rare sweet spot on the venn diagram of sports-fan sadness, where we’re still able to laugh at their misery caused by last night’s kick-six loss to Baltimore, even as we feel really, genuinely sorry for them....