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PSA: Don't Leave Tyrann Mathieu Or Animals Or Kids In Hot Cars
Cardinals safety Tyrann “Honey Badger” Mathieu teamed up with PETA to make this video showing the effects on a healthy adult of sitting in a car on a hot day. It was 90 degrees outside, and within eight minutes it was 120 degrees inside. If Mathieu couldn’t make it just eight minutes without getting...
Move The Minnesota Vikings To Pluto
Thanks to the New Horizons probe, the world’s seeing marvelous new photos of dwarf planet Pluto and its moons this week. The 10-year trip cost approximately $720 million, and as WCCO’s Pat Kessler pointed out in a lighthearted way, the Minnesota Vikings’ new stadium will require more money and not c...
Longtime Patriots offensive lineman Dan Connolly has announced his retirement. Connolly, 32, told ESPN that he could have played another year or two, but decided to retire now due to health concerns. He has been diagnosed with four concussions during his NFL career, and suffered a fifth while playin...
Plaxico Burress Blasts Nick Saban, His College Coach
Alabama lost to Ohio State 42-35 in the Sugar Bowl, and at SEC Media Days yesterday Nick Saban advanced a bizarre theory to explain that loss. He says that team chemistry was harmed by players learning about their NFL Draft grade in the days leading up to the game, and that somehow hurt preparation....
Justin Houston Is Finally Getting <i>Paid</i>
Chiefs’ pass-rushing linebacker Justin Houston has signed a massive extension to stay in Kansas City. It’s six years, $101 million, which are both big and somewhat imaginary numbers, but this one isn’t: $52.5 million in guaranteed money....
Fan From 49ers Bathroom Fight Sentenced To Five Years In Prison
Amador Rebollero, one of the men involved in a fight at a 49ers game last October that left one man with a severe head injury, has been sentenced to five years in prison. ...
Report: Tom Brady Will Sue If The NFL Doesn't Throw Out His Suspension
There are rumblings that a decision on Tom Brady’s appeal of his four-game Ballghazi suspension will be coming down very soon. But the union is already making a ton of noise: according to reports from ESPN and NFL.com, citing NFLPA sources, Brady and the union are already prepping a challenge in fed...
Why Marcus Mariota Hasn't Signed His Titans Contract Yet
The Titans report for training camp two weeks from tomorrow. Unless things change they will do so without their new franchise quarterback....
Ex-NFLer Will Allen Indicted For Role In Alleged Ponzi Scheme
Former NFL cornerback Will Allen—not to be confused with Steelers safety Will Allen—has been indicted in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts for his role in an alleged Ponzi scheme, which prosecutors say he ran with a woman named Susan Daub. Allen and Daub each face 23 felony c...
Report: NFLPA Is Ready To Charge Cowboys And Broncos With Collusion
The Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos have yet to sign their respective star receivers—Dez Bryant and Demaryius Thomas—to longterm deals, and the deadline to do so is this Wednesday. According to an ESPN report, if Thomas and Bryant don’t get new deals by the deadline, the players’ union will bring ...
Torrey Smith Has A Great Sports Baby
New 49ers wide receiver Torrey Smith is spending his summer vacation hanging around the house with his family, including one-year-old son TJ. And TJ? He’s a star....
NFL Coach Who Allegedly Hit A Kid May Go With The "It Was Dark" Defense
Bills offensive line coach Aaron Kromer, who was arrested on Sunday for allegedly punching a boy and then threatening to kill that boy’s family if he went to the cops, is going to have to come up with some kind of explanation for allegedly punching a kid. According to a source who spoke to Fox Sport...
Porn Star Calls Out NFL Player Who Slid Into Her DMs
Let this be a warning to anyone planning on on sliding into the DMs of porn star Mia Khalifa, as Bills safety Duke Williams recently did:...
It Won't Matter Who Starts At Quarterback For Ohio State
With Braxton Miller announcing his to return to Ohio State, the Buckeyes now have three of college football’s best-available quarterbacks—Miller, J.T. Barrett, and Cardale Jones—all with big-game experience and all finally healthy. Now, the question that has been looming since their national champio...
The Time Ken Stabler Maybe Planted Cocaine On A Sportswriter He Hated
Last Friday, we republished Pete Axthelm’s great old profile on Ken Stabler, the swashbuckling former NFL quarterback who died at the age of 69 last week. In that profile is an unbelievable anecdote about a “prank” that is impossible to imagine happening in today’s NFL....