Football Page 1132 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Jameis Winston's Status Revised, Now Suspended For Entire Clemson Game
Florida State's administration suspended Jameis Winston for the first half of tomorrow's Clemson game earlier this week after engaging in the public execution of a meme. Now, after having time to think about it, interim FSU president Garnett Stokes and AD Stan Wilcox have decided to bench the Heisma...
ESPN Reports, Then Unreports, That Casino Gave Rice Tape To The NFL
So ... this is very strange....
ESPN: Rice Believes Ravens Owner Tried To Bribe Him In Coverup Attempt
ESPN's Outside The Lines just dropped a doozy of a story about the handling of the Ray Rice domestic violence incident. It's a long and thoroughly reported piece, centering mainly on the Ravens' end of the investigation, but the big bullet points are these: Baltimore Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti, ...
NFL Lifts Dion Jordan's 4-Game Suspension, Suspends Him 4 More Games
Back in July, the NFL suspended Dolphins defensive end Dion Jordan four games for taking "banned stimulants" that violated the league's performance-enhancing substance policy. Good news! The league lifted Jordan's ban today, after two games. Bad news! The NFL suspended Jordan four more games....
Goodell: I Suck At My Job. Now Trust Me.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, from whom we hadn't heard in quite some time, addressed the media just now, first reading a long, boring statement and then spending a bit more than a half-hour saying nothing whatever of substance in answering questions from reporters. The general impression he gave ...
NFL Loses Corporate Partner For Breast Cancer Awareness Week
It seems that of the toxicity of Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson has finally seeped its way into the NFL at large. According to CBS Sports, manufacturing behemoth Procter & Gamble has pulled out of an upcoming partnership with the NFL for Breast Cancer Awareness Week. ...
A Whole Lot Of Ravens Fans Turned Up To Exchange Their Ray Rice Jerseys
Today is the day that Baltimore Ravens fans can go to M&T Bank Stadium to exchange their Ray Rice jerseys for another Ravens jersey of their choice. Based on photos from the stadium, a lot of people are taking advantage of this deal....
NFL Fans Prove They're Exactly As Stupid As The NFL Thinks They Are
On Monday, ESPN's SportsNation published a poll about the Vikings' reactivation of Adrian Peterson, the sort of reflexive, wallpaperish question more designed to eat up 20 or 30 seconds of the 11 a.m. SportsCenter than to gauge any actual public sentiment. A few days later it published another, aski...
How I Let Go Of My NFL Career
Excerpted from the new epilogue to Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile, now available in paperback. We published an adaptation from the book last year....
We'll Never See Another Player Quite Like Devin Hester
No one would've blamed you if, before watching him take a reverse to the house and then Prime Time his way to a record-setting 20th return TD last night, you had forgotten that Devin Hester was even in the league at all. It's been a few years since he's done anything notable, but his brief re-emerge...
Is This Celebrating Falcons Fan Grabbing Her Friend's Dick?
Many of you believe this Falcons fan's grabbing her friend's junk to celebrate a first down by Julio Jones. I'm a little hesitant, though. Watch the guy's face; he doesn't flinch. Wouldn't he at least react in the slightest way if she grabbed his dick? On the other hand, what else could she be grabb...
Devin Hester Breaks NFL Record With 62-Yard Punt Return Touchdown
Devin Hester broke his tie with Deion Sanders atop the NFL's list of all-time return touchdown scorers with a 62-yard punt return tonight against Tampa Bay, the 20th of his career....
Cops: Vols Fan Made Teen Son Drink Until He Passed Out
A Tennessee man was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a child and aggravated child abuse and neglect for allegedly making his 15-year-old son play a drinking game with him as they watched the Volunteers' game against Oklahoma Saturday....
Vikings Cut Jerome Simpson After July Weed Charges Surface
Suspended Vikings receiver Jerome Simpson now has no team after he finishes his three-game suspension. The team announced today that they were cutting him after new July charges, one of them being marijuana possession, came to light....
NFL Issues Press Release Through <em>USA Today</em> On How Hard It's Working
The NFL wants you to know it's working hard on the issue of domestic violence. It hasn't actually changed anything since the video of Ray Rice slugging his wife was released. But why should that get in the way of a good press release, also known as an exclusive interview, as Tim Marchman explained y...
BC Coach Steve Addazio's Vine Account Is A Wonderful Relic
Boston College head football coach Steve Addazio hasn't uploaded anything to his Vine account in over a year. That is very sad, because before abandoning the medium, Addazio spent one fateful day in June of 2013 creating some of the best Vines I have ever seen....
Just How Good Is Kirk Cousins?
When Robert Griffin III busted his ankle early in Washington's Week 2 game against the Jaguars, the team turned to backup Kirk Cousins to run the offense, again, and damn, he filled in nicely, again. The offense came alive, and Washington came away with a decisive 41-10 victory. RG3's return is st...
Steve Smith Has Some Thoughts About Domestic Violence And Elevators
Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Steve Smith took to Twitter last night to briefly share his take on proper elevator behavior and how men should treat women....