Football Page 1137 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Former Player Launches Colossal Twitter Rant Against The NFL
Former safety Hamza Abdullah, who played parts of seven seasons with four different teams, is having a moment on Twitter right now. And much of his ire is profanely directed toward the league, with some reserved for the players' union....
76 Years Later, Maryland Tries To Right A College Football Wrong
In October 1937, Maryland administrators threatened to cancel a game with Syracuse unless the then-Orangemen benched their offensive star, Wilmeth Sidat-Singh. The problem, as Maryland saw it, was that he wasn't the right type of colored boy....
NFL Could Consider Taking Away Touchdowns For Taunting
Golden Tate's wave goodbye made him either a hero or a villain, according to People Who Have Strong Opinions On Things Like This. (Personal opinion: There aren't many things in sports that matter less than one player taunting another.) But it sounds like there's a chance that the NFL could crack dow...
Sources: Some Jaguars Players Got Beat Up In London After Sunday's Game
We don't have any names, but we do have two stories from two different sources, probably about the same group of players. In either case, the story ends with the players losing a fight and going to the hospital. The fight involves either women and hotel security, or nine men with brass knuckles, de...
Marshawn Lynch Had No Idea Buffalo Was Not In New York City
Marshawn Lynch was profiled on last night's E:60, and it was a fairly candid look at Lynch's upbringing in Oakland. But the single best moment was Lynch recalling his reaction to being drafted by Buffalo in 2007. The West Coast kid wasn't exactly up on his East Coast geography....
"Go Fuck Yourselves": Ex-Ducks Player Blasts "Ignorant" Oregon Fans
In The Oregonian, John Canzano reprints a letter he received from a former Ducks football player. He recently ended his college career, and on Saturday, attended UCLA-Oregon for his first-ever game as a fan. He didn't have a fun time....
You Can Get Away With Acting Like Dez Bryant If You're Tony Romo
On Sunday, Dez Bryant was accused and immediately convicted on national TV of excessive gesticulation. This was based mainly on long-distance exegesis of Bryant's body language during a couple of sideline exchanges, the first with Tony Romo and the second with Jason Witten. Here's the first one, fol...
NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 9
Here is your early betting info for Week 9 NFL; we'll update on Thursday with money lines and spread movements for these 12 games and add Eagles-Raiders (this line opened late). Two small tweaks from last week: Each team's actual record is included, and the games are once again ordered by start time...
Illinois QB's Father Banned From Campus After Arrest
Nathan Creer, the father of Illinois starting quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase has been banned from campus for a year after being involved in a drunken fight at Saturday's game. ...
The New Browns Facility's Walls Are Full Of Fake Quotes
This past August, the Cleveland Browns unveiled their newly renovated training facility to the local press. The four-month, $5 million project to transform the Browns' home into a mid-grade, mid-2000s, middle-management expo featured, among other things, a series of inspirational quotations on the w...
Matt Stafford Was Mic'd Up During The Lions' Comeback Drive
Thanks to this video, we can now hear what Matt Stafford was saying while he led his team on a thrilling, game-winning drive against the Cowboys on Sunday. ...
Leaked Video: The Gronkowskis Are Pitching An Animated TV Show
We've obtained the sizzle reel that the Gronkowski clan is shopping around Hollywood, hoping to land a contract for an animated TV show. So. Much. Zubaz....
Tavon Austin Is Dedicated To The Art Of The Sell
Aaurrggh, I'm paralyzed. [takes a beat.] It's a miracle!...
Golden Tate Suggests You Not Even Bother
For about 25 yards, Golden Tate had this touchdown in the books and brought out his finest stop, please, you're embarrassing yourself taunts for the St. Louis secondary. Until, of course, safety Rodney McLeod caught up to him and almost forced him out before he got in the end zone. ...
Chris Cooley Says Albert Haynesworth Was Trying To Get Released
Remember when Albert Haynesworth signed that massive contract with the Washington Redskins, and then spent a season playing so poorly that people actually wondered if he was trying to get released? As it turns out, he was!...
Judge Finds That NFL Arbitration Has "Potential For Very Real Bias"
A Missouri Court of Appeals judge has declared the NFL's arbitration policy "unconscionable and unenforceable," writing that "the Arbitration Provision does not afford a mechanism to ensure the fairness and impartiality of the arbitration proceeding." It's important reading for any football player w...
Could Mike Pouncey Be Facing Aaron Hernandez-Related Criminal Charges?
Greg Bedard, one of the Sports Illustrated reporters who broke the story that Pouncey had been served with a subpoena immediately after the Dolphins' loss to the Patriots, thinks it's possible....