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Hey, Everyone, Check Out Pete Prisco's Tim Tebow Impression
Here's Pete Prisco, odious football columnist and wearer of cargo jorts weird shorts, getting into a little tête-à-tête with some Jaguars fans at this month's "Sign Tim Tebow" rally. Prisco, who is staunchly anti-Tebow, can be seen giving his impression of Tebow's style of play. Nice moves, Pete....
Les Miles Explains Why He Claps Like A Weirdo
The sports world has long been transfixed by LSU head coach Les Miles's inability to clap like a real human being. Today, thanks to The New York Times, we finally know why Miles claps the way he does:...
Which NFL Pundit Has The Worst Picks Through Week 3?
Originally published on Pundit Tracker....
It's Matt Cassel Time For The Vikings
The fact that Matt Cassel will start for Minnesota on Sunday against the Steelers in London actually does nothing to settle the Vikings' unsettled QB situation. Sure, Christian Ponder's been terrible, tossing five INTs to two touchdowns and sitting in the third tertile of nearly every passing stat, ...
Former Chargers Safety Commits Suicide
Paul Oliver, a former NFL safety who played the majority of his career with the San Diego Chargers, killed himself at the age of 29....
Carlos Ortiz's Flip-Flopping Might Make It Harder To Convict Aaron Hernandez
The testimonies of Carlos Ortiz and Ernest Wallace are crucial for the prosecution if it wants an airtight argument that Aaron Hernandez shot and killed Odin Lloyd. So far, Ortiz and Wallace stood by accounts that ended Hernandez pulling the trigger, but now, Ortiz is altering a big detail in his s...
Tipsters: Here's Why You Should Give Your Stories To Us Instead Of TMZ
Bryant McKinnie went on his Baltimore radio show Wednesday to deny most of the details in TMZ's report about his birthday party. (In case you forgot, it involved Jacoby Jones getting hit on the head with a champagne bottle on a party bus by a stripper named Sweet Pea.)...
The Cowboys D-Line Coach Nicknamed One Of His Players "Golden Cock"
Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Jason Hatcher recently spoke to the Dallas Morning News about how much the team loves their defensive line coach, Rod Marinelli. To our delight, Hatcher revealed the nicknames that Marinelli has bestowed on each of his linemen, and none were better than defensive tac...
LSU Turned A D-Lineman Into The Nation's Best Lead Blocker
Each week, Football Outsiders recognizes the most outstanding college linemen, defenders and other darkhorses from the previous weekend who are habitually overlooked in the hype for that other award (whatever it's called). These are the Lowsmen....
Good (?) News For Bucs Fans: Remaining Games Won't Be Blacked Out
"Sorry our franchise quarterback turned out to be a bust. But we'll make sure you don't miss a minute of the Mike Glennon experience."...
Are Thursday NFL Games Actually As Terrible As They Seem?
It's conventional wisdom that the Thursday night NFL games, whether because of the short break or the quality of the teams involved, are crap. The conventional wisdom's not always right. Over at Sports on Earth, Aaron Gordon dove into 13 years' worth of games to puzzle out the truth....
Was NFL Racial Pioneer Cut Because He Got Caught With A White Woman?
The very first black player to take the field for the very last NFL team to integrate had a short career, a season and a half. His story nearly lost to history, Yahoo Sports tracked down Leroy Jackson for a wide-ranging interview with a depressing conclusion: He believes he was let go by the Washin...
Jeremy Hill Is A Beast. Does His Past Matter? 125 FBS Teams, Ranked.
Each week during college football season we put the conventional polls to shame by ranking every FBS team from 1-125, by whatever standard we see fit. Last week's rankings were not consulted....
Watch Out World, Rob Gronkowski Is Starting To Get "Jacked"
The world has been a more somber place with Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski out of the spotlight. But Gronk's arm is almost healed, and he will soon be back in our lives on a daily basis. Based on a quote he gave to reporters today, Gronk's return can't come soon enough....
Buccaneers Bench Josh Freeman
Just two days after Greg Schiano insisted that Josh Freeman is his starting quarterback, Adam Schefter reports that the Buccaneers will switch to Mike Glennon for this Sunday's game against the Cardinals....
Hugh Douglas Arrested For Allegedly Choking Woman During "Rough Sex"
Former NFL player and ESPN pundit Hugh Douglas was arrested Tuesday on charges alleging that he assaulted a woman at a hotel in Connecticut....
If You Tweet Mean Things About Colin Kaepernick, He Might Favorite It
Most athletes on Twitter tend to ignore the noise of their replies, and for good reason. There are scores of people with dumb, hateful opinions out there. Colin Kaepernick, however, deals with it in a less popular way....
Craig James Is A Christian Martyr, According To Craig James
After a disastrous senate run, Craig James landed himself a gig at Fox Sports Southwest—for all of one show before being dumped. Officially, the higher-ups at Fox were caught by surprise by the regional network’s hire of the all-around toxic James, and he was tossed out before any deal was official....
Study: NFL Teams Have No Idea What They're Doing In The Draft
Today the Philadelphia Inquirer profiles Cade Massey, a professor at Penn's Wharton School of business. Already with a study under his belt arguing that the conventional wisdom of the Draft Value Chart is all wrong, Massey was contracted by an unnamed NFL team to study the history of the draft for m...