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Rex Ryan's Tattoo Is Real, And He Might Just Change The Number If Mark Sanchez Doesn't Improve

Earlier today, Jets head coach Rex Ryan and owner Woody Johnson finally held their mandatory postmortem press conference pushed back by one legendary Bahamian vacation. Most of the questions tackled the team's identity and philosophy and plans to find two new coordinators and a general manager. But ...

Nick Saban Is The Ultimate Freakshow

Nick Saban won his third BCS title in four years last night, and given the likelihood that he'll reject the idea of sucking in the NFL one more time, he's probably going to win a lot more. He gets the best players and he trains those players better than any other coach possibly could. By the time h...

Here Is A Bunch Of People Insisting Notre Dame Would Have Won Last Night If Not For The Referees

The Alabama Crimson Tide dominated Notre Dame in last night's BCS Championship Game. This really is not debatable. Alabama beat the Irish on offense, on defense, and on special teams. They led the game 35-0 at one point. They rolled up 529 yards on a Notre Dame defense that was supposed to be among...

Here Is The Most Entertaining Moment Of Alabama's Dismantling Of Notre Dame

This game had nothing. It was dead on arrival. Maybe there were some moments—Brent Musberger salivating all over A.J. McCarron's girlfriend or McCarron getting shoved by his own center come to mind. But there was not a single entertaining moment until Nick Saban grimaced through his Gatorade bath. ...

Friends Successfully Use Twitter To Get Adrian Peterson To Call High School Kid With Cancer

At least, it appears they succeeded. The friend with cancer, Blake Cognata, is a senior lacrosse player from Fairport, NY who is also Minnesota Vikings fan. From what we can gather, Cognata seems to be a pretty good dude. Unsurprisingly, then, a groundswell of support developed around the senior to...

MRI Shows Robert Griffin III Has Partially Torn ACL, LCL

After the Fred Smoot-reported kneepocalypse, we finally have an actual report on the state of RG3's injury. The Washington Post cites sources who have seen the test results, and says the MRI indicates Griffin has partial tears of his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and lateral collateral ligament (...

Was Knute Rockne Killed By The Mob? Tracing The Origins Of One Of The Stranger Urban Legends In Sports

On the morning of March 31, 1931, TWA Flight 599, en route from Kansas City to Los Angeles, fell out of the sky over the Flint Hills of central Kansas, near the community of Bazaar. Farmers on the ground reported hearing a bang before the right wing snapped off, sending the plane into a dive. All ei...

Fred Smoot Is The One Spreading All Those Rumors About Robert Griffin III's Shredded Knee

The world is eager for word on the condition of Robert Griffin III's knee, which he injured thanks to either his coach or his field or maybe the terms of Dan Snyder's deal with the devil. Mike Shanahan was less than forthcoming at his press conference today, so it's up to the DC-area media to get to...

College ShameDay: Is This One Of The Best Notre Dame Teams Ever? And Other Absurd Questions, Answered

Our weekly college football shame index previews the national championship game. ...

The Redskins Were Done In By Their Own "Crappy" Field

Here's Pierre Garcon, on the soupy, sloppy, green-painted dirt that passes for grass between the hash marks at FedEx Field:...

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An Autographed Jason Campbell Jersey Exists, And This Guy Behind Erin Andrews Is Wearing It

Jason Campbell's years as the Skins' starting quarterback were unremarkable; he accumulated an 18-27 record there, and while he does have the tenth-lowest career interception percentage in NFL history, he shares that mark with luminaries like David Garrard and Shaun Hill....

Ray Lewis Lined Up One Last Time In Baltimore And Drooled All Over Himself: Ravens-Colts In Four GIFs

Baltimore 24, Indianapolis 9: Ray Lewis was all over the broadcast, which is to be expected. It was his last game at M&T Bank Stadium and someone, somewhere decided that we all love Ray Lewis. He's clearly a divisive figure, however, and nothing typifies that more so than the middle linebacker of h...

"When Marrone Interviewed, He Must Have Been Extremely Impressive": Six Writers Talking Themselves Into New Bills Coach Doug Marrone

Chan Gailey was pretty much a washout from the start for the Bills, and fans who withstood his 16-32 record there are understandably happy to have him gone. Still—who's the new guy? Doug Marrone is: Syracuse's former coach, a one-time offensive coordinator under Sean Peyton, and...that's kind of it....

Hammer-Wielding Yinzer Tries To Break Into Steelers Locker Room

A man wearing (only?) a Pittsburgh Pirates hat and gray sweatpants attempted to break into the Steelers locker room at Heinz Field Saturday with a hammer. Security at the stadium noted that he busted a lock at Gate B to gain entry to the stadium and then took his own personal tour of the playing fi...

Here Are A Couple Pictures Of Johnny Manziel Having A Nice Time At A Nightclub After His Cotton Bowl Win [UPDATED]

Our tipster says that these photos [click to expand] were snapped at Avenue Nightclub in Houston, also known as 4500 Washington Avenue, on the night of Texas A&M's resounding Cotton Bowl victory over Oklahoma. Manziel was in apparent violation of the Avenue dress code, but our tipster notes that he ...

Mike Shanahan Lied When He Said That A Doctor Cleared Robert Griffin III To Play After He Sprained His Knee In Week 14

During Washington's 31-28 victory over the the Ravens five weeks ago, Haloti Ngata brought down Robert Griffin III during the fourth quarter, leaving Griffin limping. Griffin sat out one play, then returned for four more, going 2/3 and advancing Washington to the Baltimore 16 before intentionally gr...

Chip Kelly To The Browns Was A Sure Thing, Until Kelly Spent Nine Hours Eating Dinner With The Eagles [UPDATE]

On Friday, NFL.com said Chip Kelly to the Browns was in the works, and that the two sides were just hammering out the details. Browns fans were happy. The brief Pat Shurmur era wasn't the tonic they had hoped for, and Chip Kelly is one of the biggest names on the coaching market. Unfortunately, big ...

The Joe Webb Experiment Did Not Work: Vikings-Packers, In Two GIFs

Green Bay 24, Minnesota 10: You know how the most important part of the Hippocratic Oath is primum non nocere, or "do no harm"? Probably you do, because they kept showing that promo for that show about the schizophrenic doctor called Do No Harm? Joe Webb subbed in for an injured Christian Ponder to...

Adrian Peterson Says He Will Run For 2,500 Yards In 2013, So Naturally He Will

We'd scoff if anyone other than Adrian Peterson were to say, as Adrian Peterson did this week, that he doesn't just want to break the single-season rushing record, he wants to obliterate it. Actually, the way he put it to Marshall Faulk on the NFL Network was:...