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A Reminder That The NFL Doesn't Test For The PED Ray Lewis Says He's Never Tested Positive For
Yesterday, SI reported that Ray Lewis had received the banned substance IGF-1, a muscle-building hormone resembling insulin. (Two years ago, Yahoo reported the same thing.) Lewis responded in two ways. First, he blamed it on the devil. Second, he noted that he has never failed a drug test....
Ray Lewis Thinks Those PED Allegations Are A "Trick Of The Devil"
Ray Lewis's crazypants Super Bowl media tour continues apace. Yesterday, he was saying nonsense about it being "God's time" when asked to speak about his 2000 murder charge. Today, he called recent PED allegations levied against him by Sports Illustrated a "trick of the devil." Here's Lewis, via Pr...
Chris Ault Wanted To Convert Colin Kaepernick To Free Safety
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Ault wasn't impressed when he first met Kaepernick at Nevada....
![49ers Fan Says She Wired Some Guy $5,900 For Super Bowl Tickets, But All She Got Was A Note That Read, "Go Ravens!!!" [UPDATED]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/18d0hv56dpqskjpg.jpg)
49ers Fan Says She Wired Some Guy $5,900 For Super Bowl Tickets, But All She Got Was A Note That Read, "Go Ravens!!!" [UPDATED]
Last week, Sharon Osgood told the San Jose Mercury News she was disappointed that resale prices for tickets to Super Bowl XLVII were averaging more than three grand a pop. The Hayward, Calif., resident kept looking, and eventually she found someone on Craigslist who was offering four seats for $5,90...
Facebook Data Provide The Most Accurate NFL Fandom Map Ever Created
It's long been a dream of mankind to put together a map showing the geographic locations of NFL fanbases. The CommonCensus map tried to do it though polling; we took a crack at one based solely on proximity. But all previous efforts have been self-selecting or otherwise flawed. If only there was a m...
Ray Lewis Would Prefer You Stop Asking Questions About His Murder Case, Because "This Is God's Time"
Do people like Ray Lewis? It's hard to tell. Baltimoreans clearly do. But everybody else? No, right? He is—at this point—an average player, one who consumes the spotlight with canned postgame bible-thumping and tears. That's no good....
Is The NFL Rigging The System To Put An Unqualified Referee In The Super Bowl?
Jerome Boger will referee the Super Bowl. Jerome Boger probably doesn't deserve to referee the Super Bowl. Football Zebras, a site devoted solely to NFL officiating, reported on Jan. 20 that Boger's unspectacular in-season grades for his refereeing had been mysteriously changed after the fact to mak...
Ray Lewis Has Reportedly Used A Banned Substance For Years, But No One Cares Because It's Football
In the wake of baseball's latest PED scandal, the NFL has one of its own. Everyone try to look surprised. This week's issue of Sports Illustrated has a story on supplement company S.W.A.T.S. That stands for Sports with Alternatives to Steroids, the alternative apparently being non-steroidal banned d...
After 6,899 Minutes Of Employment, Rob Ryan Is Out Of Work Again
On Jan. 24, the Rams hired Rob Ryan as their defensive coordinator. Ryan had been fired by the Cowboys on Jan. 8, and he had told Tim MacMahon that he'd be out of work for five minutes....
Help! Get! This! Ravens! Cheerleader! To! The! Super! Bowl!
The first thing you'll notice about this petition is that it contains a great deal of exclamation points. Why are there so many exclamation points? Who knows. Maybe it's a rhetorical strategy that we aren't familiar with, or perhaps the cheerleader who presumably wrote the petition embodies her pep...
Bernard Pollard: "What A Coincidence It Is That Somebody Always Has To Get Hurt When I'm On The Field."
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Pollard doesn't want to injure anyway, it just kind of happens....
Chris Kluwe Rickrolled Roger Goodell In The Commissioner's Reddit Q&A
Roger Goodell briefly exposed himself to the internet masses on Reddit today, answering roughly nothing of interest and talking around anything remotely controversial. ("The blackout rule has served us well for several decades." "[Uniform regulations] were put in place in the 60s and have served us ...
NBC Really Wanted You To Know Last Night's Pro Bowl Was About "Effort"
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell made it clear the Pro Bowl wasn't long for this Earth unless selected players started showing competitive effort in the game. With broadcast rights to the televised cash cow at stake, it was important viewers get the impression what they were watching wasn't just a j...
The Following Players' Jerseys Were Selected To The Pro Bowl Fan Brawl:
Andre Johnson, Texans; Aaron Brooks, Saints; Joe Montana, 49ers; Hines Ward, Steelers; Brett Favre, Packers....
Louie Anderson Nearly Drowns In The Most Pathetic Way Possible, Is Saved By Ndamukong Suh
Splash is a British-import reality show on which celebrities have to execute dives into a pool. That's it. That's the whole show. The American version is set to begin airing this March....
Trent Williams Is An Unkillable Force Of Nature
We found out Saturday that Redskins tackle Trent Williams would miss the Pro Bowl after being involved in a Honolulu nightclub brawl, his roster spot going to Matt Kalil. (Aside: how did Kalil drop whatever he was going, get to Hawaii, and get ready to play so quickly? I think each conference has so...
NFL.com: "Pro Bowl Might Be Hampered By Rainy, Windy Weather"
OK, OK—keep it together, man. Don't laugh. "Hampered by rain." Don't you dare laugh. Just—just read the article. You can do that. "...billed this year's Pro Bowl as Peyton Manning vs. Eli Manning, a battle of the brothers, with the headline: 'Footballs Will Fly.'"...
Mike Francesa Has A Police Escort To New Orleans For The Super Bowl
The Legend of Mike Francesa continues to grow. Months removed from falling asleep mid-interview and days removed from screwing contestants of his Super Bowl ticket giveaway extravaganza, comes news that the Sports Pope arrived on his flight to New Orleans out of LaGuardia in Queens, N.Y., via police...
LeSean McCoy Sics Twitter Army On His "Broke, Worthless" Babymama After She Accuses Him Of Being A Deadbeat Dad
Look, we have no idea if LeSean McCoy is a deadbeat dad. The mother of his child LeSean McCoy Jr. is alleging that to be the case—and a whole lot more. Indeed, in a bizarre battle that resulted in McCoy deleting his twitter account, the babymama (known as Steph) accused McCoy of having herpes, havi...
Tom Brady's New House Literally Has A Moat
Above, Tom Brady's new $20 million California home, which, besides being sunken into what looks like an un-traversable valley, also has a moat—literally, a moat. You can't really see it from the above angle because the massive house is blocking our view, but here's another view, where you can the m...