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Dear Lord! The Texans Are Gonna Be The AFC's Top Seed In The Playoffs
Man, football is weird, huh? If the season ended today, the Houston Texans and Cincinnati Bengals would be the two top seeds in the AFC playoffs, and that's peculiar. Neither of those teams made the playoffs last year, if you'll recall, and neither one has won a playoff game in a long time. (Houston...
Second Mile's Tax Records: ESPN's Weepy Matt Millen Was Listed In 2009, 2010 As A Director At Sandusky's Charity
We told you earlier about accused child rapist Jerry Sandusky's consulting pay from The Second Mile. But there are other revealing tidbits to be gleaned from the charity's tax records, such as who sits on its board. Consider Matt Millen, the ESPN analyst and former Nittany Lion who choked up on ai...
Penn State Students Get It Right With The "Blue Out"
A Nittany Lions football game is going to happen tomorrow, whether we're ready for it or not. It was never going to not happen, no matter how hyperbolic the calls for death penalties both literal and figurative. It would be nice if there could be more clarity to a murky situation by game day, but co...
Elderly San Diego Woman Wakes Up To Find Drunk Chargers Fan Passed Out On Her Couch
In Pacific Beach—far from Qualcomm Stadium—an 81-year-old woman woke up today to find a man wearing a Chargers jersey asleep on her couch. He's charged with public intoxication and believing in Philip Rivers. [San Diego Union-Tribune, via Sportress of Blogitude]...
Sandusky Made Nearly $500K At The Second Mile After Admitting He Showered With A Boy, According To Tax Records
We've obtained tax returns for The Second Mile charity from 1998 to present. Some disturbing tidbits in there. Easily the most disturbing is the amount of money Jerry Sandusky earned through his nonprofit organization after 1998, when at least one person affiliated with The Second Mile learned that ...
What Did Everybody In State College Know About Jerry Sandusky, And When Did They Know It?
We've already highlighted the extraordinary work and original reporting being done on the Penn State sex abuse case by Sara Ganim and her colleagues at the Patriot-News of Harrisburg. But we feel the need to do it again, since Ganim has now written a single narrative that lays out who seemed to kno...
Gaah! Torry Holt's Finger Will Haunt Your Dreams
Your morning roundup for Nov. 11, the day we learned you can be arrested for being annoying. Photo via Carmine R. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
Gaah! Michael Strahan's Fingers Will Haunt Your Dreams
Given the nature of our content this week, we were looking for videos of golden retriever puppies prancing about in a field to end the day here, but then we came across this, and we decided to horrify you once again. It's no secret that Michael Strahan (and plenty of other pro football players) suff...
A Curated Selection Of Jerry Sandusky's Writings From The Annual Reports Of His Youth Charity
Jerry Sandusky founded The Second Mile in 1977. The charity probably issued some form of an annual report from the start. But the ones I managed to find online date from 2005-2010, which are very important years in both Sandusky and the charity's existence. By 2005, Sandusky had already been investi...
A Cartographic Illustration Of How Pervasive Jerry Sandusky's Youth Charity Is In Pennsylvania
This is a map of how many individuals The Second Mile served in 2008, the year the charity's employees finally took action to prevent Jerry Sandusky from hanging out with minors. The map comes from the charity's 2008 annual report. It shows how far The Second Mile's influence ranged. Thousands and t...
If Anyone Cares, Ohio State Is In More Trouble Than They Thought
Though they didn't invoke the dreaded "institutional control"—because, holy shit, perspective—the NCAA has announced they will charge Ohio State with "failure to monitor." It's the second most serious charge they can level, and stems not from tattoos or memorabilia but from additional instances of p...
The Dallas Cowboys Are An Ever-Regenerating Tim Tebow
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
Meanwhile, In Competitive Sports From Wednesday Night
This moment of zen brought to you by the 1-3-1 and CBS....
Is It Time To Lose Faith In The New England Patriots?
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
Tampa Bay Will Take In Albert Haynesworth
ESPN's Adam Schefter reports that the Tampa Bay Bucs have claimed Albert Haynesworth just a day after the Patriots released him (sentimental Belichick: "It just didn't work out"). This is an experiment that is almost proven to fail by now, but perhaps the warm air will be good for him. [Twitter]...
Graham Spanier's Ouster Is Coming, But He's Still The President Of "Ohio State University," Tom Rinaldi Says. Twice.
Just when you thought the Buckeyes could get a break from all the scandal-mongering... [@KegsnEggs, via @GerdOzone]...
Penn State Fans Plan "Blueout" For Saturday's Game To Protest Child Abuse
The official Penn State football Facebook page is endorsing a blueout for the Nebraska game. All fans are asked to wear blue, the color of the Blue Ribbon Campaign to raise awareness for all forms of child abuse. They will wear blue and they will cheer Paterno. This is, of course, madness, and the t...
Steeler And Raven Unite In Hating On Roger Goodell, Owing Him Money
Steelers and Ravens have few things in common other than a strong desire to hit each other very hard, and not have to pay out of pocket to do so. These can be conflicting desires in a league that glorifies AFC North smashmouth football, yet doles out fines to show they're concerned about player safe...
Les Miles Is A Good Dad Because LSU Is Undefeated
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
Ravens Radio Guy Gerry Sandusky Would Like To Remind You (And Dick Ebersol) He's Not <em>Jerry</em> Sandusky
Gerry Sandusky has been hearing from a lot of people in the last few days, mostly through Twitter and email. Some, he said in a phone conversation a few minutes ago, want to know if he's him, if he's that Jerry Sandusky. Others have expressed "super support and understanding" for the fact that his ...