Football Page 1449 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Your 2:30 P.M. Favre Update
Of all the headlines created in regards to the Brett Favre/Jenn Sterger hubbub, this is my favorite: "How will Jennifer Sterger affect Vikings/Jets betting odds"? It means A.J. has forced the bookies to factor in dongshots when oddsmaking....
Angry Readers Defend Brett Favre
When a story of this magnitude touches down, there are inevitably new visitors to the site. Some of them are nice and stay a while. Others just pop by to yell. Here are some emails from those lovely people....
Your College Football Early Games Open Thread
A few Big 10 matchups: Indiana at Ohio State. Minnesota at No. 20 Wisconsin. Illinois at Penn State. Best of the rest: BC at NC State and Tennessee at Georgia....
Do The Baltimore Ravens Hate Lesbians?
True love comes in many forms. Like the Mayflower moving company's amour for Robert Irsay one March night in 1984 when he packed up the Colts and moved to Indiana....
Sources: Two More Women Who Worked With Jets Received Lewd Texts From Favre (UPDATE)
This is about to get worse. It appears Jenn Sterger wasn't the only woman who received unwanted and inappropriate text messages from Brett Favre while he played for the Jets. Favre also pursued two team massage therapists, according to one of the women. [UPDATE: The women have sued.]...
Mike Tomlin: Roethlisberger Is Going To Get Back To His Business
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: Steelers coach Mike Tomlin....
The Jets Have Their Hands Full With Favre
"The Jets are working with the NFL closely on investigating the matter," a team spokesman tells us....
Retired Football Player Loves Jesus, Guns
Glen Coffee—the former 49ers running back who retired to focus on religion—has been charged with possession of a concealed firearm in Florida. Heretic! It was the Gnostic Gospels that encouraged keeping a gat on the down low. [Pro Football Talk]...
NFL Looking Into Favre Allegations
"We are reviewing the matter," said league spokesman Greg Aiello. We are the Woodward and Bernstein of athlete dong. [AP]...
Last Night's Winner: The Reporter Who Asked Brett Favre About His Wang
In sports, everyone is a winner—some people just win better than others. Like Brian Costello of the New York Post. If Brett Favre furnished us with his cock, then Costello rounded things out with an enormous set of balls....
Browns Now Charging You To Walk Through Parking Lot
And not because many Clevelanders weigh as much as a Kia Forte. No, the traditional tailgating spot for Browns fans is now charging money to enter, even if you're on foot....
Last Night's Winner: Mossholes
In sports, everyone is a winner—some people just win better than others. Like all those "Patriot Way" fetishists in New England, now freed from the tyranny of watching the greatest deep threat the NFL has ever seen....
Danny Woodhead: Not Particularly Small, Just White
Last night, as was to be expected, Jon Gruden and the rest of the Monday Night Football gang talked about fun-sized pigment curio Danny Woodhead with the sort of insight and gravitas one finds on the cover of Bop Magazine....
Hooking Up At The Browns Game: Not A Tale Of Seneca Wallace And His Receivers
A security guard has turned to Craigslist's missed connections for a woman he spotted in the stands at Sunday's game, for friendship and maybe more. [Craigslist, via Cleveland Scene]...
Worst Burglar Ever Wears Stolen Oregon Jersey, Hides In Bathtub
A Portland man entered his bathroom to find a strange man in the tub, wearing his Onterrio Smith Ducks jersey. Worst horror movie ever....
Miami Dolphins Solve Everything
Well, that was fast. The Dolphins fired special teams coach John Bonamego, not 12 hours after their epic meltdown....
Weekend Winner: The Morons Of The NFL
In sports, everyone is a winner-some people just win better than others. Like Andy Reid, Jim Caldwell and Nate Clements, who proved that of all the metrics and intangibles required for NFL success, having a single goddamned brain cell is most important....
Jerry Jones's Bizarre Sexual Assault Lawsuit
Remember Jerry Jones's drunk video, in which he slammed Parcells and Tebow? A woman claims that later that night Jones assaulted her, had her drugged with GHB, and almost gave her a prostitute's STD. Strange stuff in here....
Your NFL Late Games Open Thread
Whoa. Whitlock's right: "Put McNabb in against Kolb, and McNabb has a puncher's chance. Maybe he can connect with Moss on a few big plays and get lucky again. I don't see it with Vick on the field."...
Titans Defensive Coordinator Chuck Cecil Doesn't Much Like Referees
In 1993, Sports Illustrated asked "Is Chuck Cecil Too Vicious for the NFL?" Looks like he can add "expressing himself" to the long list of things he's been fined for....