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Can You Top This Halloween Costume?

There’s an obvious bias here, but reader Chris B. has sent us the best Halloween costume we’ve seen this year. He included a video of the “video”:...

The Eagles' Relentless Defense Is Winning With A Scheme From The Bad Old Days

Carson Wentz’s quick acclimation to the NFL is widely credited for the Eagles’ 4-2 start. Wentz has indeed been excellent. But Philly’s defense—and especially its defensive line—has been fantastic through six games, and it deserves its due. Through seven weeks, the Eagles lead the league in DVOA and...

Gus Bradley Is A Dead Man Walking

If the Jaguars were to make a midseason coaching change, there will never be a better time than four weeks ago, entering their bye week. (They screwed that up by winning that last game before the break, their first win of the season.) There will never be a second-better time than right now, after a ...

Ex-Penn State Assistant Mike McQueary Awarded $7.3 Million In Whistleblower Lawsuit Against School

Former Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary was one of the key witnesses in the prosecution of Jerry Sandusky. He claims that he saw Sandusky raping a boy in the Penn State locker room in 2001, and that he reported it quickly to Joe Paterno and other university officials. After he was not retain...

Las Vegas And The Raiders Are Still Trying To Manipulate Each Other

The deal to provide the Oakland Raiders with a record $750 million in public money toward a new stadium in Las Vegas is done. But the rich assholes who want to savor the spoils still have a lot to play for....

Chuck Pagano Really Loves To Chop

Bob Diaco Fails To Keep His Cool As He Defends UConn's Manufactured Football Rivalry

The Central Florida Knights beat the Connecticut Huskies Saturday in the college football rivalry game known as the Civil ConFLiCT, and earned the right to take home the trophy. UCF passed, instead leaving the prize on a bench. On Tuesday, UConn head coach Bob Diaco, who established the artificial e...

College Football Coaches Are Getting Insane Buyout Clauses

Here’s a tip for college football fans whose favorite teams may or may not fall on hard times at some point in the near future: don’t bother ranting about how the coach needs to be fired, because there’s a good chance the school can’t afford to do so. ...

I Will Read Every Story About How Terrific Marshawn Lynch Is

You’ve now got your reading assignment for the day: In the Seattle Times, reporter Jayson Jenks asked a handful of Seahawks if they have any particular memories of Marshawn Lynch being a cool guy. It seems they like talking about their former teammate as much as I like hearing about him....

Broncos Fan Dies After Falling Over Railing After Last Night's Game

A 36-year-old Broncos fan fell from a “severe height” while leaving last night’s win over the Texans, and the Denver Medical Examiner’s Office pronounced him dead this afternoon. Jason Coy fell last night at 9:45 p.m. local time, and an emergency crew responded to a 911 call shortly after. Coy was t...

Faster Is Better For The Suddenly Excellent Matt Stafford

Matthew Stafford is in his eighth season in the NFL. He’s lost Calvin Johnson to retirement, and thanks to injuries he’s currently without his top three running backs and his top two tight ends. Yet Stafford is having the best season of his career, a potentially MVP-caliber year, and it’s being trea...

New York Giants Release Kicker Josh Brown

The New York Giants have released kicker Josh Brown following the release of notes from his personal journals in which he admits to being “physically, mentally, emotionally, and verbally” abusive to his wife, Molly....

Josh Brown Releases Confusing Statement 

New York Giants kicker Josh Brown released a statement Tuesday, per Adam Schefter:...

Brett Favre's Vikings Had A "Bounty" Program Too

This excerpt from Gunslinger: The Remarkable, Improbable, Iconic Life of Brett Favre by Jeff Pearlman is reprinted with the permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Buy it here. ...

Russell Wilson Has A Strange Idea To Avoid Ties 

Russell Wilson doesn’t like ties. “I just think that if you play that long,” he said after Seattle’s 6-6 tie with Arizona on Sunday night, “you’re putting your lives on the line. You should find a way to win.” He says he would have been happy to keep playing, though the exhausted Seahawks defense, o...

Brock Osweiler Was Historically Bad Tonight<em></em>

Here is a neat, one-play summary of how Brock Osweiler’s return to Denver went....

Texans Tackle Derek Newton Tore Both His Patellar Tendons On This Play

Texans right tackle Derek Newton sustained one of the worst injures you possibly could this evening, when he tore both the patellar tendon on both of his knees. He appears to have fallen down while planting to block Von Miller, and he was helped off in a double air cast. Ian Rapoport reports that th...

Randy Moss Could Probably Get A Kicking Job With The Cardinals Or Seahawks<em></em>

I mean, if he can do 28 yards in dress shoes, I’m sure he can double that in cleats, why not?...

Arian Foster Abruptly Announces Retirement From NFL

Dolphins running back Arian Foster announced his retirement from the NFL this evening, a day after playing in the Dolphins’ win over the Bills. Here’s his full statement, via UNINTERRUPTED, where he says that his body “just can’t take the punishment this game asks for any longer.” ...

Washington Coach Pulls Out Dong, Pees Freely Before The Masses During Game [NSFW]

As several tipsters have notified us, a Washington football team assistant coach took a semi-covert piss into a cup during the team’s loss to Detroit yesterday. A fan took several photos of Ben Kotwica mid-piss—TMZ has the story— which has subsequently come to overshadow the team’s late loss to the ...