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Report: Former Cowboys RB Joseph Randle Gambled On Sports

Running back Joseph Randle, who the Cowboys cut in November, bet on sporting events during the season, according to The Dallas Morning News. Randle was arrested Monday on an outstanding speeding charge, and in the wake of his fourth arrest in a year-and-a-half, the Morning News has an exhaustive rep...

The Terrible Calvin Johnson Rule Outlasted Calvin Johnson

If Calvin Johnson is indeed retiring, the NFL will be worse off for his absence. But he leaves it a different league than he found it, a much more confusing one for receivers, officials, and fans. Look at that photo above. Through no fault of Johnson’s, we now live in a world where that is not a cat...

NBC And CBS To Split Thursday Night NFL Broadcasts Next Season 

Here’s some good news for people who hate Jim Nantz and Phil Simms but love watching Thursday Night Football: You only have to deal with them for five games next year....

Man, Vince Lombardi Really Dumped On The AFL After The First Super Bowl

One of those historic sports things I understand but don’t really get is the state of football leading up to the NFL-AFL merger. It was the first of the three big sports mergers over the next decade, and it’s absolutely alien to me: I’ve never lived through a successful competitor to a Big Four spor...

Aaron Hernandez Bashes Robert Kraft In Prison Letter

In case you were wondering, Aaron Hernandez is still a big Patriots fan, and being sent to prison for life has not stopped him from watching every game. In a jailhouse letter obtained by TMZ, Hernandez has nothing but praise for a few of his former teammates—and nothing but venom for owner Robert Kr...

San Franciscans Have Declared War On Super Bowl Sculptures

The NFL sure is mighty excited to be holding the Super Bowl in the Bay Area. San Francisco residents appear less than excited to have them....

ESPN Reports Calvin Johnson Told Lions He Is Retiring

ESPN’s Adam Schefter is reporting that Lions star receiver Calvin Johnson informed coach Jim Caldwell that he is retiring from the NFL. Schefter, citing sources, says Johnson told friends and family before the season that this would be his final one in the NFL—and told Caldwell the day after the reg...

The 1966 Pro Bowl Halftime Show Featured A Goose-Stepping Swastika Being Eaten By A Church

If you’re unversed on decades-old Pro Bowls, you’d be forgiven for thinking Fall Out Boy’s 2014 performance was the most offensive halftime show in the history of the NFL’s all-star game. But no! The 1967 Pro Bowl “The Taming Of The West” halftime show featured a tribute to Indian massacres, as note...

Survey: NFL Players Don't Trust That Team Doctors Have Their Best Interests At Heart

The Associated Press just released a big report on the relationship between NFL players’ health and the training and medical care they get from their teams. There’s a whole lot of insight into the pervasiveness of injuries and the inadequacies NFL training staffs have with addressing them. Let’s get...

Thomas Davis Has "11 Or 12" Screws In His Arm, But He Plans To Play In The Super Bowl

A quick, gruesome recap of the maladies Panthers linebacker Thomas Davis has suffered: he’s torn his right ACL three times (no other player in NFL history has come back from three such tears on the same knee), he dislocated his finger then relocated it and made a tackle all on the same play, and he ...

Report: Giants' Jay Bromley Accused Of Attempting To Rape A Woman And Hit Her With His Car

According to multiple reports this morning, New York Giants defensive lineman Jay Bromley is being investigated by the NYPD for attempted rape. Apparently, the 23-year-old Bromley met a 26-year-old woman on Instagram, then arranged to meet up with her at the Hyatt Herald Square Hotel early this morn...

University Of California Admits Fault In Death Of Football Player Ted Agu

Ted Agu was like many Berkeley students, in that he wanted to go to medical school after graduating. But Agu was also a walk on defensive lineman for the football team. After a team offseason workout on the morning of February 7, 2014, he collapsed with breathing trouble. Agu was taken to the Alta B...

Report: Police Question Johnny Manziel Over An "Altercation" With His Ex-Girlfriend [UPDATES]

According to a report from David Watkins of NBC5 (Fort Worth), the Fort Worth PD were called in to check on a “dispute” between Johnny Manziel and his girlfriend early this morning....

Chargers And Rams Agree On Plan To Share L.A. Stadium [Update: Chargers Will Stay In San Diego For 2016]

Update, 5:50 p.m.: The Chargers will play in San Diego for the 2016 season, according to a statement from owner Dean Spanos. The Chargers have until Jan 26, 2017, to exercise their option to move to Los Angeles....

Rams DE Chris Long has compiled a list of the most embarrassing things he’s ever done. It’s a good list....

Counterpoint: Oh God, I Think I'm Going To Be Sick

Here, as best I can approximate it in text, is the sound I made when I saw the above photo for the first time: Whuuhhuuhuhhhhhhuulckk. It was the sound of the sudden fear that I might puke. If the internet contains a more distressing photograph than that one, I will just have to take your word for i...

Would You Eat This? I Would Eat This

I don’t remember how, but we stumbled upon this recipe earlier in the week: a “Pepperoni Pizza Football Cheese Ball,” made by our new buddy Trish at Mom on Timeout. There were those on staff who were grossed out by what appears to be a neutron star of meaty cheesy gluttony. I disagree. Actually, the...

Hue Jackson Is Giving Johnny Manziel The Cold Shoulder

At the time of his hiring, it was reported that new Browns head coach Hue Jackson wanted nothing to do with Johnny Manziel. Since then, Jackson hasn’t done anything to indicate that he wants Manziel on the team next year....

They Painted The Wrong End Zone At The Super Bowl

Members of the media got to poke around Levi’s Stadium yesterday, and watched the grounds crew paint the various logos on the field. But a couple of particularly observant folks noticed a minor screw-up....

Las Vegas Is The Next City The Raiders Will Use For Leverage To Try And Get A New Stadium

For two decades Los Angeles has served as the NFL’s bogeyman, lurking just out of sight as an implicit threat to any city that refused to pay up for a new or renovated stadium. You better flash the cash, the NFL would threaten, or the Bills/Dolphins/Jaguars/Vikings/Colts are going to bolt for glamor...