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Anquan Boldin's Retirement Made Me Remember That Time He Had His Face Broken By A Hit<em></em>
Eric Smith hit Anquan Boldin so hard, he knocked himself out....
Report: NFL Close To A Contract Extension With Roger Goodell
The NFL is nearing an agreement on a five-year extension to keep Roger Goodell as commissioner, a move that would extend Goodell’s tenure through 2024, per Sports Business Journal’s Dan Kaplan. This should come as no surprise....
Anquan Boldin Was One Hell Of A Receiver
Wide receiver Anquan Boldin has unexpectedly announced his retirement from the NFL, just two weeks after signing with Buffalo. (Two weeks in Bills camp will do that to a man.) The 36-year-old Boldin leaves under his own terms, with a higher purpose in mind and the very strong possibility of a bust i...
Frank Serpico Joins Current And Former NYPD Officers At Pro-Kaepernick Rally
A group of about 75 current and former NYPD officers gathered today in Brooklyn to participate in a rally to support Colin Kaepernick’s quest for a job in the NFL, reports the Associated Press....
That Story About James Harrison Threatening Any Teammate Who Sits For The Anthem Is Bogus
Former NHL player Jeremy Roenick showed his ass by tweeting this on Monday:...
Frank Broyles Brought Arkansas To The Big Time<em></em>
On the heels of Frank Broyles’s first most significant moment of his career, he got foreshadowing of the second, still a quarter of a century away. It was the winter of 1965, and Broyles had just coached Arkansas to an 11-0 record and a national football championship as chosen by the Football Writer...
Linebacker Zach Orr Retires Again
Former Ravens linebacker Zach Orr, who retired in January when doctors discovered he had a congenital spine condition, only to unretire in June, has retired again....
Nation Gets Firsthand Experience Watching Blake Bortles, Rejects It
ESPN televised Jacksonville’s preseason game Thursday—a rare national game for the Jaguars—which meant a lot of people who would otherwise never think about Blake Bortles now had to think about Blake Bortles. The general takeaway was Holy shit, this guy’s terrible....
I Watched A Whole Preseason Game Like A Sucker
The starters only played one drive in the Eagles’ first preseason game last week, but there was still plenty to talk about afterward for Eagles fans. Carson Wentz, the team’s second-year QB, went 4-for-4 with a touchdown pass to rookie Mack Hollins. Afterward, the team then jettisoned former second-...
Chris Long Has Malcolm Jenkins's Back In Anthem Protest
On Wednesday, Michael Bennett—who sits in protest of the national anthem, and was promptly challenged by a local columnist to quit football if he wants to have political opinions—said things would be very different if it weren’t only black players protesting. “It would take a white player to really ...
Jaguars Coach Doug Marrone On Blake Bortles: "It's Not Like He's Not The Quarterback"
Blake Bortles is, believe it or not, still Blake Bortles. He made this fact abundantly clear tonight, in a preseason game against the Buccaneers that is best encapsulated by this pass attempt: ...
Marshawn Lynch Hasn't Lost A Step In His Press Conferences
Marshawn Lynch, Oakland hero, returned to the NFL this year and signed with his hometown Raiders after a taking a year off from football. After the team wrapped up in Napa today, Lynch had a chance to reflect on his first training camp in two years, as well as his recent national anthem protest. Lyn...
NFLPA Head: Future Work Stoppage "Almost A Virtual Certainty"
Four years ahead of the expiration of the NFL’s collective bargaining agreement with its players, NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith says the two sides are already headed for “small-A armageddon,” whether that be a lockout or a strike. Here’s a brief video from an interview Smith did with The ...
Brian Kelly Has His Excuses Ready
“Brian Kelly is not pulling back,” Bleacher Report’s Matt Hayes writes in his feature on the Notre Dame football coach. That’s the angle: that the irascible, gurgling Kelly, whose program finished 4-8 last season, will not alter his approach as he hopes to restore the program to its winning ways. Th...
Why Is John Lynch So Worried About People Who Think Equality Is Bad?<em></em>
Yesterday, San Francisco 49ers GM John Lynch was asked about Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett’s decision to sit for the national anthem before a preseason game last weekend. Here’s part of what Lynch had to say about it (via ESPN):...
Report Says Minnesota Followed The Rules In Sexual Assault Investigation, Dumps On "Weak Leadership" By Football Staff
An external review of the University of Minnesota’s sexual assault investigation last year found that the school complied with federal law and institutional policy throughout. But it also noted “weak leadership” and poor communication by the football coaching staff as partially responsible for the t...
The NFL Set Itself Up For This
No matter what the NFL does, it devolves into a bunch of dudes arguing about whether or not a woman is a liar. It happened with Janay Rice. It happened with Nicole Holder. It happened with Molly Brown. And it’s happening now. The best case for the NFL just packing up and admitting, “We have no clue ...
Report: Hugh Freeze Called Escorts On Ole Miss Recruiting Trips For Years<em></em>
The Wall Street Journal has a scoop today, which seems to really be trying its hardest not to explicitly spell out its main implication: that former Ole Miss football coach Hugh Freeze made not just one, but many phone calls to escorts during his time at the school, usually around the times when he’...
Report: Saints Fire Team Doctors Who Misdiagnosed Player's Broken Leg
The Saints fired two team orthopedists after learning they had diagnosed cornerback Delvin Breaux with a contusion even though Breaux really has a fractured fibula, according to ESPN’s Mike Triplett....
Ezekiel Elliott Accuser Discussed Using Sex Tape As Blackmail
Yahoo’s Charles Robinson has gotten his hands on a portion of the NFL’s 160-page report on the Ezekiel Elliott domestic-violence case detailing an exchange between Elliott’s accuser, Tiffany Thompson, and an unnamed friend in which they discuss using sex videos featuring Thompson and Elliott as a me...