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Report: Montee Ball Arrested For Violating Bond Conditions

NFL free agent running back Montee Ball was arrested Saturday night in Whitewater, Wis. “on a felony bail jumping violation,” according to the Madison ABC affiliate. WKOW reports that police suspected Ball was drinking alcohol in a bar, which his bond conditions don’t allow:...

Bruce Arians Is Fed Up With Moms' Extremely Sensible Safety Concerns

Moms, we need to talk about football, a very popular sport you may be harming. It is, in the words of one of its alleged coaching minds, “the best game that’s ever been fucking invented.” (Pardon the salty language, but I figure if you’re a parent you already appreciate the miracles that fucking bri...

Will Smith's Alleged Murderer Is A Former High School Football Star [UPDATES]

Update (12:54 p.m.): The New Orleans Advocate reports Will Smith ate dinner with former New Orleans police captain Billy Ceravolo shortly before being murdered. Ceravolo was a defendant in a high-profile lawsuit filed by Cardell Hayes over the shooting death of Hayes’s father in 2005. The Advocate r...

Former Saints Defensive End Will Smith Shot To Death In New Orleans [UPDATE]

Will Smith, who played defensive end in New Orleans for ten years, is dead after a shooting in that city’s Lower Garden district according to the Times-Picayune....

Brandon Marshall Found Not Liable In Civil Trial

Brandon Marshall has been found not liable in a federal civil trial resulting from the 2012 fight at a Manhattan club, during which a woman said the New York Jets wide receiver punched her in the face. Police investigated the fight in 2012 and declined to bring any criminal charges. ...

Jets Tackle D'Brickashaw Ferguson, Who Missed One Snap In 10 Years, Retires

According to ESPN’s Rich Cimini, New York Jets tackle D’Brickashaw Ferguson has decided to retire after playing 10 NFL seasons. Ferguson, 32, hasn’t commented publicly on his decision, but Cimini cites a source who said Ferguson “just felt it was time.”...

Ravens RB Terrance West Sues Hotel Where He Said He Was Robbed Twice In One Day

Ravens running back Terrance West filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a Florida hotel group, claiming that negligence allowed two women and a man to rob him in his room at the Metropole South Beach Hotel in Miami....

Broncos' Derek Wolfe Involved In Nightclub Fight, Hit In Head With Bottle

Broncos defensive lineman Derek Wolfe took a swing, and a bottle to the head, at a nightclub in Denver Saturday night, according to footage on TMZ....

Read The Laughable Lawsuit Patriots Fans Filed Against The NFL Over Ball-Deflation Punishment

It is a pleasant surprise that this lawsuit, filed today by New England Patriots fans against the NFL, is not scrawled in crayon on the back of a Papa Gino’s placemat, or smeared in shit on the wall of a truck-stop bathroom. But then you read it, and it might as well be: it accuses the NFL, in punis...

Greg Hardy On Police Photos: "Pictures Are Pictures And They Can Be Made To Look Like Whatever They Want To”

Greg Hardy’s sit-down interview with Adam Schefter aired on ESPN this afternoon, and Hardy managed to cram an unbelievable amount of circuitous gobbledygook into a relatively short amount of time....

Twitter Will Stream Thursday Night NFL Games 

Giving you one fewer reason to stop staring at the internet, the NFL announced this morning that Twitter had won the rights to stream 10 Thursday Night Football games next season. Those 10 games will still be broadcast on CBS or NBC as normal, for those that somehow prefer football on a big screen....

DA: LeSean McCoy Won't Be Charged In Bar Fight

Bills running back LeSean McCoy won’t be charged for his role in a fight with off-duty cops at a Philadelphia bar in early February, District Attorney Seth Williams announced today. In a release, Williams wrote that there wasn’t “enough evidence to meet the legal threshold to issue charges.” William...

Greg Hardy Says He's Never Put His Hands On A Woman

Free-agent defensive end Greg Hardy conducted an interview with ESPN’s Adam Schefter that will air Tuesday. Hardy, who had his domestic abuse charges dismissed in 2015 when the victim, Nicole Holder, didn’t show up to testify, told Schefter that he has never laid a hand on any woman. When Schefter b...

Report: NFL Team Wants Player To Pay To Play For Them

Here is a dumb thing!...

Facebook Unfriends NFL

Facebook has retracted its bid to host live streams of NFL games this upcoming season, according to a Bloomberg report. That’s less than a month after the company confirmed it was attempting to partner with the league on a deal to stream the Thursday Night Football package....

<i>New York Times</i> Responds To NFL's Demand For Retraction, Unleashes The Burns

This week, NFL lawyers sent a letter to The New York Times demanding that the Times’s recent investigation into the league’s bogus concussion studies be retracted. It was so limp that it demanded a proper takedown. Thankfully, the Times was happy to oblige, via a response letter from their own lawye...

Report: Chip Kelly Threw Eagles Scouts' Hard Work In The Trash

There will not be a bad time to take a swing at former Eagles head coach Chip Kelly. Evan Mathis did it. Other assorted ex-Eagles have done it. In a report by NJ.com’s Matt Lombardo today, a “former member of the front office” says Kelly overrode his scouts’ decisions and literally put their preferr...

Antonio Brown Had Some Boner Problems While Training For <i>Dancing With The Stars</i>

Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown is a contestant on this season of Dancing With The Stars, and he made it through the latest round of cuts thanks to a decent performance on Monday’s episode. After his dance, he was asked what sorts of obstacles he had to overcome while practicing, and the conver...

NFL Demands Retraction From <i>New York Times</i> 

The NFL is still all worked up about that New York Times story that revealed the league’s initial studies on the link between football and CTE to have been based on bunk data. They’re so worked up, in fact, that the league’s lawyers sent a letter to the Times, demanding retraction while making vague...

Twenty years ago today, the Ravens officially announced their team name after it handily won a fan poll. It beat out Americans, Marauders, Mustangs, and Railers. Good choice. Ravens is a very good team name....