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Man Charged With Killing Adrian Peterson's Son Keeps Making Bail
Joseph Patterson, the South Dakota man accused of killing Tyrese Ruffin, Adrian Peterson's 2-year-old biological son last October, is currently free after posting a $2 million bond on charges that he assaulted Ruffin's mother. This is the second time in under a year that he's bonded out on charges t...

The Problem With Peter King
Let’s begin with Peter King on Twitter last night. If you hate-follow poor Peter on Twitter, as I do, you know that his stream consists largely of mangled replies and random compliments to entire towns—Helluva main street you got there, Hanover, New Hampshire!—and last night was no different. The S...

The Dolphins' Stadium Is Literally Built On An Indian Burial Ground
This explains everything....

Morris Claiborne Stormed Out Of Cowboys Practice After Being Demoted
The Cowboys' disappointment with 2012 sixth overall pick Morris Claiborne reached a head yesterday, when the cornerback skipped practice and angrily left the team's training facility after being informed that he was losing his spot in the starting lineup....

Brawl Hero In Darnell Dockett Jersey Gets To Meet Darnell Dockett
On Monday, video of a particularly nasty brawl between Cardinals and 49ers fans made its way around the internet, and one participant in particular caught the eye of Cardinals defensive end Darnell Dockett....

NFLers Cannot Figure Out How To Use Tablets
Beginning last year, NFL teams started using Microsoft Surface tablets for things like their playbooks, medical records, and concussion testing. This year, the program expanded to include things like replay on the sideline. And now, the WSJ has a very predictable yet still quite funny story about ev...

That Can't Be Right, Can It?
A weird note on Andrew Luck, from ESPN's QB report this week:...

Colin Kaepernick Was Probably Penalized For Saying "Nigger" Or "Nigga"
When San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick became the first NFL player to be penalized and then fined for using "inappropriate language," it was pretty clear that, given the NFL's instructions for referees to crack down on the use of racial and homophobic slurs, he had said something that...

The Eagles Are The Whitest Team In The NFL, And Other Fun Facts
Ticket reseller Best Tickets has scraped the data to produce its Unofficial 2014 NFL Player Census, breaking down all of the league's rosters by height, weight, age, and more. I urge you to go poke around; it's interesting stuff. ...

Nope, No One's Boycotting The NFL
Despite recent scandals and calls for boycotts, NFL ratings continue to rise. The chart above from Forbes shows that week 3 ratings were up from last season with notable gains coming from CBS, which featured the thrilling Seattle-Denver game that had a 16.9 overnight rating....

How A GOP Strategist Tells The Panthers To Market Their Stars
Top political strategist Frank Luntz is the man setting Roger Goodell's message, but he's also working with individual teams, including in Washington, Chicago, and Carolina, to market their star players. Below you'll find LuntzGlobal's notes on three Carolina Panthers players and how best to se...

Report: Rob Bironas Tried To Run Multiple Cars Off Road Before Crash
The story surrounding former NFL kicker Rob Bironas's fatal car crash continues to get weirder and weirder. Last night, it was reported that Bironas tried to run a woman off the road just minutes before crashing his car. Now, a college student is claiming that Bironas also accosted him and his frien...

Vince Wilfork's Ping-Pong INT Was The Most Disruptive Play In Week 3
Deep in New England territory with less than a minute to go, the Raiders had a chance to send the game into overtime with a touchdown. But Derek Carr's pass bounced out of the hands of his receiver Denarius Moore and wound up in the arms of Patriots defensive tackle Vince Wilfork. The interception...

Report: Rob Bironas Tried Running Someone Off The Road Before Crash
Information surrounding Saturday night's fatal car crash involving former Titans kicker Rob Bironas is starting to come out, and the story has taken a bizarre turn. According to a report from The Tennessean, shortly before Bironas crashed his white SUV, he attempted to run a woman off the road. Sh...

Ravens Owner Fires Back At ESPN Story, Says "Nobody's Losing A Job Here"
The Ravens took the weekend to marshal a response to ESPN's big Ray Rice story, and it's here—in the form of a press conference by owner Steve Bisciotti and an online rebuttal to points made in the ESPN report. Bisciotti claims that all the anonymous sources on the Ravens' alleged mishandling on t...

Music Video Made Of Madden GIFs Is Really Stupid And Funny
I don't know if it's just because it's the late afternoon and I'm feeling a little loopy, or if it's the unexpected presence of Evanescence—anyone knows what's good with Evanescence these days?—or the triumphant vibe of Geno Smith's spike, but this dumb video is making me laugh a lot. I hope it make...

Andy Reid Busts Out A Jolly Postgame Victory Dance
This moment, from the Chief's locker room following their victory over the Dolphins yesterday—flagged by Arrowhead Pride—is just your latest reminder that happy Andy Reid is one of the best things the NFL has going for it right now. ...

Adam Schefter: NFL Players Had Access To Rice Video Weeks After Incident
It seems like each day brings a new piece of information making it very, very hard to believe that the NFL and the Baltimore Ravens never saw video of Ray Rice knocking out Janay Palmer before TMZ made the tape public. Today's bit comes from Adam Schefter, who went on Mike and Mike and revealed that...

Lions LB Stephen Tulloch Tore His ACL Celebrating A Sack
Lions linebacker Stephen Tulloch left yesterday's game against the Packers after celebrating a sack and hurting himself. Today, coach Jim Caldwell said Tulloch will miss the rest of the season....

Ugly Brawl At Eagles Game Features Green-On-Green Violence
Via CSN Philly, a couple of videos of Eagles fans pummeling the hell out of Eagles fans:...