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<em>South Park</em> Trashes The Washington Redskins; Watch The Highlights
South Park's season premiered tonight with a take on the Washington Redskins nickname and its trademark cancellation. If you missed it, here are the best moments. (Note that they were quick to replace RG3—who appeared in last week's teaser—with Kirk Cousins.)...
Here's Every Edit ESPN Has Made To Its <em>OTL</em> Ray Rice-Ravens Report
We noted earlier today that Friday's bombshell Outside The Lines report included some odd, paraphrased quoting of supposed text messages to Ray Rice. That, alongside the wild—later retracted—claims about the Revel Casino providing a copy of the tape to the Ravens and NFL security led us to examine e...
NFL Sponsors Don't Want Their Ads Running During Ravens Or Vikings Games
We've said before that public opinion doesn't mean a damn thing to NFL owners as they decide Roger Goodell's future, only money. So they have to be a bit worried that some of their advertisers have specifically requested that their commercials not run during Ravens or Vikings game....
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...