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In Order To Save Football, Roger Goodell Will Destroy It
Roger Goodell suspended Saints head coach Sean Payton for the entire 2012 season today. Of course he did. After all, what better way to get sportswriter after sportswriter to bow down in AWE of your far-reaching authority than to hand down a wildly severe punishment to someone who dares defy the com...
The Tim Tebow Trade Might Be Held Up Because The Jets Never Read Tebow's Contract
Hold off on throwing away your Chrebet jerseys, Jets fans. The Tebow trade might not be happening because of a five-million-dollar snag....
Obituary For Dead Broncos Fan Says He Hated Peyton Manning And "Wanted Out Before A Deal Was Done"
Jim Driver died on Monday, the same day Peyton Manning agreed to terms with Denver. Driver, 1933-2012, led an interesting life. He was a Navy photographer in the Korean War, transferred from Santa Clara Community College because "the curriculum was too liberal," and spent his later years teaching ch...
The Beards Of Summer: Remembering The Days When A Barnstorming Cult Ruled Baseball
Chris Siriano wants to get the hell out of Michigan. Even on a gorgeous fall day in Addison (population 627), with the leaves turning and the sun bright, Siriano—middle-aged, sporting a gray goatee and ball cap—can't stop dreaming about the beach. "I raised my daughter by myself and everybody knew t...
Haunted By An Abusive Father, Craig James Wet The Bed Until He Was 13
Get ready, fans. This might be the first and only time you feel some sort of sympathy for the politician-human known as Craig James. From Texas Monthly's profile:...
The Jets And Broncos Agree: Tim Tebow Was Not Worth A First-Round Draft Pick
After picking Tim Tebow in first round of the 2010 NFL draft, the Denver Broncos have shipped him and a seventh-round pick in the upcoming draft to the Jets for their fourth- and sixth-round picks. So now it's possible to put a value on Tebowmania. Using the famous draft-value matrix that assigns a ...
![Warren Sapp Says Jeremy Shockey Was The Saints' Bounty Snitch [UPDATE: Shockey Denies!]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/17h5eihzxfh01jpg.jpg)
Warren Sapp Says Jeremy Shockey Was The Saints' Bounty Snitch [UPDATE: Shockey Denies!]
Noted Twitter presence and NFL Network analyst Warren Sapp (@QBKILLA) tweeted earlier that he knows who snitched on the Saints defense's bounty program....
The Guy Who Wrote <i>Game Of Thrones</i> Hates The Tebow Trade
George R.R. Martin, author of the A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels, and confessed Jets fan, is not the biggest fan of the Jets' trade from one Timothy Tebow. Writing on his blog,...
There Appears To Be A Reason Why That Now-Dead DA Did Not Prosecute Jerry Sandusky In 1998
One of the great mysteries surrounding the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse case stretches back 14 years, to when Penn State police put together a 100-page police report that included details of Sandusky admitting he had showered with and touched a boy. For reasons that have never been made clear, the...
Quarterback Musical Chairs Leaves The Dolphins Standing Alone In A Corner
The Miami Dolphins do not have a quarterback, and now there are no good quarterbacks left....
Hey, Jets! Here's A Photo Of Tim Tebow's Bare Foot
Now there's a quarterback that a coach can dream on!...
Let's Just Hand The Jets The BCS Trophy Right Now
How many proven winners does your team have at quarterback? Probably not as many as the Jets do. Mark Sanchez went 14-2 at USC. Backup Tim Tebow went 35-6 at Florida. Third-stringer Greg McElroy went 24-3 at Alabama. (We're excluding Drew Stanton from this sample because he is a loser, and because T...
Look On The Bright Side: The Saints Just Saved $10 Million
The NFL has come down hard on the Saints for their role in running a bounty program, and it's not cheap: the team must pay a fine of $500,000. But they'll recoup that easily, because head coach Sean Payton's one-year suspension is without pay. According to Jay Glazer, Payton's salary is about $8 mil...
Watch All 234 Goals Leo Messi Scored To Break The Barcelona Record
It's sometimes easy to forget how good Leo Messi is. He performs extraordinary feats with such regularity they seem routine. Messi scores. Again. Messi dribbles through five defenders and scores. Again. Messi dribbles through five defenders, is hacked mercilessly, refuses to go down, dances around...
Sean Payton Suspended One Year, Saints Lose Draft Picks In Bounty Punishment
The NFL was promising to swiftly decide the punishment for the Saints' bounty program, and they were not lying—despite the NFLPA's plea to conduct its own investigation first. Today the league ruled, and the penalties are not crippling, but they are significant. As reported near-simultaneously by A...
![Report: Tim Tebow Has Been Traded To The Jets [UPDATED]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/17h505a12by33jpg.jpg)
Report: Tim Tebow Has Been Traded To The Jets [UPDATED]
And for a fourth-round pick. That's according to Jay Glazer. More to come. [Twitter]...
A TV Camera Caught A Woman Either Scratching Or Fondling Herself After Sunday's Pistons-Clippers Game
Here's a little something that may or may not be eligible for our C-Roll stash, and it comes to us from those intrepid sleaze merchants over at Busted Coverage. Keep your eye on the woman in red in the video above, which was recorded just after Sunday's Pistons-Clippers game. I'm not sure who narr...
Folks In Chicago Preparing For The Worst Baseball Season Since The Carter Administration
March, when hope springs eternal, and fans of even the most down-and-out teams can convince themselves that somehow, someway, this might be the year. Until opening day, everyone's tied for first place. But not in Chicago, where a century of misery (never mind 2005; that's ancient history) has damped...
Stephen A. Smith And Skip Bayless Are "Best Friends," And Other Horrifying Things We've Learned About "Skippy"
We learned yesterday that Skip Bayless was an Emmy nominee. O, were that where the parade of horrors ended. Instead, the New York Observer is here to torture us further, devoting a cool 2,000 words to a profile of Ol' Skippy. Here are some of the odious things you would read were you to read Thomas ...
Antonio Cromartie Actually Gave A Good Reason The Jets Shouldn't Trade For Tim Tebow
After a Jets beat writer tweeted, "I've been told that the Jets have legitimate interest in acquiring Tim Tebow," Antonio Cromartie responded quickly. This should have worried Jets brass. If you've ever watched Cro play football (or copulate), you know his instincts are bad. He overreacts sometimes,...