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So, Yeah, The Big Lions Fan Put A Gun To His Head After Today's Loss
"Grab a gun. C'mon, let's get this over with," said that weird Big Lions Fan who had the whole Creedence thing going on during his post-game wrapup. He was kidding, and urged fellow Lions fans not to jump, while still brandishing his piece. Which was very nice of him....

Watch Jim Harbaugh And Jim Schwartz Almost Fight
This pretty much speaks for itself. Harbaugh pulled the ol' Lift Up My Shirt In Exultant Victory And Exuberantly Slap Five With My Opponent. Schwartz wasn't feeling it....

Here's Video Of The Fiery 15-Car Crash At Today's IndyCar Race In Vegas (UPDATE: Dan Wheldon Is Dead)
Just a handful of laps into today's Las Vegas Indy 300, 15 of 34 cars that started the race were involved in a horrific crash that left driver Dan Wheldon seriously injured and airlifted to a hospital. ESPN reported that driver Will Power was also taken to a hospital because of "lower back pain." ...

Presenting A Picture Of Chad McGhee Signing A Young Knox City Greyhounds Fan's Forehead
We'll be catching up with Chad McGhee later in the week to get more details about last night's Knox City Showdown charity event. However, if you can't wait until Tuesday or Wednesday to hear how his bout with Coach Charles "The Animal" Steele went, the good folks at the Abilene Reporter-News were k...

Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Dogies: Your NFL Late Games Open Thread
If you were looking for the second leg of our open thread tripod, congratulations! It's right below. Join in all the fun....

Why Yes, It Does Look Like A Clemson Coach Had A Michelle Obama Trapper Keeper On The Sidelines
Not sure who. Not sure why. Not sure how. But yes, tipster David S. — who wishes he'd turned his lamp off before photography commenced — is correct in thinking that's an image of First Lady Michelle Obama on an assistant Clemson University football coach's folder last night....

Here's Video Of Eagles TE Brent Celek's Great Catch Against The Redskins
In the first half of what's been collectively branded a do-or-die game for the 1-4 Philadelphia side, the Eagles look like the Eagles were expected to look this season and the Redskins look like the Redskins were expected to look, too. However, Brent Celek — while a serviceable tight end — was nev...

A.J. Hawk Has A Message For All Y'all Out There Watching The Packers/Rams Game
This photograph comes from tipster "imakeholesinu" who describes the setting as, "Here we go, sac bradford and fly the bird! Go pack go!" Taking a shot at translation, what imakeholesinu was saying was "Packers linebacker A.J. Hawk had just sacked Rams quarterback Sam Bradford and proceeded to give...

Here's To Swimmin' With Bow-Legged Women: Your NFL Early Games Open Thread
The football season is almost six-seventeenths over. That's almost half a season. Which is almost a whole season. Football is basically over, OK? Let's talk about it down below. ...

Let's Watch Michigan State's William Gholston Try To Snap Someone's Neck, Punch Someone Else
"Will Gholston had a fine day for the Spartans, but he probably shouldn't have been on the field for the fourth quarter. In the third quarter, Gholston was flagged for piling on Denard Robinson well after the play was over, then wrenching Robinson's helmet around for good measure. Later in the qua...

ESPN Reports The Rangers Are The First Team In A Decade To Make Consecutive World Series Appearances, Is Wrong
In ESPN's words: "The Rangers become the first team in 10 years to play in back-to-back World Series." From a Google search which took .20 seconds to complete: An Oct. 22, 2009 story headlined, "They're back! Phillies advance to World Series for 2nd straight year."...

Wrongfully Imprisoned Man Wins His Pro-Boxing Debut At 52, Retires Undefeated
Despite the apparent disgrace that was last night's Hopkins/Dawson "fight," it wasn't an altogether horrendous evening for the "sport" of boxing. Take 52-year-old Dewey Bozella's professional debut against an 0-3 palooka named Larry Hopkins (ironic, but no relation)....

Chip Kelly And Erin Andrews Want You To Shut Up When They're Speaking
Your morning roundup for Oct. 16, the day we learned that people can actually be crueler to others than we'd imagined they could. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....

Your Tigers-Rangers ALCS Game Six Open Thread
It's Max Scherzer vs. Derek Holland tonight as the latter's Texas Rangers attempt to close out the former's Detroit Tigers and advance to the World Series for the second consecutive year. Excitement. Experience it via comments here....

This 36-Second Lady Fight Should Suffice For Those Unwilling To Pay For Hopkins/Dawson Tonight
This here fracas is titled "GIRLS FIGHT TILL THE FINISH!!!!!!!!" but unless "TILL THE FINISH!!!!!!!!" means "until one decides it's time to sashay back inside," this really doesn't make the first lick of sense. Same way I feel about paying $59.95 when I can just watch Bernard Hopkins beat Chad Daw...

Your College Football Night Games Open Thread
If you're so into college football that it overtakes ALCS Game Six tonight, here are your choices: No. 8 Clemson at Maryland (ESPNU); No. 17 Kansas State at Texas Tech; Florida at No. 24 Auburn (ESPN3); No. 7 Stanford at Washington State (Versus); and No. 3 Oklahoma at Kansas (ESPN2, 9:15 p.m.)...

Peyton Manning's So Cute Verne Lundquist And Gary Danielson Could Just Eat Him Right Up (Updated With Video)
Nope, 26 references from the booth during a Sunday Night Football game in which he didn't play was not enough to sate the football-broadcasting world's need for Peyton Manning in their lives....

Lenny Dykstra's Old Driver Talks About Not Getting Paid, Auctioning Nails's Stuff On EBay
Aaron Michael Plaat knows what you probably think about Lenny Dykstra. That he's a licorice-chomping prick or a shifty grifter who belongs behind bars, like he currently is. But the 24-year-old Ohio State "go-getter" grad doesn't see him that same way, though he easily should....

Your College Football Afternoon Games Open Thread
Good batch of 3:30 p.m. games: No. 1 LSU at Tennessee (CBS); No. 6 Oklahoma State at No. 22 Texas (ESPN); No. 12 Georgia Tech at Virginia (ESPNU); and Ohio State at No. 16 Illinois (ABC)....

Chip Kelly Has Big Balls, According To College GameDay Sign
The University of Oregon doesn't take the field until later tonight, but the College GameDay chanting-and-drawing backdrop warriors were already out for coach Chip Kelly's morning #OccupyHerbstreit appearance....