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Taxpayers, Fans Winners As St. Petersburg Rejects Rays Stadium Deal
St. Petersburg's city council rejected an agreement with the Tampa Bay Rays that would have allowed the team to seek new stadium sites while providing the MLB franchise an out from its lease with the city that locks them into Tropicana Field through 2027....
Report: Jabari Parker Out For The Season With Suspected Torn ACL
Jabari Parker will likely miss the rest of the season with a "suspected torn ACL," according to ESPN's Marc Stein. Parker left last night's win over the Suns with a "sprained knee" after he collided with PJ Tucker. He becomes the second lottery pick to suffer a season-ending injury, after Julius Ran...
Buccaneers Will Stop Using Unpaid Homeless People To Sell Beer
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will no longer employ unpaid, destitute indentured servants as concessions stand workers, according to a statement issued by the team's concessions partner Aramark....
Alabama, Oregon, FSU, And Ohio State Make College Football Playoff
Your college football playoff selections are here, and Alabama, Oregon, Florida State, and Ohio State will face off to decide this season's national champion....
UAB Football Players Address University President In Fiery Meeting
The University of Alabama at Birmingham announced today that it was shutting down its football program, leading to an emotional day on campus. Before the decision was announced publicly, UAB president Ray Watts met privately with the team. One of the UAB students in the room shot the above video...
Players Cry And Students Boo As UAB Announces End Of Football Team
UAB president Ray Watts confirmed today that the school's football team will be shutting down. Watts first spoke to the team in a private meeting before informing Blazers supporters and students....
Buccaneers, NFL, & Aramark Refuse To Comment On Use Of Unpaid Servants
Sunday's revelation that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are among several professional sports teams using unpaid, destitute "indentured servants" as concessions workers has led to swift action on behalf of government bodies as well as the Rays and their stadium services contractor Centerplate, but the Buc...
"Iron Mike Coldly Leaves Jim Gray": Your Best Mike Ditka Stories
Last month we ran your best Mike Ditka stories, and at the same time solicited for more. Our readers came through, so here is the second volume of Mike Ditka stories. As always, if you have a story about Mike Ditka—or anybody else—that you think we'd find interesting, you can share it in the comme...
Bengals Fans Pummel Bucs Fan Right Outside Of Raymond James Stadium
Despite their best efforts to lose, Cincinnati escaped Tampa with a win yesterday over the Bucs. Their fans, it seems, did too—teaming up to beat the crap out of this Buccaneers fan who, it can be assumed, was getting a bit mouthy....
Mike Evans Completely Wrecks Terence Newman On A Block
We've gushed about Mike Evans's ability to get physical before, but that was mainly focusing on him pushing defenders around as he ran routes. Here's Evans using his muscle to take down Bengals corner Terence Newman in today's game....
Report: UAB To Shut Down Its Football Program
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is reportedly shuttering its football program, becoming the first FBS football program to close since University of the Pacific in 1995....
Report: Buccaneers Employ Indentured Servants As Concessions Workers
In a system labor experts are calling "outrageous," the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are among several professional sports teams a Tampa Bay Times investigation found employ unpaid, destitute people to sell peanuts and beer to fans at the stadium....
Notorious Finebaum Caller Tammy Joins Iron Bowl Simulcast [UPDATE]
Paul Finebaum's radio show has long had its cast of compelling, crazy, or cretinous callers, and Auburn fan Tammy is one of its most famous. She joined the SEC Network call-in simulcast of tonight's Iron Bowl in Tuscaloosa, and let loose with her usual flow of.. words, sort of....
"Harvey Updyke For President": Your Iron Bowl <em>College GameDay</em> Roundup
College GameDay is in Tuscaloosa this morning, and the 'Bama fans brought their best Auburn insults for the occasion. Here are the highlights and lowlights of this morning's signs....
CM Punk Rips Apart The WWE In Revealing Interview About His Departure
Former WWE champion CM Punk joined Colt Cabana's "The Art of Wrestling" podcast this week and dove deep into why he left the company. There is a ton of interesting stuff in here, and it's certainly worth a listen for hardcore fans who want the most in-depth look into why Punk left the wrestling behe...
The Bucs Found A Really Impressive Way To Blow The Game This Week
We normally go over the most highly leveraged plays, or some collection of them, when we round up Brian Burke's WPA from Advanced Football Analytics every week. The list is almost always bottom-heavy, comprising plays that just happened to occur in the fourth quarter, or long touchdowns, like Lata...
God, The NFC South Is So Awful
Mike Smith and the Falcons used poor clock management and sheer willpower to lose on a last-second field goal to the Browns today. (Congrats, Browns!) Atlanta is now 4-7, and still has a chance at first place in the NFC South after the week's over, because the NFC South is so fucking bad, top to bot...
Mike Evans Is Too Big, Too Fast, And Too Physical For Defenses To Stop
You should ignore the two-win Buccaneers and their two-bit alarm-clock uniforms. The Bucs suck, and have been on the end of some of the worst beatdowns of the year. There is at least one bright spot, however: Mike Evans is putting up crazy numbers, and he's only 21....