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Yahoo! Sports' Mike Silver Had A Single, Five-Word Postgame Question To Aaron Rodgers: "What The Fuck Just Happened?"
If the mark of a good reporter is asking the question on the mind of each of his or her readers, Yahoo!'s Mike Silver nailed it. In the seconds after Seattle was gifted a Monday Night Football win by replacement officials, the prominent NFL writer approached Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers and...

What In The World Just Happened At The End Of <em>Monday Night Football</em>?
This is the farce we've been waiting for. Packers-Seahawks ended with a worthless extra-point attempt after the scab referees initially just let both teams go back to their respective locker rooms, having awarded Seattle a game-winning touchdown as time expired. That's the play up there: a Seaha...

Well, That Was An Enormous Disaster: Seattle Beat Green Bay, In Three GIFs
Green Bay, Seattle : Aaron Rogers was sacked 9 times tonight and only a few times did he do it to himself. There was a bizarre fight in the end zone when Greg Jennings was just tackled out of nowhere. No throw, no blocking, guy just tackled him for some reason and Jennings did not appreciate it. Se...

College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides Georgia Tech)?
Our weekly college football shame index. ...

Arkansas Coach John L. Smith Apparently Thinks The Razorbacks Play In Alabama
Another day, another something to embarrass Arkansas football coach John L. Smith. The Razorbacks have lost three in a row, Smith is broke, and here he is giving a rah-rah speech to the Little Rock Touchdown Club earlier today, only to mistake what state he's even talking about. (Hint: Alabama's t...

Motorin’: Your Highlight Reel Of The Most Night Ranger-Worthy Runs From College Football’s Week 4
Prompted by a discussion between Gawker's own Mobutu Sese Seko and Sports Illustrated college football writer Holly Anderson, we created this mp3 celebrating the best and only relevant moment of Night Ranger's musical career. We think it's worth using to highlight plays, so here's the best runs from...

The Scab Refs And The NFL Slide Deeper Into Incompetence
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The Steelers' Larry Foote Told The Replacement Refs "You Should Go Kill Yourselves"
You know the replacement referees are a debacle when a player gets injured on a dirty play that wasn't flagged, and no one notices because it wasn't even the worst uncalled dirty play of the quarter....

Kyle Shanahan Chased The Refs Into The Tunnel, Yelling "You Have No Fucking Balls"
Last week, the NFL issued warnings to coaches about abusing or berating the replacement refs. So naturally, multiple games yesterday ended in chaos, with coaches abusing and berating the replacement refs....

I Was Piggybacked By The Piggyback Bandit
The Piggyback Bandit, aka Sherwin Shayegan, is the bogeyman of high school sports. As chronicled by Grantland's Bryan Curtis, the 31-year-old Shayegan has spent the last few years showing up randomly at sporting events, pretending to be a player, manager, reporter—anything to get close enough to the...

Here's What Baltimore's Minute-Long "Bullshit" Chant Sounded Like Inside The Stadium
Replacement refs once again became an issue Sunday night, as a controversial illegal contact penalty followed by a rare bench personal foul assessed to the Ravens stirred the M & T Bank Stadium crowd into a rage. Indeed, it nearly sounds as if the entire city of Baltimore is joining in the "Bullsh...

The Cardinals Crushed The Eagles Because The Cardinals Might Actually Be Good, In Two GIFs
The Cardinals we're already up, so it's not like this is why they won, necessarily. They probably would have won anyway. But boy, this must have felt like shit for the Eagles: Down 17-0, they'd marched the ball all the way down to the Arizona one. On third and goal with six seconds left in the half...

Jacksonville Beat The Colts In The Final Minute, In Two GIFs
Jacksonville 22, Indianapolis 17: Both Andrew Luck and Blaine Gabbert had completion percentages below 50, but Luck threw for 300 yards and two touchdowns. Gabbert only had one touchdown, but it was the decisive one. Maurice Jones-Drew also made an appearance finally with a 177 yards/28 carries perf...

Kevin McClatchy Almost Didn't Buy The Pirates Because Someone Threatened To Out Him
Kevin McClatchy, for 11 years the head of the Pirates' ownership group and team CEO (and for 13 years part of the ownership group), came out publicly in a New York Times profile that's on newsstands today. In the piece, McClatchy explains why he came out to his family when he did:...

An Arizona Turnover Against Oregon Last Night Resulted In One Of The All-Time Great Sideline Reactions
Oregon obliterated an inexplicably ranked Arizona team 49-0 last night, relying on its rapid-fire offense and five Wildcats turnovers to blow out Rich Rodriguez's squad. (Note to pollsters: beating a team you mistakenly ranked in the preseason shouldn't impress you.)...

Deadspin's College Football Top 25 Or So: The Sack Of Troy
It's time for a new installment of Deadspin's college football rankings. As always, the teams are ranked according to the logic and values of college football, no matter how bizarre or contradictory they may be. ...

Brady Hoke Ranks Michigan's Best Rivalries
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Sorry MSU, you're second-class....

Four LIU Brooklyn Basketball Players Suspended After Fight On Campus
Four Long Island University (Brooklyn) basketball players were arrested yesterday in connection with a Sept. 14 brawl that involved three other men and two women....

Manny Pacquiao Will Take A 45-55 Split, So It's Time For Floyd Mayweather To Stop Being A Baby And Fight Him Already
Pacquiao's going to fight Juan Manuel Marquez—yes, again. But every fight Pacquiao has taken for the last few years has something of "when are they going to get to the fireworks factory?" about it. When are we going to get the damn Mayweather fight already?...