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Bruce Arians Retires After Five Seasons With Cardinals
Arizona head coach Bruce Arians is retiring after five seasons at the helm of the Cardinals and after 42 total years as a football coach. ...

Ravens WR Chris Moore's Excruciating Bobble Turns Into A Bengals Pick-Six<em></em>
Despite the worst efforts of Joe Flacco, who went 4 of 18 for just 28 yards in the first half, the Ravens are actually trying to make the playoffs by beating the Bengals today. It’s proving to be extremely difficult, and Darqueze Dennard made the task even harder by stealing a catch away from Chris ...

Crystal Palace Penalty <i>Almost </i>Ends Man City's Unbeaten Run
Crystal Palace ended Manchester City’s 18-match Premier League win streak today at Selhurst Park, but they could have had so much more than just the draw they came away with. After surviving 90 minutes at 0-0, Palace’s Wilfried Zaha went down in the box on a foul by Raheem Sterling, giving the 17th ...

NBA Refs Continue String Of Clutch Fuck-Ups With Game-Deciding No-Call In OKC
Tied with the Thunder in the closing seconds Friday night, the Bucks ran a simple out-of-bounds play to get superhuman monster Giannis Antetokounmpo isolated on the baseline against regular human Josh Huestis. Giannis is an insanely tough cover for anyone, and he found a way past Huestis, driving ba...

Hall Of Fame Candidate Curt Schilling In Hot Water Over Praise For, Breitbart Radio Show With White Supremacist
Breitbart quietly deleted the archive of a radio show Curt Schilling recorded two weeks ago with white supremacist Paul Nehlen after falsely claiming it stopped covering the anti-Semitic candidate seeking to dethrone Paul Ryan “months” ago....

Horse Loses Jockey Yards From The Wire, Costing Bettor $571,000
Gulfstream Park in Florida has something called the Rainbow 6, a pick-six that carries over each day if there’s not a single unique winner. For a mere 20 cents, bettors, if they select the winners of the day’s final six races, walk away with big money—on Thursday, the jackpot stood at $571,744. One ...

Holy Shit, The Celtics Came Back From Down 26
Earlier tonight, in a quick blog about James Harden’s layup off the shot clock, I wrote the following:...

Jack Wilshere Is Still Alive And Still Capable Of Hitting Beautiful Passes
Today, geriatric 25-year-old Jack Wilshere managed to avoid doing a few typical Jack Wilshere things (like getting sent off for a dumb tackle or injuring himself while charging into a dumb tackle or serving a suspension for a previous sending off in the aftermath of a dumb tackle) just long enough t...

Jaguars Barely Defeat Tarps
Blake Bortles and the Jacksonville Jaguars are going to play a real, actual NFL playoff game the first weekend in January. (Still a weird fact to write.) Although the team’s stadium has a capacity of about 84,000 for college football games, the Jags usually limit their games to 67,000, with parts of...

The Ice Bowl, The Sneak, And The Family Who Shot The Packers For 70 Years
It wasn’t just cold at Lambeau Field. With the temperature at 13 below zero at kickoff, and the wind chill at 36 below, Dec. 31, 1967, ranked as the coldest New Year’s Eve day that Green Bay, Wisconsin, had ever witnessed....

Report: Car Registered To DeSean Jackson Found Wrecked, Abandoned On Christmas Eve
A car registered to Buccaneers wide receiver DeSean Jackson was found abandoned on Sunday night in Tampa, Fla., according to a police report reviewed by NFL.com. The car, a Chevrolet Silverado, at some point struck a tree, and inside police found a misdemeanor-level amount of marijuana and two legal...

Why Does Jon Gruden Think The Philadelphia Stadiums Are "Downtown"?
Philadelphia teams have been tanking incompetently since before Sam Hinkie was alive. The 1968 Eagles started out 0-11 and looked like a lock to draft O.J. Simpson No. 1 overall. Then they won two straight to ensure that the Bills would have the top pick. In their 14th and final game that year, a yo...

Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week: Brett Hundley Brought Bagels
Welcome to Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week, a recurring feature in which we celebrate the worst quarterback play the NFL has to offer....

What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year?
If it’s Christmas, it must be time to learn what America shoved inside itself. The only worthwhile holiday tradition pushes on....

Andy Reid Did A Press Conference Dressed As Santa
The Chiefs clinched the AFC West with a 29-13 win over the Miami Dolphins today. It’s the first time the Chiefs have won consecutive AFC West titles. To celebrate, Andy Reid entered the locker room dressed as Santa Claus....

Myles Turner Is A Big Bad Man
The Pacers are a lot of fun. Six of their rotation guys average at least 11 points per game, and their offensive rating has climbed to sixth in the NBA. A big part of their success on that end is a pair of bigs, in Myles Turner and Domantas Sabonis, who can stretch the floor without taking much off ...

When The Nog Is Too Strong
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Eggnog's Better In A Cup Than On A Carpet
‘Tis the season to get messy....

Report: Florida Judge Sides With Coke Dogs, Against Regulators
A judge in Florida this week ruled that testing protocols used by Florida gambling regulators to nab racing greyhounds competing on the state’s race tracks while coked out of their little dog minds were outlawed, potentially clearing the way for rampant use of the illicit substance among dishonorabl...