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Gift Guide Roundup: Your Best Suggestions For Drinkers
Last week we asked you for gift ideas for people who like to drink. Here are your best suggestions....

Rob Gronkowski Also Has A Concussion, Is The NFL's Latest Nightmare
When Browns safety T.J. Ward sent his shoulder crashing into Rob Gronkowski's outstretched right leg, everyone had the same two thoughts: "Holy shit, Gronk just tore his ACL!" and "Ward only went low because he didn't want to concuss Gronk and get fined for doing so." Well, try telling that second ...

Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts For People Who Actually Play Sports
Remember those halcyon days of yesteryear, before middle school team cuts codified who could and couldn't play, when everyone regularly played sports solely for the love? For some, those days never ended. Others need to be reminded that sport without an audience is worthwhile, too. For them, we woul...

Adrian Peterson Says Baltimore Has "The Worst Fans In The NFL"
Just a horrible day all around for Adrian Peterson, who exited in the second quarter with a foot injury and had a prime seat for late-game nuttiness that saw the lead change six times in the fourth quarter. Peterson vented afterwards, splitting his anger between officials and fans....

Baylor Players Have Impromptu Bro-Down With Frat Boys At 3 A.M.
Ahmad Dixon and Antwan Goodley both play football at Baylor University, and they both seem like pretty rad dudes. Rad enough to go to Whataburger and take shirtless pictures with random fans at 3 a.m., at least. ...

Matt Stafford Fumbleface Is The Best Face, Non-Manning Division
Yesterday's Snow Bowl created a real problem for the Detroit Lions in the possession department. (They fumbled seven times.) One late mishap led quarterback Matthew Stafford to a moment of pure panic and desperation—a circumstance we feel deserved a more intimate experience....

Deadspin Up All Night: Waves Of Fear
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. There was some good football today. Hopefully, there will be more good football tonight....

Adrian Peterson Leaves Game In Pain After Serious Lower Leg Injury
Vikings running back Adrian Peterson left today's game after injuring his right leg as Ravens linebacker Arthur Brown tackled him....

Lions-Eagles Is A Beautiful, Snow-Filled Mess
Snow! At a football game!...

Wisconsin Hockey Player Produces Filthy Between-The-Legs Goal
This goal's from Friday, but it's just so beautiful. Wisconsin's Tyler Barnes puts Tyler LaBate's pass between his legs and in for a goal that makes the play-by-play man screech in response. It definitely wasn't luck, though....

Buzzer-Beater Leads Colorado Past Kansas For First Time In Ten Years
Askia Booker's buzzer-beating three led Colorado to a 75-72 win over the sixth-ranked Kansas Jayhawks, the first CU-over-KU win since 2003. The Buffaloes had gone 0-19 in that span....

Oklahoma State Is Lousy With Sore Losers
My goodness, are there a bunch of salty Cowboys in Stillwater right now. This is an Oklahoma State cheerleader attempting to trip Erik Striker after the final play of the game. Following that, fans began throwing snowballs at the players. ...

How To Make Scrambled Eggs, Most Controversial Of All The Breakfasts
Did you know that people do not all make scrambled eggs the same way? Did you know that they even occasionally disagree about how best to make scrambled eggs? It's true. True and intolerable. True and intolerable and horrifying....

Deadspin Up All Night: Had Me A Real Good Time
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. I mean that with some extra special oomph this time, because this is my last day here. I start Monday as the Jets beat writer for NJ.com. Can't wait till Rex and Mark realize where I used to work. That ought to be fun....

Gift Guide Roundup: Your Best Suggestions For Sad Knicks Fans
Earlier this week we asked you for gift ideas for Knicks fans in their perpetual state of sadness. Here's what you guys came up with....

Please Don't Ollie The Subway Tracks
Yes, this is cool and terrifying and mesmerizing. But I swear to Subway Jesus, if you miss and hit the third rail and delay my commute, I will piss on your grave....

An Ode To One Of America's Best Dive Bars
You've probably never heard of Bowling Green unless its college basketball team, the Hilltoppers of Western Kentucky, has broken your bracket, one year or another. The city sits between Louisville and Nashville, and people drive there from all over southern Kentucky to eat, to shop, and, most of all...

A Treasury Of Children's Insane Christmas Wish Lists
After I posted my kid's goofy Christmas wish list on Wednesday, we asked you readers to send in some of your own. You were not a disappointment to us. One guy's kid sent in the entire contents of the toy section at Target. Another reader's kid had a list that included a diagram (its instructions and...

If You Talk Shit About USC's AD, His Nephew Will Smarm Your Ass To Death
USC's athletic director, Pat Haden, has been taking some heat lately. With his school's football program still reeling from the Lane Kiffin disaster, Haden gave the head coaching job to University of Washington's Steve Sarkisian, whose career Pac-12 winning percentage is .539. Kiffin's was .586. Und...

Man Pops Out Of Mascot Costume To Propose To Bulls Cheerleader
Who says love is dead?...