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Nebraska Quarterback Taylor Martinez Engineered One Of The Most Outstanding Plays This College Football Season
This year's Big Ten championship game is lacking some shine, what with the best team in the conference going undefeated but being ineligible and another, Penn State, being out of the running for the next several years. But that doesn't mean it's not worth watching, as Nebraska angles to seize its ...
Legendary College Basketball Coach Rick Majerus Passed Away Today
First, this, from Loyola University of Chicago's head basketball coach and onetime Rick Majerus assistant Porter Moser:...
Alabama Barely Beats Georgia For SEC Title, Right To Demolish Irish In National Title Game
Your national title game will be SEC semifinal champion Alabama against Notre Dame, which in a just alternate universe just got piss-pounded by Ohio State in the Big Ten title game and ceded its title game slot to Florida. In this universe, though, Notre Dame spent the afternoon licking its chops as...
Stop Retweeting That Obviously Fake Account That Popped Up Today Pretending To Be Jovan Belcher's Agent
This morning, Jovan Belcher didn't have a Twitter account. By early afternoon, @Jovan_Belcher came into the world. Here are the stupid tweets penned by the lunatic that created it:...
Profiles Of Jovan Belcher Ranging From 2008 Through This November Depict Him As An Underdog Story And Model NFL Citizen
Two extant profiles exist of Jovan Belcher, one written as Belcher was finishing up at the University of Maine in 2008, the other on November 21, 10 days ago. Taken separately, neither is particularly telling, except insofar as you learn that if there were warning signs related to Belcher's mental h...
Lache Seastrunk Puts Team On His Back, Scores 76-Yard TD Run Despite Suffering Leg Injury Mid-Play
Baylor running back Lache Seastrunk has been a one-man Motorin' machine this season, and nothing demonstrates his tenacity and rushing ability more than this long touchdown run today against Oklahoma State, two-thirds of which appear to have been completed after Seastrunk injured his leg. (Darren ...
CBS Fantasy Football Analysts Have A Few Thoughts On The Death Of Jovan Belcher
In times of great sorrow, the best comfort can be to return to the things we love most in life, like coldly judging football players based on their statistical contributions alone. CBS Sports didn't just shoehorn its obituary into a square-inch box next to Belcher's stats—they managed to find some ...
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The NFL Has Told The Carolina Panthers To Make Their Regularly Scheduled Trip To Kansas City For Tomorrow's Game [Update: They're Playing]
The Charlotte Observer reports that the NFL has told the Panthers to be in Kansas City for their 1 p.m. kickoff against the Chiefs tomorrow:...
This Is The Chiefs Organization's Second Murder-Suicide Of The Year
A tipster writes in about this murder-suicide, which happened in Tampa in September:...
ESPN Screwup Lets Viewers Listen In On Jimmy Dykes And Dave O'Brien Talking About The National Anthem Singer's Clothing
In yet another technical blunder that led to inadvertent viewer eavesdropping on ESPN talent, a "live look-in" during ESPN's college basketball coverage last night patched in audio of the upcoming Syracuse-Arkansas game instead of the intended live-action Georgia-USF game. It just so happened that...
Your Week 14 College Football Master Schedule
Schedule and broadcasters via and cross-referenced with. If you spot any errors, let us know below. Conferences reflect home teams. Ranked teams bold; rankings from the USA Today Coaches Poll. Times (EST)....
Georgetown And Tennessee Missed The Record For Lowest Scoring Game Of The Shot Clock Era By Just Four Points
Ah! So close. Back in 2008, Rick Majerus's St. Louis Billikens scored 20 points (and held George Washington to 49 points, so that was a plus) in their first conference game of the season, meaning the teams combined for 69 during the contest. Last night, Georgetown and Tennessee came perilously near ...
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Reports: Kansas City Chiefs LB Jovan Belcher Killed His Girlfriend, Drove To The Chiefs Practice Facility, And Killed Himself [Updating]
Multiple reports have confirmed that fourth-year Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher shot himself at the Chiefs' practice facility this morning, allegedly after shooting and killing his girlfriend. According to CBS's Jason La Canfora, Belcher killed himself after speaking with the team's GM ...
Four Hofstra Basketball Players Arrested For Allegedly Stealing Laptops, Phones, And iPads
Hofstra teams are called "the Pride." Today, eh, not so much. Four members of the basketball team—Shaquille Stokes, Kentrell Washington, Jimmy Hall, and Dallas Anglin—have been charged with running an electronics theft ring on campus....
Euroleague Player Commits One Of The Most Egregious Flops You'll Ever See
Meet Drew Gordon, an American-born basketball player currently plying his trade in the Euroleague. Based on what transpires in the video above, Mr. Gordon is either one of the most shameless floppers we've ever seen, or he is being harassed by a violent poltergeist. Regardless, we hope his neck is...
1 In 10 MLB Players Took Adderall This Season
As part of MLB's drug testing agreement, the program administrator released a public annual report on the findings from the past year. The latest just landed in our inbox. Let's explore!...
The Child Porn Charges Against Minnesota State Football Coach Todd Hoffner Have Been Dismissed
The prosecution of Minnesota State football coach Todd Hoffner appeared to look like a mistake in October, when Hoffner's attorney released details of an evaluation that determined Hoffner's children were neither abused nor maltreated, and that child protective services would not even need to conduc...
Derek Jeter: Fatty Fatty Boombalatty (Or Something)
That right there is Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter, fresh off the pancake buffet at a Miami hotel as he rehabs his surgically repaired ankle. Notice anything different? I mean, besides the layer after layer of disgusting subcutaneous fat, just bulging and drooping and oh god I'm going to be ill. Anywa...
Which TV Market Is Getting Screwed This Sunday? An Analysis Of Week 13 NFL Viewing Maps
The NFL's regional programming rules are famously byzantine, but luckily the506.com cuts through the bullshit for you, providing weekly maps that allow us to answer the only question that really matters: Which fans are the most screwed this Sunday?...
St. Louis Columnist Determined To Uncover The Truth About David Freese's Car Crash
World Series hero David Freese had a car accident on Thanksgiving. He was driving his Range Rover in Wildwood, outside St. Louis, when a deer appeared ahead of him. Freese swerved to avoid it, lost control, and drove off the road an into a tree. At least, that's what they WANT you to think....