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Cam Newton Has Reached The Summit
You could see what the Giants were trying to do to Cam Newton on Sunday. From the very first play of the game, the plan was to blitz him as much as possible, get him on the ground, and try to knock him out of his rhythm. In some ways the plan, which has worked before, was a success—Newton was sacked...
The Chargers Gave San Diego Football A Deserving Funeral
San Diego’s never had a reputation for being ravenous football town, but that doesn’t make the fact that the Chargers have played what is very likely their last game in San Diego any easier to swallow for the fans who do care. Those fans showed up to cheer their asses off yesterday, and they were re...
Robert Nkemdiche Is Out Of The Sugar Bowl And Headed To The NFL After His Fall And Arrest
After falling out of an Atlanta hotel window a week ago then getting popped for marijuana possession, Ole Miss lineman Robert Nkemdiche has been suspended from the team’s Sugar Bowl matchup with Oklahoma State. He will head to the NFL, according to a statement he released this morning....
Mike Matheny And The Cardinals Are Still Being A Bunch Of Grumpy Sourpusses About Jason Heyward
Jason Heyward, a strong good baseball man who left the aging team he was with for less than a year for a new team in a better city with other strong baseball men, is not popular around St. Louis. Earlier this month, a bunch of angry mouthbreathers said mean shit about him online (which happens all t...
How Not To Run A Fake Field Goal
The New Mexico Bowl, one of the more mediocre matchups out of approximately one million mediocre bowl matchups this year, is on and popping. Arizona has New Mexico and the winner presumably gets expanded water rights on a tributary of the Colorado River or something. Anyway, New Mexico tried to go f...
Italy Plans To Fix Tall, Awkward Basketball Kid With Pasta
Robert Bobroczkyi is a 7-foot-6, 184-pound Romanian, and of course, he plays basketball. Bobroczkyi’s only 15 years old, however, so he’s being treated delicately as he stays at a hoops academy in Rome. Growing boys need their food, and since Bobroczkyi is a towering, growing boy, he needs even mor...
Goku Doppelgänger Ivan Rakitić Is A Big Hit In Japan
Barcelona are currently in Japan for the Club World Cup, and though the locals had to be disappointed that neither Lionel Messi or Neymar were fit enough to make an appearance in the team’s first game, they discovered a new favorite player thanks to Ivan Rakitić’s halfway resemblance to Dragon Ball ...
Brook Lopez's <i>Star Wars</i> Experience Was Kind Of A Bummer
A lot of the fun in going to see a world attention-grabbing movie on opening night is getting swept up in the pomp. If you’re a Star Wars nerd, like Brooklyn Nets center Brook Lopez is, you want to be able to feed off the collective energy of the other nerds in attendance when you go to a midnight s...
Tom Brady Is A Hilarious Moron
There was an old episode of The Larry Sanders Show that aired right during the peak of the O.J. Simpson murder trial hysteria. And in the episode, Hank Kingsley (as played by the brilliant Jeffery Tambor) tells the rest of the staff that he thinks O.J., his neighbor, is innocent of murder. Why? Beca...
How The Hero Of <i>Friday Night Lights </i>Won And Lost His Good Name
Of all the real-life characters in Friday Night Lights, Brian Chavez would surely have been voted Least Likely To Be Caught Brawling After Permian High Football Games Into Middle Age....
Bankruptcy Filings: Clinton Portis Owes Nearly $5 Million
Former NFL running back Clinton Portis has owed a lot of people a lot of money for some time now, and according to bankruptcy filings, the exact amount that he owes to various creditors is $4,857,659.50....
Ole Miss Star Robert Nkemdiche Visits Blues Club, Jams On The Sax
It’s only been a few days since Ole Miss defensive end Robert Nkemdiche fell out of a damn window, but he seems to have recovered just fine based on this video of him doing his thing on the sax....
Kobe Dunked On A Guy!
The bad Lakers played the occasionally less bad but somehow no less depressing Rockets last night in Los Angeles. I know, I know: Buhhhhh. But hey, Kobe Bryant did something!...
Jason Day's Wife Leaves Arena On Stretcher After LeBron Crashes Into Her
While chasing a loose ball late in the fourth quarter of the Cavaliers’ game against the Thunder, LeBron James absolutely crushed a fan sitting in the front row. The woman is Ellie Day, the wife of golfer Jason Day....
A New Zealander With A Gross Mustache Just Dunked On LeBron's Head
The Thunder and Cavaliers are locked in a pretty entertaining battle of two of the NBA’s best teams, with the Thunder holding a five point lead in the third quarter at publishing time. The most exciting play of the game so far is this Steven Adams dunk, coming at LeBron’s expense as he came late wit...
DeMar DeRozan's 40-Foot Game-Winner Wiped Out By Timeout
A Cory Joseph steal with just a couple of seconds remaining gave DeMar DeRozan the opportunity to nail a nearly half-court shot for a 93-90 win over the Hornets. But as you can hear from the whistle that blows shortly before DeRozan released, the Raptors called a timeout, negating his shot. Coming o...
Seven Intentionally Missed Free Throws Made For A Bizarre Ending To A Euroleague Game
The above video is truly extraordinary, and one of the craziest endings to a sporting event I’ve ever seen....
Colts Release LB Daniel Adongo After Cops Respond To Domestic-Violence Call
The Indianapolis Colts today waived linebacker Daniel Adongo, a week after police were called to investigate possible domestic violence involving him for the second time since October. Though no charges were filed in either case, the Colts’ roster move could be tied to today’s release of police repo...
Iman Shumpert Is A Baby-Deliverin' MacGyver
Cavaliers swingman Iman Shumpert’s wife, Teyana Taylor, just posted a rather incredible birth announcement on her Instagram page:...
UMass Basketball Player Motivated By Mom Shutting Off His Phone's Data
UMass guard Trey Davis hit a slump in the team’s recent schedule, with a .263 shooting percentage in the Minutemen’s three last losses. Davis broke out of his funk Wednesday night against New Orleans, however, torching the Privateers for 40 points in a 103-95 overtime win. After the game, the senior...