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Giants 36, Panthers 7: The Game In Three GIFs
This was a slow and deceptive win for the Giants, who run their record to 2-1. The defense played solid in the first half and allowed the Giants' offensive live to methodically dominate time of possession against the high-powered offense of Carolina. Even without starters Hakeem Nicks and Ahmad Brad...

David Pollack Almost Called The First Half Offenses In Tonight's BYU-Boise State Game A "Clusterfuck"
ESPN's premier Thursday night matchup in Boise featuring the Broncos hosting BYU hasn't exactly been watchable. In fact, it headed to the half tied scoreless, as inept offenses on both sides of the ball struggled to do much of anything. ESPN booth analyst David Pollack called it like he saw it, th...

Billy Gillispie Has Resigned As Texas Tech's Basketball Coach
You already knew he wouldn't be back, and now the official word out of Lubbock is that Gillispie—recently hospitalized for high blood pressure and stress—wants to focus on his health. The Red Raiders went 1-17 in the Big 12 in his lone season in charge (two years removed from his spectacular flameou...

Successful High School Football Coach Fired For Allegedly Possessing Creepy Videos Of Children
Matt Lindsay had been the head football coach at Bishop Luers High School in Fort Wayne, Ind., for 33 years. His teams won nine state championships. But he was fired Sunday for what the school's principal would only say were "violations of school and diocesan policies, and his violations of his empl...

This 8-Year-Old Football Player Can't Be Tackled
All we know about the little No. 34 in this video is that his name is Jayden Scott and he's eight years old, or one year for pretty much every defender who fails to bring him down....

Ballhawk Zack Hample Was Kicked Out Of Nationals Park Last Night, And He Is Pissed About It
We've met Zack Hample before, and we haven't exactly been kind to him. That's because Hample is a ballhawk—a member of that fraternity of obsessive dudes who hang around ballparks and trample babies whenever Omar Infante flips a baseball into the stands. Nevertheless, Zack reached out to us this mo...

The Replacement Refs Are Now Affecting Vegas Betting Lines
A ridiculous proportion of the NFL's popularity can be tied directly to gambling. So what if, when considering how replacement refs are making games skewed and unpredictable, it was Vegas and not the viewers that finally forces the league's hand in negotiating with the locked-out officials? We consi...

Buffalo Brought The MACtion As They Ended The First Half Against Kent Tonight With A 46-Yard Hail Mary TD
Wednesday nights belong to the MAC, as any college football degenerate knows, and while the scoring of tonight's Kent-Buffalo matchup hasn't yet reached levels of, say, last year's NIU-Toledo game, the MACtion is alive and well. Just ask Alex Neutz, the Bulls receiver who hauled in this 46-yard ha...

Arkansas Football Coach John L. Smith Has Only $500 In His Checking Account
John L. Smith might be imploring others to smile these days, but a quick glance at the Arkansas football coach's finances reveals nothing so humorous. Smith recently filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, and documents filed today in federal court show that he has only some $1.2 million in assets, compare...

LSU Grandmas Still Do Keg Stands
Last year, when another Keg Stand Granny gave it the old college try at an LSU tailgate, there was plenty of spillage. But this 83-year-old sugarpie seems to have perfected her technique. Your move, old ladies of Alabama....

Sleeping Female Croatian Volleyball Player Robbed By Masturbating Man
The Croatian women's national volleyball team was recently in the town of Rovinj for a European championship qualifier. Mateja Rajkovic, one of the players, says a man broke into her bungalow and robbed her while she slept. The man made off with 50 euros, but according to Rajkovic, he also made off ...

Watch A Kentucky Student Do The World's Worst Job Of Pitching A Tent
Every year, UK students camp outside Memorial Coliseum in Lexington for a chance at tickets to Big Blue Madness, the introduction ceremony for the Wildcats' men's and women's basketball teams. (It can get violent—Kentucky stations medical personnel at the race to the campsite—and that all this is ...

Who Is The Blurry Guy In This Photo, And Why Did Manny Ramirez Steal His Pants? The Long Baseball Life Of "The Machete"
After Roger Clemens's first start in the Atlantic League, the Associated Press sent across the wires a photo of him in the middle of his lumpy follow-through, pitching to an out-of-focus batter at the plate. The Hall of Famer, of course, had dropped in to pitch for the Sugar Land Skeeters; his oppon...

Kansas City Radio Guy Rails On Winless Chiefs: "You Give People Nothing To Live For"
The Chiefs have had a rough start to the season, and an 18-point loss to the Bills on Sunday sent local KC radio host "Bulldog" Bob Fescoe into a rage Monday morning....

Arkansas Coach John L. Smith Will Not Tolerate You Not Smiling
A bad offseason for Arkansas football has turned into a bad regular season, but at least head coach John L. Smith is still willing to have a little fun with the press corps along the way. As you can see above, even in the midst of Chapter 7 bankruptcy, Smith still has retained his (somewhat terrify...

Scab Ref Tells LeSean McCoy: "I Need You For My Fantasy Team"
It's an important distinction to note that most criticism of the replacement officials is directed not at them, but at the league for forcing it to come to this point. We know the refs are doing the best they can; we know they're just not prepared. (More than getting the calls right, memorizing the ...
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Yunel Escobar's Eyeblack Reads "You Are A Faggot" In Spanish [UPDATE]
The image above comes from Saturday's Blue Jays game, and it shows shortstop Yunel Escobar with the Spanish phrase "Tu Ere Maricon" written on his eyeblack. That translates into English as, "You Are A Faggot." We've tried to come up with a plausible explanation for this. The best we've got is that ...

Motorin': Your Highlight Reel Of The Most Night Ranger-Worthy Runs From College Football's Week 3
Prompted by a discussion between Gawker's own Mobutu Sese Seko and Sports Illustrated college football writer Holly Anderson, I created this mp3 last week. We think it's worth using to highlight plays, so here's the best runs from this past weekend in college football. They're Motorin'! ...
