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A Reminder That The Falcons And Patriots Were No. 1 And No. 2 In The NFL's "Paid Patriotism"
As it turns out, today’s Super Bowl match-up involves the NFL’s top two teams in terms of paid patriotism—those all-American displays paid for by the military without being advertised as such....
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St. Bonaventure Loses After Fans Ruin Game-Winner With Premature Court Storm [CORRECTION]
This story has been corrected. See below....

DeMarcus Cousins Was His Best Self And The Kings Took Down The Warriors
What should have been an easy win for the Warriors became an overtime upset, courtesy of DeMarcus Cousins and the Kings....

Terrell Owens Is Still Not In The Hall Of Fame
The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced its next induction class this evening, and Terrell Owens is not among the seven members. This is, as it was last year, bullshit....
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Kirk Cousins Shoves Volunteer Official At Charity Flag Football Game [Update]
We’ve illustrated Kirk Cousins’s legendary competitiveness a few times, but the Washington QB may have taken it a bit far today at a charity flag football game when he got very angry and shoved a volunteer official....

Zach LaVine To Miss Rest Of Season With Torn ACL
Timberwolves guard Zach LaVine will miss the rest of the rest season with a torn ACL, the team announced today. ...

Iowa State Upsets No. 3 Kansas, Breaking 51-Game Winning Streak At The Phog
Iowa State got 20-plus point performances from three starting guards as the Cyclones, who have played like butt for the majority of the season, downed No. 3 Kansas at Allen Fieldhouse behind a school-record 18 three-pointers. The loss marked the first time in 51 games that the Jayhawks have fallen ...

NFLPA To Steer Players Away From Bears If Illinois Passes Law Limiting Disability Benefits For Pro Athletes
The NFL Players Association will warn free agents not to sign with the Bears if the Illinois State Senate passes a new bill designed to cut off opportunities for workers’ compensation disability benefits to professional athletes at age 35, rather than the current mark of age 67....

Grayson Allen Whistled For Tripping... Again
Duke star Grayson Allen, who is the world’s best at heeding seventh-grade basketball coaches’ command to “play defense with your feet,” earned a foul against Pitt today for engaging in his patented stoppage style....

Michael Vick: I Knew It Was Time To Retire When The Vikings Didn't Call After Teddy Bridgewater's Injury
Michael Vick last saw NFL action in October of 2015, but he didn’t make his retirement official until yesterday, when he announced it to a group of reporters at the Super Bowl. ...

Proposal: They Should Make <i>Sherlock</i> Into Movies<em></em>
The fourth season of Sherlock came and went, and it’s altogether possible that there won’t be a fifth one, because Benedict Cumberbatch is a huge fucking movie star now, and Martin Freeman isn’t far behind. These are busy men, and getting them together with creators Steven Moffatt and Mark Gatiss (w...

The Falcons' Defense Is Basically Fucked
Patriots-Falcons in Super Bowl 51 is being billed as a showcase of the NFL’s two most prolific offenses, at the height of their powers. The Patriots, of course, are the known entity: Tom Brady and [insert name here] on offense, along with a defense that frequently schemes its way into being greater ...

Shaq Looked Like He Really Wanted To Punch Charles Barkley In The Face
Last night’s edition of Inside The NBA featured a lengthy segment on the great LeBron-Barkley beef of 2017. You don’t need to watch the whole thing—unless you want to see Charles Barkley deploy the “I’m not mad, this is actually funny to me” defense unironically, which, now that I think about it, is...

Can Grieving Mothers Stop The Public From Forgetting The NFL's Brain-Trauma Crisis?
On Monday afternoon, a group of mothers and other family members of men who have died with chronic traumatic encephalopathy gathered in a room at a hotel in Houston to hold a press conference announcing CTE Awareness Day and promoting their group’s eponymous website, Faces of CTE....

Report: Jordan Farmar Floated To The Top Of The Toilet Bowl
On Wednesday, the Cleveland Cavaliers went about sorting through a bunch of crap in an attempt to find LeBron James a reliable playmaker who can come off the bench. The tryout was attended by the likes of Lance Stephenson, Kirk Hinrich, and Mario Chalmers, but according to ESPN’s Dave McMenamin, the...

Baylor Is Still Full Of Shit
It isn’t transparency when it’s offered solely on your terms and to your benefit, especially if you are the powerful institution allegedly coming clean. There should be no comfort in the limited disclosures Baylor offered in a Dallas County court yesterday about how then-coach Art Briles, then-athle...

Lawsuit: Text Messages Show How Baylor Coaches Turned Football Program Into Disciplinary "Black Hole"
Earlier this week, former Baylor football assistant Colin Shillinglaw filed a lawsuit against the school, alleging that his firing in the fallout from Baylor’s massive sexual-assault scandal was unjust. Shillinglaw sued Baylor for libel and slander, just like former coach Art Briles did in his recen...

Coach K Is Coming Back This Weekend
Did you miss Mick Krizilonski while he was away? Too bad, because Duke announced that their talismanic coach would be making his return to the sidelines this weekend for Duke’s home game against Pitt....

What Time Does 'What Time Does The Superbowl Start?' Start?
The Super Bowl is allegedly this weekend, and reports indicate that the contest will be played in Houston between the Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots. ...

Luigi Datome Dunks Ball Straight Into The Side Of The Backboard
Luigi Datome, formerly of the Boston Celtics and Detroit Pistons, currently plays ball for Fenerbahçe in the European League. In a recent game against CSKA Moscow, Datome shook his man and rose up for what promised to be a gorgeous baseline dunk. That promise went unfulfilled:...