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Merril Hoge Doesn't Want You To Use Your Brain

To clear up any confusion, let’s get this out of the way: Merril Hoge and Peter Cummings, who co-authored a book called Brainwashed: The Bad Science Behind CTE and The Plot to Destroy Football, are not CTE deniers. They do not dismiss the scientific notion that repetitive brain trauma is a high-ris...

Holy Shit, That Election Was Marginally Less Depressing Than Expected

If I may take you Inside The Game for a moment: the Deadcast was in Tennessee this week, for an intimate and robustly seasoned and extremely fun live recording at Headquarters Beercade in downtown Nashville on Monday. The plan was to put that podcast online and on this website today, and we are inde...

The Booger Mobile Has Been Taken Down A Notch

For Monday Night Football games, analyst Booger McFarland is placed in a large contraption that strafes the field so he can get a view of the action that he could more or less get from a sideline camera. The Booger Mobile’s value to the TV viewer is debatable, but what’s clear is that it really aggr...

Even Beer Vendors Have Turned On The Skins

Fans aren’t alone: Even beer vendors hate being inside Jack Kent Cooke’s Folly....

Why An Ex-Jets Great Wants Nothing To Do With The Jets

Excerpted from Beyond Broadway Joe: The Super Bowl TEAM That Changed Football, now available from Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers....

Oh Good, Time For Patriots Fans To Get Mad At ESPN Again

Those were good times, weren’t they? When that big ESPN report on a schism between Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, driven in part by Brady’s shady nutrition “guru” Alex Guerrero, dropped right before the playoffs and set off rounds of denials and non-denials and recriminations, and a whole lot of scre...

Alexander Ovechkin Gains Vitality From Booze

The Capitals are mostly pretty chill about the perception that they perhaps partied too hard after winning the Stanley Cup, and the fact that their boozy celebrations inspired new rules about the way champions are allowed to handle the Cup. Anyway, that’s the gist of an ESPN report that depicts the ...

Nats Rookie Spits Out Tooth, Socks First Career Dinger [Update]

A strange thing happened in the top of the fifth inning of the first game of today’s Nationals-Phillies doubleheader. Nationals’ rookie catcher Spencer Kieboom spit out a tooth (or possibly a chunk of tooth?) on his way to the plate for his second at-bat of the day....

God Bless The Capitals' Party Dummies For Partying Harder Than Any Team Is Allowed To Ever Again

After 44 years without a championship, the Washington Capitals nabbed the franchise’s first Stanley Cup in June. And then they partied about it. They partied, you guys....

Eagles Fans Boo Defending Super Bowl Champs Off Field At Halftime

The Philadelphia Eagles unveiled their Super Bowl banner tonight. Thirty minutes of game action later, Philadelphia fans booed the team off the field....

I Have Nothing To Add To This, I Just Thought It Was Important That You See This Hockey Man's Tweet

Drugs, Dick Injuries, And Liberace's Bodyguard: Just A Normal Season In The Ludicrous And Doomed USFL

Excerpted from Football for a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL. Copyright © 2018 by Jeff Pearlman. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved....

Roger Goodell Is Every Bit The Overcompensating Dipshit He Seems To Be

Excerpted from Big Game: The NFL In Dangerous Times, out today from Penguin Press....

Aaron Boone Tops Ron Gardenhire In Battle Of Colorful Manager Meltdowns

Jordan Zimmermann was working on a no-hitter in the bottom of the fifth inning Friday night when home plate umpire Nic Lentz gave him a strike against Gleyber Torres on a fastball that sure looked like it missed off the inside of the plate. Yankees manager Aaron Boone, who was apparently already dis...

This Children's Book Is Messed Up: <i>Caps For Sale</i>

Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business is a children’s classic that was published in 1940. Written and illustrated by Esphyr Slobodkina, it’s an adaptation of a folk tale about monkeys stealing hats, because humanity’s entertainment situation was DIRE before strea...

Lights Go Out On Diamondbacks Game, Pedro Gomez Briefly Blames Rampaging Baboon

Top of the sixth, tie game, men on second and third, and the lights went out in Phoenix:...

This Children's Book Is Messed Up: <i>The Story Of Babar</i>

The Babar I remember from childhood was a jolly elephant who goes on adventures. Somehow that’s all I took with me into adulthood from early readings of The Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff (and his wife Cécile, who first told their children the story at bedtime), a children’s classic that spurred...

Video Shows Devin Booker And Tyler Ulis Scuffling With Some Dudes In An Elevator [Update]

TMZ Sports posted a video today showing former Suns guard and current free agent Tyler Ulis getting into a fight with three anonymous guys in a Tempe, Arizona elevator in May 2017, then later fending them off with the help of Devin Booker. ...

Okay, Sure, Devin Booker Is Now A Max Player

Devin Booker—Devin Booker—is set to become one of the highest-paid players in the NBA, after agreeing to a max contract extension with the Phoenix Suns. In a move that makes Sacramento’s $78 million offer sheet to Zach LaVine look downright frugal by comparison, the Suns will pay Booker a whopping $...

A Guide To Getting Properly Intoxicated In The Wilderness

Absolutely nothing beats soaking in the great outdoors, except maybe the satisfaction of enjoying a few brews or cocktails around the campfire with your friends. Whether you’ve spent the day hiking, fishing, rock climbing, mountain biking, or whatever, putting a few back and maybe even getting a lit...