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The Ryan Boys Are Back In Town
After getting fired by the Saints, defensive coordinator Rob Ryan stopped by his brother Rex’s Buffalo Bills in early December. It was just a brief visit at the time, but on Sunday, Rex officially hired his twin brother to be part of the Bills’ coaching staff. Buddy Ryan’s large adult sons are now c...
Trump Endorses Brain Damage In Speech That Claims Football, Like America, Has Gone "Soft"
Donald Trump ranted at length today during a Reno campaign stop about how “soft” he believes the game of football has become, pointing to last night’s Steelers-Bengals game as an illustration of how player-safety rules are ruining America....
Tom Brady's Agent Makes The Case For Alabama And Clemson Players To Boycott National Title Game
In a very good, lengthy, well-researched editorial for the Washington Post, Donald Yee digs into the economics of college sports, makes the case for paying college football players, examines the racial lines along which this injustice is served, and suggests that a boycott of tomorrow’s national cha...
The Brooklyn Nets Are Cleaning House
The Brooklyn Nets are the most aimless team in the NBA. They’re old, bad, and they don’t have any of their draft picks, on account of trading too much for Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce, then watching them tailspin into irrelevancy. This morning, they fired coach Lionel Hollins and “reassigned” GM Bi...
Bill O'Brien Had No Choice
Yesterday, Brian Hoyer played one of the very worst games by an NFL quarterback in the playoffs that I’ve ever seen. He threw four picks, lost a fumble, and I counted at least two other throws that could easily have turned into interceptions. By some metrics, it was one of the worst such games of al...
Steelers Move On After Winning Field Goal Set Up By Attempted Antonio Brown Assassination
Vontaze Burfict’s head shot to Antonio Brown and a subsequent penalty on Adam “Pacman” Jones earned the Steelers and a hobbled Ben Roethlisberger enough yardage to set up a game-winning field goal—one that erased what had been a stunning fourth-quarter Bengals comeback....
Giovani Bernard And The "Unfortunate Hit" That Knocked Him Out And Enraged The Bengals
Tonight’s already tense Steelers-Bengals Wild Card game turned very ugly after Ryan Shazier knocked out Giovani Bernard and forced a fumble with a devastating hit delivered to Bernard’s skull. Brain damage apologists at CBS defended the play as legal and simply called the play “unfortunate,” because...
Martavis Bryant Buttcatch Vindicates League That Still Doesn't Know What A Catch Is
Martavis Bryant’s buttcatch is one of this season’s most spectacular plays, but we’ll forgive you if you missed it due to falling asleep or having any of a hundred better things to be doing at 10:15 on a Saturday night. This being the NFL, we fully expected officials to declare it incomplete. How ha...
Broken Browns Fan Creates The Most Honest 2016 Season Tickets Promo
The Browns’ season is over, but that just means fans can start looking forward to next season earlier! Mike Polk Jr., the wonderful man who brought you both Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Videos, has made a promo for 2016 Browns season tickets. Cleveland fans would be absolutely insane to miss out o...
That's Why The Lakers Need To Cater To Their Youngsters
On Tuesday Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak admitted what everybody already knew: the Lakers are prioritizing the Kobe Bryant Farewell Tour, at the expense of the numerous exciting young players on the roster....
Bryce Alford's Step-Back Three Downs #7 Arizona
UCLA junior guard Bryce Alford hit a tough three-pointer with 1.8 seconds left to help UCLA beat #7 Arizona 87-84, pleasing a fan sitting courtside with ripped jeans....
Bob Ryan Just Fuckin' Tweets All His Shit At Once
NBA sage Bob Ryan is just going for it today. Hours after calling ex-Warriors coach Mark Jackson a “Bible-pounding phony,” Ryan—who has never been adept at Twitter—sent a flood of tweets in just a couple of minutes....
Bob Ryan Calls Mark Jackson A "Bible-Pounding Phony"
Former Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan was a guest on the Dan Le Batard Show this morning, and was asked if the Golden State Warriors turning into world-beaters right after firing head coach Mark Jackson was an indictment of Jackson’s coaching abilities. Bob Ryan was not shy about answering this que...
The Browns Just Put Baseball Guy Paul DePodesta In Charge Of The Team
The Browns are really on one right now. Just a few days removed from chucking head coach Mike Pettine and GM Ray Farmer, the team has hired Paul DePodesta to be its ... top executive? Per a gibberish-laden press release (“DePodesta will be responsible for assessing and implementing best practices an...
Brian Urlacher Got Hair
Former Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher used to be bald, but he recently got hair. Look at his nice hair. Wow, that hair’s really nice....
Peyton Manning Shares A Rep With Jim Nantz, Who Won't Mention That HGH Story
On Sunday, CBS’s Jim Nantz steadfastly refused to even bring up the Al Jazeera report alleging that HGH was delivered to Peyton Manning’s home. On Monday, Nantz explained why: “If we talk about it we would only continue to breathe life into a story that on all levels is a non-story.” Today we learn ...
Report: Johnny Manziel Partied In Vegas With A Fake Wig And Mustache
Somehow, some way, we still don’t know if Johnny Manziel was partying in Las Vegas Saturday night, fewer than 24 hours before the Browns ended their season with a loss to the Steelers. To recap: USA Today has multiple named witnesses—including Phoenix Suns head coach Jeff Hornacek’s brother John—who...
More Evidence That Tom Brady Is A Fancy Dog
We have previously put forward the theory that Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is in fact a fancy dog. For those of you who scoffed at our perfectly sound reasoning, I present more irrefutable evidence that Tom Brady is indeed a dog, and a fancy one at that....
Johnny Manziel Is About Done In Cleveland
Johnny Manziel, who appears to have spent Saturday evening in Las Vegas, had a Sunday morning appointment with the Browns. He didn’t show up, and when the team called him, he didn’t answer. It’s what feels like a fitting and ominous final act for Manziel’s Browns career....