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The NFL Keeps Sowing Confusion Over What Constitutes An Illegal Hit
The headline on PFT was posted in the wee hours Monday morning. It reads "League quietly shifts focus of helmet-to-helmet hits." Here's Florio:...
Rob Ryan Saunters Into New Orleans Dive Bar, Buys Everyone A Round
Here's reason number 3,489 why the Ryan brothers are the best....
Miguel Cabrera Ejected Mid-At-Bat In First Inning
This is ridiculous. Whatever your thoughts on decorum in baseball or whatever, one of the games best players should not be getting thrown out of the game in the first inning. Maybe if he spit on the ump. Maybe. ...
Jim Mora Jr. Flips Out On Reporter Who Interrupts Him
Yesterday, UCLA Bruins player Nick Pasquale was killed in a car accident. Head coach Jim Mora Jr. spent some time eulogizing Pasquale during today's press conference, but was interrupted by a reporter in the room who was apparently talking loudly on his phone. Pro tip for that reporter: don't do th...
Blatter Admits Qatar World Cup May Be A Mistake, Throws Shit At Wall
Even if you ignore the rampant bribery allegations, the 2022 World Cup in Qatar is already a massive clusterfuck. This is in part because the World Cup is set to take place in June or July, and summers in Qatar are really, really fucking hot. Like, way-too-fucking-hot-to-play-soccer hot. Now, FIFA p...
Sometimes ESPN is alright. Friend of the program Eric Nusbaum writes about gay and transgender Mexican wrestlers and the people who play them, and it's wonderful. "The beso is the ultimate expression of the exótico's differentness in the ring—the pinnacle of lucha libre as slapstick comedy." [ESPN]...
Dolla Dolla Bill Y'all (Just A Guy At Oxford)
Bill Bradley's Princeton days were famously covered by John McPhee. Later, Bradley wrote books himself, notably Life on the Run. Lesser known but still intriguing is Jack Mann's 1966 SI bonus piece on Bradley at Princeton: ...
Buffalonian Intimately Familiar With Tom Brady's Bathroom Habits
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Ain't That America
Among the luminaries in the owner's box: LeBron James, Hulk Hogan, Chris Paul, Nolan Ryan, Chris Christie, George Strait, and Reince Priebus. Jerryworld is a land of wonder....
Idiot On The Field Helps His Team Advance To The Playoffs
During Saturday night's Brazilian Serie D match between Aparecidence and Tupi, an Idiot On The Field altered the outcome and sent his team into the playoffs....
Balloon Release And Thunderstorms Make For Striking Eye Candy
The start of the Broncos home-and-season opener against the Ravens on Thursday was delayed because of thunderstorms in the area. The weather did not delay the orange balloon release Denver apparently does before big games and resulted in some band's next album cover....
U.S. And Mexico Both Lose World Cup Qualifiers
This kid is everyone's spirit kid. He's pissed. And why not, everything about Friday night was a bummer. Before the U.S. men even dug themselves a 2-0 hole in the first 10 minutes, Michael Bradley went down with an injured ankle in the pre-game workout....
Worker's Comp Could Cost The NFL More Than The Concussion Settlement
The headline on and main talking point from this L.A. Times article is almost distracting, but it's fun: It turns out that moron and/or hypocrite Deion Sanders, who criticized former players are just "trying to make money" off of concussion lawsuits against the NFL, filed his own worker's compensati...
Just Put Your Lips Together And Blow
Our man Eric Nusbaum has a fun piece on the Lucha Libre star wrestler Maximo over at ESPN:...
Minor League Catcher Hospitalized After Brutal Home Plate Collision
Warning: Watching this video might make your teeth rattle....
Brandon Spikes's Shirt Wins
Patriots linebacker (and Florida grad) Brandon Spikes won over pretty much everyone during media availability this morning with his choice of sweatshirt, which he clearly got at a shop on the boardwalk in every beach town everywhere....
Cyclist Celebrates Victory A Lap Too Soon
Ryder Hesjedal's first name is the most unironic in professional cycling. His nickname is Weight of a Nation. Now he gets to be known as That Guy Who Celebrated Too Soon....
Even After Seven TDs, Peyton Manning Can't Escape John Elway's Shadow
According to the Columbus Dispatch, it was ol' No. 7 who put a historic hurting on the Baltimore Ravens last night. There's never really a good excuse for mistaking John Elway for Peyton Manning, but this definitely shouldn't happen the morning after a record-setting performance like the one Manning...