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Some Fantastic Photos Of A Fan Fight At The Raiders Game [UPDATED WITH VIDEO]
We don't know the particulars of this fight, which went down Monday night during the Chargers' win in Oakland. We know, at least, the guy on the right is a Raiders fan, as is the crying woman in photos four and five who attempted to beat security officers with their own handcuffs. We also know Raide...
The Ultimate Brian Scalabrine Highlights Are Exactly That
The NBA released a Brian Scalabrine highlights video today to commemorate the conclusion of his 11-season career. If you don't find yourself grinning like a fool as he sinks catch-and-shoot threes and banks in one layup after another, you are a cold person. And don't miss the moment at 0:51 where he...
Source: Brandon Phillips Thought Jared Hughes Called Him "Boy"
We told you earlier about the dustup last night that caused Brandon Phillips to tweet that a Pirates player had said something racist to him. According to a source who spoke to someone who was on the field at the time, Phillips thought Pirates reliever Jared Hughes had called him "boy." This after H...
The Lions Received An "Extra" Timeout In A Game They Won With 10 Seconds Left
With St. Louis driving into Detroit territory late in a tie game, a broken play on second down saw Rams QB Sam Bradford scramble to the right side. With Detroit down to their final timeout, Bradford smartly slid rather than run out of bounds, to keep the clock going. There was 2:38 left, so the Ra...
Brett Favre's Purported Pubes Are For Sale On Craigslist For $200 (Or Best Offer)
A seller claiming to have collected pubic hairs from Brett Favre's game laundry is selling them on the Minneapolis Craigslist for the low, low price of $200 (or best offer)....
Former QB Matt Kupec Is Dating Tyler Hansbrough's Mom, And They Took Personal Trips On UNC's Dime
It's the story that has everything! A former star quarterback. Questionable fundraising activities. Corruption. UNC shadiness. And, yeah, Tyler Hansbrough's mom....
Brandon Phillips Says A Pirates Player Said Something Racist To Him
And all anyone knows about it comes from something Phillips tweeted in the wee hours, just after the Reds outlasted the Pirates in 14 innings:...
"Fuck You Tennis! I'm Trying To Watch <em>How I Met Your Mother</em>." Twitter Responds To The Novak Djokovic-Andy Murray U.S. Open Classic
Last night Andy Murry and Novak Djokovic played a 4 hour, 54 minute match, tied for the longest U.S. Open men's final ever. It was a gem. CBS scheduled the Monday match in the 4 p.m. slot to ensure tennis wouldn't bump into its primetime lineup. That didn't work. The nearly unprecedented match stret...
Libya-Algeria Soccer Brawl Featured A Perfect Flying Kick To The Head
It's qualifying for the Africa Cup of Nations, and yesterday Algeria met Libya in neutral Morocco (since Libya's still not one of the more stable countries.) An Algerian strike in the 88th minute broke a scoreless draw and gave the Desert Foxes an all-important "away" goal. As the whistle blew on fu...
Rob Ryan Used To Eat Entire Pizzas In His Van And Spend $70 On Chocolate And Skittles
Jets head coach Rex Ryan and Cowboys defensive coordinator Rob Ryan are twins. Rex Ryan got lap-band surgery two years back, so Rob got it earlier this year. Rex has lost over 100 pounds. Rob's down 55 and counting....
This Photo Captures The Moment A Pissed-Off Steelers Fan Threw Her Beer On The Photographer After Tracy Porter's Game-Ending INT
Everyone, leave Syria, leave Afghanistan, the Pulitzer for breaking news photography is now a one-shot race. A 26-year-old Broncos fan named Greg Wilson took this photo of an angry Steelers fan at Mile High moments after Tracy Porter picked off Ben Roethlisberger to seal Denver's 31-19 victory. The ...
Everyone On Twitter Was Confused About Why Willis McGahee Didn't Say "The U" In His Player Intro Last Night
During Sunday Night Football, something weird happened. It wasn't that the quarterback with the misbehaving cervical vertebrae threw for 253 yards with two touchdowns and only seven incompletions, and it wasn't that the Steelers still hadn't learned how to cover Demaryius Thomas. Both of those eve...
Let's Count How Many Metaphors We Can Make Out Of Brandon Weeden Being Trapped Under A Giant American Flag
1. Perfect illustration of the NFL's tendency to smother you to do death with its American-ness....
Thanks To Chris Kluwe, Gay-Baiting Maryland Legislator Decides NFL Players Have A Right To Say What They Think After All
Maryland state delegate Emmett C. Burns Jr. probably had quite a weekend. After Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo expressed his support for Maryland's upcoming ballot initiative to legalize gay marriage, Burns wrote a letter to Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti that basically said football p...
Art Modell's Family Requests No Moment Of Silence At Cleveland Browns Stadium This Sunday
On Monday, Browns reporter Tony Grossi told us that the NFL had asked every team in the league to have a moment of silence for Art Modell, one of the main antagonists in the long drama of Cleveland's histrionic sports decrepitude. It probably would have been an awkward moment of silence in Cleveland...
Deadspin's Sign of the Apocalypse
It was with no small degree of concern that Deadspin noted the lack of a Sign of the Apocalypse in this week's Sports Illustrated. Until August, the magazine had been chronicling the demise of Western civilization via sports news of the weird at least as far back as 1993, when it noted that "David C...
Hey Knicks, Marlins, Orioles, Redskins, And Islanders Fans: ESPN Says The Sacramento Kings Have The Worst Owners In Sports
Venerable Kings blog Sactown Royalty notes that ESPN: The Paper Thingy ranks the Maloofs as the worst owners in sports—all of sports!—in their "Ultimate Standings 2012," which rates organizations across the four major sports based on some arbitrary methodology that I don't care to look into. (The o...
Aubrey Huff Almost Injured Himself Last Night Smacking Ryan Theriot's Ass
San Francisco cruised to a 5-2 home win over the Dodgers last night on the strength of a two-run Marco Scutaro hit, and it sparked the kind of celebration only Bill Gramatica could appreciate. Here's Giants slugger Aubrey Huff showing his appreciation to Ryan Theriot, and regretting it after the fa...
The Mets Gave Chipper Jones This Wack-Ass Painting To Commemorate His Last Series In New York
LeRoy Neiman is dead, but goofily colorful sports paintings didn't die with him. See, look at this one here. It's a gift from the New York Mets to Larry Wayne Jones, Jr. of Atlanta, on the occasion of his impending retirement....