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Deadspin Up All Night: As We Know It
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We Have Seen The Worst Pass Ever Thrown: 125 FBS Teams, Ranked
Each week during college football season we put the conventional polls to shame by ranking every FBS team from 1-125, by whatever standard we see fit. Last week's rankings were not consulted....
Sammy Sosa Is A Terrifying Vampire
We haven't seen much of Sammy Sosa ever since he created the greatest Pinterest page in history. From the looks of this picture, he has returned to feast on all of our souls....
Chargers Greet Fans At Stadium With Big Ol' Typo
Via For the Win, this was a sign outside Qualcomm Stadium last night. Coughing up a three-touchdown lead in the second half wasn't the only weclome the Chargers would extend to their fans....
American Nightmare: <em>Blue Caprice</em>, Reviewed
1. The John Muhammed/Lee Malvo Beltway shootings in October 2002 continue to occupy a specific segment of the American nightmare. The twisted, horrible genius of the killings was their selective randomness: The Beltway snipers chose their targets specifically so that people would believe they could...
Ndamukong Suh Gets Largest Fine For On-Field Incident In NFL History
Suh is out $100,000 for this low block on Vikings center John Sullivan. It's a record-setter, with a few caveats....
ESPN's Jason Whitlock Craps On Author Of <em>SI's</em> Oklahoma State Story
Jason Whitlock went on the Oklahoma City Sports Animal radio show today to talk about the first part of Sports Illustrated's five-part investigation into Oklahoma State University. He spent a good chunk of time talking shit about Thayer Evans, a former colleague of Whitlock's and one half of the inv...
<em>Sunday Night Football</em> Producer: No Need To "Glorify" Big Hits Anymore
The producer of the NFL's flagship broadcast, NBC's Sunday Night Football, said he's getting super-cautious about showing repeated replays of rough hits, especially those of the helmet-to-helmet variety....
Chip Kelly Says The Eagles' Offense Was "Too Slow"
Kelly's got to be joking, right? The Eagles' rapid-fire first-half offense was so intense, my super is coming by tonight to clean the stains off my ceiling. ...
Oklahoma State? Pffft. Here's What A Real Sports Scandal Looks Like
If you're a scandal-porn aficionado as I am, you are bound to be left wanting by Sports Illustrated's beyond-exhaustive expose of Oklahoma State football. It's a story that promises, in bold type, lots of shit that I like in a scandal: MONEY (follow the money!), DRUGS (I like drugs!), and SEX (the c...
Stakes Are High In Tonight's USMNT Match Against Mexico
After 12 straight wins, which included improbable triumphs against world powers like Germany and Bosnia and dominant victories against all comers during the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the USMNT finally lost on Friday, 3-1, in a World Cup qualifier away to Costa Rica. Costa Rica, for some reason still seethi...
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:...
Is It OK To Participate In A Threesome With Your Cousin?
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Long Jump to Glory
Dig Pat Jordan's 1975 Sports Illustrated profile of Willye White:...
Vanity Fair Turns 100
Slide on over to Vanity Fair and dig their 100th Anniversary site. ...
The World's Most Valuable Sports Teams, Visualized
Column Five has put together an interactive that visualizes Forbes's list of the 50 most valuable sports teams in the world. The takeaway: It's good to be good, and it's good to be old. ...
Cool Flix
Check out Chris Ozer's photographs for Jimmie Johnson racing. ...
Blindsided
Michael J. Mooney's a good one. I remember liking this GQ story he did a couple of years ago:...
<em>Game Of Thrones</em>-Themed Fantasy Draft Features Costumes, Sullen Faces
OK, that's it. There can be no more Game-of-Thrones-as-sports shenanigans. We've officially reached the tipping point, because some dude named Dennis just emailed us to let us know that he and his friends have combined fantasy football and Game of Thrones to create "League of Thrones." Costumes were...