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Thomas Davis Suspended Two Games For Teeing Off At Davante Adams's Head [Update]

As Panthers linebacker Thomas Davis was blocking for Colin Jones following an interception during the team’s win over the Packers on Sunday, he leapt into Davante Adams’s helmet. Adams was defenseless and unsuspecting, and he sustained a concussion. Davis was penalized on the play, and today he was ...

Bucs LB Adarius Glanton Carted Off After Gross Leg Break [Graphic]

The Buccaneers have lost player after player to injuries tonight, and the unlucky victim of the worst-looking one was linebacker Adarius Glanton. While blitzing Matt Ryan, Glanton collided with Robert Ayers and appeared to break his left leg falling to the ground....

Pacers Completely Blow It Thanks To Dumbest Possible Pass

Victor Oladipo and Kyrie Irving treated everyone to an enthralling late-game duel tonight, combining for 20 points in the final two minutes of the game and swapping huge threes down the stretch. The Pacers trailed for the first 47 minutes of the game and struggled to stop Boston in the first half (J...

Dan Le Batard Breaks Down On Air After John Skipper Resigns From ESPN

ESPN President John Skipper announced this morning that he is stepping down from his position, citing a substance abuse issue as the reason for his resignation. ESPN radio personality Dan Le Batard learned about Skipper’s resignation while he was live on the air this morning, and found himself fight...

Jerry Jones Wishes There Were More People Like Jerry Richardson In The NFL

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was asked to comment on the reports of sexual misconduct and racism that led to Panthers owner Jerry Richardson putting his team up for sale yesterday. Jones made it clear that the whole situation has made him very sad, not for the women that Richardson is said to have sexu...

$13 Billion Industry Uses Folded-Up Piece Of Paper To Determine Outcomes

The Cowboys earned a first down tonight in a play so ridiculous it made the Steelers’ loss look positively pedestrian. The NFL uses computer chips in uniforms, pads, and the football itself—but the decision to award first downs still comes down to a technology so analogue it existed two hundred year...

The Cardinals Recovered An Unintentional Onside Kick

Arizona’s Phil Dawson tried a chip-shot kick against Washington to start the second half, but all that usually does is prevent something really, really bad from happening against your own team. This time, however, with the receiving unit confused and the ball taking a weird hop, the Cards won a comp...

Indiana Knocks Off Notre Dame In Overtime Finish That Left Gus Johnson Hoarse

We’re used to Gus Johnson unleashing Gusgasms, but Indiana’s overtime comeback to beat Notre Dame that improved their season record to 6-5 and knocked off the 18th-ranked Irish took the Fox announcer to another level....

The Canucks Let The Predators Put On A Show

Sure, in any seven-goal game you’re going to see some fluke goals. Like P.K. Subban half-whiffing on a giveaway one-timer and the goalie never seeing the knuckling shot; or Subban scoring from center ice; or Filip Forsberg banging in a centering pass off a Canuck’s skate....

Hot Damn, P.K. Subban Scored From A Million Miles Away

P.K. Subban put the Predators up 3-0 in the second period of tonight’s game against the Canucks, getting his second goal of the evening by scoring from a point that just logically seems like it should be near impossible to manage. (From center ice, if you want to get all technical about it)....

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Remember how David Beckham’s attempts to own an MLS team in Miami finally seemed poised to succeed after years of failures? The ownership group got all shaken up at the last minute, again....

NFL Network Exec Deletes Dozens Of Twitter Interactions With Escorts And Porn Stars, Then Entire Account

David Eaton is the vice president and executive editor for NFL Media, which comprises the NFL website and television channel. (According to a 2011 story about his hiring as a new editor, the ABC News veteran was brought in to run the “NFL Media Super Newsroom.”) He appears to have spent much of yes...

<i>The Black Stallion </i>Takes Film Back To Its Elemental Beginnings

Originally published in the April, 1980 issue of Chicago Magazine, featured in the new anthology, Movies That Mattered, it appears here with permission....

Oakland A's: Please Stop Talking To Us About Jose Canseco

You will no doubt be shocked to learn that former baseball player Jose Canseco, who was charged with domestic violence twice in the 1990s and pleaded no contest once (to name just a couple of his many legal issues), made a bad tweet today:...

Danny Williams: Bruce Arena Let His Affinity For MLS Ruin World Cup Qualification

Barring any individual or group ticket purchases, the United States soccer team will not be attending next summer’s World Cup. The general consensus places a good deal of the blame for on the nightmarishly incompetent coaching job done by MLS lifer Bruce Arena. Due to his conservatism, passionate d...

Dunk Attempt Ends In Flying Knee

At the Sturgeon Heights Pros vs. Joes event last week, former CFL player Jordan Reaves attempted to entertain attendees by dunking a basketball over Ismail Zaid. He certainly entertained everyone (except for maybe Zaid), though he did not come close to actually accomplishing the dunk....

ESPN Suspends Donovan McNabb, Eric Davis After NFL Network Sexual Harassment Suit

ESPN has suspended analysts Donovan McNabb and Eric Davis after a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles named the former NFL Network personalities among those alleged to have committed sexual harassment against a network wardrobe stylist....

Report: Yu Darvish Tipped His Pitches In The World Series

Remember how awful Dodgers starter Yu Darvish was in the World Series? He only made it through 10 outs in two starts. He allowed nine hits, eight earned runs, and two homers. He sucked big-time! Now, thanks to Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verducci, we know why....

MLB Umpire Dale Scott Retires After Series Of Concussions

Longtime MLB umpire Dale Scott has decided to retire, citing a string of concussions in recent years and his fear that any more could lead to long-term health effects....