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College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides Kentucky's Joker Phillips, RIP)?
Our weekly college football shame index. ...

Which TV Market Is Getting Screwed This Sunday? An Analysis Of NFL Viewing Maps
The NFL's regional programming rules are famously byzantine, but luckily the fine people at the506.com cut through the bullshit for you, providing weekly maps that allows us to answer the only question that really matters: Which fans are the most screwed this Sunday?...


Whatever You Do, Don't Watch Thursday Night Football Tomorrow
This-the first year in which the NFL (and its subsidiary network, the NFL Network) has "graciously" "offered" us a full year of Thursday Night Football-has been a strange year for Thursday Night Football. Namely: the games were good matchups. Let's recall them quickly:...

College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides Poor Bob Stoops)?
Our weekly college football shame index. ...

"Notre Dame Is Probably Going To Lose": Your Roundup Of The Best Signs Behind The College Gameday Crew
That sign is a better analyst than Ryan Lochte....

Tuesday Night Fights: Lady Hockey Writer Compares Lady Street Fight To College Hockey Brawl
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs. The since-removed "Crazy Girl Fight" and "Rowan Ice Hockey vs. Temple Fight - 10/13/12." Tonight's commentator: Sarah Baicker, who covers the Philadelphia Flyers for Co...

Your Monday Night Football Open Thread
Detroit Lions at Chicago Bears (ESPN): The Bears are coming off an inconveniently scheduled bye week this year. Two weeks ago, they destroyed the Jacksonville Jaguars 41-3, after smoking the Cowboys (34-18) and the Rams (23-6) the previous two weeks. They were rolling, man! And then they had to hit ...

Oh Good, Chris Berman Will Interview Barack Obama And Mitt Romney The Night Before The Election
Americans, you've got an important decision to make on Election Day. So the last thing you probably want before you go to bed the night before is Chris Berman yelling and buffooning up your Monday Night Football. Well, good news! Berman will keep the clowning to a minimum and instead put on his seri...

College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides West Virginia And Steve Spurrier)?
Our weekly college football shame index. ...

The Steelers Faked An Injury To Stop The Clock
Midway through the fourth, with the Steelers up a score and on the edge of field goal range, Ben Roethlisberger was sacked. He was banged up, and slow getting back to the huddle, and the Steelers found themselves with a choice—burn a timeout, or take a delay of game penalty. WR Emmanuel Sanders to...

There's No Cheering In The Pressbox, So ESPN's Lee Corso Went Down To The Sidelines
Lee Corso's College GameDay schtick has for decades been his end-of-show prognostication of the day's feature game—usually involving his favored team's mascot. (Today he picked the hometown Gators to beat South Carolina, and even brought a baby alligator to the set.) But we mostly assumed his inte...

Al Capone Once Got A Motorcade Escort Into The Northwestern-Nebraska Game
Today Nebraska and Northwestern play their sixth game in a rivalry that began in 1902. As the Huskers are a recent refugee to the Big Ten, this will be the first trip for Nebraska to Evanston since October 1931. Among the spectators in that game, according to this delightful clipping the Northwester...

"Romney Likes Cocks": Your Roundup Of The Best Signs Behind The College Gameday Crew
Chris Fowler is making Transformers fuck and Ryan Lochte is picking "none of the above," so let's roundup some signs....

Ryan Lochte Picked Auburn To Win LSU Vs. Texas A&M On College Gameday
Scintillating! Newly minted college football analyst Ryan Lochte made a cameo on College Gameday today, and provided insight into today's match-up between the Texas A&M Aggies and LSU Tigers as only he can: by mumbling an answer that was not among the two options he was given, and wearing a t-shir...

Tuesday Night Fights: Rodney Anonymous Reflects On "Ten Minutes Of Pure Crazy"
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs "Philly Fight! 2012 Crackheads Going N Downtown Philly!" Tonight's commentator: occasional Deadspin contributor Rodney Anonymous of The Dead Milkmen....

College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides Texas)?
Our weekly college football shame index. ...

Eifert Tower! Your Roundup Of The Best Signs Behind The College Gameday Crew, Plus Lee Corso Dressed As A Leprechaun
It looks like Corso is responding to the sign! We added arrows and ovals, because someone asked us too. Hope they help with sign visibility—if not, look closer....

<em>Friday Night Lights</em> Creator Tells Mitt Romney To Stop Using His Slogan
The internet loves a few things more than the regular population does. Chief among them are animated GIFs, pornography, and scripted NBC shows. But the internet does not love Mitt Romney. So when Romney co-opted the motivational cry of Friday Night Lights's Dillon Panthers, the internet smelled cyni...