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We Are Marshall
Here's a cool archival site for those of you who care about Marshall. The Herd Vault: Sons of Marshall. ...
Teens Throw Huge Party At Former NFL Lineman's House While He's Away
Former NFL offensive lineman Brian Holloway has a house and 200 acres of property in Stephentown, N.Y. Over Labor Day weekend, while Holloway was away, roughly 300 kids threw a gigantic rager at his house without his knowledge, trashed the place, and stole his stuff. Teens are the worst....
Bare-Chested Russian Soccer Bros Brawl In The Streets
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Mad brawl fight Бешеная драка." Tonight's commentator: Me. (Coming next week: A live look-in of a fight in the Philippines.)...
Mark May's Twitter Broke And Gave Us So Many Hot Takes
Mark May's Twitter account just went bananas, and it was delightful. Judging by the timeliness of the tweets sent, all of May's drafts went out at the same time. We got a good look at all the gems May chose not to send....
Brandon Lloyd Stars In Horror Movie, Along With Baldwin Brother
Brandon Lloyd hasn't signed with a team after being cut by the Patriots this past offseason, although he's had at least six suitors. Instead of returning to the NFL, though, Lloyd's taken up acting, and his debut looks fantastic....
Deadspin Up All Night: Red Means Go
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Tampa Bay Won't Wear "Bucco Bruce" Helmets Because Of...Player Safety?
The Bucs were planning to break out the creamsicle throwbacks on Sept. 29th, complete with the winking pirate helmet logo. No more. According to the team, they can't make it work because of new NFL helmet regulations supposedly meant to increase safety....
Goal-Line QB Sneak Works Out As Poorly As Possible
Hot, steamy D-III action here for your consumption. Albright College lined up on Stevenson University's one-yard line, ready to punch it in and tie up the score. Someone would score a touchdown, all right....
It'll Be A Lot Harder To Scalp Super Bowl Tickets This Year
You are not going to the Super Bowl. You are not a corporate sponsor or a Bruno Mars roadie or the guy who polishes the Snoopy sculpture outside of MetLife Stadium, so you can absorb this news as an abstraction: the NFL is majorly jacking up the prices of the best seats for its first cold-weather Su...
How A White Couple Stuck Up For Black Ballplayers In Jim Crow Florida
Excerpted from From Black Sox to Three-Peats: A Century of Chicago's Best Sports Writing (University of Chicago Press), edited by Ron Rapoport and featuring stories from the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Daily News, and the Chicago Defender, among other papers. It's an excellen...
Infographic: Are College Sports In The Midst Of A "Shaq Boom"?
Over on his blog, Ken Pomeroy makes a convincing case that we're in the midst of a "Shaq Boom." The babies named "Shaquille" that were born in O'Neal's heyday in the '90s are now turning 18 and entering college basketball. The name "Shaquille" first entered the list of top 1,000 baby names in 1991 (...
<em>Enough Said</em>: James Gandolfini Says Goodbye
Enough Said was always meant to be a bittersweet comedy-drama, but the film became additionally poignant after the unexpected death of one of its stars, James Gandolfini, this summer. One of his last movies, Enough Said isn't the definitive showcase for what the 51-year-old actor could do. (That's a...
How We Acquired That Bo Pelini Audio Recording
That audio of Nebraska football coach Bo Pelini venting and cursing (and cursing and cursing) about fans and some members of the media has existed for two years now. But it was made public yesterday because that's when we first learned of it. In fact, the source who gave us the recording reached out...
The Most Honest Book About Football You'll Read All Year
Former Bronco Nate Jackson's book is out today, and it's an exceptional memoir of life on the NFL's margins. You'll find out what it's like hiding injuries to make a roster, waiting for the year's annual drug test to pass so players can start smoking, and what a dickbag Eric Mangini is. Slow Getting...
Wil Myers And James Shields Are The Wild Card Race's Best Show
It's fitting that Wil Myers and James Shields, the two principals involved in the Royals-Rays preseason trade that launched a thousand articles and blog posts about which team had just committed an unforgivable blunder/stolen a great player, are refusing to give us an easy answer to that debate. Wit...
Playing The Game As If It Were A Form Of Punishment For Everyone Else On The Field
Before Game 7 of the 1971 World Series, Roberto Clemente told Roger Angell, “I want everybody in the world to know that this is the way I play all the time. All season, every season. I gave everything I had to this game.”...
Jerry West: Master Builder
There has been a lot of good writing about Jerry West over the years. This is one of the best—Richard Hoffer's 1990 SI profile, "Mister Clutch, Master Builder":...
Astros Lost In Local TV Ratings To Out-Of-Market WNBA Game
On Saturday, the Astros set an all-time low for viewership in the Houston area, with an average of 915 households tuning in for Houston's loss to the Angels. That's sad, but this is sadder. ...