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Keifer Sykes Is 5-Foot-11 And A Dunking Maestro
Green Bay guard Keifer Sykes may only be 5-foot-11, but his height does absolutely nothing to prevent him from throwing down ridiculous dunks. ...
A Guide To Richard Sherman, Your New Favorite NFL Player
World, meet Richard Sherman. He's an interesting guy. ...
Michael Crabtree To Richard Sherman: "You Make One Play And You Talk?"
The chirping between Richard Sherman and Michael Crabtree did not cease with Sherman's WWE-style postgame interview. The back-and-forth continued into the locker room and even on to Twitter. But one question remains: What did Crabtree say to Sherman that got him so fired up?...
Richard Sherman Breaks Up Pass, Wins Game, Goes Nuts On Erin Andrews
Richard Sherman helped send the Seahawks to the Super Bowl. Then he unleashed something on Erin Andrews in a brief but very angry post-game interview. C'mon, Rick, save it for Skip Bayless....
Punter Happy
[It's nice being a punter on a team with a fantastic offense. Britton Colquitt, who punted just once today, celebrates in the confetti after the Broncos beat the Patriots 26-16 to advance to the Super Bowl. Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images]...
High School Basketball Player Makes A Wild, Unintentional Bounce Shot
Logan Jurgensmeier of Hinton (Iowa) was only trying to keep the ball in play against Sioux City West (Iowa), but his bad bounce pass turned into an accidental two points when it kissed off of the rim and spun in. Jurgensmeier looks as baffled as the rest of us....
UConn Coach Kevin Ollie Flips His Shit After Uncalled Foul
UConn coach Kevin Ollie was pissed when the officiating crew missed a rather obvious foul by Louisville's Wayne Blackshear on Niels Giffey during Saturday's game. Even though Ollie's anger was justified, he was quickly hit with two technical fouls and ejected from the game....
Would You Trade AFC Championship Tickets For A Vasectomy?
The offer's out there for anyone interested. Dr. Steven Broman of Fort Collins, Colo. is bringing back barter: Give him tickets to the AFC Championship Game, and receive a vasectomy in return....
Metrodome Deflated For Final Time; Demolition Begins Monday
The home of the Minnesota Vikings has been deflated for the final time. This is time lapse video of the roughly 35-minute process. Once home to the Twins, Vikings and Timberwolves, the Metrodome slowly lost all its major tenants but the Vikings. Now that the Vikings have a new billion-dollar facil...
Patriots Asked About Smoking Weed While In Denver
The Patriots are on the road this week in Denver to play the Broncos in the AFC Championship game, so let's talk about drugs. Denver is in Colorado, where (like Washington, host to the NFC Championship) the recreational use of marijuana is legal. On Friday, multiple Patriots, including Bill Belichic...
How To Cook Chicken Cutlets, And Give Yourself A Reason To Keep Living
These are dark times, friends. Literally! It's dark as hell all the time, because it is winter, and everything is polar vortices and bitter bullying winds and frostbite and uncontrollable sobbing and making a fort out of couch cushions and hiding inside the fort shrouded in sweaters and jackets an...
Darren Sharper Arrested On Suspicion Of Rape
Darren Sharper, former safety for the Packers, Vikings and Saints, was arrested Friday in Los Angeles on rape charges. According to TMZ, Sharper—who now works as an analyst for the NFL Network—was connected to two sexual assaults, one from October 2013 and another this month. ...
Geno Smith Intercepted By Cops, Booted Off Plane, Escorted Out Of LAX
Jets quarterback Geno Smith was apparently escorted away from a Virgin America flight at LAX today by police after what a witness called a "verbal altercation."...
Davone Bess Was Restrained And Hospitalized 10 Months Ago
Today's arrest of Browns wide receiver Davone Bess—in which he was reportedly singing and dancing in an airport with his pants falling down—did not sound like the actions of a healthy man. The Miami Herald has learned that it wasn't Bess's first incident like this....
Onlookers Horrified By Giant Testicle
You know things are bad when your coach says of your testicle injury, "I've never seen anything like it."...
Joe Johnson's Pass Nails A Moving Fan Right In The Head
Joe Johnson gets a 10/10 for accuracy, and our poor victim gets a 8/10 for playing it pretty cool. Great job all around, guys....
Study: NBA Whites Are Not Underpaid (Counterpoint: Are They Overpaid?)
OK, hold on, just—just wait a second. This does actually make sense. A new study from the University of Toledo has found that white American NBA players are not discriminated against in their wages. We do have a question, though. ...
The English Adventures Of The Nets And Hawks
What do you get when you mix NBA players, EPL players, London, and a sporting nation fairly unaccustomed to professional basketball? Culture clash!...
<em>Jeopardy!</em> Hall Of Fame Answer Goes Horribly Wrong
354 wins did not overcome the controversy as this ex-Red Sox pitcher didn't make the Hall of Fame cut in 2013. Who is Mark McGwire? (Trebek snorts mockingly.)...