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Former Giants Punter Steve Weatherford Is Trolling Eagles Fans Pretty Hard
Steve Weatherford was cut by the Giants before the season, but his loyalties ahead of tonight’s New York/Philly matchup are quite clear. He’s spent the last day pissing off Eagles fans online....
Police Question Johnny Manziel And Girlfriend After Roadside Argument
Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel and his girlfriend Colleen Crowley were interviewed by Avon, Ohio, police Monday night after multiple people called 911 reporting they saw a couple fighting in a car....
Steve Jones Raw: Starting And Finishing A Marathon Doesn't Make You A Marathoner
Every year around Chicago Marathon time, mid-October, people want to talk to Steve Jones. He’s enjoyable at other times of year but, like pumpkin spice dark chocolate toffee curry simmer sauce, seems to sell well seasonally. It could be because in two successive autumns—1984, when he set the world m...
Spielberg's <i>Bridge of Spies</i> Is A Compelling Cold War Drama Your Granddad Will Love
1. Bridge of Spies is effective, efficient, compelling, smart and absorbing throughout, and I still couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed. I think we’re starting to lose the Spielberg who was a risk-taker. The guy did exist, you know. After he won his last Oscar for directing Saving Private R...
Report: Steve Sarkisian Found Out He Was Fired Through An Email
Steve Sarkisian is no longer the USC Trojans’ football coach, and he has reportedly checked himself into a rehab facility outside of California. But according to ESPN’s Joe Schad, athletic director Pat Haden didn’t fire Sarkisian as smoothly as he could have....
The Steelers' Final Play Was So Ballsy
It’s a great play call because it worked. If it had backfired, running off the remaining five seconds and being stopped shy of the goal line, the Steelers get blasted this morning for a terrible play call. Those value judgments are subjective, and dependent upon the outcome. All that can be said obj...
Steelers Win On Direct Snap To Le'Veon Bell
With five seconds remaining and the Steelers down three in tonight’s Monday Night Football contest, they found themselves on the Chargers’ one-yard-line. A Chargers timeout gave the Steelers plenty of time to think over what play they wanted to run to win the game, and they went with ... Le’Veon Bel...
Reports: Steve Spurrier Is Retiring
According to a report from Sports Illustrated’s Thayer Evans, South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier is retiring:...
USC Fires Steve Sarkisian One Day After Making Him Take A Leave Of Absence
USC football coach Steve Sarkisian said he’d take a leave of absence yesterday after showing up to practice “in no condition to work” Sunday, but athletic director Pat Haden made the decision today to fire Sarkisian outright....
Report: Steve Sarkisian's Issues With Alcohol Go Back To His Days At Washington
A recent string of incidents punctuated by a leave of absence to seek treatment have made it pretty clear that USC head football coach Steve Sarkisian has a problem with alcohol. According to a report from the Los Angeles Times, those problems extend all the way back to his tenure at Washington, whe...
Report: Steve Sarkisian Is Taking "A Leave Of Absence" From USC, Will Seek Treatment (UPDATE)
This afternoon, USC football coach Steve Sarkisian apparently got sent home from practice, after showing up “in no condition to work.” Sarkisian is halfway through his second season with the Trojans. He has since been asked to take a leave of absence....
Gary Barnidge Makes Incredible Catch
The Cleveland Browns have no business being associated with something this amazing. ...
Timofey Mozgov Is Still Really Good At Local Commercials
Timofey Mozgov has already produced a body of work that would secure him a spot in the Athlete Local Commercial Hall Of Fame, if such a thing existed. Which is to say that Mozgov didn’t need to cut this spot for Sky Zone in order to prove his greatness, but he did it anyway, because that’s what lege...
Look! Jadeveon Clowney Did Something Cool!
The play above isn’t the most awe-inspiring piece of defensive line play you’ll ever see, but given how quiet the start of former No. 1 overall pick Jadeveon Clowney’s career has been, you’ll have to forgive any Texans fans who want to make a big deal out of it this morning....
Danny Boyle Movies, Ranked
Danny Boyle is one of the most quietly adventurous filmmakers working today. He’ll do a science-fiction movie, then a period piece, then a Tarantino-type thriller, then a romantic comedy, then a conventional biopic, and he won’t so much as blink once. He is an auteur of the old-fashioned sort: His m...
<i>Steve Jobs</i> May Be About The Apple Guru, But Aaron Sorkin Is The Real Star
The trick to enjoying an Aaron Sorkin project is to never take it as seriously as he does. The creator of The West Wing and The Newsroom and the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Social Network doesn’t write dialogue—he stages showy talk-fests that are meant to either show off how smart his characte...
Someone May Have Burned Down Johnny Manziel's Family Home
KYTX is reporting that a lake house owned by Johnny Manziel’s father, Paul Manziel, has burned down. The house is in Whitehouse, Tex., and the fire is reportedly “suspicious in nature.”...
The Atlanta Hawks Ownership Group Was Always Destined To Blow Up
Brian Windhorst and Kevin Arnovitz dropped a big behind-the-scenes piece on the racism mess that led to the Atlanta Hawks being sold to Antony Ressler for $850 million. There are a number of funny anecdotes and interesting stories in the report, but the basic takeaway is that the Atlanta Hawks owner...
Landon Donovan Says USMNT Shouldn't Take Klinsmann To The Next World Cup
The last time the public got to stick the thermometer into the Landon Donovan-Jürgen Klinsmann beef, we learned that the meat was still cooking. In a new interview, Donovan’s thoughts about Klinsmann’s shaky recent record and what that should mean for the manager’s job security show that yep, this b...
Clay Matthews Kept Picking On Colin Kaepernick
The photo above was taken during yesterday’s Packers-49ers game, right after Packers linebacker Clay Matthews sacked 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in the third quarter. That’s Matthews stealing Kaepernick’s signature bicep-kiss celebration, which is a pretty good way to troll a quarterback afte...