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The NFL Wants Monday Playoff Games
NFL playoff expansion is coming, and probably within the next couple of years—there's too much money in it for it not to happen, once the league and the union can figure out how to split up the take. But more playoff teams means more games, and that means the weekends simply won't be big enough to c...
At Least Cleveland Still Has Great Beer
The mayor of Boston went on CNN this morning to talk about a snowstorm that hadn't begun yet. That is insane. I realize part of my reaction is based on being old enough to remember when CNN trafficked in weightier matters than weather porn and celebrity gossip, and I also concede that the storm head...
Report: NFL Identifies "Person Of Interest" In Ballghazi Scandal
Fox Sports' Jay Glazer is reporting that the NFL has zeroed in on a particular Patriots locker room attendant who may have been responsible for deflating footballs before the Patriots' AFC Championship Game victory over the Colts....
The Current 800-Meter World Record Holder Is 62 Today
The IAAF, always conscious of doing the right thing, tweeted greetings to Czech mid-distance runner Jarmila Kratochvilova on the occasion of her 62nd birthday. The photo they used, above, is from 1983, commemorating another remarkable anniversary: Kratochvilova's world record in the 800 meters, 1:5...
Arizona Man Loses Super Bowl Gig After Posting Credential On Facebook
Former DJ Russ Knight was picked to work Super Bowl XLIX in Phoenix as an assistant frequency coordinator. He was so excited that he Facebooked a photo of himself pointing at the credential around his neck. That picture cost Knight his job before he could even start it....
MRA Brings Human Rights Complaint Against CFL Team For Anti-DV Campaign
The CFL's Toronto Argonauts are supporters of the White Ribbon Campaign, a domestic-violence prevention initiative formed in response to the 1989 École Polytechnique Massacre, where 14 women at a Montreal university were murdered by a man who claimed that he was "fighting feminism." It is, not surpr...
The Ultimate Super Bowl Snack Semifinals Start NOW. VOTE!
You God-damned animals voted Ridged Chips out? In favor of Kettle Chips??? What kind of perversion is this? Fine, you know what? Go scratch, more Ruffles for me....
How To Win A Swordfight
Let's say a gentleman scandalizes your lady at a bar. Rude, right? Let's say he poisons your father to get closer to your mother. Ruder, I'd say. But what're you gonna do about it? Today, such matters are usually resolved via graceless brawls involving a combination of wrestling and hair-pulling. ...
Please Laugh At This Soccer Team Struggling To Win A Fixed Game
Late on in this match in the Albanian Superliga, Flamurtari found itself tied with Teuta, 1-1. In a non-fixed game, you'd expect Teuta to protect their goal and maybe push on for the winner. Instead, we see the shameless display above, with Teuta all but begging their opponents to score, and Flamurt...
Jay Cutler Is One Fed Up Dad
I've always wondered exactly what kind of dad surly-ass Jay Cutler is. Thanks to this Instagram post from his wife, Kristin Cavallari, I now have an answer. He's exactly the kind of dad I expected him to be....
NFL Football Manufacturer Also Says Bill Belichick Is Full Of Shit
It's not just Bill Nye the Science Guy who isn't buying Bill Belichick's involved and theoretical explanation for how the Patriots's underinflated footballs might have gotten that way without any nefarious tactics. Representatives from Wilson, the company that makes the NFL's footballs, say that Bel...
Robert Allenby Spent $3,400 At A Strip Club On Night Of Alleged Attack
GolfChannel.com has managed to piece together a few more bits of information from the night pro golfer Robert Allenby claims he was kidnapped, beaten, and robbed in Honolulu, Hawaii. Allenby's story has been springing leaks almost from the moment it became public, and GolfChannel.com has just poked ...
"Big Baby" Davis Sat On A Woman's Face
Sitting in the front row at an NBA game must be baller, up until the point when 300-pound Glen "Big Baby" Davis crushes your face with his massive butt. To the GIFs!...
Blizzard Will Delay Aaron Hernandez's Murder Trial
The powerful blizzard set to cover much of the Northeast is projected to bring up to 30 inches of snow to eastern Massachusetts, where nearly everything is expected to shut down tomorrow. That includes courts, which means opening statements in Aaron Hernandez's murder trial, scheduled to begin tomor...
NFL: We Won't Sell That Officially-Licensed Photo Of Lynch's Dick Grab
An NFL spokesman says the league has decided a $150 Seahawks NFC Championship collage that featured Marshawn Lynch's "obscene" crotch grab wasn't officially-licensed after all, and has pulled it from the NFL Shop. ...
Is Mayonnaise An Instrument?
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Why Running Alone Through Snow For 135 Miles Is Harder Than It Sounds
Here's an excerpt from Alicia Hudelson's account of last year's Arrowhead 135, an unsupported endurance challenge through northern Minnesota starting today. It gives a pretty good flavor....
<i>GQ</i>: Goodell Berates NFL Employees for Being Overpaid
Over at my other day job, GQ just posted this big fat schlongread from Gabriel Sherman about NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. You should head over there and read the whole thing now, because the piece does wonders for anyone who (like me) is looking to hate Goodell even more than they already do. I...
Richard Sherman: NFL Won't Punish Patriots Due To "Conflict Of Interest"
The Seahawks have arrived in Arizona, and while many players have declared that it's time to start focusing on football(big game next Sunday, you know) instead of the deflation scandal, Richard Sherman didn't hesitate to fire the first shots and predict the Patriots will get off scot-free because ow...
Chad Ford Says He Didn't Edit His Draft Rankings, & ESPN Believes Him
ESPN NBA analyst Chad Ford says he's innocent of charges he brazenly edited his pre-draft rankings years after the fact, and while the network acknowledges the edits happened, it is absolving Ford of responsibility—for now:...