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Even High School Football Players Are Destroying Their Brains
The doctor who sliced open the late Mike Webster's brain and determined that football can cause severe and debilitating brain damage has discovered the same sort of neurodegenerative disease in high school players. Are you ready for some Congressional hearing?...

MLB Postseason Preview: Los Angeles Dodgers
For those refined gentlepeople who prefer the cerebral grace of baseball to the plebian savagery of football, October is the greatest of months. Will Leitch looks at each of the eight playoff combatants. Now up: The Los Angeles Dodgers....

Deadspin Field Trip – DULLES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT!
Funny story: I got to the airport this morning to fly to Minnesota (to cover tonight's game for you, esteemed reader), only to find out Gawker booked my flight for eight days from now. NIBBLES!...

The Metrodome Wins The Weekend
In sports, everybody is a winner—some people just win better than others. Like the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, which won the weekend by living past the weekend. Hefty bags forever!...

The Lost Poise
Mark Sanchez threw three picks in yesterday's loss to the Saints, and on the season he has five interceptions against four touchdowns, all of which means that sportswriters must now address the grave matter of Sanchez's inexplicable lack of poise....

Rich Gannon Unfamiliar With The Term "Sudden Death"
The former Super Bowl losing QB-turned-announcer questioned Cincinnati's clock management skills on Sunday, expressing concern that they might score too quickly and leave the Browns a chance to rally. In overtime. [Shutdown Corner]...

Humiliated Redskins Fan Spared Humiliating Death
Got an image you'd like to see in here first thing in the morning? Send it to [email protected]. Subject: Morning crap....

Flyers Fans Scuffle In Jersey, Stab Each Other In Philly
Some Flyers and Devils fans got into it after last night's game, and somebody was good enough to record it. Later, an uglier situation developed back in Philadelphia where a brawl led to a stabbing....

Rex's Jets Have Their Hands Full In New Orleans
The four late games are underway, including the marquee match up between the Jets and Saints. Oh, and the Bengals and Browns have finally come to a merciful conclusion....

Derek Mason Stands On His Head In New England
Mason held on for the game's first touchdown despite landing on his head. However fellow Raven Jared Gaither was not as fortunate. The tackle was carted off the field after suffering an apparent neck injury....

Boomer Promotes 'Breast Awareness Sunday'
I think Chris Berman might have left out a pretty crucial word in there somewhere. Oh well, the important thing is the awareness. And it's on display all over the league....

Eli Manning Signed His Work In Dallas
That's Eli Manning's signature on a column in the Cowboys Stadium's visitors locker room according to an NBCDFW user....

Monday Night Football Makes Brett Favre Horny
Got an image you'd like to see in here first thing in the morning? Send it to [email protected]. Subject: Morning crap....

Bad Beats: Listen To Peter King At Your Own Peril
A weekly look at smart plays, oddball propositions and all your tales of gambling woe....

Who <i>Really</i> Chose Rio To Host The 2016 Olympics
Naturally the New Yorker does its best to bury the lead, but there are plenty of clues in this week's cover story "Gangs of Rio" as to why the world's #1 city for "violent international deaths" won the 2016 Olympics....

Is Jay Cutler The Next Tom Brady?
A reader asks: "Peggy, what are your thoughts on 'Jay Cutler: is he the next Tom Brady?' Thank you in advance."...

Who Are The Elders of Tomorrow?
When Chad Pennington dislocated his shoulder the other day, we lost one of The Elders of football and the quarterbacking arts....

The Criminal Complaint Against Michael David Barrett, Alleged Erin Andrews Peeper
Here's the FBI's case against Michael David Barrett, aka Mark Bennett, who was arrested Friday at O'Hare Airport and charged with interstate stalking for allegedly taping Erin Andrews through a modified peephole. It's like a masturbator's remake of The Conversation....

Could There Be a Problem With the Oakland Raiders?
Weird! Journeyman quarterback Jeff Garcia—usually so reticent to speak his mind—is criticizing his former team, the Raiders of Oakland, California!...

Important College Football Picks
College football! Do you root for the school you attended? Or are you just some asshole who likes to root for some team you have nothing to do with? I don't follow it because I hate indentured servitude and polls....