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Great Pics, Wade!
The Super Bowl-winning Denver Broncos made their visit to the White House today, and defensive coordinator Wade Phillips took pictures to document the trip. His photography skills are equivalent to those of your dad, so none of the shots are properly framed, and the captions are as brief as possible...
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Report: Aqib Talib Shot At Dallas Nightclub [UPDATE]
Broncos cornerback Aqib Talib has been released from a Dallas hospital after being shot during a nightclub altercation Saturday night, according to the Dallas Morning News....
Florida Panthers Unveil New Logo And Jerseys
I certainly never hated any of the Panthers’ old uniforms. (Except that blue alternate they used for a couple of years. Blue? Come on.) I even kind of liked the leaping panther logo; it certainly dated the look, but not in a bad way, if that makes sense. Of the many teams that could use a makeover, ...
Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka Deemed Not Competent To Stand Trial In Girlfriend's Death
Last September, 32 years after the bizarre 1983 death of his girlfriend, Nancy Argentino, Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka was charged with her murder. For decades Argentino’s death had been the subject of rumors about who knew what (especially Vince McMahon) and how Snuka avoided charges for so long....
Steelers Linebacker Uses Dead Gorilla To Burn Cincinnati
Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Vince Williams has no love lost for Harambe, the gorilla killed at the Cincinnati Zoo last weekend after a child got into his enclosure. After all, Harambe lived in the same city that hosts the Steelers’ divisional rival Bengals....
Surfer Whose Arm Was Bitten Off By A Shark Surfs On The Head Of The World's Supposed Best Surfer
Thirteen years ago, Bethany Hamilton’s left arm was bitten off by a tiger shark while she was surfing on Kauai. Despite losing 60 percent of her blood, she survived, returned to surfing three weeks later, became the subject of a number of movies and books over the years, and appeared on a ton of TV ...
Thousands Of NFL Players' Medical Records Stolen From Skins Trainer
In late April, the NFL recently informed its players, a Skins athletic trainer’s car was broken into. The thief took a backpack, and inside that backpack was a cache of electronic and paper medical records for thousands of players, including NFL Combine attendees from the last 13 years. That would e...
That's Some Bat Flip
Miami beat North Carolina State tonight in ACC Tournament action, thanks to Edgar Michelangeli’s late homer. He really savored it, too—and caused a bit of a stir....
Report: Chris Berman Will Retire From ESPN At The End Of The NFL Season (UPDATE)
Chris Berman has been with ESPN for nearly 40 years, but he’ll retire at the conclusion of the 2016 NFL season, per a report from The Big Lead....
Bills GM Doug Whaley Backtracks From Idea That Humans Shouldn't Play Football
Bills general manager Doug Whaley said today that he used a “poor choice of words” when he expressed his belief on a radio interview that “humans aren’t supposed to play” football, because it’s a bad look for a guy whose job it is to convince men to play football for his team....
This Water Bottle Flip Is The Best Damn Thing I've Seen In A Long Long Time
Might want to put down a tarp now, because your shit is going to fly everywhere after you watch this:...
NFL Breaks Up Pete Morelli's Entire Officiating Crew After Bizarrely Terrible Season
There really is no way to describe Pete Morelli’s 2015 season other than as a nightmare. Blown calls—lots of them, and in very visible situations—led to the Morelli crew unsurprisingly being left out of the postseason, and now the league has come down with its strongest censure short of termination:...
Reporters Work Around Buffalo Bills' Dumb Media Policy
The Buffalo Bills have released their policy for media covering practices. Reporters are welcome to watch, as long as they don’t tweet any plays, players, or bad things that happen....
The NFL's New Scientists Sound Just As Corrupt As The Old Ones
This time was supposed to be different, or so the NFL said. ...
How I Accidentally Made The First Official Cuba-To-Florida Kayak Crossing
The shortest distance from Cuba to the United States is about 90 miles across the Florida Strait. By the standards of human-powered sea travel, it’s extremely doable, and it has been done for decades by refugees aboard the most makeshift of watercraft, driven by desperation. In the peak years, tens ...
The Most Damning Excerpts From The Congressional Report On The NFL's Improper Meddling With Concussion Research
Democratic members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce just released the full 91-page report detailing the findings of their investigation into the NFL’s attempts to improperly influence the direction of the National Institute of Health’s concussion research. We’ve embedded the whole repor...
ESPN: Congressional Investigators Find NFL Tried To Use Federal Agency As Propaganda Arm
Six months ago, Outside the Lines reported that the NFL pulled $16 million of funding from a National Institutes of Health study that was meant to further explore football’s relationship to CTE because it didn’t like the neurologist who’d been selected to lead the study. The NFL has continually deni...
Tom Brady Will Appeal Ballghazi Suspension, Again
In the year 2184, when Tom Brady’s head is thawed from cryostasis to testify against Robo-Goodell in Moon Court, your descendants may wonder how the longest-running legal battle in the history of sports ever got started. (Their neural visit to the electro-sapio-repository will tell them it was about...
Marc-Andre Fleury Is Back And Oh God That Went Poorly
This was certainly not the return Marc-Andre Fleury was hoping for. Starting for the first time since March, before a home crowd that cheered every time he made a save, Fleury, uh...didn’t make a lot of saves....
American Mason Cox Is An Australian Rules Football Human Highlight Reel
Former Oklahoma State basketball walk-on Mason Cox only made his Australian Football League debut a few weeks ago, but he’s already stunning audiences and broadcasters alike as the Texas native helped lead his Collingwood team to a 104-80 win over Geelong today in Melbourne with a pair of impressive...