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Aaron Hernandez, Just Doodling Lady Butts
TMZ has obtained another jailhouse letter from Aaron Hernandez. You can read the whole thing over at their site, but the important part is above: "Dats a bad bitch LOL :)"...

Jeff Triplette's Crew Screwed Up Another Big Call
For the second time in two weeks, the NFL has had to come out and admit that the Jeff Triplette-led officiating crew blew a major call, this time even with the assistance of a video review....

RGIII Benched For Kirk Cousins
And here we are. According to reports from Pro Football Talk and the NFL Network, Kirk Cousins will start for the Redskins on Sunday, leaving Robert Griffin III to watch from the bench, possibly for the rest of the season....

The Worst Solution To A Broken Pane Of Glass
One of the panes of glass lining the rink broke during the third period of the Red Wings-Panthers game. Normally, a maintenance crew would bring a new pane of glass and take a few minutes to fix it. Not tonight. Here, Panthers fans. Look at this non-transparent square for the rest of the game. Oh, y...

Jeff Triplette's Officiating Website Does Its Best Triplette Impression
NFL referee Jeff Triplette has had a rough December so far. There was a botched ruling in Week 13's Giants-Skins game killing Washington's chance at a comeback. During this past Sunday's Colts-Bengals game, Triplette overturned a call after viewing a replay, giving BenJarvus Green-Ellis a touchdown...

Andre Johnson Spent Over $17,000 On Toys For Kids
Texans receiver Andre Johnson held his annual holiday toy shopping spree today at Toys R' Us for a dozen kids (and their siblings) from Child Protective Services. He ended up spending a total of $17,352. That receipt in his right hand is roughly the size of one Danny Woodhead....

NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 15 (Early Edition)
Here is your early betting info for Week 15 NFL; we'll update on Thursday with money lines and spread movements for these these games, and add info for Bears-Browns and Packers-Cowboys, which haven't opened yet....

RGIII Is A Pawn In The Dan Snyder-Mike Shanahan Standoff
Mike Shanahan is daring Washington to fire him. Dan Snyder has no problems seeing Shanahan go, but not at the cost of the $7 million remaining on his contract for 2014. Caught in the middle of this ugly divorce is poor, innocent, Robert Griffin III. It's always the children who suffer. At least he'l...

Greg Hardy's Explanation For "Kraken From Hogwarts" Clears Up Nothing
On Sunday Night Football, Panthers DE Greg Hardy introduced himself as "Kraken" and said his alma mater is Hogwarts. Surely that's crazy talk. But after reading Hardy's explanation, perhaps we were the crazy ones all along....

Is Kobe Blood Doping? What Those Trips To Germany Are Really About
Kobe Bryant is just back from a ruptured Achilles tendon, but that doesn't mean the rest of him is magically fixed. He's still got to deal with all the damage that 18 years of professional basketball inflicts on the human body. In recent years, that's meant a trip to Germany and a promising, somewha...

Here's Josh McCown Telling A Really Weird Story In An Anti-Porn PSA
This video is two years old, but since Josh McCown is suddenly one of the hottest quarterbacks in the NFL, it deserves to be shared. ...

Do The Bears Need Jay Cutler?
Let's not get silly. There's no quarterback controversy in Chicago. Yes, Josh McCown had played excellently as Jay Cutler deals with a series of injuries. But McCown is just a capable backup, filling in until Cutler's healthy. Cutler's the face of the Bears—he'll get his job back the second he's cle...

At Least The Dallas Defense Let Alshon Jeffery Happen
The Bears dismantled the Cowboys 45-28 and it was nowhere near that close. Tonight was the third time this year a team has gone an entire game without punting, and the second time it happened against Dallas. Josh McCown threw for 348 yards and four touchdowns against this Dallas defense. With six se...

Chip Kelly Still Doesn't Call "Shitty Plays" On Purpose
Following the Eagles 30-24 win over the Lions on Sunday Chip Kelly was asked if he intentionally called shitty plays to throw off the Lions. His answer was noncommittal. ...

How Matt Prater's Record-Setting 64-Yard Field Goal Happened
Originally published on Slate....

Why I Believe Jameis Winston's Accuser
My rape wasn't much different from the sexual assault described by Jameis Winston's accuser....

There Will Be No Tailgating At The Super Bowl
In a press conference held at a train station, a consortium of semi-important men in suits announced that you'd better not drive to the Super Bowl, or else....

ESPN Says The Ravens (Who Won) Had A Sub-Zero Chance Of Winning
The graph above, tweeted out by ESPN Stats & Info last night, shows the win probability for the Ravens and Vikings over the fourth quarter of their ridiculous Sunday game, which saw five lead changes in the final two minutes....

Adrian Peterson Says Baltimore Has "The Worst Fans In The NFL"
Just a horrible day all around for Adrian Peterson, who exited in the second quarter with a foot injury and had a prime seat for late-game nuttiness that saw the lead change six times in the fourth quarter. Peterson vented afterwards, splitting his anger between officials and fans....