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NFL Films Tackles Eric Berry's Crippling Fear Of Horses
We learned last year that Chiefs safety Eric Berry suffered from equinophobia—a terrible, irrational fear of horses. Naturally, Berry plays for the team that has a horse run across the field after each touchdown. But where does Berry's fear come from?...

Buccaneers Bench Josh Freeman
Just two days after Greg Schiano insisted that Josh Freeman is his starting quarterback, Adam Schefter reports that the Buccaneers will switch to Mike Glennon for this Sunday's game against the Cardinals....

Frat Bro's Amazing Pregame Speech Gets The <em>Any Given Sunday</em> Treatment
Yesterday, we brought you a video clip of one of the frattiest bros we've ever seen firing up his brothers with a passionate and profane speech before a flag football game. Today, we bring you the work of reader Kevin, who is a hero. Kevin decided to take the music from the end of Al Pacino's famou...

Hugh Douglas Arrested For Allegedly Choking Woman During "Rough Sex"
Former NFL player and ESPN pundit Hugh Douglas was arrested Tuesday on charges alleging that he assaulted a woman at a hotel in Connecticut....

Korean Baseball Player Wastes Awesome Bat Flip On Foul Ball
Choi Jun-seok really thought he hit a no-doubt home run on this swing. Nope! Choi had to shamefully trudge back and pick up the bat he so eloquently tossed aside. Nothing sadder than a wasted bat flip....

If You Tweet Mean Things About Colin Kaepernick, He Might Favorite It
Most athletes on Twitter tend to ignore the noise of their replies, and for good reason. There are scores of people with dumb, hateful opinions out there. Colin Kaepernick, however, deals with it in a less popular way....

Study: NFL Teams Have No Idea What They're Doing In The Draft
Today the Philadelphia Inquirer profiles Cade Massey, a professor at Penn's Wharton School of business. Already with a study under his belt arguing that the conventional wisdom of the Draft Value Chart is all wrong, Massey was contracted by an unnamed NFL team to study the history of the draft for m...

Frat Bro Gives Pregame Speech For The Ages Before Flag Football Game
Have you ever been just so, so amped about something? Well, you've never been as amped about anything as this Drexel frat bro is about flag football. Because flag football isn't just about hanging out with your buddies, it's about fucking legacies. ...

M.I.A. Calls Out The NFL On Its Bullshit Lawsuit Against Her
Before all is said and done, the NFL may regret bringing a $1.5 million suit against M.I.A. because she had the audacity to flip the bird during the 2012 Super Bowl halftime show. Because M.I.A. is not afraid to fight the NFL, and she's not afraid to call the league on its bullshit....

Vikings Owners Must Pay $85 Million For "Organized Crime-Type" Fraud
The owners of the Minnesota Vikings were ordered to pay nearly $85 million in damages to former business partners they defrauded with "evil motive", and will face a criminal investigation into their actions, which a judge declared violated racketeering laws. There's a chance this ruling could hold u...

Ray Lewis Could Have Prevented Ravens Party Bus Brawl, Says Ray Lewis
Good news, everyone. Former Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis, now an ESPN analyst, has some opinions about the recent party bus incident during which Ravens wide receiver Jacoby Jones got whacked with a champagne bottle by a stripper named Sweet Pea. What's Lewis got to say about the whole situation? Pre...

Nate Burleson Crashes SUV And Breaks Arm Trying To Rescue Pizza
The Lions could be without wide receiver Nate Burleson for the rest of the season because of a vehicle crash that happened at 2:25 a.m. today. According to police, alcohol was not a factor. But falling pizza was....

Hear A Bengals Announcer Lose His Mind Over The Go-Ahead Fumble Return
Late in the Bengals win over Green Bay, Johnathan Franklin took a fourth-and-one carry only to fumble, see the ball scooped up by Terence Newman, and returned 58 yards for what would be the winning score. Exciting? You bet. Almost too much to handle for Cincinnati's radio color guy....

The Broncos' Running Backs Played Rock-Paper-Scissors For A Touchdown
Denver's tailback Cerberus seemingly exists only to screw fantasy teams. It can seem like carries are decided by a game of chance. But that'd be ludicrous, right?...

Peyton "FIGJAM" Manning: Your <i>Monday Night Football</i> GIF Roundup
Denver 37, Oakland 21: Fuck I'm good, just ask me. Yeah, you are Peyton. You're pretty effing good. This little smirking moment came after Manning successfully changed a play at the line, converting a third-and-six pass to Demaryius Thomas for a first down early in the third quarter. It wasn't a bi...

Demaryius Thomas Recovers Raiders Onside Kick, Issues Muntzian "Ha-Ha"
The Broncos throttled the Raiders in a game that wasn't anywhere near as close as the score might suggest, and Denver receiver Demaryius Thomas got in a final blast late when he foiled Oakland's onside attempt....

Rashad Johnson's Severed Finger Is Absolutely Disgusting
Just a few moments ago, Cardinals safety Rashad Johnson tweeted images of the finger he didn't know he lost—sweet Christ, did he ever lose it—and it is a raw scene. Your not-safe-for-lunch pictures are down below....

Pacman Jones Got Arrested Again
Which means it must be, what, Monday?...

Former NFL Player Whose House Was Trashed By Teens Is A Bit Crazy
The saga of Brian Holloway, a former NFL lineman who had his house broken into and trashed by partying teenagers last week, refuses to end. After setting up a website to shame the teens who destroyed his house, Holloway found himself threatened with legal action by parents of the partying teenagers...

A Scene From A Bill Belichick Press Conference
Getting injury information out of Bill Belichick is like pulling teeth. Today was especially excruciating....