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Four Theories On How The Giants Went From Awful To Amazing
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
Jeff Fisher Is Putting Together A Terrible Coaching Staff In St. Louis
Jeff Fisher, he of that popped collar and tied sweater, has the Rams' reins and he's not relinquishing them. In fact, he's already gotten started on doing some fantastically stupid things:...
Apparently, Alex Smith Should Have Chosen Not To Run For That Touchdown
In some divergent reality, that gangbusters Saints/49ers game didn't come down to the teams trading scores like heavyweight blows in the final few minutes. In this alternate universe, Alex Smith scampered free for 27 yards, with a clear path to the end zone, and took a knee. The 49ers would run ou...
Here's The Tim Tebow And 9/11 Connection You Never Thought Anyone Was Dumb Enough To Make
Tebowmania died Saturday night, but not before Stu Bykofsky of the Philadelphia Daily News went there in his column on Friday:...
The Kansas City Chiefs Might Have The Worst Workplace In America
The Kansas City Star came out with a story that paints a provocative, troubling picture of life in the Chiefs offices under Scott Pioli. To ensure no one would notice, they published it on Saturday night. But we're more than happy to dive in to the tales of a workplace gone mad with paranoia and sec...
ShortCenter: Merril Hoge Explains Aaron Rodgers's Very Bad Day
What is ESPN prattling on about right now? We condense your morning SportsCenter to its essence....
Why, Oh Why, Did The Packers Have To Lose?
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
Hakeem Nicks Hauled In A Halftime Hail Mary
The Green Bay Packers' circumstances for the second half of their playoff game against New York changed enormously when Hakeem Nicks brought down this heave by Eli Manning, turning a three-point Packers deficit into a 20-10 doubling-up. [Fox]...
Your NFL Playoffs Divisional Round Open Thread: New York Giants At Green Bay Packers
And so marks the beginning of the end of a great weekend of football. Gather below....
Your NFL Playoffs Divisional Round Open Thread: Houston Texans at Baltimore Ravens
Welcome back for day two of the divisional round. As always, make yourselves comfortable down below in the comments....
Tom Brady's Punt Finally Brought Some Life To The Broncos Defense, If By Life You Mean Punches
Blame Von Miller for this dirty hit that is an unfortunate coda to his otherwise spectacular season. But quick kicks always tend to result in some kind of craziness; like turnovers, they put players outside their comfort zone. In this case, it was reason for Miller to go on an assault mission, th...
Here's The Evidence That Alex Smith Really Did Throw A Playoff Game-Winning Touchdown Pass In The Final Seconds
Jim Harbaugh played for the win, and the 49ers delivered it for him on this Alex Smith-Vernon Davis touchdown pass with ten seconds remaning in the game—just a minute and a half after blowing an earlier lead. [Fox]...
Your NFL Playoffs Divisional Round Open Thread: Denver Broncos At New England Patriots
The back end of our Saturday doubleheader begins now. Talk amongst yourselves down below....
Here's CNN Meteorologist Alexandra Steele's Forecast For Today's Chargers-Lions Playoff Game At Ford Field
Consider how many people are involved in the production of a simple weather forecast on CNN. You have the meteorologist, for sure, but you also have the producer who loads the "wx" into the script/rundown, and the graphics techs who run the system that creates what you see on your screen. ...
Florida State Upset North Carolina, But What We Really Learned Is That Walk-Ons Are Expendable
When the clock hit zero at the end of Florida State's shocking 90-57 upset of #3 North Carolina, none of the Tar Heels' star players were on the floor. In fact, they were already in the locker room, as they'd been pulled out of the arena along with the rest of UNC's scholarship players—leaving fi...
Donte Whitner Knocked Pierre Thomas Out Cold With This Helmet-To-Helmet Hit
Legal? According to the NFL. Safe? Smart? You make the call. [Fox]...
Your NFL Playoffs Divisional Round Open Thread: New Orleans Saints at San Francisco 49ers
The NFL playoffs rattle on as the Divisional round kicks off this afternoon. Join us down below to discuss....
Stephen Bardo Saw <em>The King's Speech</em> But Clearly Didn't Pay Much Attention To It
ESPN basketball analyst Stephen Bardo tried to link the story of Missouri basketball star Kim English—who battled a speech impediment—to last year's Academy Award-winning film The King's Speech, but got a few details wrong. Like, for example, that a king was involved....
UCF Basketball Team Can't Believe The Sorry State Of West Virginia Hotels Before Big Game Against Marshall
Tonight, at 7:00 p.m. inside the Cam Henderson Center, these two storied basketball programs will renew their rivalry on the court. Off the court, however, things got a 24-hour head start when several UCF player tweets sparked some spirited back-and-forth....
ESPN Manages To Work LeBron James Into A Tim Tebow Story
Brett Favre must have been unavailable for comment. [ESPN]...