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Fox News Shows Eagles Players Praying, Falsely Implies They Were Protesting During Anthem

Picking on Fox News is the easiest thing in the universe. So let’s do it, shall we?...

Tulane Settles Lawsuit Accusing Two Former Football Players Of Sexual Assault

Tulane has settled a lawsuit filed by a woman against two football players who she says raped her in 2014, according to the New Orleans Advocate....

Flag-Humping President Disinvites Eagles From White House Visit [Update]

The Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles aren’t going to be at the White House for the presidential visit that was pretty much traditional until the Golden State Warriors blew off Donald Trump. According to a statement from the President, the Eagles “wanted to send a smaller delegation,” implying...

Dwight Clark Dies After Battle With ALS

Dwight Clark, the two-time Super Bowl-winning receiver for the San Francisco 49ers and the man who caught “The Catch,” has died at age 61, according to a tweet signed by Clark’s wife, Kelly....

Mychal Kendricks, On Potentially Joining The Browns: [String Of Expletives]

This is probably just what happens when it is suggested publicly that a self-respecting football player would play for the Cleveland Browns if he had any other choice:...

Annual Also-Ran Buffalo Bills File Trademark For "Respect The Process"

The Buffalo Bills recently pushed reset after a 9-7 season and poured resources into moving around in the draft to select huge quarterback Josh Allen and even huger middle linebacker Tremaine Edmunds, figuring the moves point them towards a future in which they might actually someday win their divis...

NFL Players Are Preparing For A Fight After All

Here’s an interesting item about the NFLPA tucked deep into Albert Breer’s latest weekly column over at Sports Illustrated:...

Baltimore Prep Football Fight Gets Bigger And Uglier

The predicted unraveling of Baltimore’s prep football scene appears to indeed be underway. Another scheduled opponent bailed on playing the city’s burgeoning national gridiron powerhouse, St. Frances Academy, as accusations of cheating, cowardice and racism were flying all over town. All because St....

Washington Football Executive Resigns Over Cheerleading Escort Scandal

Washington president of business operations Dennis Greene has resigned in the aftermath of a New York Times report detailing a disturbing trip to Costa Rica made by the team’s cheerleaders for a photo shoot, where they were told to serve as escorts for sponsors....

Auburn Says Football Recruit Was Dropped Because Of Epilepsy, Not CBD Oil

After Auburn and the NCAA caught some flak for dropping a roster spot for football walk-on C.J. Harris, head coach Guz Malzahn addressed the matter briefly and claimed Harris did not receive medical clearance. ...

Baltimore High Schools Sick Of Getting Whupped By Football Coach Who Spends Millions On His Team

Can too much charity be a bad thing? The Baltimore prep sports scene seems to be on the verge of unraveling with the emergence of a parochial powerhouse, funded by a head coach with apparently massive financial means and the desire to make schoolboy football the focus of his philanthropy....

Report: NFL Owners Admit Donald Trump Squeezed Them On Anthem Protests

In the wake of the NFL owners’ decision to cook up a national anthem policy even as the issue appeared to be dying down, it was easy to see how much the fear of Donald Trump had influenced their thinking. Several owners and executives even alluded to this after the policy was approved. But now there...

The Numbers Are In, And N.C. State Still Sucks

There are some things in life a person figures out by the time they’re grown: gravity, death, the calculated depletion of media and America at the hand of venture capitalists. And N.C. State’s mediocrity....

Nick Saban Doesn't Want You To Blame Him For Restricting His Players' Transfers

Alabama offensive lineman Brandon Kennedy, who graduated in December but still has three years of eligibility remaining, was hoping to go to Auburn or Tennessee as a grad transfer next season. But so far, he’s been blocked by his now-alma mater from transferring to any SEC schools or future Alabama ...

John Harbaugh Keeps Talking Up A Wild-Ass Idea For Saving The Kickoff

The NFL changed its kickoff rule this offseason, in an attempt to reduce head injuries resulting from the collisions that often ensued when 11 players got a running start in pursuit of one player moving at full speed in the opposite direction. The changes will be reviewed after the 2018 season. But ...

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The NFL Can't Stop Shooting Itself In The Dick

The NFL’s owners got everything they wanted with the anthem rules they approved yesterday, but now they get this:...

Police: Richie Incognito Was In "Altered, Paranoid State" During Gym Meltdown

Richie Incognito was placed on “involuntary psychiatric hold” yesterday after police responded to a 911 call at a gym in Boca Raton, Fla. where Incognito was said to be accosting staff and another patron. Local police have since released their report from the incident, in which they say Incognito wa...

Northwestern—Fucking Northwestern!—Shells Out $270 Million For Fancy Practice Facility 

Listen. I get it, really, I do—your football team’s strung together a couple 10-win seasons; you won a few bowl games; you even signed your coach to a shiny 10-year deal. Things are looking up, as they say, and you want to strike while the iron’s hot. But when Northwestern, the most uninteresting te...

The NCAA Is Running Out Of Excuses On Brain Injuries

When it was time to change her husband Greg’s diaper, Deb Ploetz followed a routine. First, she would lead him to the bathroom of their rental house in North Little Rock, Arkansas, where they had moved to in February of 2015—in part to be closer to Deb’s family, and in part because memory care facil...