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We Love You, Verne Lundquist, But It's Time To Go
On this week's excerpt from Slate's Hang Up and Listen podcast, Josh Levin makes a simple, fair case for why cuddly Verne Lundquist, CBS's lead college football play-by-play announcer, ought to call it a career. Lundquist makes a lot of mistakes on air. Levin captures many of them here. Listen up:...
![Did Michael Irvin Confront A Heckler At Last Night's Game? [UPDATE: He Did Not]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/185hmxlxv30zvjpg.jpg)
Did Michael Irvin Confront A Heckler At Last Night's Game? [UPDATE: He Did Not]
The picture above was sent to us by a tipster shortly after the conclusion of last night's Bills-Dolphins game. That appears to be the NFL Network's Michael Irvin attempting to enter the stands, and he doesn't look too happy. Here is what our tipster had to say about the photo:...
This Canadian High School's Punt Return-Punt For A Touchdown Is Simply Incredible
Bravo, Canada. You've managed to take a relatively mundane part of American football and kick it up a few hundred notches. Punting back a punt for a touchdown? Sheer genius....
Michael Irvin Brought Out The PDA For Bills Running Back C.J. Spiller
The noisefest that is the Thursday Night Football post-game show on NFL Network usually proceeds like an unfunny version of TNT's Inside The NBA: full of wackiness, but lacking the charm or anything memorable. You can usually rely on Michael Irvin to do something out of the ordinary, though, and he...
Offensive Touchdowns Are So Overrated: Bills-Dolphins, In Two GIFs
Bills 19, Dolphins 14: Oh, this game. From the get-go, it didn't look very promising that these AFC East foes would light up the scoreboard, although a nifty special teams moment early on gave up all some brief flicker of hope....
Here's Video Of Allen Iverson Throwing A Football Approximately 60 Yards
This video of Iverson airing a football out 60 yards is old, but it's still cool, so hush. If Andy Reid's looking for a quarterback solution to keep his coaching gig with the Eagles, The Answer is right there....
Here's That Alabama Fan's Video Game Meltdown, Set To The Game Footage
Monday, we brought you this, which was amazing: an XBox live gamer freaking out in his game as he watched Bama lose to Texas A&M. Now someone has helpfully set the audio to the actual game footage. Still hilarious....
This Is How The World Wound Up With That Famous Shirtless Mug Shot Of Johnny Manziel
We told you the other day all about Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel, including his little arrest last June, when he was charged with three misdemeanors after a late-night fight in College Station. In a nutshell, Manziel got in a fight, a College Station municipal police officer broke up the fig...
Dolphins-Bills Is "A Test Of Manhood," Reporter Writes In Earnest
Here is the Sun-Sentinel's Chris Perkins on tonight's Dolphins-Bills game:...
Why We Expect Black Football Players To Return From Injury Faster Than White Players
There's an intriguing study published today in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE, called "Racial Bias in Perceptions of Others' Pain." Researchers from the University of Virginia and Northwestern University examined NFL injury reports over two seasons, and noticed something unexpected: black player...
Why Do We Let Kids Play Tackle Football?
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Yahoo Would Like To Further Explain Why Its Fantasy Football Shit The Bed On Sunday
About an hour before kickoff, Yahoo fantasy sports lost all functionality. No making roster changes, no adding free agents, no scoring, no nothing. That equaled a lot of pissed off users. By Monday morning, things were largely fixed—small consolation to anyone who got shafted the day before because ...
Shooting America's Game: How I Made The NFL Come Alive In Photos
Neil Leifer began shooting big games as an eager teenager in the 1950s, sneaking into stadiums by any means necessary—he'd even volunteer to push wounded veterans around in their wheelchairs. Before too long, he became Sports Illustrated's star photographer. He shot it all—Olympics, World Series, Ke...
Packers Lineman Gives One Hell Of An Answer To "Boxers Or Briefs?"
The great thing about Twitter is that you can ask an athlete anything—anything, truly—and you just never know when they're going to answer you and how. Take Packers guard Josh Sitton, for example, who held a little Q&A with his followers last night. Someone wanted to get a personal about his underga...
Watch This Rockaway High School Football Coach Deliver The Pep Talk Of The Year
Hurricane Sandy devastated the Rockaway Peninsula, destroying homes and flooding the region. Residents found themselves scattered to wherever shelter might be found, and schools closed indefinitely....
The Case For The NFL Adopting Fantasy Scoring For Real
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A Philadelphia Team Is In The Big East West
Sorry, it was physically not possible to make that headline any less confusing while remaining factually accurate. The Big East, in the midst of major realignment, is going to look a lot different next year. Commissioner Mike Aresco announced today that the 12-team conference will be split into two ...
The University Of Washington Has Put Twitter Restrictions On Media Members
Are you a college basketball or football writer who constantly tweets while covering games? Cut that shit out when you're at the University of Washington. The university has implemented limitations on tweeting about football and basketball games, because...well, we're not really sure. No media memb...
Do Foreign Footballers Really Dive More?
This Regressing entry is brought to you by our clever friends at the Harvard College Sports Analysis Collective. Today: how Premier League diving might be a cultural phenomenon....
![The Official NCAA Online Store Stopped Selling Penn State Gear Today. Why? [UPDATE]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/1856w64kdgn5tjpg.jpg)
The Official NCAA Online Store Stopped Selling Penn State Gear Today. Why? [UPDATE]
As first discovered by Centre County Report, the PSU College of Communications' news program, the NCAA Shop this morning took down all Penn State merchandise from their site. The Nittany Lions aren't listed among the teams available, and a search for Penn State turns up no results....