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Here Is A Drunk And Racist Texas A&M Fan Starting A Fight In An Airport
You have to listen carefully, but this drunk Texas A&M fan definitely drops two n-bombs while trying to goad another passenger into fisticuffs. He doesn't get the beating you might wish upon him, but let's hope plenty of internet shame is coming his way....

Chris Berman Apologizes After <em>Monday Night Football</em> Graphic Reads: "Roethlisberger Drink & Drunk"
Ben Roethlisberger may be a "jagoff" notorious for his barroom antics, but when an item showed up in ESPN's televised rundown before Monday Night Football tonight titled "Roethlisberger Drink & Drunk," it caught many viewers by surprise....

After Blown Call And Ensuing Freakout, One Journo Wonders If Penn State Football Should Have Received The Death Penalty
I think you'd probably have to call Chris Otto brave. Not because the sports editor of the York Daily Record is taking a principled stand, or because his opinion is correct, but because he's doing it knowing exactly what the public reaction would be. (Take a look at his Twitter mentions for a taste....

Virginia Tech Receiver Marcus Davis Doesn't Feel Like Blocking. Ever.
In the above compilation of last Thursday's Florida State-Virginia Tech game, Virginia Tech receiver Marcus Davis (wearing the No. 7 jersey, and highlighted with a white arrow in the video) seems to not agree with the concept of blocking for his teammates. Maybe it's a diffusion of responsibility (E...

College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides Sad, Sad Tennessee)?
Our weekly college football shame index. ...

Yahoo Sends Out Mass Apology To Screwed-Over Fantasy Football Owners, Still Looking For Answers
On Sunday afternoon, Yahoo experienced technical difficulties with its fantasy football product. Namely, it did not work in the hour prior the start of the lion's share of NFL games. People were angry. In the wake of the outrage, Ken Fuchs of Yahoo Sports sent out an email to users apologizing for t...

The Washington State Fan Chugging Fireball Whisky At Saturday's Game Deserves Our Acclaim
Fireball is a so-called "cinnamon whisky." You can tell it comes from Canada because the word whisky is missing an "e" and they don't adulterate their whisky in Scotland....

A Crimson Tide Fan Watches Alabama Lose And Melts Down In His <i>Modern Warfare 3</i> Game
Online multiplayer is great for exposing you to a wide swath of humanity. Most of that swath is 13-year-old boys hurling slurs, but there's other stuff too. Like this, from a game of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, played Saturday evening just as Johnny Manziel and Texas A&M were finishing up thei...

Brian Urlacher Congratulates The Texans On Picking Off Jay Cutler: Sunday Night Football, In One GIF
Houston 13, Chicago 6: It was wet and miserable tonight at Soldier Field, and the score reflected it. The game wasn't altogether boring—the Bears had a chance to tie or win on their last possession—but they did not. Six turnovers later (four the Bears, two for the Texans) and what this game will be...

Edmonton QB Matt Nichols Suffered A Horrific Injury During Today's CFL Playoff Game Against Toronto
Toronto took care of Edmonton easily today to march one step closer to the Grey Cup in the CFL playoffs, but the season-ending insult to the Big E was minor compared to the injury felt by Eskimos quarterback Matt Nichols, who was forced out of the game in the third quarter after suffering a grotes...

Go Home, Everybody: We Found The Most Ridiculous Fan In The World
He was at the Dolphins game. They lost by 34. To the Titans. Unforgotten isn't a word. Is that a bowling tattoo on the right side of his torso?...

Derek Dooley Done At Tennessee
"Dooley fired"—which has been trending on Twitter once a week for about two years—is finally turning up some real results....

Who The Hell Is Johnny Manziel, And Why Wasn't He Wearing A Shirt In His Mug Shot? A Guide
Yesterday, everyone but rival SEC partisans fell in love with the Texas A&M quarterback, a goofy-eared, smiley kid that beat the nigh-unbeatable Alabama football deathstar with an excitability and intuition that finally made good on the old "He's just like a kid out there!" announcer trope. That you...

People Are Upset With Yahoo Fantasy Football
Yahoo's fantasy football service crapped out today before the 1:00 P.M. games started just in time to screw all the procrastinators out there who hadn't set their lineups yet. Eight of today's 12 games started at 1:00 P.M....

Texas A&M And Johnny Manziel Working Together To Trademark "Johnny Football"
Darren Rovell—who else?—has the news that on the heels of Texas A&M's upset of Alabama, the school is working in conjunction with the Manziel family to trademark the totally distinctive "Johnny Football" nickname the upstart quarterback has recently earned....

Marquess Wilson Exits Washington State With A Letter Alleging Mental And Physical Abuse From Mike Leach's Coaching Staff
Marquess Wilson, suspended indefinitely from an underperforming Washington State team by head coach Mike Leach this past week, is leaving the team. He was second-team All-American last year and tops the Cougars' all-time receiving yards list. Here's the letter he gave to the Visalia Times-Delta, in ...

Deshazor Everett's Name And His Interception To Beat Alabama Are Equally Fantastic
As subplots go, the Alabama-Texas A&M game had an unexpected one from the end of the first quarter through the tense final minute: an errant extra point. Up until the decisive few seconds, when a Bama penalty on an Aggies punt killed the dregs of game clock, there lingered the question of whether...

Everybody Get Naked: Lock Haven, Owners Of The Longest Losing Streak In D-II History, Won Today
And the fans tore down the goal posts because of it! Now the rest of football season is canceled. Just kidding, it was the last game. But it probably would have been....

Marqise Lee's End-Around-Reverse Is Your College Football Play Of The Day
Marqise Lee has earned his way to becoming one of the highest-profile receivers in college football, and it's plays like this that really set the Trojan sophomore apart from pretty much everybody else in the sport. Here's Lee unilaterally turning an end-around into a reverse and gaining 36 yards ...

This Week's Signs Of The Apocalypse
For nearly two decades, Sports Illustrated has stirred the tea leaves to discern a weekly Sign of the Apocalypse. Deadspin salutes the magazine's ongoing effort to cover the end of times but declines to cede the scoop on the biggest event in world history....