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Report: Dan Snyder Won't Allow Washington To Move On From RGIII
According to a report from ESPN’s Dianna Russini & Adam Schefter, the football operations people in charge of Washington want to get rid of Robert Griffin III. The only thing stopping them? Dan Snyder! Owners getting involved in day-to-day sports decisions almost always ends in disaster, especially ...
Frank Clark Keeps Punching People And This Time It's Philip Rivers
San Diego Chargers players are mad at Seattle Seahawks rookie Frank Clark today, after he punched Philip Rivers in a scrum during last night’s preseason game in San Diego. As you can see, Rivers holds onto Clark after the play, which looks like it angered him. King Dunlap emphatically pulled Clark o...
John Harbaugh Yells At Jay Gruden Then Bullies Sideline Reporter
John Harbaugh was not a very happy John last night. First, Washington linebacker Keenan Robinson sparked a brawl after pile driving Kamar Aiken down on his neck in the first quarter. Steve Smith and Chris Culliver were then ejected for doing some punches and Harbaugh’s blood also got to boiling, as ...
The NCAA Has Always Paid Players; Now It's Just Harder To Pretend They Don't
Contrary to popular belief, the NCAA has only ever truly enforced a nationwide prohibition on payments to athletes for three years—from 1948 to 1951. Prior to that, there was no NCAA-wide rule on scholarships at all, meaning that the full flowering of the popularity of college football prior to Worl...
49ers LB Ahmad Brooks Charged With Sexual Battery, Ray McDonald Indicted For Rape
Santa Clara County prosecutors announced today that they had charged 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks with sexual battery, while a grand jury handed down a rape indictment against former 49ers defensive end Ray McDonald....
Report: I.K. Enemkpali Got Catfished By A Guy Under A Blanket Hiding In The Dark
I.K. Enemkpali, better known as the guy who broke Geno Smith’s jaw, is in the news again, this time for something much, much crazier. According to Outside the Lines, Enemkpali missed his 2011 season opener while attending Louisiana Tech because “he injured his hand when punching a man he thought was...
Doug Martin Is Still Not Really Down With That Whole "Muscle Hamster" Thing
Poor Doug Martin finds himself in the unenviable position of owning a very unique nickname that everyone else seems to enjoy, but that he himself despises. Martin started his Stop Calling Me “Muscle Hamster” campaign years ago, and God bless him, he’s still going strong....
Martellus Bennett: "We Just Sucked. Everybody Sucked. Coaches, Players, Everybody."
Bears tight end Martellus Bennett has never had any compunction about publicly speaking his mind, and today’s beneficiary is Chicago magazine, which dropped a very entertaining profile of Bennett. In a wide-ranging interview conducted in May—when Bennett was holding out from OTA workouts in an attem...
A Fan's Notes
Over at The Daily Beast, my pal Allen Barra writes about Frederick Exley and his muse, the late Frank Gifford: ...
Obituary: Please Donate To Tom Brady's Ballghazi Defense
Barbara “Gigi” Shippee of Rhode Island passed away at age 74 on Wednesday. In her obituary provided to the Providence Journal, she asked that friends and family help Tom Brady defeat the Ginger Hammer in court....
Texans Lineman Explains Why He Drank His Own Pee, Is Pretty Cool
Jim Mudd, a producer for a local Houston sports radio show, recently took a trip to Texans training camp seeking an answer to a burning question: Did Texans center Ben Jones once drink his own pee?...
Adrian Peterson Will Never Believe He Did Anything Wrong
The latest issue of ESPN The Magazine features an in-depth look at the last year of Adrian Peterson’s life, during which the star running back missed almost the entire 2014 season and lost many of his sponsorships in the wake of an indictment on child abuse charges. There’s a lot going on the story,...
Dez Bryant Really Got The Worst Of That Training Camp Fight
At first glance, yesterday’s training camp fight between the Rams and Cowboys didn’t seem to result in any real damage. Look closer, though, and you’ll see poor Dez Bryant catching a cheap shot right to the face:...
Fight At Cowboys-Rams Joint Practice Results In Some Good Cheap Shots
Hey look, another fight at a joint practice. This one wasn’t as all encompassing as what went down in Richmond between Washington and Houston, but there’s a couple of real solid cheap shots in there. ...
Kid Takes Marco Rubio's Football To The Head
GOP presidential hopeful Marco Rubio might be a huge dork, but it’s not his fault this kid in Iowa took a football to the head. Rubio lofted that ball perfectly. That kid should’ve adjusted. Instead, this happened:...
Rob Ryan Is Suing Some People Because His House Is Sinking
The Wolfman Rob Ryan is a lot of things—a brewski stacker, a dancer, a saunterer, a bon vivant—but he is not a man who can abide shoddy craftsmanship. This is why he has filed a lawsuit against the people who built his house, because Ryan’s palace is, apparently, sinking into the ground....
Percy Harvin Explains Why He Beat Up Two Seahawks Teammates
The Buffalo News has a mini-profile of new Bills receiver Percy Harvin, the point of which is to show Harvin as a man at a crossroads. Will he go on being an alleged locker-room cancer, or will a fresh start in Buffalo be what he needs to finally reach his potential? That’s all worth considering, bu...
"I'm A Grown-Ass Man!": How Miami Trolled The Hell Out Of Nick Saban
The following is excerpted from the new book Saban: The Making of a Coach, by Monte Burke....
NFL Planning Primetime Super Bowl Media Night, Needs To Get A Grip
Here is a very bad tweet:...
Mike Florio On Geno Smith: People Treat Me Like Shit, Don't Respect Me
Lousy New York Jets quarterback Geno Smith will miss 6 to 10 weeks with a broken jaw after an irate benchwarmer unleashed the fists of fury on him this morning. Reports say Smith put his finger in linebacker IK Enemkpali’s face during an argument, and caught a hook for it....