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Antonio Brown Had Some Boner Problems While Training For <i>Dancing With The Stars</i>
Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown is a contestant on this season of Dancing With The Stars, and he made it through the latest round of cuts thanks to a decent performance on Monday’s episode. After his dance, he was asked what sorts of obstacles he had to overcome while practicing, and the conver...
Five-Star Mississippi State Recruit Apologizes After Video Emerges Of Him Allegedly Beating A Woman
Mississippi State football signee Jeffery Simmons apologized in a Facebook post after video turned up that appears to show the five-star recruit attacking a woman....
Penn State Coach James Franklin Destroys Easter Bunny Piñata With Flying Tackle
Happy Easter everyone!...
Ex-NFLer Sues NFL Retirement Plan For Denying Him Disability Benefits
A former NFL player is suing the league’s retirement plan saying it repeatedly denied his requests for increased disability despite ample evidence of his inability to work due to neck injuries suffered while playing. Among the allegations outlined in the lawsuit is that key to Charles Dimry’s denial...
Hallelujah, A College Football Coach Has A Sensible Position On Transfers
There is a litany of asinine and unfair NCAA rules, but perhaps the most blatantly unfair are the transfer rules. With limited exceptions, college athletes playing football, basketball, baseball, and men’s hockey must sit out a year of competition when they transfer schools. Even more onerous, coach...
Report: Browns Put Final Nail In RGIII's Coffin
Of all the teams involved in this offseason’s game of Mediocre Quarterback Musical Chairs, the Cleveland Browns had the most options. Of course, this only meant that the Browns had an array of sinkholes to fall into, and they seem to have finally chosen the one with Robert Griffin III at the bottom....
Aaron Rodgers Has A Pretty Good UFO Story
Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was a recent guest on the You Made It Weird podcast with Pete Holmes, and he somehow ended up describing the time he apparently saw an alien spacecraft in the night sky over New Jersey....
Jim Harbaugh Burns Ohio State AD Gene Smith
Fresh off beefing with Georgia coach Kirby Smart and the SEC, Harbaugh got into it today with a more natural enemy: Ohio State....
NFL Makes All Chop Blocks Illegal
Today the NFL revealed the rule changes that will be implemented for the upcoming season. There’s nothing too drastic on this list:...
Is The Longhorn Network Killing The Big 12?
Five years into the grand experiment, and the Longhorn Network is kind of a disaster. It’s losing money hand-over-fist: reportedly $48 million since its launch, with annual losses hovering in the millions. Subscriber fees are painfully low, and ESPN is locked into this thing for another 15 years. An...
Jay Glazer Has Very Strange Ideas About Football, The Military, CTE, And PTSD
Last Friday, NFL insider and MMA enthusiast Jay Glazer went on Bill Simmons’s podcast to talk about football, MMA, and his ongoing feud with ESPN’s NFL reporters. At one point, the conversation turned to football’s relationship with CTE, and things got very weird....
Report: Akron Football Player Shoots Teammate After Mistaking Him For A Burglar
Akron football player Scott Boyett shot his teammate Andrew Pratt on accident early this morning after mistaking him for a burglar, per a report from the Akron Beacon Journal. Apparently Pratt and Boyett are neighbors, and Pratt entered Boyett’s apartment without notice, so his friend shot him, mist...
Reports: Ravens Cornerback Tray Walker Dies After Motorcycle Crash
Last night, it was reported that Ravens cornerback Tray Walker was in critical condition after being involved in a motorcycle crash in Miami. According to multiple reports, Walker has died....
Ravens Cornerback Tray Walker Seriously Injured In Motorcycle Crash (UPDATED)
Baltimore Ravens second-year cornerback Tray Walker is in critical condition after a motorcycle crash, according to a statement from the team:...
Stanford's Rose Bowl Ring Is Dumb As Hell
Hey, want to see the ring the Stanford football players just received for winning the 2016 Rose Bowl?...
NFL Official Admits For First Time There Is "Certainly" A Link Between Football And CTE
A top NFL official acknowledged for the first time a link between playing football and suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), responding, “the answer to that question is certainly yes” when asked if there is a link. It’s akin to tobacco companies finally admitting that nicotine is ad...
Report: Former Mississippi State QB And NFL Draft Prospect Dak Prescott Arrested For DUI
Dak Prescott and his Mississippi State teammates held their pro day late last week down in Starkville. The former Bulldogs quarterback was projected to be one of the first five or so QBs off the board in next month’s NFL Draft, but according to a report from the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, Prescott was ...
Donald Trump Praises Missouri's Football Teams In Bizarre Speech
In the past twelve months, the state of Missouri has watched its NFL team depart for Los Angeles while its lone Division I-FBS team nearly went on strike due to racism on campus; they went 5-7 on the season. The two FCS programs? Missouri State’s football team went 1-10, while SEMO went 4-7. Donald ...
Broncos Trade For Mark Sanchez, Who Is Hopefully A Backup Plan
After losing Peyton Manning to retirement and Brock Osweiler to the Texans, the Denver Broncos find themselves in a peculiar situation, being a championship team that doesn’t have a quarterback. Today, they addressed that issue by trading for ... Mark Sanchez?...