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<i>Star Wars</i>-Inspired Patriots Hype Video Doesn't Even Make Sense

Get ready for the “sports highlights mashed up with Star Wars: The Force Awakens” genre to become a ubiquitous internet thing. Let us hope the other entries are better than this one....

The College Football Playoff's Idiotic Scheduling Is Screwing Over ESPN

ESPN, just like everyone else, knew the TV ratings for this year’s College Football Playoff semifinal games would be down from last year’s. But ESPN was still way too optimistic—the games didn’t come close to the numbers they promised advertisers, and now ESPN owes tens of millions of dollars in fre...

Fred Smoot: The Sex Boat Wasn't Even That Cool

Former NFL cornerback Fred Smoot did a Reddit AMA today, and finally declared that he is tired of one of the funniest stories in sports history, the Minnesota Vikings Sex Boat scandal. Before getting to the questions, Smoot had a request:...

Houston Coach Tom Herman Yells On Radio Show Over Kyle Allen Report

John Lopez of Houston station Sports Radio 610 published a report on Dec. 13, 2015, that claimed Houston Cougars football coach Tom Herman had met with former Texas A&M quarterback Kyle Allen in Houston. Nothing came of it until Jan. 5, when the Houston Chronicle reported that Allen was transferring...

The Browns Just Put Baseball Guy Paul DePodesta In Charge Of The Team

The Browns are really on one right now. Just a few days removed from chucking head coach Mike Pettine and GM Ray Farmer, the team has hired Paul DePodesta to be its ... top executive? Per a gibberish-laden press release (“DePodesta will be responsible for assessing and implementing best practices an...

Report: Johnny Manziel Partied In Vegas With A Fake Wig And Mustache 

Somehow, some way, we still don’t know if Johnny Manziel was partying in Las Vegas Saturday night, fewer than 24 hours before the Browns ended their season with a loss to the Steelers. To recap: USA Today has multiple named witnesses—including Phoenix Suns head coach Jeff Hornacek’s brother John—who...

Colts Won't Chuck Pagano, After All

It was just last Thursday when ESPN reported the Indianapolis Colts were going to fire head coach Chuck Pagano after Sunday’s game. Other plugged in reporters assumed this was going to happen, and began looking at who would replace Pagano. So imagine everybody’s surprise when the Colts announced tha...

How Are You Supposed To Fire Coaches These Days?

The San Francisco 49ers fired head coach Jim Tomsula yesterday, a couple of hours after wrapping up a 5-11 season. His players found out about the firing in a text from owner Jed York. ...

More Evidence That Tom Brady Is A Fancy Dog

We have previously put forward the theory that Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is in fact a fancy dog. For those of you who scoffed at our perfectly sound reasoning, I present more irrefutable evidence that Tom Brady is indeed a dog, and a fancy one at that....

Cam Newton Snatches Bucs Jersey From Fan, Tumbles, Smiles

Has anyone in the NFL had more fun than Cam Newton this season?...

Football Cat: A Mystery Of Our Time [UPDATE: Mystery Solved!]

Yesterday, some dude in a Packers jersey was caught holding a cat while watching the Chiefs play at Arrowhead Stadium. ...

TCU Overcomes 31-Point Halftime Deficit, Beats Oregon 47-41 In Overtime

An Alamo Bowl that looked just like the rest of this boring bowl season when Oregon and TCU headed to the locker rooms with the Ducks up 31-0 at halftime became a stunning win for the Horned Frogs after Oregon starting QB Vernon Adams Jr. left the game due to injury and the Ducks’ offense suddenly d...

TCU Blocks Oregon Punt; Oregon Ends Up With First Down Anyway

I’ve only seen this happen once before in my life: a team gets their punt blocked, recovers the blocked punt, and gains a first down. This is incredibly bad luck for a TCU team that’s down big (and down their quarterback)....

Christian Hackenberg Thanks Everyone But His Coach While Declaring For NFL Draft

Penn State lost to Georgia in a bowl game this afternoon. It was an ugly game made uglier by star Penn State QB Christian Hackenberg leaving the game in the second quarter with an injury. His backup threw a cool touchdown, but other than that, nah....

Dominique Reed Leaves Liberty Bowl On Stretcher After Blow To The Head [UPDATE]

Dominique Reed suffered a severe injury in the second quarter today in Memphis as the Arkansas wide receiver took a blow to the head and remained motionless on the Liberty Bowl turf....

Report: This Is The Trevone Boykin Bar Fight Video

TMZ Sports claims that this is video of the bar fight that got TCU star quarterback Trevone Boykin arrested and suspended from tonight’s Alamo Bowl against Oregon. Boykin apologized for the incident via Twitter, and coach Gary Patterson had the scathing take that, “Everybody makes decisions.”...

Christian McCaffrey Goes 75 Yards On Rose Bowl's First Play [UPDATE: And He's Added A Punt Return TD]

Christian McCaffrey proved himself to be college football’s most versatile player this season, and the Stanford star continued his reign by catching a Kevin Hogan pass and finding the end zone 75 yards away on the Rose Bowl’s first play. Here’s how it sounded on Russian television:...

This Is Worse Than That ESPN Ad That Had A Michigan Fan And Ohio State Fan Making Out With Each Other

Sputtering Florida Offense Manages Something Indescribable, Awesome

The Florida Gators were underwhelming offensively in 2015, and yet they managed to do something pretty neat today at the Citrus Bowl to tie Michigan up in the first quarter. We’re not even sure what to call this, but we like it....

Reports: ESPN College Football Playoff Game Ratings Went Into Toilet [UPDATES]

Three months of annoying, Kimmel-led promos and awkward corporate tie-ins weren’t enough to keep ESPN’s college football playoff semifinal TV ratings from plummeting on a New Year’s Eve, the traditions of which have never featured watching college football at home....