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Joe Flacco Couldn't Understand A Damn Thing Ray Lewis Said
Nice little profile in ESPN The Mag of Joe Flacco, the defending Super Bowl MVP who can't get any respect. We'll have more on Flacco, but let's pull out one quote that's getting all the attention....
Russia Has Officially Banned Protests At The Sochi Olympics
Russia's official government newspaper today published a new presidential decree signed by Vladimir Putin that bans all protests or demonstrations in Sochi from one month before the start of the Olympics until one month after. Sorry, gays and sympathizers!...
NFLPA: Players Will Have To Think Twice About Trusting ESPN
The players' union finds itself in an awkward situation in the wake of a report that the NFL pressured ESPN to back out of an upcoming documentary on player safety. Because, after all, the NFLPA is ESPN's broadcast partner too—the players get 55 percent of TV money. Now a union spokesperson says the...
Pavel Datsyuk Defers To Religion On Russian Anti-Gay Laws
When Henrik Zetterberg and Victor Hedman publicly spoke out against Russia's anti-gay laws, we openly wondered what would happen when reporters approached the NHL's Russian players. Well, here's one....
This Is The Worst Column About Yasiel Puig Until Later Today, Probably
Here is CBS's Scott Miller, overtly injecting the cultural stereotyping that's lain just beneath the surface of the "hot-blooded Latino" Yasiel Puig reprimands that have shitted up the internet this week:...
The Eagles And Phillies Shared A Porn Collection At The Vet
Venerable old Veterans Stadium had its share of legends. The in-stadium courthouse. The holes in the walls of the cheerleaders' dressing room. But until today, we hadn't heard the one about the Blue Chest....
The Security Guard Richie Incognito Fought Is A Former NFL Player
We've obtained the police report from the June nightclub incident in which Dolphins G Richie Incognito allegedly punched a security guard, as first reported by ESPN. That guard, it turns out: former University of Miami starter and NFL draftee Carlos Joseph....
Does The NFL Have A Growing "Low-Hit Culture?"
On Saturday, Houston safety D.J. Swearinger dove at the knees of Dolphins tight end Dustin Keller. Keller tore his ACL, MCL, PCL, and dislocated his patella. Swearinger says that's better than targeting someone's head....
Report: The Government Read Every Email And Text At The 2002 Olympics
A secret government program, with the help of a telecommunications company, spying on all texts and emails in and out of an entire city during the Olympics. Sounds like something England's security state would have whipped up for the London games. But no, that's reportedly what happened in our own b...
Tim Duncan Finalized His Divorce In A Secret Hearing
After five ugly months, Tim Duncan's 12-year marriage is officially over. Tim and his college sweetheart, Amy, finalized the paperwork in a secret hearing that didn't take place in a courtroom and didn't show up on any docket—the judge paid a rare "house call" to get this done without the media taki...
Mark Sanchez's Mustache Is Glorious
For the first time in his career, Mark Sanchez has been challenged for the starting job. He responded by growing a horseshoe mustache. It is intense....
Gun Used In 2012 Murders Linked To Aaron Hernandez Has Been Found
It's not that gun. This is not the long-sought handgun used to kill Odin Lloyd. This is a gun used in an unsolved 2012 double-murder for which Aaron Hernandez is under investigation....
Alex Rodriguez Found His Only Defender In Joe Girardi
Just your typical four-hour, Yankees-Red Sox slugfest, with a rabid Fenway crowd calling for blood, a beanball, an ejection, a revenge home run, and multiple A-Rod bombshell stories dropping over the course of the game. This night, everything happened....
Man Trolls Paul Bissonnette. Bissonnette Posts Man's Arrest Record.
Coyotes tough guy Paul Bissonnette is also a Twitter tough guy. His very active life on social media gives fans an extra incentive to be jackasses: If they talk shit about him, they know he'll see it. Sometimes that's a bad thing....
You Will Not Be Paying Much For Fox Sports 1
Fox Sports 1 goes on the air tomorrow morning, but it was almost the softest opening ever: until yesterday, barely any cable provider or satellite service had agreed to carry it. Now there's good news and bad for the Fox brass—it'll be in almost every home, but it won't be particularly profitable....
Another Former Employee Sues Chivas USA For Discrimination
A former employee has filed a discrimination complaint against MLS team Chivas USA, claiming any non-Latino employee was harassed and squeezed out of the club. This follows on the heels of two Chivas USA coaches filing a suit that made similar claims....
Baseball's New Replay System Will Include Manager Challenges
The expanded use of instant replay in MLB that was reported yesterday has officially been announced, and we now know exactly will trigger a review. It'll come down to manager challenges, and not everyone's happy about that....
Athlete Protests Against Russia's Anti-Gay Laws Have Already Begun
Earlier today at the World Championships in Moscow, two Swedish athletes offered up a subtle yet unmistakable protest against Russia's oppressive anti-gay policies ahead of next year's Olympics. But athletes remain split on the right way to speak out, or whether to do it at all....
A Photo Tribute To Drunk Scottish Fans
Today's Scotland-England friendly—only the fourth matchup between the two since the annual fixture was stopped in 1989—played out under the specter of next year's referendum on Scottish independence. So the Tartan Army was out in full force, gathering in London's Trafalgar Square before heading out ...