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Randy Moss Is Back In Green Bay Today
Randy Moss returns to the scene of a disgusting act this afternoon. His new team, the San Francisco 49ers will be visiting his old rival, the Green Bay Packers. Moss put up some impressive numbers in Green Bay. He also mimingly took down his pants. A lot of the players in today's game were playing h...
Your NFL Week One Open Thread
So many games! So much sweet, sweet football. Yak here, and we'll link back for the afternoon and night games as well. Suggested topics: scab refs and Tim Tebow. Just kidding, don't talk about that bullshit. (Unless the refs fuck up [which they will].)...
Lance Thomas May Have Bought Improper Jewelry While Starting For Duke's National Championship Team
In 2009, Lance Thomas, then a forward for Duke (now a New Orleans Hornet), bought $97,800 worth of jewelry at Rafaello & Co. in midtown Manhattan; he paid $30,000 upfront and the store expected him to pay off the remaining balance in 15 days. He did not, according to a lawsuit filed by the jeweler a...
Joe Girardi And Joel Sherman Had Themselves A Good Old Fashioned Bitchfest Last Night
Last night, the Yankees lost to the Orioles on a botched third out call that made everyone go a little crazy. It actually started before (and likely caused) the blown call: Mark Teixeira decided sliding head first was a good idea. He was called out. He then said the umps wanted to get home early an...
Washington Sports Site Insists LSU Will "Massacre" Huskies By Five Or Six Touchdowns
Well, isn't this refreshing: A news outlet eschewing all pretense of attaboy optimism, predicting instead that a Vegas line of a three-touchdown beatdown for the home team really ought to be a five-touchdown curbstomping....
The Washington Nationals Are Shutting Down Stephen Strasburg A Little Earlier Than Expected
They are flipping the switch as we speak. Strasburg is 15-6 with a 3.14 ERA, and will finish with those numbers. Strasburg was hit pretty solidly by the Marlins last night (the Nationals lost 9-7 in 10 innings), and today, manager Davey Johnson told the media it would be Strasburg's final start of ...
Your College Football Master Schedule: September 8
Schedule via and cross-referenced with. If you spot any errors, let us know below. Conferences reflect home teams. Ranked teams bold; rankings from the USA Today Coaches Poll. Times (EST)....
Deadspin's College Football Top 25 Or So: Scoreboard!
It's time for a new installment of Deadspin's college football rankings. As always, the teams are ranked according to the logic and values of college football, no matter how bizarre or contradictory they may be....
Al Pacino Will Play Joe Paterno In A Proposed Movie Based On Joe Posnanski's Book
We could have anticipated many of the byproducts of the Penn State scandal—flawed apologies, spunky T-shirts, cardboard cutouts—but we were not expecting a movie deal with Al Pacino attached....
Roger Goodell Is Not As All-Powerful As He Thinks He Is
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Exclusive: Tyler Palko Is Not Working At A Shoe Store In South Dakota
NESN.com published a report on Thursday that said Tyler Palko, the former Kansas City Chiefs quarterback, was now working at a shoe store in Aberdeen, S.D. The source of this extraordinary news was Wikipedia, and NESN.com helpfully added this:...
Yes, Chess Grand Masters Are Still Being Randomly Drug-Tested For Doping
Aside from the boring/kick-ass/boring nature of chessboxing, as well as the occasional airing of Searching for Bobby Fischer on Starz, we can't say chess comes across our radar very often, but the 2012 World Chess Olympiad is underway in Istanbul. Tipster Jay L. brought to our attention that Grand M...
Both Pilots Of The Plane In The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Crash Should Not Have Been Allowed To Fly
Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of the plane crash that killed 36 members of the Russian hockey club Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, including former NHLers Ruslan Salei, Kārlis Skrastiņš, and Pavol Demitra. Today Russian officials announced that they were charging Vadim Timofeyev, the deputy head of the ...
Colorado School District Says Peyton Manning Is A Gang Sign
If you're a student in the Greeley-Evans (Colo.) School District and you want to wear your brand-new Peyton Manning jersey to school, you might be gang-curious, according to the people who run your schools....
Art Modell, 1925-2012: Grifter, Traitor, Model NFL Owner
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