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Mariners OF Gregory Halman Stabbed To Death In Holland, Allegedly By His Brother
Police said Halman, a Dutch native who played in 44 games in the last two seasons for Seattle, was found bleeding from a stab wound this morning inside a home in Rotterdam. Attempts to resuscitate him failed. His brother Jason, 22, was at the house and was arrested by police. Gregory Halman was 24 ...

Yale's Football Coach, Like Vince Lombardi, May Have Padded His Academic Resume
Yale quarterback Patrick Witt's conflict with the Rhodes Scholarship organization this week has also drawn attention to the scholarly credentials of the school's football coach, Tom Williams. So far, the New York Times has devoted two stories—with two reporters working on each—to investigating wheth...

Deadspin's College Football Top 25 Or So: Ducks Unlimited
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. ...

Wait, Didn't Coach K Break The All-Time Wins Record Last Season?
Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski earned what was advertised as his 903rd career victory in Madison Square Garden last night, setting a new NCAA record. Odd as it is to imagine the Duke/Coach K publicity machine underselling something, it's worth noting that the 74-69 win over Michigan State cou...

Undaunted, Franco Harris Is Driving To State College To Convince Penn State To Re-Hire Joe Paterno
Former Steelers running back Franco Harris, now out of work for defending Joe Paterno, has found a way to make use of his newfound free time. According to WTAE-TV, Harris said he agreed to put his job at Meadows Racetrack & Casino "on hold" so he can fight the good fight on behalf of his old colleg...

Aaron Rodgers And The Ben Roethlisberger School Of Quarterbacking
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....

How Rex Ryan Created The New-Look Patriots
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....

Allen Iverson Tells Lawyer To "Go To Hell" In Epic Deposition Transcript
A federal judge in Detroit dismissed a $2.5 million lawsuit against Allen Iverson today. The suit had been filed as a result of a bar fight two years ago that allegedly involved Iverson. The Detroit News obtained a transcript of Iverson's deposition, during which he was questioned by a lawyer who h...

Why NFL Players Love A Coach Who Goes For It On Fourth Down, And Why They Hate Eric Mangini
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....

The Lions Had An Awful Lot Of Excuses About The Wind Yesterday
You could chalk the Lions' embarrassing loss to Chicago up to many things. Turnovers, an inability to get the run game going, Matthew Stafford...but no matter how many things don't go your way, it remains all-but-impossible for an NFL team to win when the wind itself is a Bears fan. Here, some selec...

NFL Pundits Hate It, But The Falcons Made The Right Call On Fourth-And-Inches
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries. ...

Bill Belichick On Last Night's Win Over Jets: "37 Points On The Best Defense In The League, Suck My Dick”
Per the suddenly demure New York Post:...

Is Tim Tebow’s Afraid-To-Throw Broncos Offense Crazy Enough To Work?
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....

Deadspin's Full Coverage Of The Penn State Scandal
From the sex-abuse and perjury charges to the rioting and beyond, here's the ongoing news from Happy Valley as the Joe Paterno era officially comes to an end. Latest: BBC's Sandusky typo | Lee Corso's hot mic miscue | ESPN analyst Matt Millen's ties to Jerry Sandusky's charity | ESPN responds, sort ...

Dear Lord! The Texans Are Gonna Be The AFC's Top Seed In The Playoffs
Man, football is weird, huh? If the season ended today, the Houston Texans and Cincinnati Bengals would be the two top seeds in the AFC playoffs, and that's peculiar. Neither of those teams made the playoffs last year, if you'll recall, and neither one has won a playoff game in a long time. (Houston...

Preeminent Knuckleballers Hang Out Together In Their Spare Time
Unlikely Mets ace R.A. Dickey tweeted last night about an event that we've imagined so often in our dreams. Great knuckleballers are friends in real life!...

Penn State Football Press Conferences Are No Longer Brought To You By Sherwin-Williams
Nike is unwilling to discuss the future of its longtime branding relationship with Joe Paterno and Penn State football. Will the Nittany Lions still be wearing the swoosh as the only emblem on their uniforms when they take the field against Nebraska? Wait and see. In the meantime, keep an eye on the...

Nationals Catcher Wilson Ramos Has Reportedly Been Kidnapped In Venezuela
Kevin Goldstein of Baseball Prospectus tweeted this story from a Venezulean news outlet, which I ran through Google Translate and got the following:...

Is It Time To Lose Faith In The New England Patriots?
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....

<em>New York Times</em> Reports Penn State Ready To Oust Paterno
The Times's Happy Valley duo just dropped this report: "Joe Paterno's tenure as coach of the Penn State football team will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks, in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal that has implicated university officials, according to two people briefed on conversations among t...