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Is Josh Smith The Worst Three-Point Shooter Of All Time?
The Detroit Bad Boys blog has an interesting and fundamentally unsurprising post about Josh Smith and his catastrophic shooting this season. So we thought, Why not pile on? Here are a few ways in which Josh Smith is even worse than he seems in an article that concludes he's the worst three-point sho...
Fox Sports Has A Message For Imaginary Haters Hating On UFC CEO's Son
The best thing about the relationship between Fox Sports and the UFC is that it works exactly the way you'd expect a relationship between Fox Sports and the UFC to work. This ensures that you can rely on Fox Sports to bring you the UFC content you want and need. Unsure what UFC owner Lorenzo Fertitt...
The Seahawks' Secret Hero Is A Kicker Who Didn't Want To Kick
Lost in all the fuss over Shermaggedon is that Russell Wilson, still a sophomore, has some enormous balls. While Colin Kaepernick fell apart in the fourth, Wilson stepped up, avoiding turnovers and tossing what would be the game-winner, a 35-yard strike to Jermaine Kearse. But it almost didn't happe...
Report: Players Will Make A-Rod's Life Miserable If He Comes Back
Baseball players are the world's biggest meatheads. A player admires his home run? Throw a ball at his face. An athlete in a totally different sport talks trash? Throw a ball at his face. A fellow union member files a lawsuit in a last-ditch effort to salvage $25 million? THROW A BALL AT HIS FACE. R...
The Extra Point Is On Its Way Out
It may not happen next year, it may not happen within five years, but it will happen, and the NFL's top man is on board: Roger Goodell says the Competition Committee has a number of proposals to do away with the extra point, and he's a fan of one in particular....
How Grantland Screwed Up The Story Of Essay Anne Vanderbilt, Inventor
This weekend, Gerri Jordan, proprietor of Yar Golf, agreed to speak with me about the chain of events that led to the October suicide of her partner, Essay Anne Vanderbilt. Today, she declined to carry through. "I have spoken with an attorney," she wrote in an email, "and we are gathering informatio...
Carl Lewis Claims Gov. Chris Christie Tried To Bully Him
Former track star Carl Lewis, of all people, has a gripe with New Jersey governor Chris Christie. Lewis said Monday that back in 2011, when Lewis considered running for a state senator position, Christie attempted to persuade him otherwise....
The Browns Have Essentially No Coaching Staff Right Now
It was stupid when Browns head coach Rob Chudzinski was booted after only one season, but Cleveland's situation is getting dumber. The front office still hasn't found a replacement while other rebuilding teams, like the Texans, Skins, and Vikings, have hired new coaches. And now, while the Browns ha...
A Guide To Richard Sherman, Your New Favorite NFL Player
World, meet Richard Sherman. He's an interesting guy. ...
Michael Crabtree To Richard Sherman: "You Make One Play And You Talk?"
The chirping between Richard Sherman and Michael Crabtree did not cease with Sherman's WWE-style postgame interview. The back-and-forth continued into the locker room and even on to Twitter. But one question remains: What did Crabtree say to Sherman that got him so fired up?...
Punter Happy
[It's nice being a punter on a team with a fantastic offense. Britton Colquitt, who punted just once today, celebrates in the confetti after the Broncos beat the Patriots 26-16 to advance to the Super Bowl. Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images]...
Would You Trade AFC Championship Tickets For A Vasectomy?
The offer's out there for anyone interested. Dr. Steven Broman of Fort Collins, Colo. is bringing back barter: Give him tickets to the AFC Championship Game, and receive a vasectomy in return....
Davone Bess Was Restrained And Hospitalized 10 Months Ago
Today's arrest of Browns wide receiver Davone Bess—in which he was reportedly singing and dancing in an airport with his pants falling down—did not sound like the actions of a healthy man. The Miami Herald has learned that it wasn't Bess's first incident like this....
Onlookers Horrified By Giant Testicle
You know things are bad when your coach says of your testicle injury, "I've never seen anything like it."...
Study: NBA Whites Are Not Underpaid (Counterpoint: Are They Overpaid?)
OK, hold on, just—just wait a second. This does actually make sense. A new study from the University of Toledo has found that white American NBA players are not discriminated against in their wages. We do have a question, though. ...
How Many Ads Are In Your College Sports Broadcast?
In O'Bannon vs. NCAA, the defendants made a stunning claim. Collegiate athletes cannot be paid for appearing in televised games, the NCAA argued, because those games—like, say, the Vizio BCS National Championship—are First Amendment-protected news programs, and not commercial broadcasts....
We All Suck At Watching Football Now
Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here....
No, Fans Won't Stop Watching If College Players Get Paid
Defending itself in the Ed O'Bannon lawsuit, the NCAA has made some stunning claims. One, backed by an NCAA-commissioned poll, is that people so hate the idea of paying players that they will stop watching college sports if amateurism ends. In the filings, ex-CBS Sports President Neal Pilson estimat...
No, Paying Athletes Won't Bankrupt College Sports
The NCAA's biggest and most bruited argument against compensating players is that athletics programs couldn't take on the additional burden of player salaries without going bankrupt. The argument has a certain appeal to a certain kind of fan, the one who thinks sports took a turn for the worse at ro...