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Little Badass Sends Autographed Jersey To J.J. Watt
Last night, Texans defensive end and destroyer of worlds J.J. Watt tweeted out the picture above. It's a letter and a signed jersey that he received from a seven-year-old kid named Anthony Tarantelli, who just may be the most confident pee-wee football player on the planet....

This Story Proves That Argentine Striker Diego Milito Is The Best
Diego Milito, the former Inter star striker who now plays for his boyhood team Racing Club back in Argentina, is the coolest. All it took was the following story, about "The Prince," one fan, rosary beads, and two shocking championships spaced 13 years apart, to convince us that it's true....

Jay Cutler Presser Lasts Three Questions Because Local Media Was Late
The bad Bears lost to the also bad Saints on Monday Night Football, and Jay Cutler had an awful game, throwing three interceptions as the Bears went down 24-0, and getting sacked seven times. Given how much shit Cutler gets from fans and the media (some of it deserved), and how much lame reporters l...

North Florida Loses Because They Dunked During Pregame Warmups
Tennessee Tech beat the University of North Florida 82-80 in college basketball tonight, in a non-conference matchup of two NCAA Division I schools that you have probably never heard of. But how the North Florida Ospreys lost was really quite brutal, as bad as you'll see in college basketball this s...

Former Player Dan Hampton Suggests Waterboarding Bears Coaches
Dan Hampton is a Hall of Famer, a former defensive tackle who played for Mike Ditka's Chicago Bears and now spends his days talkin' 'bout the Bears on local pregame and postgame shows. During his latest appearance, Hampton had a cool and chill idea for how to straighten out what's been a disappointi...

California Split 40 Years Later
Kim Morgan recently sat down with Elliot Gould, George Segal and Joseph Walsh to talk about California Split, a movie they made with Robert Altman:...

Marcus Mariota Is Your 2014 Heisman Trophy Winner
Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota officially took home the Heisman Trophy tonight. The race lacked a bit of excitement this year, and only three people ended up as finalists. Alabama's Amari Cooper and Wisconsin's Melvin Gordon joined Mariota in New York City for the ceremony. ...

Giroud Is A Wizard
Sure, Olivier Giroud is unmarked, but that's a marvelous angle....

Real Madrid Are Way, Way Too Good
For practically any other club in the world, missing players like James Rodríguez and Luka Modrić would be reason for panic. The absurdly deep squad of Real Madrid, though, can plug in the most expensive player of all time, and a little Spanish genius, and maybe play even better....

NFL Claims ESPN Is Lying About Damning Email
The NFL has fired back at ESPN and Don Van Natta Jr., who this week published quotes from what is reportedly an internal NFL email that all but confirms what everyone already assumed: that the NFL was lying when Roger Goodell assured owners that his office had done everything in its power to obtai...

Spinal Tap IRL: The Brief, Sordid Reign Of '70s-Rock Legends UFO
Let's try something here. Here's a song called "Hot and Ready," by the band UFO. Give it a listen....

Dickhead Jaguars Fan Cancels Texans Fans' Plane Tickets
If you're looking for another reason to stay off Facebook and social media sites in general, allow me to offer this one: There are Jaguars fans on social media, and some of them are sociopaths....

Bears' OC Gives Tearful Apology For Criticizing Jay Cutler To Reporter
Bears offensive coordinator Aaron Kromer stood up in front of the offense earlier this week, and offered an emotional apology for telling an NFL Network reporter in a conversation that was later reported on TV that Jay Cutler's play has "killed" the Bears. Cutler, according to the Chicago Tribune, "...

Here's An Oregon Coach's Embarrassing Story About Marcus Mariota
Scott Frost's address at the Frank Broyles Award ceremony, where he was a finalist, had an obviously high bullshit content, proving anew that the Oregon offensive coordinator is indeed head-coaching material. Thing is, it was also pretty funny. He warmed up the Little Rock crowd with some boilerpl...

Transcript: Roger Goodell Doesn't Know What's Going On
ESPN's Don Van Natta Jr. published a nice scoop yesterday, having gotten his hands on the transcript from Ray Rice's suspension appeal hearing. He highlights one particular exchange which shows that if you take him at his word, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has absolutely no idea what's going on in...

White Flight: The Knuckleheaded <i>Exodus: Gods and Kings</i>, Reviewed
1. I'm not sure who ever could have thought that Exodus: Gods and Kings was a good idea. Putting aside—only for a moment—the much-discussed "whitewashing" of the cast, the movie seems almost specifically designed to appeal to absolutely no one. It's a Bible story, but it paints Old Testament God as ...

Neymar Belter From Distance Puts Barcelona Up 2-1 On PSG
Barcelona decided to break out a completely new formation for today's crucial Champions League match against Paris Saint-Germain. It was a sensible but risky choice, since the club has the parts to play three at the back but hadn't yet proved it could come together. Well, when Neymar struts through ...

The NFL's New Disciplinary Rules Require A Flowchart
The NFL unveiled changes to its personal conduct policy, and all you need to know about Roger Goodell and the owners is that they think their biggest failing in this year's domestic-violence scandals was not having enough power....

The Red Sox's Lowball Offer Last Winter Probably Cost Them Jon Lester
Last winter, Jon Lester said he "absolutely" would offer a hometown discount to stay in Boston. In the end, the reason the lefty ace signed with the Cubs appears as simple as the Red Sox overestimating just how big a discount they could get away with proposing without pissing Lester off....