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Ex-NFLer Tom Zbikowski: "I Had Some Of My Best Games Off Of Benders"
The Chicago Tribune has an interesting profile on the ex-Raven and Bear Tom Zbikowski today. He's through playing in the NFL after a five-year career, and back in his hometown with plans to follow family tradition and becoming a firefighter. It's hard to tell if the former Golden Domer is a cautiona...
Chip Kelly Does Weird Things With His Tongue
Probably a subtle play signal. Chip Kelly thinks of everything....
Running Is Easy Or: How I Ran A Second Half-Marathon Despite Myself
Another half-marathon is in the books and I did not die (or poop!). Hoorah! Here's the Spotify playlist I used. ...
Eric Ward's One-Handed TD Catch Sparked Your Most Recent Gusgasm
We don't cover Gusgasms much these days, and we've sort of come around to editor emeritus's viewpoint about Fox's top college announcer. But when Gus Johnson goes overboard, we have an obligation to highlight it....
Watch Auburn Beat Georgia With An Improbable, Insane Hail Mary
Moments after Georgia's Aaron Murray rushed in a touchdown to give the Bulldogs the lead late, Auburn receiver Ricardo Louis caught a 73-yard Hail Mary pass tipped into the air by UGA defenders and gave the Tigers an improbable win that keeps their SEC championship hopes alive....
Michigan Ties Northwestern With Frantic Field Goal As Time Expires
Northwestern had this game in the bag and somehow this happened. Aside from what seemed like dozens of dropped interceptions, the defense had Devin Gardner stopped on fourth-and-four rush with under two minutes left but two defenders ran into each other and he slid away, getting a first down and ex...
The Illinois Student Section Is The Saddest
So much sadness for the Illini faithful these days. The latest insult came today as Illinois hosted Ohio State and it...it did not go well. The Buckeyes rolled 60-35 and the student section was so barren it couldn't even spell shit out with signs. ...
I Can't Stop Looking At This Absolutely Vicious Free Kick
This is just filthy. Uruguay's Edinson Cavani freezes the entire nation of Jordan on this marvelous free kick. Uruguay won the first leg of its World Cup qualifying playoff with Jordan 5-0, but this is the only goal anyone ever needs....
LeBron James Was Straight Wrecking Fools Last Night
For some reason I think LeBron remembers what happened in the 2011 Finals. Of course, you can never tell with him. Sometimes he goes for 39-6-4 just because he can....
Miracle TD Catch Ties UCF Up With Temple
J.J. Worton hauled in this pass with a minute left to tie things up with Temple in what might be the best catch of the season....
Michigan State Students Force Two Consecutive Shot-Clock Violations
In the final minutes of Friday night's win over Columbia, the Michigan State student section provided a new counter to the ball-controlling, time-eating Princeton offense: chant a phony countdown that forces a shot-clock violation....
The Final BCS Champion Will Be Legitimate, Like Always
Rumors of the BCS's humiliation were greatly exaggerated. While many in the college football playoff camp would have liked nothing more than to see a BCS Armageddon with undefeated Alabama, Oregon, and Florida State teams, last week's results prove once again that the current system is not the booge...
High School Running Back Is A 400-Pound Wrecking Ball
Meet Tony Picard. He is enormous....
Here's A Compilation Of Kevin Love's Outlet Passes So Far This Season
This is something very close to basketball heroin. Two minutes of Kevin Love tossing heat-seeking outlet passes to start Minnesota fast breaks. It's mesmerizing—almost more so without the sound from whatever copyrighted song was originally in there. ...
Can Batkid Run The Bases Faster Than Pablo Sandoval?
Part of the San Francisco Batkid's reward for saving Giants mascot Lou Seal was a chance to run the bases at AT&T Park. We wondered if the leukemia patient might be able to round them faster than corpulent Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval, so we matched them up side-by-side to see who could reac...
Kentucky's "Perfect Season" Marketing Blitz Didn't Work Out
The thing with talking about (let alone selling merchandise hyping) a 40-0 season is that perfect seasons very rarely work out. It's exceedingly more likely that you'll lose, then everyone will point out the fact that you sold t-shirts, and you'll become a punchline. Like those shirts over there! ...
Batkid Goes To AT&T Park To Rescue The Giants' Mascot
If you've been on the internet for more than five minutes today, you have assuredly had your heart melted by Batkid, the five-year-old cancer patient who has spent the day "fighting crime" in "Gotham City" thanks to the efforts of the Make-A-Wish foundation and local volunteers. ...