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Dan Patrick Soldiers Through A Brutal Interview With Alshon Jeffery
Alshon Jeffery: fantastic football player, horrible interview. But Dan Patrick's a pro, and he powered through four painful minutes with the Bears receiver on his show this morning, despite Jeffery's total lack of interest in answering questions beyond platitudes and one-word responses....
This Cycling Video Is Chock-Full Of Mind-Blowing Tricks
This video is amazing, but it may also depress you. Now you have to go through life knowing that you will never be as good at anything as these guys are at doing awesome things with bikes....
Mike Dunleavy Hits Half-Court Buzzer-Beater To Lose By Fewer
This is how it's going for the Bulls these days: Everything is basically futile. Be sure to stick around to the end of the video to see Dunleavy start to celebrate before realizing, "oh shit, we still lost."...
Paul McCartney Wants T-Shirt, Doesn't Get T-Shirt, Becomes Sad
Alternate headline: Your Aunt Mildred Tries To Catch The Bouquet At Your Sister's Wedding....
A Syracuse Blog Is Sending Hundreds Of Underprivileged Kids To A Bowl
Who wants to travel from Syracuse all the way to Houston to watch the Orange take on Minnesota in the Texas Bowl? Not many people. So 'Cuse blog Troy Nunes is an Absolute Magician presented its readership with an idea: Fans donate money, and kids from local youth groups will attend the game in their...
75 Years Ago NFL Players Looked Like This
"Pro football is almost a different game from college football," LIFE magazine helpfully informed its readers in October 1938. In those years, the biggest pro sports in America were baseball, boxing and horse racing; professional football barely registered on most fans' radar. But pro ball was makin...
Caps Fan Takes Puck To Face, Waits Until After OT To Get Stitches
Meet the face that launched a thousand fans-just-as-tough-as-the-players quips. Alicia Drummond took a puck to the face during yesterday's Flyers-Caps game and rather than get the medical attention she needed to sew up her head, she stuck it out and watched the rest of the game....
Jay Cutler Is Ridiculously Un-Photogenic Guy
God, I love Jay Cutler....
Mario Balotelli Wears Thing
White cleats are usually a conservative choice on the pitch, so it took seeing this close-up before noticing that, like most things in his life, these too are testament to Mario Balotelli's own awesomeness....
Eli Manning Makes A Late Push For The Interception Record Books
When we last checked in on Eli Manning's quest for the single-season interception record, the Giants QB had thrown 17 interceptions through 10 games, but was tapering off and seemed in danger of losing the league lead to Geno Smith. We wrote at the time that they'd need a Tarkenton-level meltdown to...
Steven Jackson Bowls Over Josh Wilson Thanks To Secret Powerup
Most sports mavens considered Steven Jackson's career to be all-but over entering the 2013 season. (The last time we wrote about him here was nearly four years ago.) And yet he's had a resurgence this year on a bad Falcons team, exhibited no more clearly than yesterday when he leveled the Redskins...
Your Washington Quarterback Family Portrait
Free Rex Grossman! [Photo by Scott Cunningham/Getty Images]...
Dolphins Facefumble Field Goal Attempt
Long snaps succeed at a much higher rate when the holder catches the ball with his hands, not his face. Pay close attention to punter Brandon Fields's facial seismic activity....
We're Going Streaking (Except When We're Not)!
It's been over three weeks since the run-at-least-a-mile-every-day streak began and I've been true (almost). It's an incredible nuisance. ...
Is This Babe Ruth's Big Swinging Dick?
Have you ever wanted to see Babe Ruth's dick? That looks like Babe Ruth's dick....
Wichita News Anchor Is Ready To "Get The Fuck Out Of Here"
If we've learned anything about broadcasting, it's to always treat a nearby microphone like it's a hot mic. Wichita NBC affiliate KSNW could work on teaching its anchors this, because Justin Kraemer signed off to SNL last night with an f-bomb....
ESPN Broadcasters Are Talented Tweeters
Bruce Pearl and Carter Blackburn could use some creativity in the Twitter handle department. ...
Michael Bay Remakes <i>Miracle</i> With Skating Helicopter
[Michael Bay walks into Jerry Bruckheimer's office] ...
No One Anywhere Is Haunted By Richie Sexson
Having purchased a Hall of Fame ballot, which we'll be filling out in accordance with the wishes of our readers, we're examining the merits—and relative lack of merits—of all 36 players on this year's ballot for the purposes of better informing the electorate, i.e., you. All entries in the series ca...