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Toledo's Alonzo Russell Makes Ridiculous One-Handed TD Catch
We've had several great touchdown catches already this college football season, but Alonzo Russell's this afternoon to put the Rockets up 21-7 on CMU is as good as any of them....
Ohio State Crushing FAMU, Leaving Trail Of Waste Including Officials
Ohio State is doing to Florida A &M today what you'd expect; as of this writing, they're up 41-0 18 minutes into the game. Nobody on the field with the Buckeyes is escaping unscathed, and that includes the umpire....
Sone Aluko's Volley Winner For Hull City Is One Of This Season's Best
Hull City's opened its first campaign in the Premiership since 2010 solidly; they're smack in the middle of the table, and stunning more established sides with spectacular plays. One of those came today as Sone Aluko slammed home a massive volley to steal a win from Newcastle....
High School Player Returns Interception 107 Yards For Touchdown
This is from Friday night and, yes, a 107-yard interception return means the Maryland-bound Johnny Thomas was seven yards deep in the end zone when opted to run it back rather than take a knee. Several amazing things have to happen for that to turn into a 107-yard touchdown....
Franco Harris Has His Tiananmen Square Moment
About 150 people gathered for what was called a March for Truth today outside the Penn State board of trustees' meeting in State College, Pa. Speeches were given. A life-sized cardboard cutout of Joe Paterno showed up. Franco Harris stood near a van carrying several of the trustees....
What's So Special About Chicago Sportswriting?
Over on The Stacks, we've been running excerpts all week from a fun new anthology of Chicago sportswriting, edited by Ron Rapoport, whose interview with Alex Belth is below. The book is worth a look. There's Lardner and Lincicome and Royko, and if dyspeptic smartasses aren't your thing, there's you...
Was The DA Who Didn't Prosecute Sandusky Killed By A Hells Angel?
Among the alluring storylines just after Jerry Sandusky's November 2011 arrest was the mystery surrounding Ray Gricar, the former Centre County (Pa.) district attorney who went missing in 2005. The case had long gone cold, and Gricar was declared legally dead six years later. But get this: the Altoo...
More Fight Footage Emerges From Chiefs-Eagles Game
We're gradually learning more about the fight that broke out for several minutes during last night's NFL matchup at Lincoln Financial Field, and while the action may at first glance be more "meh" than mesmerizing, the complete absence of security is a legitimate cause for alarm....
The Moment Lightning Struck At A High School Football Game
A game between Orlando University High School and Boone HS was called off Friday night at halftime. You can see why....
Wacky Chiefs Fans In Philly Deserve High-Def, Super-Slow-Mo Treatment
We opened last night's GIF roundup with this pre-game NFL Network moment of Chiefs fans at a Philadelphia bar, but the whole episode really deserves close analysis. There's just so much going on here, so we we slowed it down a bunch & uploaded it at the full HD resolution....
Summer's End Recalls Memory Of A Faded Dream
Excerpted from From Black Sox to Three-Peats: A Century of Chicago's Best Sports Writing (University of Chicago Press), edited by Ron Rapoport and featuring stories from the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Daily News, and the Chicago Defender, among other papers. It's an excellen...
Reilly On Native American Nicknames: "Antiques Of That Old Racism"
I wouldn't say that Rick Reilly is inconsistent, exactly. Compare this 1991 column on Native American nicknames for sports teams to the one he published earlier this week, and you'll find lots of similarities. In both, for instance, he goes for the reductio ad absurdum of comparing all such nickname...
"False Start, Everybody But The Center"
Walt Coleman Anderson's got jokes! Accurate too, if unfair—everyone besides center Jason Kelce knew the snap count....
Here's Willie Mays, MVP, Eating Breakfast In His Little Apartment
In 1954, Willie Mays was 23 years old. That year he hit 41 home runs, had a .345 average, and was the National League MVP. And here he is, at his rented apartment in a Harlem walk-up with his landlady, one Mrs. Goosby, looking protectively over his shoulder as he eats....
The Peter Sellers Story
Cinephilia and Beyond's got a gem for us, this remarkable post on Peter Sellers....
The Wit And Wisdom Of The White Rat
Pat Jordan's 1992 L.A. Times story on Whitey Herzog:...
Finger-Lickin' Good: Your Eagles-Chiefs GIF Roundup
Kansas City 26, Philadelphia 16: Everything about this image screams "meth." Except for the two people dressed like adults. They scream "employed."...
Sal Paolantonio's Postgame Andy Reid Interview Was Weird
Andy Reid had every reason to be happy. His Kansas City Chiefs were freshly 3-0 with a win over his former squad in Philadelphia, and the team building the kind of camaraderie that leads to a Gatorade shower in Week Three. Reid did not seem very happy, though, when talking to ESPN's Sal Paolantonio...
Eagles Fans Stick Around After Game To Taunt Player That Beat Them
So Alex Smith is on a pretty good roll, right? Certainly he's been playing well enough to capture a bit of national recognition for what he's doing. Alas, these are Eagles fans we're talking about....
Huge Fight Breaks Out In Front Of Press Box At Eagles Game
Around the middle of the third quarter, the beat writers covering the Eagles-Chiefs game in Philly started tweeting about a "major" fight that broke out in the stands below them. It was three rows deep. Women were involved. Security was late getting to the melee. Beer was thrown. It sounds amazin...