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Texas A&M Has Added Fine Print To Those Conference Championships It Invented Over The Summer
Kyle Field got some interesting additions in the offseason. Maybe you thought that Texas A&M only had one national title, because they do. But the Aggies decided to add two more, and two conference championships on top of that. How'd they do it? A little creative accounting....
The Brooklyn Nets Cheerleaders' Uniforms Are Revealed, And They Are Something
The Brooklyn Nets' dance team—called, appropriately enough, the Brooklynettes—unveiled a few of the outfits they'll wear in the upcoming season, and if you're not immediately thinking Fly Girls, you're too young to be on the internet....
Let's Not Forget The Second Mile, The Other Big Organization That Did Nothing To Stop Jerry Sandusky
Centre County (Pa.) made the transcripts of Jerry Sandusky's trial testimony available to the public last week. The documents total more than 2,500 pages, and included in them are some of the on-the-record conversations involving the trial judge and attorneys for both sides that took place in the ju...
Watch This Soccer Team Use Their Trainer To Cheat, But Not In The Usual Way
Tired of pretending to mend pretend injuries in the pursuit of ill-gotten timeouts and yellow cards, the trainer for Brazil's Coxim Atlético Clube decided he finally wanted to contribute to his team's success in a more conscionable way. With Coxim up 1-0, the trainer—while pacing the sidelines wit...
This Is Not Golden Tate, ESPN
We get that things were a bit hectic after the final decision in last night's joke of a professional sports contest. But really, ESPN? Identifying Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson as receiver Golden Tate? That's almost as bad as misidentifying an interception for a touchdown catch....
The Lingerie Football League Announces That It Fired "A Couple Crews Which Apparently Are Now Officiating In The NFL" Because Of Incompetence
After the Hall of Fame game in August, Mike Pereira let it slip that Craig Ochoa, the referee who worked that game, had been fired from the Lingerie Football League. The Lingerie Football League—which recently uprooted itself from its US host cities to barnstorm in Canada, the United States, and Aus...
Yahoo! Sports' Mike Silver Had A Single, Five-Word Postgame Question To Aaron Rodgers: "What The Fuck Just Happened?"
If the mark of a good reporter is asking the question on the mind of each of his or her readers, Yahoo!'s Mike Silver nailed it. In the seconds after Seattle was gifted a Monday Night Football win by replacement officials, the prominent NFL writer approached Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers and...
What In The World Just Happened At The End Of <em>Monday Night Football</em>?
This is the farce we've been waiting for. Packers-Seahawks ended with a worthless extra-point attempt after the scab referees initially just let both teams go back to their respective locker rooms, having awarded Seattle a game-winning touchdown as time expired. That's the play up there: a Seaha...
Well, That Was An Enormous Disaster: Seattle Beat Green Bay, In Three GIFs
Green Bay, Seattle : Aaron Rogers was sacked 9 times tonight and only a few times did he do it to himself. There was a bizarre fight in the end zone when Greg Jennings was just tackled out of nowhere. No throw, no blocking, guy just tackled him for some reason and Jennings did not appreciate it. Se...
Remember When A Shirtless Jose Canseco Really <i>Meant</i> Something?
The year was 1990 and the times were simple. Boston was still pink hat-less. Barry Bonds was a skinny Pirate. Billy Beane was one year removed from a 54 OPS+ season, his final one. And Jose Canseco appeared on various baseball cards in blue jeans—no shirt. The image was used for several cards, but n...
College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides Georgia Tech)?
Our weekly college football shame index. ...
Motorin’: Your Highlight Reel Of The Most Night Ranger-Worthy Runs From College Football’s Week 4
Prompted by a discussion between Gawker's own Mobutu Sese Seko and Sports Illustrated college football writer Holly Anderson, we created this mp3 celebrating the best and only relevant moment of Night Ranger's musical career. We think it's worth using to highlight plays, so here's the best runs from...
CFL Player Returns Missed FG 129 Yards For A Touchdown
Trent Guy has had an interesting career. The Louisville WR was shot in the back at a club in 2008, during a fight with a man who groped his fiancée. He went undrafted, and was signed by the Raiders, Panthers, and Panthers again, but was cut during training camp each time. Yesterday may have been h...
Here's Bill Belichick Making Gross Noises
Bill Belichick has a reputation for giving boring soundbites, but during his press conference following Sunday night's game against the Ravens, the moments when he wasn't talking are what stood out. Had he just eaten something too quickly? Was he suffering from nasal congestion? We can't say for sur...
Kyle Shanahan Chased The Refs Into The Tunnel, Yelling "You Have No Fucking Balls"
Last week, the NFL issued warnings to coaches about abusing or berating the replacement refs. So naturally, multiple games yesterday ended in chaos, with coaches abusing and berating the replacement refs....
Greg Schiano Doesn't Care About Myron Lewis's Balls
About halfway through the fourth quarter of yesterday's Buccaneers-Cowboys game, Buccaneers cornerback Myron Lewis committed an unnecessary roughness penalty while his team was attempting to return a punt. In the video above, you can see him get tangled up with the Cowboys' Lequan Lewis (#23) befo...
Manchester United Fans Chanted "Murderers" At Liverpool In The First Match At Anfield After The Hillsborough Report
Yesterday's match, a controversial 2-1 loss to United, was Liverpool's first time back at Anfield since the release of the Hillsborough Independent Panel's findings. The report absolved Reds supporters of any blame in the 1989 stampede that killed 96 fans, and the day was sure to be an emotional o...
Torrey Smith Makes Diving Touchdown Catch
Torrey Smith's brother passed away early Sunday morning following a motorcycle crash. Smith left the team hours later, but told John Harbaugh he wanted to play. True to his word, Torrey returned for the game and made a diving catch in the back corner of the end zone five minutes into the second qu...
The Cardinals Crushed The Eagles Because The Cardinals Might Actually Be Good, In Two GIFs
The Cardinals we're already up, so it's not like this is why they won, necessarily. They probably would have won anyway. But boy, this must have felt like shit for the Eagles: Down 17-0, they'd marched the ball all the way down to the Arizona one. On third and goal with six seconds left in the half...