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Before The Eagles Lost To The Cowboys A Car Was Ablaze In The Parking Lot [UPDATE]

Marissa Magnatta, who produces a Philadelphia radio show, tweeted the picture you see above from the parking lot at Lincoln Financial Field. The tweet came moments before the kickoff and said the fire was in Lot E. Another tweeter showed a picture of a car on fire. Speculation on Twitter was, of co...

Awesome DeMarcus Cousins Suspended Two Games For Trash-Talking Terrible Sean Elliott

It started as two players—DeMarcus Cousins and Tim Duncan—battling it out in the trenches, but Sean Elliott, now a color commentator for the Spurs and obviously an objective analyst to the bitter end, jumped in to defend his beleaguered teammate. After scoring on Duncan twice and drawing a foul on a...

Jeff Gordon Crashed Out Clint Bowyer, And It Led To A Massive Brawl

Today's AdvoCare 500 in Phoenix was nearly unwatchable in its boringness until late in the race, when all hell broke loose. After Clint Bowyer made contact with Jeff Gordon, Gordon retaliated just before the end of the penultimate lap, wrecking both himself and Bowyer and sparking a brawl between ...

Bill Belichick Cares Not For Your Lousy Officiating: Your Sunday NFL GIF Roundup [UPDATED]

We'll be putting all our GIFs for the day here, from Bill Belichick emphatically challenging the officials to A.J. Green exploiting New York's defensive holes. We'll update the post as the later games conclude, so stay tuned. ...

Edmonton QB Matt Nichols Suffered A Horrific Injury During Today's CFL Playoff Game Against Toronto

Toronto took care of Edmonton easily today to march one step closer to the Grey Cup in the CFL playoffs, but the season-ending insult to the Big E was minor compared to the injury felt by Eskimos quarterback Matt Nichols, who was forced out of the game in the third quarter after suffering a grotes...

Go Home, Everybody: We Found The Most Ridiculous Fan In The World

He was at the Dolphins game. They lost by 34. To the Titans. Unforgotten isn't a word. Is that a bowling tattoo on the right side of his torso?...

Brandon Flowers (lead singer of The Killers) is freaking out on Twitter right now. Calm down, dude! You're a rock star....

Urgency Overkill: Your NFL Late Games Viewing Guide

We continue on our Sunday viewing with a double shot of divisional play and a random Jets-Seahawks game. Let's go! ...

Derek Dooley Done At Tennessee

"Dooley fired"—which has been trending on Twitter once a week for about two years—is finally turning up some real results....

Buffalo Bills Fan Sues Team For Excessive Text Message Program He Signed Up For

There are many wonderful things about living in the United States. It's far from perfect, but as far as countries go, it's a pretty sweet place to live. Then you read about a guy like Jerry Wojcik and it makes you want to scrap the whole thing and start over. Jerry Wojcik is suing the Buffalo Bills ...

Who The Hell Is Johnny Manziel, And Why Wasn't He Wearing A Shirt In His Mug Shot? A Guide

Yesterday, everyone but rival SEC partisans fell in love with the Texas A&M quarterback, a goofy-eared, smiley kid that beat the nigh-unbeatable Alabama football deathstar with an excitability and intuition that finally made good on the old "He's just like a kid out there!" announcer trope. That you...

Yep, That's A "Baltimore Fuckin' Maryland" T-Shirt On CBS

It's America's most-watched network for a reason. Coming up at the half, it's Shannon, Boomer, and the others with the fuckin' Verizon halftime report. [CBS]...

People Are Upset With Yahoo Fantasy Football

Yahoo's fantasy football service crapped out today before the 1:00 P.M. games started just in time to screw all the procrastinators out there who hadn't set their lineups yet. Eight of today's 12 games started at 1:00 P.M....

At Long Last, John Olerud Claims Victory Over The Tree In His Neighbor's Yard

September brought grave news that, until just now, had occupied most of our attention, kept us awake at night, asleep during the day, and our entire lives turned upside down. John Olerud, proud owner of a beautiful piece of land with pristine views just outside Seattle, had a problem. From our origi...

When Is Losing Good For A Team? (Hint: The Answer is "Never"): Your NFL Early Games Viewing Guide

Today's viewing guide is coming to you live in living color and internet whistles from the belly of the beast: The ESPN Zone in Disney World. Norby, if you are reading, I'm the guy in a weird outfit. ...

Happy Veterans Day! Here Are Some Really Happy Dogs Welcoming Soldiers Home

Originally published Nov. 11, 2010....

Girl Takes Volleyball Spike Off The Face, Ricochet Takes Out Spectator

The timing on this is remarkable. Taking a spike off the face seems part of the cost of doing business in volleyball, but having a renegade volleyball track you down on the sidelines and take you out is something else entirely....

Texas A&M And Johnny Manziel Working Together To Trademark "Johnny Football"

Darren Rovell—who else?—has the news that on the heels of Texas A&M's upset of Alabama, the school is working in conjunction with the Manziel family to trademark the totally distinctive "Johnny Football" nickname the upstart quarterback has recently earned....

Security Camera Footage Probably Shows BYU Football Players Beating The Crap Out Of Each Other In A Rancherito's

What we know, via the Salt Lake Tribune...