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A Lucky Michael Floyd Was Pushed Into Making This Amazing Touchdown Catch
Did Michael Floyd actually think he had a chance of catching this ball, as he saw it coming his way? I mean, he threw his arm out there, but he never would have made the catch if he hadn't been pushed right into the path of the ball by the defender. So by being tackled, Michael Floyd actually mad...
Of Course There Was An Awesome Rainbow On Vin Scully's Bobblehead Night
Some pictures don't require any extra explanation. This incredible shot of legendary Dodgers announcer Vin Scully accepting his own bobblehead doll, as he marvels at a blazing rainbow in the skies beyond right field, is one of them. Another strong nominee for sports photo of the year, I'd say....
Steve Tasker's Telestrator Dong Can Only Mean The NFL Season Is Almost Here
Sure, there are numerous telltale signs that the NFL season is fast approaching, but it's not until you see that first true Telestrator Dong that it all starts to really sink in....
Bryce Harper Sprints Around The Bases For This Season's Fastest Home Run Trot
Bryce Harper has a way of making highlights of normal everyday things, like what's in the trunk of his car or how he answers a reporter's inane question. Then there's tonight, when Harper made everyone stop and take notice of what should've been a plain old home run trot, but Harper instead ran aro...
Stupidest Football Play In History Occurs As Player Returns Fumble 58 Yards In Wrong Direction Only To Have Opponents Tackle Him
This actually happened! Kent's Andre Parker recovered a blown punt return after the ball grazed a Towson player, only to return the recovered fumble toward his own goal. The only thing that stopped him from scoring a safety for Towson? Towson's punt return team, who foolishly tackled him before h...
Freshman UCLA Quarterback Brett Hundley Rushed For A 72-Yard Touchdown On His First Career Snap
When new UCLA head coach Jim Mora named redshirt freshman Brett Hundley starting quarterback for this season, it raised a few eyebrows. After all, the Bruins had two returning senior quarterbacks. To Mora's credit, it appears he may be on to something—the 6'4" 225 quarterback from Chandler, Arizon...
Deadspin Up All Night: Better Think About It
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Erik and Tim will be hanging around tonight. Everyone say hello to college football!...
ESPN Figures You Were Watching The Olympics On NBC Anyway, So Why Bother Covering It?
ESPN didn't exactly break its back to cover the Olympics, if you'll recall. That was understandable, in a way. NBC's insanely restrictive rules meant that ESPN couldn't show Olympic highlights until the wee hours, after NBC's (tape-delayed) coverage had ended, which meant that SportsCenter had to se...
Penn State Has To Return The Bowl Trophies We All Know It Won Between 1998 And 2011
There's been some confusion about this since yesterday, when Jason Bristol of WHP, a television station in Harrisburg, Pa., first reported it. Initially, an NCAA spokesperson told Bristol that the NCAA expected Penn State to return the six bowl trophies the program had won during the 14 seasons from...
Andy Roddick Is Calling It Quits
Andy Roddick turned 31 30 today, and how'd he celebrate? He announced that he will retire immediately after the U.S. Open. People may have been calling for it, but no one was expecting it. Roddick's performance dropped rapidly this year, and he had his worst Grand Slam season ever. He lost in the s...
<em>2016: Obama's America</em>: Whose America Is This Movie For?
Last weekend, 2016: Obama's America, an anti-Obama documentary released in roughly 1,000 theaters nationwide, shocked observers by making more money than fellow new releases Premium Rush and Hit & Run, both of which were shown on twice as many screens. It's already the sixth-highest-grossing politic...
How Joe Redner Invented The Lap Dance, Built A Strip-Club Empire, Became A Model Citizen, Fought For Your Rights, And Beat Cancer
Plenty in Tampa have said it or at least thought it over the years: mayors and newspaper columnists, city council members and cops, the street preachers who'd picket his business, the television callers who'd threaten his life. But last August this was no longer a question of morality. Joe Redner re...
Brett Favre Doesn't Want To Say Whether Or Not That Was His Penis
Favre is back in football, serving as the offensive coordinator for a Hattiesburg high school. It's nice that he's keeping busy, especially as he isn't yet allowed to forget some of the nasty stuff that popped up during his stint with the Jets. No, not this woman. The other women....
Jimbo Fisher Uses A Weird Gun Analogy To Explain FSU's Twitter Ban
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Twitter doesn't embarrass people. People embarrass people....
Allen Pinkett's "Notre Dame Needs More Criminals" Comment Earns Him Suspension From Saturday's Broadcast
Notre Dame officials have removed broadcaster and Fighting Irish legend Allen Pinkett from this weekend's broadcast of the Navy-ND game in Dublin after Pinkett told a Chicago radio station the Irish "need more criminals" in order to be competitive....
Joe Paterno's FBI File Includes Several Threatening Letters He Received, No References To Jerry Sandusky
Joe Paterno's FBI file runs some 872 pages, and much of it concerns a series of threatening letters he and his coaching staff at Penn State received in the late 1970s and early '80s. Jerry Sandusky is not mentioned at all, though that should come as no surprise because Sandusky's sex crimes against ...
High-Ranking Catholic Priest Has Some Horrifying Thoughts About Seductive Teens And "Poor" Jerry Sandusky
Andrew Sullivan brings us this incredible quote from Father Benedict Groeschel, who is the director of the Office for Spiritual Development for the Catholic Archdiocese of New York:...
Pac-12 Very Excited About Airing College Football Games On New Network Most People Can't Watch
The college football season starts today, and the Pac-12's new series of networks (seven of them, they're proud to explain) will be under the microscope as critics wait to see if the fledgling net can find the same success the Big Ten did when they launched their own cable channel five years ago....
Why Isn't Michael Vick Wearing The Rib Protection He's Paid To Endorse?
The first, the very first endorsement deal Michael Vick signed when he returned to football was with a company called Unequal Technologies. They didn't approach him; Vick was still toxic from a prison stint and that whole dog-killing thing. Instead, Vick offered up, unprodded, the best advertisement...