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Deadspin Up All Night: Pretending That The Wars Are Done
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How Jimmy Graham Became The Most Productive Tight End In Football
Calling Jimmy Graham a tight end seems dishonest. Drew Brees's favorite target is a freak who's blowing the other competition at his position out of the water in 2013. Because "Jimmy Graham is good" isn't a very compelling statement, let's go a little further. Since Graham is essentially a wide rece...
Not all refs are created equal: On NFL Nation, Kevin Seifert looks at how often different ref crews call penalties. It's a wide gap: John Parry's crew leads the league with 17.9 per game, while Morelli's crew is averaging just 11.2. Clete Blakeman is close to last at 12.2—his Week 11 game was Patrio...
NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 12 (Late Edition)
Below is updated betting information for the Week 12 NFL games (you can see the early-week edition here). Spread movement and money lines are now included for each game....
What The NFL Can Learn From WWE About Head Injuries
Originally published at Bloomberg View....
Denny McLain Says "Domestic Issues" Drove Prince Fielder Out Of Detroit
Former Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny McLain hinted at some darker, less savory reasons for why the team traded first baseman Prince Fielder today on the Michigan radio show Doctor & Bentley. His comments are definitely suggestive, though it's not exactly clear what he's trying to get at....
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Shawne Merriman's WWE Tryout Didn't Go So Well [Update]
Former Chargers and Bills LB Shawne Merriman has been busy since retiring earlier this year. Last month he showed up at WWE's Performance Center in Orlando, which serves as both a wrestling school and training facility. Though Merriman showed off his bruises from getting in the ring, everyone downpl...
Little Big Mouth: The Unfunny Comedy Of Andrew Dice Clay
Originally published in 1990 in the Village Voice. Anthologized in the author's collection of reportage, No Success Like Failure. Solotaroff's apologetic afterword is here: ...
Jameis Winston Isn't The Only Problem Here: An FSU Teacher's Lament
We love the game. We love the players, too, even when they scare us....
The BCS Has One Last Screwjob Left In It: 125 FBS Teams, Ranked
Each week during college football season we put the conventional polls to shame by ranking every FBS team from 1-125, by whatever standard we see fit. As always, last week's rankings were not consulted....
Peter Gammons On A-Rod: "He's Like The Marathon Bombers"
Today, famed baseball writer Peter Gammons appeared on Mike Lupica's show on ESPN Radio to talk about Alex Rodriguez's current steroid saga. ...
Is RGIII A Douchebag?
Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here. ...
Why Baylor Is Porn For Football Nerds
In football, which operates on a tight cycle of coaching innovation and theft, it's rare to see enormous outliers. The college game is littered with coaches who found one legitimate schematic advantage, rode it for a year or two, watched it become the norm, and fell back to the pack once they could ...
Lowsman Trophy Watch: Kareem Martin Is The Last Thing A QB Sees
Each week, Football Outsiders recognizes the most outstanding college linemen, defenders and other darkhorses from the previous weekend who are habitually overlooked in the hype for that other award (whatever it's called). These are the Lowsmen....
Tough Love: Watching Football On TV While Sitting In The Snow
At first glance, it's just a photo of Big Blue fans watching the 1962 NFL title game while seated outside a Connecticut motel, beyond the range of the New York City-area TV blackout. (Green Bay beat the Giants that day at the old Yankee Stadium, 16-7.)...
DNA Matches Jameis Winston To Sample Taken From Accuser
A DNA sample taken from the underwear of the accuser matches that of FSU quarterback Jameis Winston, according to a report obtained by ESPN....
Detroit Is Trading Prince Fielder To Texas For Ian Kinsler
Everyone is now reporting that the Tigers have traded slugger first baseman (and, didjaknow, baseball's reigning Iron Man?) Prince Fielder to the Rangers for second baseman Ian Kinsler....
A Three-Man Front Is A Late-Game Defensive Formation For Suckers
The weekend, as I watched the absurd denouement of the Northwestern-Michigan game, something struck me as familiar — beyond the now-routine bumblefuckery that inspires the Wildcats to turn fourth-quarter leads into triple-overtime losses. No, it wasn't simply that Michigan drove in the dregs of game...
