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Forget What You Learned In School; The Goths Sacked Rome For Good Reasons

If you ever learned about the Roman Empire in history class, the barbarian Goths’ sack of Rome in 410 was probably one of the points your teacher hit. After all, if you’re looking for an endpoint for an empire, the looting of its namesake city is probably a good place to start....

Troy Aikman Hates Skip Bayless, And Fox Sports Loves It<em></em>

Skip Bayless’s new show on FS1, the two-and-a-half-hour-long Second Take, just wrapped up its debut, and you’ll be shocked to learn not only that he and cohost Shannon Sharpe discussed Tim Tebow, Johnny Manziel, and the Cowboys in-depth, but that Bayless challenged Sharpe to bring stronger takes mul...

Reading Leitch on how all the awful things about football never quite touch the NFL is a good way to start the week. [New York]...

Miesha Tate Encounters 6-Year-Old With Broken Arm, Carries Her Down A Mountain

As non-lethal injuries to your child go, having them break a limb while hiking would have to be one of the more stressful; no matter how much you may want to get them to a doctor immediately, there’s simply nothing to do but carry them back the way you came and hope you don’t make anything worse alo...

Iconic Endurance Cyclist Danny Chew Paralyzed After Crash

Cycling legend Danny Chew, 54, broke his neck and was paralyzed below the waist after drifting off the road and crashing in a ditch while out on a ride Sunday, according to a report from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. According to his friend Cassie Schumacher, who was riding with him when he crashed, ...

Notre Dame Ties Texas On Blocked PAT

One of this weekend’s wildest games got even stranger when Notre Dame surrendered the lead to Texas on a late touchdown, only to equalize the score when Shaun Crawford returned the Longhorns’ blocked point-after attempt the length of the field for two points....

Torii Hunter Jr. Helped Off Field After Being Blasted In The Head [Update]

Torii Hunter Jr. headed to the locker room after being crushed by Texas defensive back DeShon Elliott on a play that left nearly every viewer wondering why officials didn’t throw a targeting flag....

Evil Spectator Gets Revenge On Bike Race By Causing High-Speed Crash

The Tour Cycliste Antenne Reunion is about as far on the fringes of the cycling world as you can get. While the top of the pro peloton is touring across either Spain or Britain right now and the second division is busy finishing up their seasons in lesser European races, the remote Indian Ocean isla...

These Three Burger Sauces Will Make Almost Any Patty Palatable This Labor Day

Don’t let anyone serve you burgers as unsettlingly floppy as the reheated deli patties very good Deadspin writer Nick Martin and I ate on camera earlier this week. Any respectable Labor Day party will be hosted somewhere with an actual heat source (preferably a charcoal grill; gas grills are largely...

Murray St. Forced To Start At 1-Yard-Line After Official Hallucinates Fair Catch Call On Kickoff

Murray State’s day is bad enough as they get walloped by the Illini, but it didn’t help that officials declared the Racers called for a fair catch on a kickoff early in the fourth quarter—at the one yard line....

Iowa Player Ejected After Nearly Decapitating Opponent

You could read this post, and watch the full video below, or you could read this essay by our pal Spencer Hall. We recommend you do the latter, instead of watching this video of Iowa’s Josey Jewell turning the brain of Miami’s Matt Merimee into oatmeal....

Vikings Trade First-Round Pick For Sam Bradford [Update]

Sam Bradford, who demanded the Eagles trade him during an extremely weak holdout, ended up getting his wish today after Philadelphia sent him to the Vikings in return for a first-round pick next year and an additional one in 2018....

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How To Soberly Hang With The Drunk

Recently I’ve gotten some practice in the art of hanging out with very drunk people while not imbibing anything myself. In the process, I developed two general strategies to make this scenario a little livelier....

App State's Second Incredible Upset Was Thwarted By Their Own Scared Coach

We all know of Appalachian State for one reason, and as the fates would have it, they played Tennessee nine years to the day of the upset that turned the school into as household a name as any then-FCS program could imagine. App State almost certainly could have earned another myth-making win last n...

Americans Lie About Reading Books

According to a new Pew Research Center study, 73% of American adults say they have read a book in the past year. Okay. What book was it? ...

Lawsuit: Warriors App Secretly Allowed For Creepy, NSA-Style Tracking Of Users<em></em>

The Golden State Warriors are the team of the megalomaniacs and bloodsuckers of Silicon Valley, and they are run by a trophy-fucker who thinks he invented smallball. From their continued obfuscation of their own ridiculous luck with a teleological argument about how their success was predetermined b...

Skins' Workbooks Found In Dumpster, Where They Belong

A fan named Josh called into the Sports Junkies on 106.7 The Fan to report that he had found a bunch of Skins gear in a dumpster, including these defensive workbooks, apparently belonging to rookie LB Ejiro Ederaine, who was cut last week. Belichick would have had someone killed for this....

Do Violence To A Chicken And Eat Like Royalty All Week<em></em>

Both of my parents are talented, dedicated cooks with demanding law careers. This means that in order to feed themselves and their four kids homemade dinners during the week, they were, without ever calling it that, masters of meal planning. Huge swatches of the weekends were spent on intricate reci...

Meet The Couple Who Got Caught Faking A Historic Mt. Everest Ascent

In June, Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod lived out a lifelong dream and summited Mt. Everest. They became the first Indian couple to climb the mountain together, and claimed that they’d been putting off having a child until they managed to climb the world’s tallest mountain. It’s a heartwarming story...