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Brandon Browner, Who Is Bad, Makes Fun Of Shannon Sharpe's Teeth
Brandon Browner has had a horrendous season just in terms of defensive coverage. Add in the absurd amount of penalties, and the Saints cornerback is on the verge of making history....
Steve Sarkisian Files Lawsuit Against USC
Former USC head coach Steve Sarkisian, who was fired by USC after his continued struggles with alcoholism led him to be placed on leave, is now suing the university for at least $12.6 million in damages....
Teddy Bears Everywhere
The WHL’s Calgary Hitmen might have the most impressive teddy bear tosses, and this year is no different. When Jordy Stallard scored the team’s first goal of the game Sunday, fans chucked their bears onto the ice. Look at all that plush....
Track Athlete Makes News By Publishing His Salary
Canadian sprinter and USC student Andre De Grasse signed a pro contract with Puma recently. There are two reasons this is big screaming news in track and field: One is that the contract is for a stratospheric amount of money, compensation of the sort top NBA picks are accustomed to but track athlete...
Donald Trump Wants To Know If There Are Any Muslim Athletes
In a televised speech last night, United States President Barack Obama mentioned that many of our greatest athletes are Muslim. This caused Donald Trump, a fascist golem made of flypaper, to be like, “What Muslims?!?!”...
Antonio Brown's Touchdown Celebration Is The Greatest Moment Of The NFL Season, So Watch It Over And Over Again
Of course this touchdown celebration was penalized, because there is a legislated limit on the amount of awesome in one NFL play—and Antonio Brown blew right past it. Invent a Heisman Trophy for the NFL and award it to him now....
Missed Field Goal Followed By Marcus Peters Puking
Marcus Peters is as sickened by the state of placekicking in the NFL as you. CBS cameras caught the Chiefs defensive back vomiting after Oakland failed to get points on their fourth quarter drive today. Get well soon, Marcus....
Ohhhhhhh, Track & Field Organizations Are Supposed To Serve Track & Field Athletes. Oops!
It has come to track and field athletes’ attention that during all those gutting workouts, dark-thirty in the morning, when the rent was due and cupboards bare, and it seemed like no one had their back—they were right. No one had their back. While they were pounding out repeat 1000s, the organizatio...
Fake Cops Under Fire For Beating Shit Out Of Houston Fans Celebrating AAC Title
Houston won its first AAC title yesterday with a 24-13 win over Temple. Afterward, Cougars fans rushed the field to celebrate their team’s championship, only to earn a series of beatdowns from the rent-a-cops guarding Houston’s stadium:...
Pitt RB James Conner Diagnosed With Lymphoma
University of Pittsburgh running back James Conner was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma this week, as he announced yesterday. In a school press release, Conner said:...
Who Will Free The Cursed Soul Trapped Inside This Matt Stafford Statue?
This custom-made, 62-inch wooden statue of Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford is currently on sale for $1,500. It is imperative that someone out there buy it and destroy it, so that the curse binding a tortured soul to it for all eternity can be broken....
Alex Ovechkin Talks About His Diet, Hockey, How He Would Kill Himself If He Had One Day To Live
Alex Ovechkin has a feature in December’s issue of the Russian edition of Esquire, accompanied by a lovely cover portrait of the Capitals captain. Russian Machine Never Breaks translated portions of the interview, and Ovechkin provided some fun answers. A few quotes are below, but check out their pa...
A Completely Dumb And Unnecessary Argument About Sex Scenes
Batman v Superman is coming out soon, and the man in charge of this fiasco was also the architect of arguably the worst sex scene in movie history. But what makes a sex scene terrible, apart from the tragic decision to include a Leonard Cohen song? And can a sex scene ever REALLY be bad so long as i...
The Facemask Penalty On The Lions Was The Right Call In The Moment
This will sound self-contradictory and bring consolation to absolutely no one, but the facemask call that extended the game and gave the Packers the chance to win on a hail mary was the wrong call—and one that no official should be blamed for making....
Mark Brunell Fondly Recalls The Time Brett Favre Tortured A Deer To Death
CBS Sports published a kind of oral history of Brett Favre, in which former teammates, coaches, and friends shared their fond memories of the ol’ gunslinger, and hooooooly shit get a load of this story from Mark Brunell:...
No One Has Ever Seen A Hail Mary Like Aaron Rodgers's
The thing that stands out, amid all the craziness in Green Bay’s miracle 27-23 win, is just how damn high that pass went. It flew about 70 yards in the air, from Aaron Rodgers to Richard Rodgers, a heave that not many quarterbacks are capable of, but it’s the height of the thing, more mortar than mi...
Aaron Rodgers Shocks Lions On Untimed Down With Hail Mary Winner
An untimed down due to a facemask penalty on what should have been the final play of the game allowed Aaron Rodgers to find Richard Rodgers in the end zone 61 yards away to give the Packers an incredible 27-23 victory. The Lions defense, which had made Aaron Rodgers look merely average on the evenin...
Stephen A. Smith Goes On Insane, Delusional Rant About Who Gets Credit For The Warriors' Success
With the Warriors off to a 20-0 start under interim head coach Luke Walton, a popular topic of discussion has been who deserves credit for the historic start. Coaching-wise Luke Walton and Steve Kerr both defer, crediting the other one, while the NBA has split the baby by officially crediting the wi...
Sports Broadcaster Howard Eskin Is So Mad About Cliff Lee, He Can't Type
Everyone has typos. They’ll always happen, no matter how many times someone checks their copy. (This article is the exception. It’s infallible.) Philly sports personality Howard Eskin transcended the regular typo, however, with his reaction to Cliff Lee’s desire to pitch in MLB next season....