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Nick Foles Was Really Shitty, And Then He Wasn't
The Jacksonville Jaguars shut out the Philadelphia Eagles in the first half of today's game, which made absolutely no sense. But the game shifted after halftime, Darren Sproles and LeSean McCoy sprung a few plays, and, crucially, Eagles quarterback Nick Foles appeared to simply decide to stop suckin...
Man Assaults Touchscreen
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Stanford Refuses To Beat USC
Seven times, Stanford ventured inside the USC 35-yard-line, and in those seven trips, they picked up an average of 1.43 points. Advanced metrics say that is bad. They fumbled four times, all in USC territory, and lost two of them. In fact, the game ended when Stanford fumbled one last time inside th...
USC AD Pat Haden Runs Down To The Field To Yell At Officials
Far be it from me to tell Pat Haden how to do his job, but it has to be difficult to ask student athletes to not react to things childishly and emotionally when you're running down to the field because you just have to yell at an official for a call you didn't like....
Mystery Woman Linked To Jerry Jones Scandal Tells Her Side Of The Story
Earlier today, we received a press release from an attorney representing Jana Weckerly, a woman who has previously been linked to those gross photos of Jerry Jones and some strippers. Until now, we didn't know for sure how Weckerly was, if at all, involved in the saga. After speaking to Weckerly's...
What Playing Football Does To Your Body
The paperback version of Nate Jackson's Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile is now on sale. It's got new material, and we'll have some of that on the site next week. Below is an adapted excerpt from the book we ran last year. It's still painfully timely....
EMU Players Accused Of Attacking Relative Of Teammate's Murderer
Three Eastern Michigan football players have been charged with assault after allegedly attacking a cousin of the man who pleaded guilty to shooting and killing an EMU player last October....
Floyd Mayweather Sued By Ex-Fiancée He Accused Of "Killing Babies"
Floyd Mayweather is being sued by ex-fiancée Shantel Jackson. You'll remember her as the woman whose old sonogram Mayweather posted on Facebook, claiming he broke up with her because she got an abortion. "And I'm totally against killing babies," he wrote....
Jorge Soler Is Here, And You Should Pay Attention To The Cubs This Month
So, the Cubs suck. They are in last place in the NL Central, are 12 games under .500, and traded away their ace back in July. But! I am here to tell you that over these last few weeks of the season, you should consider watching a few Cubs games, because you might see some cool shit....
What It’s Like To Be A Benchwarmer
Drew Magary's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here. ...
Melky Cabrera Does Not Like Thunder. Not One Bit.
A big-ass thunderstorm rolled through the St. Petersburg area last night, and it was bad enough to briefly knock the lights out at Tropicana field while the Rays took on the Blue Jays. It was also bad enough to scare the crap out of poor Melky Cabrera....
UALR AD Resigns After Talking About Athlete's Mom's Boobs On Broadcast
Arkansas-Little Rock athletic director Chris Peterson is out of a job after being caught talking about an athlete's mother on a live soccer stream....
Don't Step To Will Muschamp About His One-Play Suspensions
Florida's season opener on Saturday was suspended after just one play, a kickoff, after rain and lightning strikes made the game unplayable. Two days later, coach Will Muschamp announced that three suspended Gators would be reinstated. This struck some observers as funny. It was not funny to Muscham...
This Guy Was Sharing The Hacked Celeb Nudes Weeks Before They Leaked
Last night, we brought you the story of the Deadspin reader whose girlfriend was approached on Aug. 19 with a strange request—a Facebook user going by the (presumably fake) name of Jason Killan offered her $5,000 for nude pictures or videos. Our reader—we'll call him David—messaged Killan to tel...
Jackie MacMullan Strongly Believes Rajon Rondo Wants Out Of Boston
When Chris Broussard says the Celtics want to trade Rajon Rondo, he's talking out of his ass. But NBA writer Jackie MacMullan's a different story....
High School Baseball Game In Japan Takes 50 Innings, Four Days
A baseball game in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan that started Thursday took 50 innings and four days to determine a winner, which is amazing in its own way, but wait until you see the two starters' pitch counts....
According to someone at the building Saturday night, USC defensive back Josh Shaw got into an argument with his girlfriend, the two went their separate ways, someone else called police, and when Shaw returned to the apartment, he saw police and jumped off his girlfriend's balcony. [Los Angeles Daily...
I Can't Stop Watching This Dude Try To Hit A 186-MPH Fastball
Ever wondered what it'd be like to stand in against a big-league hurler? Yeah, this is kinda like that, but if the hurler was, like, a Terminator or something. Here's former Japanese ballplayer Takeshi Yamasaki, trying to get his bat around on a nearly 200-mph fastball (the fun starts at around ...