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Rams Punter Blindsides Cliff Avril, Then Curls Up Into A Ball In Fear Of Retaliation

John Hekker is a punter, not a fighter, but that didn’t stop him from getting in this little shoulder check on Cliff Avril. It did not end well for Hekker. ...

John Wall Is Pretty Grumpy About Kyrie Irving Leading Him In All-Star Votes

All-star fan voting almost never results in an accurate representation of the most worthy players. Kobe Bryant is leading all NBA players in voting this season despite shooting 34% and NHLer John Scott had the most votes of all hockey players before he was released by the Coyotes. Kyrie Irving is sl...

Patriots Lose After Screwing Up Overtime Coin Toss [UPDATE]

Eric Decker hauled in a game-winning touchdown catch after the Jets were gifted the ball in overtime thanks to a colossal screwup by the New England Patriots....

Jason Peters Pulled Himself Out Of Eagles Loss To Avoid Risk Of Injury

The Philadelphia Eagles needed to beat Washington at home last night to stay in playoff contention. They did not, despite Kirk Cousins briefly forgetting how to play football, and they’re now certain to finish the season below .500 for the first time in Chip Kelly’s tenure. Obviously, the Eagles wer...

Kirk Cousins's Enormous Boner Wastes Scoring Opportunity

Kirk Cousins responded to a week of positive coverage, for once, by committing a huge blunder. His boner cost Washington a chance to get points; by inexplicably taking a knee with six seconds remaining, time ran out on the half—denying the Skins a shot at a quick touchdown and even the subsequent fi...

Report: Documentary Links Peyton Manning To Human Growth Hormone Shipments [UPDATES]

An Al-Jazeera investigative report will allege an Indianapolis anti-aging clinic supplied Peyton Manning with human growth hormone, according to The Huffington Post....

Duke Wins Pinstripe Bowl After Would-Be Indiana FG Ruled No Good [UPDATE]

Indiana kicker Griffin Oakes’s overtime field goal went wide right, ruled officials, giving Duke its first bowl win since 1961 as the Blue Devils claimed the Pinstripe Bowl trophy at Yankee Stadium....

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Alex DeBrincat Earns Game Misconduct For Spearing

The U.S. is currently taking on Canada at the IIHF world juniors in Finland, and the Yanks will have to play the final two periods without potential NHL first-rounder Alex DeBrincat after the Michigan native delivered his stick blade straight into Flyers prospect Travis Konecny’s gut. Go USA!...

Liverpool Storm Four Men On Open-Goal Fast Break, Still Don't Score

Liverpool beat Leicester City 1-0 at Anfield today, holding the league’s most surprising team scoreless for the first time all season. But it should have been a 2-0 victory, as a late open goal break somehow fell apart when Christian Benteke couldn’t find a net left vacant by Kasper Schmeichel. Schm...

Browns Players Arrested On Christmas

Cops busted two Cleveland Browns players on Christmas, as linebacker Armonty Bryant and defensive back De’Ante Saunders found themselves in jail yesterday according to WOIO....

Will Jared Leto's Joker Be Too Raw And Subversive For Modern Society To Handle?

Wow, we knew from previous reports (“Leto ... sent Margot Robbie [Harley Quinn] a dead rat”) that Jared Leto’s portrayal of the Joker in the upcoming Suicide Squad movie would be unbelievably edgy and raw, but Twitter users @boring_as_heck and @swarthyvillain got ahead of the film’s promotional cycl...

Happy Birthday, Rickey Henderson!

Today is a day to celebrate, among other things, the birthday of Rickey Henderson, a man who embodies baseball at its best so completely that it’s hard to do him any justice. Here’s to you, Rickey....

Enjoy Some Of The Most Ridiculous Christmas Wish Lists Ever Written

If you got what you wanted for Christmas, that’s probably in part because you didn’t ask for, say, “A little thing that can turn into anything at anytime.” This would set you apart from the authors of the lists below, some of whom got some of what they wanted, some of whom just couldn’t possibly hav...

Charles Woodson Delivers Address To Oakland Crowd In Emotional Goodbye

Oakland beat San Diego Thursday night in an overtime game that went past midnight on the east coast and threatened to be the most disappointing Christmas tie since millions of suburban dads opening poorly-wrapped gifts from their kids, every year. Retiring Raiders defensive back Charles Woodson took...

Raiderfan Raiderfans As Only A Raiderfan Can Raiderfan

Interrupting the game and making an obscene gesture all in one motion? PLEASE DON’T LET THE RAIDERS LEAVE OAKLAND....

NFL Network Pregame Show Is Totally Blazed

We can only guess that Eisen & Co. have caught a whiff of a nearby stoner in Oakland as tonight’s NFL Network pregame devolved into a festival of giggles and Up In Smoke jokes. (Steve Mariucci is our favorite.)...

The Worst American Sportswriting Of 2015

As we’ve noted before, sportswriting tends to follow what you might call the Anna Karenina Principle. The good stuff—the stuff that makes year-end lists like Longreads’s and Richard Deitsch’s—is all, on a certain level, the same, similarly structured long profile after similarly structured long prof...

Here's The <i>Guardian</i>'s (Bad) List Of The World's 100 Best Soccer Players

I’m not here to gin you up in righteous anger about the Guardian’s flawed ranking of the 100 best players in the world. It’s just a list, and it’s Christmas Eve. Let’s try to keep that in mind. Still, the list is pretty silly, and if you can keep your blood pressure under control, there’s no harm in...

The Colts are just a game out of first in the AFC South! Their starting quarterback is hoping to get back to eating solid foods today....