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The dynasty ain't dead yet: Michael Vick will get one more start for the Eagles....

Chuck Pagano Returned To Coach The Colts This Morning

The Indianapolis Colts have been the feel-good story of the NFL this season, what with their turnaround from the league's worst team to the AFC's fifth seed while head coach Chuck Pagano stepped aside to battle leukemia. Today, three months since his diagnosis and two months since he learned his can...

It's Easier To Rout A Team When You're Making Catches Like This: Sunday Night Football, In Four GIFs

Seattle 42, San Francisco 13: In a battle of what Cris Collinsworth called two "top-end throwers"—i.e, two NFL quarterbacks, in this case Russell Wilson and Colin Kaepernick—it was Wilson who was the topper-end thrower; he looked like he had roughly twice the experience as a starter, which, oddly, ...

The Sports Video Games Of The Year

Rarely considered for overall video-game-of-the-year honors, the uncommon diversity of sports video games, and the unique demands placed on them to recreate both a real-world sport and the real-life experiences associated with it, support their own class of awards more than any other genre. These ar...

Here's R.A Dickey's Farewell Letter, In Case Any Mets Fans Were In The Mood For A Good Cry

R.A. Dickey wrote a farewell letter to Mets fans this weekend, just as they always dreamed he would (it's in the Daily News instead of under their pillows, but you take what you can get), in which he thanked everyone from his old teammates to the head groundskeeper at Citi Field....

"Hallelujah, Holy Shit! Where's The Tylenol?": Your Sunday NFL GIF Roundup [Updated]

We'll be putting all our GIFs for the day here, from London Fletcher losing his lunch to sad Tom Brady. We'll update the post as the later games conclude, so stay tuned. ...

The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Your NFL Late Games Viewing Guide

There are three more gifts under the tree. Let's open them up together. ...

The Raiders Cost Oakland 200 Police Officers In A Startlingly Direct Way

We looked at the steady increase in taxpayer-funded stadium construction recently, and Sports on Earth wrote about what they term "sports welfare"—this week, Bloomberg explained a combination of those phenomena, and a notably clear example of the way sports franchises can factor into the zero-sum ga...

Since Yesterday, DeMarcus Cousins Has Been Suspended, Fired His Old Agent, And Hired A New One That Has Bad Blood With Kings Management

Players switching agents generally creates only a tiny ripple of interest for fans, if that. They likely change agents or acquire new management more often than we realize, and when they do, it may not change the course of their career. DeMarcus Cousins, the most talented young big man in the NBA, c...

Christmas Came Early: Your NFL Early Games Viewing Guide

We've got a busy start to the day in NFL-land where every game is a gift, with varying degrees of usefulness and did-I-even-ask-for-this-piece-of-junk?-ness. ...

Nick Swisher Will Take His Goofball Show To Cleveland

It's a sad day for baseball fans—Nick Swisher is going to the Cleveland Indians for what could possibly be a five year, $70 million deal. Unfortunately, Cleveland being Cleveland, we will likely never see Swish again. With that hard truth in mind, we bid a fond (or not so fond, whatever) farewell t...

LeBron James Has Committed Two Fouls In His Last 299 Minutes Of Court Time

If you've played even rec-league basketbal, you know that desperate, flailing fouls are often the last resort of an overmatched defender. Despite an arsenal of chase-down blocks and consistent efforts to lock up the other team's best player, LeBron James essentially never finds himself in that posit...

Kansas State Guard Angel Rodriguez's "Puerto Rican Temper" To Blame For His Third Foul, According To ESPN Announcer

The last time we wrote about Kansas State guard Angel Rodriguez, he was facing chants of "Where's Your Green Card" from a brain-dead Southern Miss band. Sadly, the Wildcats' backcourt star can't escape comments about his ethnic background, as ESPN announcer Mitch Holthus made note of Rodriguez's "...

Yahoo's Hockey Scribes Have Finally Cracked Under The Strain Of The NHL Lockout

The NHL lockout is a man-made catastrophe with many victims. Montreal poutine vendors, Boston bar-puke moppers and Vancouver glaziers all stand to take a bath this year without the NHL stimulating the local eat/drink/smash economies. Even a third-rate alleged professional league such as the NHL keep...

Saturday Night Football Open Thread: Drunk Off Eggnog Edition

There's football tonight! No, no—not Tivo'd Las Vegas Bowl, though that was a good game—NFL football, where they wear pads and get paid. Watch it with us, talk trash about the family members you see once every year on Christmas (*cough*), count the many times Jon Gruden refers to Matt Ryan as "this ...

The Lions’ Lomas Brown Says He Deliberately Let QB Scott Mitchell Get Injured In 1994

If you've ever wondered why quarterbacks splurge on lavish gifts for their offensive lines, may we present Lomas Brown telling ESPN Radio that he let the Packers blow up his quarterback, Scott Mitchell, in a 1994 game. At the time, Mitchell was playing like, well, Scott Mitchell on a bad day (5-fo...

Kendrick Perkins Is Angrily Demanding That You Buy A Cubic Zirconia-Encrusted Thunder Pendant, So Get On That

Kendrick Perkins took some time out of his busy basketball schedule to star in a Tim and Eric sketch advertisement for a local jewelry store in Oklahoma City, Mitchener Farrand Jewelers—"the diamond guys on May" and your "official" NBA jewelry store in Oklahoma City....

Carlton Fisk's Home Robbed Of Thousands Of Dollars In Collectible Coins; Carlton Fisk Had Thousands Of Dollars Worth Of Collectible Coins

Burglars broke into Carlton Fisk's home in Manatee, FL yesterday, according to a lengthy report in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Despite the presence of valuable baseball memorabilia and, presumably, electronics, jewelry and other frequently pilfered items, the burglars took only one thing:...

The Xavier Musketeers Are Wearing "Sandy Hook" Jerseys Today, Will Sell Them To Support Newtown Families

First thought: Wait, are they really? There is such a thing as too much, right?...

DeMarcus Cousins "Talked Back" To His Coach, Never Came Out Of The Locker Room After Halftime, Is Suspended Indefinitely [UPDATE]

DeMarcus Cousins didn't play the second half of last night's game against the Clippers, or even come out of the longer room after the half. Cousins was asked to stay behind because of, according to Kings coach Keith Smart, "conduct detrimental to the team." Smart declined to expand on that explanati...