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Woody On the Pleasures of Basketball
I was All-Schoolyard, tell her, Max....

Bill Belichick Says The Jets Also Pushed. Did They?
Lots of controversy—fun, silly controversy—over the overtime penalty on the Patriots that may have cost them Sunday's game at the Jets. Tackle Chris Jones was flagged for pushing teammate Will Svitek into the offensive line, negating a missed field goal. The first conspiracy theory was that the NFL ...

Dolphins Alerted League To Personal Foul On Last-Second FG In Week 5
After a loss to the Ravens in which Caleb Sturgis missed a last-second 57-yard field goal that would have tied the game, the Dolphins noticed that Baltimore pulled the same maneuver the Patriots got busted for yesterday. Miami sent video of the play to the league and the league reportedly admitted t...


Police Question Suspect In Jets Fan Fight
According to the Daily News, New Jersey State Police are have identified a 38-year-old Long Island man and are questioning him on his role in a brawl after yesterday's Jets game. He's believed to be the one captured on video punching a female Patriots fan in the head....

Patriots Had Cheated Before On FGs; Jets Warned Officials
You're looking at a screengrab from last weeks' New England win over the Saints, shared by the Globe's Ben Volin. On a New Orleans field goal attempt, rookie tackle Chris Jones is pushing Will Svitek into the offensive lineman. It's the same illegal move, with the same two players, that got the Pats...

Male Jets Fan Decks Female Fan In MetLife Stadium Fight
As MetLife Stadium let out after the Jets' OT win over the Patriots, a fan brawl eventually resulted in one man punching a woman in the head. What do you expect from a jamoke in a Wayne Chrebet jersey and green camouflage pants?...

Obscure New Rule Gives Jets An Overtime Win Over The Pats
The Jets were granted a second chance in overtime after Nick Folk missed a 56-yard attempt. Patriots defensive tackle Chris Jones was flagged for a rule instituted this offseason....

Rex Ryan's Odd Obsession With Passer Rating
According to the New York Times, the Jets coach "cares deeply" about passer rating, that much-maligned, simplistic, often misleading statistic dismissed by many as a curio. He uses it to evaluate his and opposing quarterbacks, and considers it one of the leading indicators of team success—even as it...

Rex Ryan's Players Hear "Rest Your Legs," Assume He Means No Sex
After losing to the inept Steelers, and on the eve of hosting the Patriots, Jets head coach Rex Ryan instructed his players this week to take it easy. Actually, the phrase the Daily News relayed from Josh Cribbs, quoting his coach, was "don't do nothing for your wife."...

Supercut: Scott Van Pelt Making Tim Kurkjian Giggle Like A Little Girl
Maryland native Scott Van Pelt has a schtick every time he invites ESPN baseball analyst (and fellow Terrapin) Tim Kurkjian onto his radio show: he closes by saying something in Ballimerese and making Kurkjian burst out into furious, high-pitched laughter....

Who Had The Worse 2013 Season: Levi Brown Or Mike Goodson?
We're only six weeks into the NFL season, but Levi Brown and Mike Goodson already finished theirs due to injuries incurred in Sunday's Steelers-Jets game. Whose season sucked more?...

<em>Daily News</em> Anoints Geno Smith The Next Mark Sanchez
This is either a serious failure of back-page wood creativity, or a really bad omen for Geno Smith....

Mark Sanchez, The Cheerleader: Your <i>Monday Night Football</i> GIF Roundup
New York 30, Atlanta 28: So that was a surprisingly entertaining game. The Jets won on a 44-yard field goal as time expired but this play from Julio Jones is your play of the game. Jones snatched a 46-yard pass with one hand and Cromartie all over him. It came exactly one play after Jones was flagg...

We Have A Dirty Bird Sighting
And it comes courtesy of Jeff Cumberland after he and Geno Smith hooked up to give the Jets a 10-7 lead in Atlanta....

Here's Dusty Baker's Version Of How He Got Fired
This morning, the Reds announced that Dusty Baker is out as Reds managers after six seasons. It was ostensibly a "mutual" decision, but no one bought that. Now Baker gets to tell his side of the story, and if you believe him, he threw himself on his sword to save his hitting coach....

Old Photo: Dr. J And John Havlicek, Shirtless And Wearing Sombreros
We know nothing about the origin of this photo of Julius Erving and John Havlicek, but we love it. It was tweeted this morning by SLAM associate editor Adam Figman, who says it shows the two retired NBA legends "chilling very hard in Mexico, 1977." And that much is demonstrably true: The Doctor and ...


