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Golden Tate Scored And Dropped The People’s Elbow On The Football

Golden Tate caught a long pass from Matthew Stafford, broke a few weak tackles by the Saints, and flipped into the end zone. It was pretty cool....

Two Colleges Follow The NFL's Lead In Erasing Athlete Protests

Though the majority of the national coverage regarding athlete protests was dominated by the responses of NFL owners and the president this past weekend, several small colleges followed the blueprint set forth by Roger Goodell and Jerry Jones and took steps to silence athletes under the guise of pro...

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Detroit Lions' Akeem Spence Says His Anthem Protest Cost His Father Work

Before Sunday’s Falcons-Lions game, eight Lions players took a knee during the national anthem. Defensive tackle Akeem Spence was among them, and today he said his father, who’s a contractor, was denied a job because of the demonstration....

The Lions Got Screwed By A Correct Call

Which is the more painful way to have a win taken away: When a bad call goes against you, or when the call is correct but the rule is bad? In the end a loss is a loss, but man, leave it to the Lions to find a unique and brutal way to lose....

Lions Come Within Inches Of Beating The Falcons

Matthew Stafford looked to be up to his old fourth-quarter tricks this afternoon. With under 10 seconds remaining, down 30-26 against Atlanta, Stafford threw a touchdown pass to Golden Tate on a goal-line slant route. That touchdown initially seemed to solidify a dream comeback for Detroit, giving t...

Singer For Falcons-Lions Game Kneels At End Of National Anthem

At the end of the national anthem before today’s Falcons-Lions game in Detroit, singer Rico LaVelle dropped to one knee and put up a fist....

Saquon Barkley Slayed The Demons Of Kinnick Stadium

We all thought we had seen this game before. A Big Ten program playing better than they had in generations, heading into Iowa City as a favorite in a night game, sees their entire team slip into neutral under the lights at Kinnick Stadium. Everything that can go wrong for the visitors does go wrong,...

Penn State Stays Undefeated With Touchdown Pass On Game's Final Play

Iowa’s dreams of upsetting Penn State came crashing down as Trace McSorley completed a 65-yard two-minute drill with a touchdown pass to Juwan Johnson on fourth down and with no time remaining on the clock....

Mike Francesa Goes Nuts Over James Franklin Icing The Kicker In A Blowout

In the last few seconds of Penn State’s 56-0 demolition of Georgia State on Saturday, the Panthers lined up to kick a field goal and at least get some points on the board. The 31-yard attempt went through the uprights, but Penn State coach James Franklin had called a timeout just before the ball was...

New York Giants Try, Fail

Eli Manning was sacked five times, Odell Beckham, Jr. was limited in his return from an ankle injury, and the Giants lost to the Lions, 24-10. Detroit is 2-0, and the Giants have now gone eight straight games without scoring 20 points....

Detroits Lions Ban Racist Fan From Stadium

A Lions fan who recently posted a Snapchat video of two black fans who sat for the national anthem during the Lions’ home opener with the caption “ignorant niggers” has relinquished his season tickets, per the Detroit News. ...

Offensive Lineman T.J. Lang Has Some Issues With Pro Football Focus [Updated]

Pro Football Focus has consistently ranked Lions guard T.J. Lang as one of the best offensive linemen in football. This doesn’t seem to have curried any favor with Lang, who went on 97.1 The Ticket yesterday and called the site “absolute garbage.”...

Kenny Golladay Is The Truth

Preseason hype is usually about as meaningful as a cover letter for a job app—it sheds lots and lots of positive light on typically mundane achievements. Especially if you’re a fan of a success-starved team searching for hope, you learn to tune most of it out, wary of all the false promises you’ve h...

Report: Joe Paterno May Have Admitted To Knowing Of Jerry Sandusky's Earlier Abuses

CNN has obtained a Pennsylvania state police report that suggests that Joe Paterno had knowledge of at least one prior act of sexual abuse committed by Jerry Sandusky when Paterno met with whistleblower Mike McQueary in 2002. This version of events would seriously undermine a long-held belief among ...

Japanese Baseball Game Called On Account Of Big Flock Of Birds

Wednesday’s NPB game between the Rakuten Golden Eagles and Seibu Lions ended after eight innings with an 8-8 tie, because a group of birds wouldn’t get off the damn field....

Well, Shit, Penn State Is Going To Rule

Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...

It's Now Or Never For Matthew Stafford

There’s an episode of Seinfeld where Jerry is “Even Steven”—he can’t gain or lose anything. When a gig cancels on him, he immediately gets a call for a new one on the same weekend. When Elaine throws a $20 bill out the window, he finds another one in his jacket. He’s equally lucky and unlucky. He al...

Reports: Matthew Stafford Will Be Highest-Paid Player In NFL History

According to reports from Adam Schefter of ESPN and Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, a new contract extension has Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford poised to become the highest-paid player in NFL history....