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Maryville Rape Case Is Becoming The Next Steubenville
Earlier this week, the Kansas City Star dropped a story about an alleged rape, cyber-bullying, and small-town politics that is shaping up to be the next Steubenville. The short version: Two underage girls from Maryville, Mo., claim they were raped by high school football player Matt Barnett—who also...

Texans Blast "No-Class" Fans For Cheering Matt Schaub's Injury
The urge is understandable. The Texans have been losing, and losing ugly, and Matt Schaub has looked awful. And then he's injured, and the id says This means someone else is going to be our quarterback! and the instinct is to cheer that. But usually, human decency or at least basic self-awareness st...

Vince Young Is Trying To Get A Job By Sending Sad Tweets Again
We've been down this road before with Vince Young. Last season, he sent very sad tweets to both the Tennessee Titans and Larry Fitzgerald, letting both parties know that he was still available to play quarterback in the NFL. Like, extremely available. Yesterday, Young was up to his old sad tricks....

Texans Fans Cheer Schaub Injury, Backup Immediately Throws Pick-Six
Matt Schaub is having another rough day. He hasn't thrown for a touchdown, and then in the third quarter, he went down with a leg injury. Texans fans cheered backup TJ Yates. Then, naturally, Yates threw another damn Texans pix-six. ...
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Report: Angry Texans Fans Go To Matt Schaub's House To Harass Him [Update]
You're not a nutcase, so I probably don't need to tell you, but: Don't fucking do what these Texans fans reportedly did....

The Texans' Worst Defender Is Matt Schaub
The Houston Texans' defense has been very good this year. The unit ranks tops in the league in passing yards allowed per game, total yards allowed per game, and is ranked as the fifth-best defense in the league by Football Outsiders' DVOA statistic. These marks are made all the more impressive by th...

Texans Fans Support Matt Schaub With All Kinds Of Weird Headwear
This is a three-minute clip that aired during a news broadcast in Houston. Some people in Houston may hate Matt Schaub and may want him traded to Football Purgatory for a wide receiver and third round pick, but these are not those people. ...

A Very Important Picture Of Matt Millen Wearing Overalls
Via Matt Clapp/Sharapova's Thigh....

Athletes Among Us: The Stories Behind These Cool Photographs
Last year the photographer Jordan Matter released a super-cool book called Dancers Among Us. He put dancers in everyday situations—in the middle of a park, a subway station, on a busy sidewalk—and photographed them, out of context, doing their dance moves. As a follow-up to the book, Matter has rel...

Houston Restaurant "Honors" Matt Schaub With The "Pick Six Burger"
First they burned his jersey, and now this? Matt Schaub, you poor bastard....

Two Separate Heads Got Cracked With Bottles In This Fight In San Diego
We join the action mid-beef during a tailgate at the Chargers-Cowboys game Sunday as Dez Bryant Dude is already stewing and pacing around. Then some lady slaps him in the face and the bottles start flying....

Texans Fans Engage In Very Sad Matt Schaub Jersey-Burning Ritual
These Texans fans are not too happy with Matt Schaub after he crapped yesterday's game away with a back-breaking pick-six. They are also not very good at being financially responsible or lighting things on fire....

Matt Flynn Giveth, And Matt Flynn Taketh Away
The Raiders pulled out to a quick 14-0 lead with a blocked punt TD and Matt Flynn's touchdown pass to tight end Mychal Rivera. That's good! But on Oakland's first drive of the second quarter, Flynn threw a pass straight to rookie corner David Amerson, who easily ran it back. That's bad....

Seahawks-Texans Brought Us The Day's Craziest Ending
The Texans were on their way to a blowout victory, until they weren't. The vaunted Seahawks defense was playing terrible, until it wasn't. Matt Schaub was a surgeon, until he was a goat. That game was weird....

It's Matt Cassel Time For The Vikings
The fact that Matt Cassel will start for Minnesota on Sunday against the Steelers in London actually does nothing to settle the Vikings' unsettled QB situation. Sure, Christian Ponder's been terrible, tossing five INTs to two touchdowns and sitting in the third tertile of nearly every passing stat, ...

Tyrann Mathieu Returns To Louisiana, Gets First NFL Interception
The Cardinals still trail the Saints, but the Honey Badger came home, and he picked off Drew Brees. ...