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What I Learned At Phil Knight's Big Basketball Birthday Party
PORTLAND, Ore.—Here is a story from Swoosh: The Unauthorized Story of Nike, J.B. Strasser and Laurie Becklund’s 1993 book about about the company’s early days. In 1975, Nelson Farris, Nike’s first employee—he still works there, “Chief Storyteller” or some such thing—went to a women’s track meet to s...
Joe Flacco Ate The W
Joe Flacco, last week’s Bad Quarterback of the Week, was actually quite good in yesterday’s 44-20 stomping of the Detroit Lions. Flacco threw for 269 yards and two touchdowns, and was feeling so good after the game that he opened his press conference by clowning Jameis Winston....
SCSU-NCSU Game Delayed After Bulldogs Player Collapses On Bench, Is Given CPR<em></em>
South Carolina State senior guard Tyvoris Solomon collapsed on the bench during a timeout in today’s game against N.C. State, triggering a terrifying sequence where EMT responders performed CPR on Solomon as he lay on the floor near the S.C. State bench:...
Presenting The Al Pacino Matrix
In a lot of ways, getting old is fine. Your body starts doing a bunch of crazy new gross things, first little by little and then all at once, which is especially fun if you’re a fan of Franz Kafka or David Cronenberg. Old habits downshift into dorkier but less damaging obsessions, and you discover t...
College Football Message Board Owner Turns Out To Be Hateful Moron
Montana Grizzlies football fan Lisa Davey didn’t want the school to bring back Bobby Hauck as head coach. Hauck left for UNLV after the 2009 season, and his last few years with the Grizzlies featured a number of his players and recruits being arrested for various crimes, and his stonewalling of the ...
How The Brothers Selmon Became The Most Admired Family In Football
First published as “The Brotherhood of Selmon” in the September 1980 issue of Inside Sports, this story appears here with permission....
<i>Lady Bird</i> Is As Honest As Teen Movies Get<em></em>
What do you remember about growing up? Was your tenure in high school characterized by grandiose, dramatic blowups and public betrayals, the sort you’ll see in, say, Riverdale? Or was it marked by subtler moments of inner tumult—smoldering angst rather than a bleeding heart? The version of teenage l...
Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week: Joe Flacco Is Bad Football
Welcome to Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week, a recurring feature in which we celebrate the worst quarterback play the NFL has to offer....
Andre Drummond Looks Like A New Player
Two years ago, I called Pistons center Andre Drummond a hilarious monster, and it was a fitting description. He was player blessed with the strength and cunning to grab 13.8 rebounds a game (4.3 of them on the offensive glass), and the rock-handed touch to shoot 38.6 percent from the free-throw line...
Tom Savage's Four-Second Press Conference Was The Only Mercy
Tom Savage, you just quarterbacked the Texans to their seventh loss and turned the ball over three more times, including your weekly strip-sack. What do you have to say about it?...
Chuck Pagano Gets Lost In <i>Groundhog Day<em></em></i> Metaphor During Press Conference<em></em>
Somebody should check up on Indianapolis Colts head coach Chuck Pagano, who reacted to a question about how his team is faring its horrible season with a rant about Groundhog Day, Twitter, Sonny and Cher, and storms coming in off the coast of Africa....
Sean McDermott Is Still Being Weird About Tyrod Taylor
The Bills beat the Chiefs yesterday to improve to 6-5, and currently have a hold on a playoff spot. Tyrod Taylor, who started at quarterback just one week after being benched for a guy who threw five interceptions in one half, had a typically good-but-not-great game, throwing for 183 yards and a tou...
Mohamed Sanu Throws 50-Yard TD Strike To Julio Jones
Third-and-one in the first half isn’t usually the time to reach deep into the bag of tricks, but the Atlanta Falcons clearly trust wideout Mohamed Sanu to get them all the yards they need, and then some. With the ball at midfield, they had Sanu take a shotgun snap and fire a pass deep down the field...
Chip Kelly Will Replace Jim Mora As Head Coach At UCLA
Chip Kelly has been quite the prize these last couple of weeks, as he’s been courted for vacant head coaching positions at Tennessee, Florida, and UCLA. Kelly reportedly turned down Tennessee, and was said to be choosing between Florida and UCLA last week. Word came Thursday that Kelly was suddenly ...
Ah Yes, These Are The Orlando Magic I Remember
I am very glad I didn’t say anything especially glowing about the Orlando Magic back on November 2, when they were “good,” before they remembered that they cannot truly be good, for they are the Orlando Magic. They almost fooled me!...
Tyrod Taylor Is The Bills' Starter Again, Because Why Not?
After taking a few days to digest Nathan Peterman’s fart cloud of a debut, Bills head coach Sean McDermott told reporters this morning that maybe it would be best if Tyrod Taylor started at quarterback on Sunday at the Chiefs....
Joe Morgan Doesn't Think Willie Mays Belongs In The Hall Of Fame
Joe Morgan—two-time National League MVP, all-time great, Hall of Famer, and vice-chairman of the Hall’s board of directors—sent an email today from the general Hall of Fame email address to current voters, arguing (among other things) that drug users like Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and Mickey Mantle s...
The Bills Have Been Clueless About Tyrod Taylor
Anyone who still thinks the Bills were correct to bench Tyrod Taylor for the Nathan Peterman Turnover Loop yesterday need only look around the league. Jared Goff, Deshaun Watson, Carson Wentz, Alex Smith: all have either benefitted or improved this season because they play in offenses tailored to t...
Nathan Peterman Was A Very Avoidable Disaster
The thing about The Nathan Peterman Game is that none of this now is hindsight. Just about every pundit and impartial observer was flabbergasted by the Bills’ switch from Tyrod Taylor after one bad game to Nathan Peterman, who has now had a worse game than anything Taylor ever had—a worse game than ...