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Tony Romo Was Tony Romo, Until He Was Tony Romo
Broncos-Cowboys was the most satisfying game of the season, and not just because it was the sort of record-breaking, no-defense, aerial shootout the NFL seems to be moving toward. No matter what your opinion of Tony Romo coming in, it was confirmed. A win for the Broncos, perhaps a moral victory for...
Brutal Monster Truck Accident Leaves At Least Eight Dead, 80 Injured
Eight people were killed and 80 were injured Saturday after a monster truck drove into the crowd at a show in Chihuahua, Mexico....
Somehow, A Puck Shattered Glass Inside The Bell Centre Penalty Box
Miraculous timing led to broken glass and surprised Habs fans as Canadiens defenseman Josh Gorges fired a shot through the Flyers' open penalty box door and into a pane of non-shatter-proof glass....
Scott Shafer: Charter Member Of The Dabo Swinney Fan Club
Just before the half, Dabo Swinney's Clemson Tigers were thumping Syracuse 35-7. On fourth-and-goal inside the Cuse 1o, he went for it rather than just kicking the field goal. The Syracuse defense held them out of the endzone and head coach Scott Shafer pledged his everlasting love for Dabo....
The Goon Show: A Life In Letters
Mike Fox on "The Africa Project," 1966...
Return Of The Meme: McKayla Maroney Vaults Again
One year and three leg surgeries after London, McKayla Maroney has returned to competition on the vault. And from a performance standpoint, not much has changed. She does the two-and-a-half twister that made her famous (before the meme made her even more famous) just as well as she did at the Olympi...
Thomas Greiss' Goalie Mask Features Some Sort Of Demonic Creature
What's with NHL goalies getting so dark lately? First there was Steve Mason putting zombie patriots on his mask, and now Coyotes goalie Thomas Greiss has unveiled his new mask, which looks like it was inspired by your goth nephew Mitch's deviantART page. ...
How Jack Ryan Kept Tom Clancy From Buying The Minnesota Vikings
Tom Clancy died last night at the age of 66, after a long and prolific career as one of the country's most popular military and espionage writers. But during a whirlwind few months in 1998, Clancy nearly joined the ranks of that most American club: dilettante NFL owners....
Fighting In Hockey Will Die When A Player Does
Fighting's going to be banned from hockey; that's a given. It's just the way society and our understanding of sport are evolving. It might not happen for a long time, but I know how it'll go down: it'll be reactionary, in the immediate wake of a player's on-ice death. And it'll look a lot like what...
George Parros Injured After Falling Face-First Onto Ice During Fight
Canadiens winger George Parros was taken off of the ice on a stretcher after falling on his face while fighting Colton Orr of the Maple Leafs. While falling, Orr held onto Parros, who was dragged down and had no way to protect himself as his face collided with the ice....
Watch UMass Football Players Beat Each Other Up In Team-Building Drill
Last week, the Daily Hampshire Gazette posted a video shot during a UMass offseason session in 2012 that features a bunch of football players beating the shit out of each other. Or, as UMass coach Charley Molar would later describe it, a "team-building" exercise that instills "mental toughness." ...
Kevin Garnett: Howlin' Wolf
A knock on a hotel room door at two o'clock in the morning in the first week of May 1995 was the beginning. Eric Fleisher, the sports agent, got out of bed, walked across the floor and looked through the peephole. Who could be here at two o'clock in the morning? Through the tiny opening Fleisher saw...
Torrey Smith And His Wife Chose An Inventive Way To Announce Pregnancy
Get it? Because, like—ah never mind, you get it!...
Terrell Suggs Says Roger Goodell Caused The Super Bowl Blackout
Terrell Suggs recently sat down for an interview that will air on tonight's episode of E:60, and he talked some shit about Roger Goodell. Specifically, he blamed Goodell for the blackout that delayed the 49ers-Ravens Super Bowl for 34 minutes....
ESPN Fires Longtime Motorsports Announcer After One Gaffe Too Many
Marty Reid has been calling racing on ESPN for 31 years, but he's out of a job after the network announced it's pulling him off the Nationwide Series....
Nat Moore's Helicopter Catch
Leave it to Dave Tompkins to give us something surprising like this Grantland piece on Nat Moore, NFL wide receiver and Miami Bass pioneer:...
This Was Not The Best Sideline Report Of Pam Oliver's Career
Hey, at least she gritted her way through it....