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Your Obligatory "Supple Wrist" Joke Before Your Obligatory Cheerleader Post
Todd MacCulloch is huge, the Wildcat in Cleveland, and the Lego Hand of God....
Happy Holidays From The 1986 Dallas Cowboys
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Mike Tomlin Thinks Your Holiday Gimmicks Are Stupid And Tiresome
Apparently, Steelers coach Mike Tomlin's harmless "if it will get you out of here" to this man dressed in a red suit has resulted in this AP story making him out to be a joyless anti-Santa. It's purely coincidental Steelers announced that there will be no more visits from Santa during press conferen...
Teixeira Announcement May Be Just Minutes, Or Seconds, Away
Well it was fun pretending that Mark Teixeira had chosen the Mets. But the Washington Times is reporting that a real announcement is close — like today close — and that the choice is ......
Do Not Watch Unless You Feel Like Screaming
This is from this past weekend's New Orleans bowl, where Southern Miss receiver DeAndre Brown's leg just...stopped working. Brown is 6-6, 230 pounds of can't-miss NFL prospect. Amazingly, after successful surgery on Sunday night to repair the "clean break", he still might not miss anytime in 2009....
That's Just ... Not. Right.
• Nice hops: This poor Chinese girl lost both her legs in an accident, so her family replaced them with a basketball. And I thought my health insurance was bad. [Sports Rubbish]...
The Year In...Sports Fella
So, the next nine days will be chock full of end-of-year retrospectives. We'll do our own as well. Today: Bill Simmons...
Jeff Garcia Gets Rattled (and Bloodied) By The Rush
The Deadspin Morning Video Wake Up Call needs your help. If you have any suggested videos to fill this space, email us. Subject: Morning Video Wake Up Call. Tough day for the Buccaneers, whose playoff chances just became more difficult courtesy of the surging San Diego Chargers. Tough day for Jeff ...
Now That's A Knee Injury!
• Gnarly: Former Bengal Reggie Williams has had a few problems with his knees. Unless you think that having kneecaps that look like tree trunks aren't a problem. [Money Players Blogs]...
She Just Wanted It to Snow
Perhaps this young Sooner is just feeling a little extra emotion in the weeks leading up to the national championship. All we know is that she's sorry, and she'll totally sweep the floor....
Sideline Reporters With Sex Appeal? What a Novel Idea!
Sex over substance on the sidelines, the world's strangest taunt, and Matt Cassell: Hero to some....
Fare Thee Well, Texas Stadium
If you're the type of individual with feelings for structures in which sporting events take place, then today has been a rather emotionally draining day....
Boom, Goes the RCA Dome
Known as the Hoosier Dome until 1994, it was home to the Indy Colts for twenty-four years, and as of this morning, it is now a pile of rubble. Such is life....
Why Yes, That Is Thad Matta and a Storm Trooper
You might be asking yourself why there is a storm trooper guarding over Thad Matta's sparsely attended press conference. What you don't know is that Darth Vader is lurking ominously in the opposite corner....
In Which Giant Alien Heads on the NFL Network Set are 'Hilarious'
• We come in peace: I'm not exactly sure what's so hysterical - it's probably the drugs! - about producers from the NFL Network deciding to make the on-air talent's heads look like creatures from another galaxy, but the guys on the set (especially Deion) seem to get a huge kick out of it. [SOX & Daw...
Michael Jordan On Verge Of Getting Married Again?
So says the remarkably unreliable gossip hounds at Media Takeout who've "caught wind" that "word on the street" is MJ and girlfriend Yvette Prieto are about to get hitched....
The Pigeon Had It Coming
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You Can't Park That There
• Moises Alou would have caught that: Wrigley Field has a little trouble with its Zamboni. Of course it did. [NBC Chicago]...
Former Ravens Cheerleader Is Secret Millionaire, Still Completely Awesome
Of course you know that Molly Shattuck was the oldest cheerleader in NFL history, at age 38 (what, you don't keep stats?). But did you know that she's also a Secret Millionaire? MILF Money!...
Investment Firm For Sale: Cheap.
HRJ Capital, an investment firm started by former 49ers Joe Montana, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton (Montana left in 2006), may be taken over by Silicon Valley Bank, to which it owes $69 million. [San Francisco Chronicle]...