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Charley Casserly Probably Wishes He'd Kept His Mouth Shut
Draft hype season is one of the most painful stretches on the NFL calendar, but at least it’s not hard to see why there are so many manufactured angles and storylines stretched far behind their capacity to support interest. As good as Nick Bosa may be, a lineman (or any non–skill position player) go...
Case Keenum Banished To Life As A Washington Quarterback
The precipitous fall of Case Keenum’s career arc continued on Thursday, with Ian Rapoport reporting that the 31-year-old is being shipped off to Washington, along with a seventh-round pick, in exchange for a sixth-round pick. Keenum’s departure means that the Joe Flacco era in Denver can officially ...
Does Bryce Harper Know Something We Don't?
A good way to tell that Major League Baseball’s free agent marketplace is not working the way that it’s supposed to work is the insistence of various establishment baseball media types that it is in fact working just fine. “Free agency is alive and well,” the former MLB GM Jim Bowden tweeted after B...
Jaguars Junction Has Determined Exactly Who The Jaguars Should Take In NFL Draft 2019
Google defines NFL Draft 2019 as “Apr 25- Apr 27,” and already people are “mocking” who the Jacksonville Jaguars will select, in the NFL Draft. The following “fan-alysis,” combining history, metrics, and knowledge, reveals the fact that there is only one smart choice. ...
Kyler Murray And His Height Are This Year's Target For The Anonymous NFL Scouts
As Heisman Trophy winner Kyler Murray has moved on up from A’s draftee to intriguing NFL draft possibility to likely first-rounder all the way to potential first overall selection, the noise around him has grown louder and dumber. At this time of year, the cabal of anonymous NFL scouts loves nothing...
ESPN Isn't Even Pretending To Care About Conflicts Of Interest Anymore
The Mets announced today that ESPN baseball broadcaster Jessica Mendoza will be joining the team’s front office as an advisor while she continues to work for the network. Right after that, ESPN announced that Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia will be joining ESPN as a baseball analyst while he continues t...
ESPN Isn't Even Pretending To Care About Conflicts Of Interest Anymore
The Mets announced today that ESPN baseball broadcaster Jessica Mendoza will be joining the team’s front office as an advisor while she continues to work for the network. Right after that, ESPN announced that Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia will be joining ESPN as a baseball analyst while he continues t...
Six Questions And Five-ish Answers On Larry Baer And The Giants
The San Francisco Giants put forth a statement Monday morning which declared that the team’s CEO, Larry Baer, is voluntarily taking “personal time away” from his job CEO-ing the baseball team as a result of being caught on video pulling his wife Pam off a chair in a public venue over a dispute over ...
The NFL Combine Is The Super Bowl Of Idiot Questions
The NFL Combine: Where large men run fast, where hands are breathlessly measured to an eighth of an inch, and where everyone involved is haunted by a tiny voice insisting that the whole thing is a big waste of time, that future athletic success can’t be quantified with a stopwatch or measuring tape ...
Bryce Harper At His Phillies Press Conference: "We Want To Bring A Title Back To D.C."
The Phillies’ introductory press conference for the newly-acquired Bryce Harper went about how you’d expect. It was ceremonial without being too regal, there were a handful of canned phrases about remaining with one team for a long time and building team culture, and Harper said that he wants to bri...
Steve Smith Had To Tell Tyree Jackson To Stop Throwing So Hard At Receivers During Their Combine Drills
The powers that be at the NFL combine realized long ago that they can recycle players in attendance from drill to drill, regardless of whether those players are the ones actually being evaluated. This was the case Saturday afternoon during the gauntlet drill for receiver prospects....
Steve Smith Had To Tell Tyree Jackson To Stop Throwing So Hard At Receivers During Their Combine Drills
The powers that be at the NFL combine realized long ago that they can recycle players in attendance from drill to drill, regardless of whether those players are the ones actually being evaluated. This was the case Saturday afternoon during the gauntlet drill for receiver prospects....
Some NFL Teams Want Trace McSorley To Try And Play Defensive Back, For Some Reason
In the realm of football and the NFL, it’s currently one of the most insane times of the year: combine season. Sports writers, GMs and coaches all make the annual pilgrimage to the holy land of Indianapolis, forget their basic understandings of how society normally work, and try to determine the sup...
Some NFL Teams Want Trace McSorley To Try And Play Defensive Back, For Some Reason
In the realm of football and the NFL, it’s currently one of the most insane times of the year: combine season. Sports writers, GMs and coaches all make the annual pilgrimage to the holy land of Indianapolis, forget their basic understandings of how society normally work, and try to determine the sup...
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Video Shows San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer Pulling His Wife Pam To The Ground [Update]
Today TMZ Sports published a video which shows San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer standing over his wife Pam in a public plaza in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley while she sits in a chair. Larry reaches to grab what looks like a phone out of Pam’s hand, she resists, and in his effort to get the object...
Video Shows San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer Pulling His Wife Pam To The Ground [Update]
Today TMZ Sports published a video which shows San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer standing over his wife Pam in a public plaza in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley while she sits in a chair. Larry reaches to grab what looks like a phone out of Pam’s hand, she resists, and in his effort to get the object...
Something Happened With Johnny Manziel And They're Not Saying What
Johnny Manziel was released by the CFL’s Montreal Alouettes this afternoon after eight games with the club. Manziel also can’t just go get another job with a different Canadian team, since the league forced the Alouettes to cut him, then banned him from the entire CFL. ...
Nick Foles And His Dong Are Now Free To Go Elsewhere
Eagles general manager Howie Roseman made no attempt to yank anyone’s chain during his presser today at the NFL combine in Indianapolis: Nick Foles will not be given the franchise tag, which means Nick Foles and his reportedly gigantic hog will hit free agency. There was nothing soft about Foles’s s...
A Former Football Player Told Congress How The NCAA Misleads The Public On Concussions<em></em>
Former linebacker Chris Borland, who retired after one NFL season because of concerns about repetitive brain trauma, testified this afternoon at a hearing before the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources’ Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. He was one of four witnesses to tell the subc...
Lawsuit Claims Charlie Ebersol Stole The Idea For The AAF And Froze Out The Actual Inventor
According to TV guy Charlie Ebersol and former NFL GM Bill Polian, the two men hatched the idea for the Alliance of American Football in March 2017, a year before announcing the formation of the league and two years before games began this winter. According to L.A. businessman Robert Vanech, he actu...