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The Buccaneers Have Released Josh Freeman
So, that whole trying to trade Josh Freeman thing? Turned out nobody wants to give up a draft pick for a backup QB with league-worst stats who's still owed $6.2 million....
What If The NBA And MLB Played An NFL-Style Season?
A big part of the NFL's appeal is all that "any given Sunday" stuff—a team like the Chiefs can come out of nowhere and look like world-beaters, while a team like the Giants can spend the first quarter of the season playing like the last reel of Horse Feathers. A lot of this uncertainty can be attri...
London Tube Map Redrawn With Footballer Names; England Rejoices
England's Football Association and the London Tube both turned 150 this year, so in commemoration the FA has released a neat soccer-themed version of the famed Tube map. As you can see in the excerpt above, each of the systems's near-400 stations (including the overgrounds) has been replaced by a no...
Why The NFL's New Concussion Protocols Aren't Working
In January, the NFL announced that, starting with the 2013 season, all games would be played with an independent neurologist on the sidelines to assist with the evaluation and treatment of head injuries. It looked like the league had done a good thing. It was establishing a new, unbiased procedure t...
Reports: Buccaneers Fined Josh Freeman Three Times Last Week
As first reported by SI's Jim Trotter, and fleshed out by the Tampa Tribune, the Bucs fined QB Josh Freeman three times in two days last week, for missing two meetings and conducting an "unauthorized interview." Since opening day, that's five fines for a total of $35,230 for Freeman....
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....
Greg Schiano Really Is As Big An Asshole As You Imagine Him To Be
The sun came up today, and that means that the garbage fire that is the 2013 Tampa Bay Buccaneers got even hotter and more garbage-y. What's new today? Allow The MMQB's Andrew Brandt to tell you about "Schiano Men."...
ESPN Gets Back Into The <em>League Of Denial</em> Game (Sorta)
ESPN is aggressively promoting League of Denial, the new book by ESPN reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru on the NFL's concussion crisis, today. There's an excerpt of the book published on ESPN.com. There's a lot of space dedicated to it on the site's front page. There's a story about the ...
Houston Restaurant "Honors" Matt Schaub With The "Pick Six Burger"
First they burned his jersey, and now this? Matt Schaub, you poor bastard....
L.C. Greenwood: The Smiling Badass Of The NFL's Baddest Front Four
The Steelers of the 1970s had the scowl of Mean Joe Greene and the gap where Jack Lambert's four front teeth should've been. But there was nothing quite like the menace presented by the smiling L.C. Greenwood, who died Sunday of kidney failure at the age of 67. A smile on that front line was like a ...
The Taxonomy Of Brewing: 500 Beers On One Ridiculous Chart
Updating their 2010 and 2011 offerings, Pop Chart Lab has released "The Magnificent Multitude of Beer," a 60'' x 40'' print/chart detailing dozens of brewing styles and sub-styles, as well as over 500 individual beers (click here for a larger version)....
How Roger Goodell And ESPN Use Each Other
The NFL Network may not be the monolith the league once envisioned, but Roger Goodell likes having it around for what it forces others to do, particularly ESPN. Goodell alluded to this on Monday while speaking to Hearst employees—Hearst owns 20 percent of ESPN—during the media company's regularly he...
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....
The Josh Freeman Mess Could Reach A Head Today
Our "Buccaneers" tagpage is a chronicle of sadness, from a staph outbreak to the ignominious shelving of Bucco Bruce to an incipient player mutiny against college-to-pro hardass Greg Schiano to the swift divorce from once-franchise quarterback Josh Freeman. When will this end?...
This Is Dolphins-Saints: Your <i>Monday Night Football</i> GIF Roundup
New Orleans 38, Miami 17: People tried to sell themselves on this game tonight. Two 3-0 teams, they said. The Dolphins are really turning it around this year, they said. Drew Brees on Monday against the young guy, they said. This is the lead image we are going with for this game....
As The Government Slowly Dies, TX Congressman Makes Dumb Joke
It actually is true, because this is Washington's bye week....
Raiders Game Moved To Sunday Night Because Of A's Playoff Game
The Raiders announced that this Sunday's home game against the Chargers, originally scheduled for 4:25 pm ET, has been moved to 11:35 pm ET because O.co Coliseum will host Game 2 of the A's-Tigers ALDS series Saturday night. The switch was made to allow workers enough time to convert the Coliseum fr...
Josh Freeman Is In Stage One Of The NFL's Drug Program
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers/Josh Freeman real-time divorce is ugly. He was recently benched, then deactivated and banished to a suite (Schiano says it was a mutual decision, Freeman's agent says bullshit) for Sunday's 13-10 loss to the Cardinals. Now comes news that Freeman is in the first stage of the...