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Hunter Catches Bird With Bare Hand, And Also Colt McCoy Is There For Some Reason
Via Bob's Blitz, the only site in our RSS feed, this video of a guy catching a bird. Stupid bird....
Lawsuit Says LeSean McCoy Assaulted And Ditched Woman On Party Bus
Eagles running back LeSean McCoy is being sued by a woman who claims McCoy and his bodyguard assaulted her on a party bus before abandoning her somewhere along the New Jersey Turnpike last December....
Donovan McNabb Will Retire As An Eagle
McNabb, the greatest QB the franchise has ever known, will sign a one-day contract to retire as an Eagle at a ceremony in Week 3. In town that week? The Chiefs, and McNabb's longtime coach Andy Reid....
The Eagles Had "Taco Tuesdays" and "Fast Food Fridays" Under Andy Reid
A lot of things are going to change under the new sheriff in town in Philadelphia, and on the day of the Chip Kelly's first practice, Eagles players were surprised to learn the training camp menu is a little different....
Former Jags WR Jimmy Smith Is In Jail For 6 Years, Apparently
Any "where are they now?" story that ends in jail is bad. This one's worse: former Jags great Jimmy Smith has been in jail for nearly two months, and no one noticed until today....
Brother's Little Helper
Last November, Paul Solotaroff wrote a great piece on the NFL's secret drug problem for Men's Journal:...
Buddy Nix Steps Down As Bills GM
After three seasons as Bills GM, Buddy Nix is out. This move was expected, but maybe not so soon....
Trespassing Snake Brutally Murdered With Pellet Gun By Patrick Willis
And we have the gory photos from the scene thanks to Patrick Willis, who posted them to Facebook. The 49ers linebacker looks pretty pleased with with himself for successfully protecting his home from the scourge of that nonvenomous gopher snake....
The Magic is Back
Well, not yet. But for Greg Prince, co-author of the fine site, Faith and Fear in Flushing, the glass of Mets fandowm is always half-full. Check out this Q&A with Greg as he talks about volume 1 of a 4-part book sereis: The Happiest Recap....
Titus Young Arrested...AGAIN
That would make it three arrests in one week for the former Lions wide receiver. One week ago today, Young was arrested twice in the span of 15 hours. Now comes word out of California that he was arrested Friday night and charged with breaking into someone's home. Oh, and he allegedly tried to fight...
Jack Butler, The Former Steelers Defensive Great, Has Died At 85
Jack Butler, who was a star defensive back for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the '50s and who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame last summer, has died. He was 85....
Washington Post Finds Retired NFL Players Broken And Uninsured
You might've wondered at some point in the past umpteen seasons of watching NFL football, Hey, who pays for the chronic and perhaps debilitating injuries these players are doubtlessly incurring? The Washington Post has your answer: Probably not the teams, possibly the taxpayer and, quite likely, no ...
Here's Penn State Coach Bill O'Brien Doing An Impression Of His Mother
Bill O'Brien just concluded a stand-up routine coaches' caravan tour around Pennsylvania. Yesterday, he addressed whether he said "fuckers" or "fighters" on live TV after the Nittany Lions' season-ending win against Wisconsin. Turns out even his mother thought it might not have been "fighters."...
Charting The Decline Of The Black Baseball Player
A few years back, baseball writer and SABR member Mark Armour tracked the integration of baseball from 1947 to 1986, the 40 seasons after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier. Why 1986? That year would begin a precipitous decline in the number of African Americans, to less than half the high-wat...
John McCain Introduces Bill That Would Ban Sports TV Blackouts
We can't speak to the chances of McCain's bill passing. We can only say that we very much want to live in a world where teams that play in publicly funded stadiums are no longer allowed to black out home games that don't sell out....
Infographic: Is Your State's Highest-Paid Employee A Coach? (Probably)
You may have heard that the highest-paid employee in each state is usually the football coach at the largest state school. This is actually a gross mischaracterization: Sometimes it is the basketball coach....
D'Fellas
Here's a winning story about Lawrence Taylor and his boys by one of our finest writers—John Ed Bradley. It originally appeared in Esquire back in 1985....