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Chief Zee, Washington's Naive, Aggressively Racist Mascot, Is Dead
Reports out of Washington, D.C., say Zema Williams, the most racist mascot in all of sports but otherwise a real nice guy, is dead....

Jerry Richardson Received A Statue Of Himself With Two Panthers For His Birthday
Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson turned 80 this month and received quite a gift from his team’s partners: A big-ass statue of himself holding a football, flanked by two ferocious, muscle-bound panthers. It must be awesome to be rich and have rich friends....

Ryan Fitzpatrick's Standoff With The Jets Is Getting Dire
The standoff between Ryan Fitzpatrick and the New York Jets was already messy four months ago, when the team reportedly offered Fitzpatrick “backup money,” despite him having just turned in the kind of solid quarterbacking season the Jets have been sorely lacking in recent years. If you’re like me, ...

Charles Tillman Announces Retirement With Incredible Video
After 13 seasons with the Bears and Panthers, Charles “Peanut” Tillman is retiring from the NFL. He retires as one of the best fumble-forcing cornerbacks in the history of the game, knocking more footballs loose than any defensive back during his tenure in the league. ...

Report: NFL To Use Microchipped Balls To Study Narrowing Uprights
According to the Toronto Sun, the NFL will put microchips into game balls during the preseason and Thursday night games, the purpose of which is to track how easily balls are clearing the uprights on field goal attempts....

NFL Says Marky Mark Is Full Of Shit, And Roger Goodell Never Called Him To Complain About <i>Ballers</i>
When former Funky Bunch boss Marky Mark claimed to Mike & Mike that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had contacted him personally to lodge complaints about HBO’s Ballers, we called bullshit. Not only is Goodell too busy with more important things to bother with that kind of task, but even if he weren’...

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Marky Mark Claims Roger Goodell Personally Called Him To Complain About <i>Ballers </i>[UPDATE]
Yeah. Can you feel it baby? Thus start the lyrics to Marky Mark’s 1991 and only hit “Good Vibrations,” but if the former Funky Bunch leader is to be believed Roger Goodell’s answer is “No. I am not feeling it,” if the inquiry is in regard to HBO’s series Ballers, of which the retired rapper is an ex...

Broncos Sign Von Miller For $70 Million Guaranteed
If you go by the total numbers, the contract Von Miller just signed with the Denver Broncos—six years for $114.5 million—is exactly the same as the one he turned down a month ago. But as we all know, the only number that matters in NFL contracts is the guaranteed dollars....

Tom Brady Says He'll Stop Fighting And Take The NFL's Four-Game Suspension
Tom Brady’s last option to overturn his four-game suspension was to try and take the case to the Supreme Court, but instead, he’s ending his battle against the NFL. After having his latest appeal rejected Wednesday, the Patriots quarterback said today that he will not continue to fight his punishmen...

Tim Tebow Says Trump Full Of Shit; Will Not Speak At GOP Convention
Much like many of Tim Tebow’s wobbly passes, presidential nominee Donald Trump’s promise that the former NFL quarterback would be speaking at the Republican National Convention next week has fallen short....

Police Union Threatens Not To Work Browns Games Over Anti-Cop Instagram Post
In response to the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, Browns running back Isaiah Crowell posted a drawing of a police officer getting his throat slit on his Instagram account:...

Tom Brady's Latest Ballghazi Appeal Has Been Denied
The ongoing legal battle between Roger Goodell and Tom Brady over the latter’s Ballghazi suspension took one more step toward a merciful end today. ...

Wes Welker Notes That Julian Edelman Is Like Off-Brand Tom Brady
For a while, quarterback Tom Brady and receiver Wes Welker were a winning combination on the Patriots. When Welker left for the Broncos, Julian Edelman filled his spot, and he performed that role well. Too well....

Did Brock Lesnar Really Suplex An NFL Player To Avenge Daunte Culpepper?
Brock Lesnar returned to the UFC to fight Mark Hunt this weekend, which was as good of a reason as any to dredge up an old, apparently apocryphal story from Lesnar’s brief NFL days. Vikings.com used the fight as a peg to recall a Nate Burleson story about how, when Lesnar was trying out for the Viki...

Mayor, Congressman Disagree On Whether Or Not The NFL Draft Will Be In Philadelphia
The NFL Draft has been held in Chicago for the past two years. According to Congressman Bob Brady, who represents Pennsylvania’s 1st congressional district, the event will be in Philadelphia next year. According to Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney, no, it won’t. It’s not currently clear who’s right, wh...

Russell Wilson And Ciara: That's Right, We Fucked
Seattle Seahawks QB Russell Wilson and singer Ciara married yesterday in England. Today, the couple not-so-subtly boasted about the sex they had, because they can have sex now....

The NFL's Catch Rule Got A Little More Complicated
The NFL published its updated 2016 rulebook this week, and here’s a list of some of the bigger changes. But c’mon, we all want to see what the ever-evolving, always-baffling catch rule looks like now, so we can pretend we have any idea what we’re talking about when there’s a catch controversy....

Calvin Johnson Details How Easy It Is For NFL Players To Rely On Painkillers
Former Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson, who abruptly retired after the 2015-16 NFL season, opened up in an interview with ESPN’s Michael Smith about the physical toll that football had on his body. The full conversation runs on E:60 tomorrow, but ESPN published a few choice excerpts in ad...

Report: Russell Wilson And Ciara Can Fuck Now
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and singer Ciara married today, according to E! News....