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Chargers Doc Quit After 2 Hospitals Barred Him From Performing Surgery
David Chao, the longtime Chargers head team physician who stepped down last week amid all sorts of lawsuits and allegations, cited "health problems" for his resignation. The reality is a little more more serious....

Report: Aaron Hernandez Was With Victim On Night Of Homicide
While police continue to investigate the homicide of Odin Lloyd, a semi-pro football player who dated Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez's girlfriend's sister, MyFoxBoston is reporting that Hernandez and two other men were out at a bar with Lloyd just hours before he was killed....

Now Mike Florio Is Getting In Twitter Fights With NFL Mascots
Resident NBC/ProFootballTalk moron and supposed NFL maven Mike Florio took his lifelong itinerary of bad decisions to a new level last night, getting into Twitter beef with Jaguars mascot Jaxson de Ville. ...

Blackhawks Beat Bruins In Overtime, 6-5, To Tie The Series
That was fun, wasn't it? After this series's first three games only yielded 12 total goals, both teams went off tonight for 11 combined goals. The game was tied 5-5 at the end of regulation, but midway through overtime, Blackhawks defenseman Brent Seabrook slapped a wicked shot low past Bruins goal...

"Pacman" Jones Goes On ESPN To Explain Arrest, Says "Hoe" And "Fuck"
Adam 'Pacman' Jones is making the media tours to clear his name after a recent arrest that found him striking a woman he claims attacked him with a bottle. It might be smart for Jones to not say things like "Hoe, where in the fuck did you come from?" on live ESPN Radio, but that's exactly what he d...


Victim Identified In Murder Probe With Ties To Aaron Hernandez
The media have swarmed the North Attleboro, Mass., home of Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, who has been questioned in connection with the murder of a 27-year-old Boston man. WBZ said the victim is Odin Lloyd, a semi-pro football player whose body was found by a jogger on Monday in an industrial ...

Aaron Hernandez Questioned By Police In Homicide Investigation
According to multiple reports, Boston police have questioned Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez as part of an investigation into the possible homicide of a 27-year-old Boston man, and may be interested in searching Hernandez's home. ...


That Insane New Falcons Stadium Is Really Going To Happen
From a pair of ideas floated in April, the Falcons have chosen the official conceptual design for their new stadium, set to begin construction next year. It features an eight-piece roof that will twist closed—essentially an iris diaphragm. We hereby nominate, for a nickname, "The Sphincter."...

Here's The Steve Gleason Bit That Got Three Atlanta Radio Hosts Fired
Today, former Saint Steve Gleason guested on SI's MMQB—no mean feat since he's in the later stages of ALS. He types using a program that tracks movements of his eyes, and his 4,500-word column took him four hours to compose. Around the same time the column was published, an Atlanta sports talk radio...

Report: Kerry Rhodes Is Claiming To Be The Father Of KimYe's Baby
Kerry Rhodes is awfully tired of people thinking he's gay. So tired, evidently, that he has claimed paternity of Kim Kardashian's just-born daughter....

Chad Johnson Gets Out Of Jail, Claims To Be Losing $46,000 A Month
It's been one week since Chad Johnson earned himself a trip to jail for excitedly patting his attorney on the backside (he thought he was getting off without jail time, you see). But the judge has decided that Johnson learned his lesson, and after an apology, he's a free man....

Vladimir Putin Says He Didn't Steal Bob Kraft's Super Bowl Ring
Yesterday, we wrote about how Russian president Vladimir Putin Deboed Patriots owner Bob Kraft for one of his Super Bowl rings. The story felt too good to be true, which means it might be too good to be true. Kraft's recount of the exchange and Putin's quote, for example, approaches something resemb...

I Can't Stop Watching This Tony Romo Vine
Five times in a row, and it's still funny....

Patriots Owner Claims Vladimir Putin Stole His Super Bowl Ring
Back in 2005, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft met with Russian president Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg. Earlier that year, the Patriots beat the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl XXXIX, and Kraft was wearing the ring he earned from that victory....

The 16 Worst Coaches In Modern NFL History
We are living in the Golden Age of Terrible NFL Coaching. The NFL rulebook and offensive and defensive playbooks have become so complex in the 21st century that only a hobo savant like Bill Belichick can even come close to making every right decision over the course of an entire football game. And...

The Steelers Are Suing To Avoid Paying For More Seats At Heinz Field
Heinz Field is 12 years old. It's still in great shape, even if its playing surface never was. The Steelers have a waiting list for season tickets that stretches as far as the eye can see. But the stadium's capacity is just 65,500, one of the smallest in the NFL. So the Steelers would like to add an...

Is Pete Carroll A 9/11 Truther?
Is Seahawks coach Pete Carroll a 9/11 truther? That all depends: Does badgering a former four-star general about whether 9/11 was real make one a truther?...

Jason Peters Accused Of Drag Racing, Leading Police On 100 MPH Chase
Eagles tackle Jason Peters was arrested early yesterday morning in Monroe, La., after allegedly drag racing then fleeing from police when they tried to pull him over....