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Hall of Fame defensive end Deacon Jones passed away from natural causes. He was 74....

Former Bills great Jim Kelly has been diagnosed with cancer in his upper jaw. He will have surgery later this week, and he says "the prognosis for my recovery is very good."...

Indiana On LeBron James: "He's A Flopper"

Near the end of the third quarter last night, LeBron James stepped to the free throw line for a pair of foul shots and the Indiana crowd serenaded him with a round of "he's a flopper" chants....

Michael Tomasky from the Daily Beast just jumped into the Redskins name-change debate. He rationally gives the argument some historical context, and it just might be the best piece written on the subject so far. Read it....

Is Tim Tebow's NFL Career Over? His Camp Is Torn

In a story in ESPN The Magazine's upcoming issue, writer David Fleming goes long on the NFL's casting out of Tim Tebow and questions whether the free agent quarterback still has a future in the NFL. The answer Fleming comes up with: probably not....

Steelers Tackle Mike Adams Hospitalized After Stabbing [UPDATE]

The Pittsburgh Steelers have just released a statement saying Mike Adams, their second-year offensive tackle, was stabbed early this morning in what looks like an attempted robbery in the city's South Side. Adams, 23, had to be hospitalized....

Rams running back Isaiah Pead will be suspended one game for violating the NFL's substance-abuse policy. First: one game! Second: Pead is the fourth member of the Rams' 2012 draft class to be suspended for something or other....

All Night Long

Back in 1969, Jimmy Breslin spent a night hanging out with Broadway Joe Namath:...

Calvin Johnson is funding a pro-abstinence movie—"a coming-of-age story about a girl trying to stay true to her virginity and her religion"—and it has this poster. So there you go. [TNR]...

On Tuesday, Temple's Matt Brown was supposed to fly to Saskatchewan to sign a CFL contract, but couldn't board the plane because his passport had expired. On Wednesday, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers called to offer him a job. [Philly.com]...

Want To Buy Doug Flutie's House? It Has A White Piano And Pink Carpet

Former Boston College and NFL quarterback/folk hero Doug Flutie and his wife just put their Natick, Mass., estate on the market for $1.7 million. The house was built in 1995, and hoo boy does its age show....

Guys Who Taped Call Between NFL GMs Charged With Federal Crime

A little over two months ago, we published a recording of a phone call between Bills then-general manager Buddy Nix and Buccaneers GM Mark Dominik. A couple of 20-year-olds had shared with us the fruits of their ingenious prank, wherein they called the Bills' switchboard as Dominik (looking to speak...

Rob Gronkowski Needs Another Goddamned Surgery

Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski will have yet another surgery, this time on his back, and is expected to miss part of training camp. That's the best-case scenario....

Panthers Lineman Hits Cam Newton With A Fantastic Videobomb

Usually, the mark of a good videobomb is its subtlety, but Panthers lineman Jordan Gross is proof that the art form can also be deployed with a more overt sensibility. Gross's frantic jig was enough to get Cam Newton to forget the question that he had just been asked, so we'll call this videobomb a...

Saints Receiver Joe Morgan Busted For Alleged DWI

The Earhart Expressway is a pretty damned busy highway. It's three lanes in either direction, and runs from New Orleans to the suburbs, and sometimes a Saints receiver passes out in his car in the middle of the road on a Saturday night....

Maurice Jones-Drew Allegedly Punched Out A Bar Staffer [UPDATED]

Jacksonville Jaguars running back and back-to-UCLA student Maurice Jones-Drew has been charged with battery after he allegedly punched and knocked out a bar staffer over the weekend at a beach bar in St. Augustine, Fla., according to police....

Adrian Peterson said in a radio interview that gay marriage is "not something I believe in."...

Trope-Recycling Bill Simmons Has Bill Simmons Syndrome

Bill Simmons this week mused on the fate of Dwight Howard, who appears to be the NBA's equivalent of plutonium: a potential world-beater but perilously radioactive. To characterize the gap between Perceived Dwight Howard and Actual Dwight Howard, the founder of Grantland and ESPN spittling-head did ...

Titus Young did not have a productive court appearance today, refusing to acknowledge or respond to a judge's questions. [PFT]...

The Rams Signed A 403-Pound Lineman

Ole Miss had tackle Terrell Brown officially listed at 385. That was either a lie, or he's had a sedentary spring, because after the Rams signed him as an undrafted free agent earlier in the week, they put him on the scale and got a big surprise....