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Victor Cruz Continued His Remarkable Season With This 99-Yard Touchdown Catch
Know who this guy is yet, Darrelle Revis? [FOX]...

The Kickline Is Up And It's Good: Your NFL Early Games Open Thread
Week 16 here we come. What a gift: meaningful games, playoff implications for the lucky and draft day implications for the depressed. Let's get to it. ...

Authorities Won't Say Why This Bengals Cheerleader Is Under Investigation, But We Have An Idea
Today's edition of "Ohio or Florida?" features an NFL cheerleader/high school English teacher who may have had an inappropriate relationship with a student. Spoiler: It's Ohio....

ShortCenter: Examining The Colts' Options, With No Hyperbole Whatsoever
What is ESPN prattling on about right now? We condense your morning SportsCenter to its essence....

Here's How Dan Orlovsky (With The Help Of The Houston Texans) Ruined Christmas For Colts Fans
Down 16-12 to the Houston Texans with 1:50 left in the game, no timeouts, and the ball on their own 22, the Indianapolis Colts would have been heavy dogs to win even with Peyton Manning playing quarterback. But win they did, thanks to the heroics of backup-backup QB Dan Orlovsky and some timely pe...

Football In The Dark Is An Illuminating Thing
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....

Twitter Is Driving Everybody Insane (Especially Darren Rovell)
Will Leitch, contributing editor at New York Magazine and editor emeritus of Deadspin, is filling in for Drew Magary on today's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo. Leitch has written four books. Find more of his business at his Twitter feed....

The Wonderful Miracle Of Mass Confusion On The Football Field
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....

Cam Newton’s Trick Play Was My Second-Favorite Moment of the Season
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....

This Year In Angry NFL Coaches: A Video
Coaching in the NFL is undoubtedly a very stressful job, and sometimes the camera catches you while you're letting that stress out. We've compiled some of the best of clips of NFL coaches letting their anger out this season for you above....

Former Bears WR Willie Gault Is Being Accused Of Securities Fraud
A member of the '85 Super Bowl shufflers, Gault is one of six people allegedly connected with a scheme to falsely inflate the stock price of a company that makes heart-monitoring equipment. Smooth as a chocolate swirl. [Bloomberg]...

How To Avoid Counterfeit Tebowing: A Visual Guide
If not for planking, Tebowing would go down in history as this generation's silliest physical obsession, joining past actions like the Charleston, the Macarena, and streaking. Despite the fad's (now waning) popularity, there still appears to be some confusion as to the proper technique or how to re...

Ryan Grant Says The Only Formula For Beating The Packers Is "Us Making Mistakes"
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Grant believes that the Packers lost, not that the Chiefs won....

What Dose Of Defeat Tastes Most Bitter?
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....

<em>Monday Night Football</em>'s Experiment With A New Sideline Reporter Failed Miserably
ESPN paid the NFL $1.1 billion this year for the rights to broadcast Monday Night Football. To bolster that coverage and warrant that massive sum, they pay millions of dollars in salaries to NFL sideline reporters Suzy Kolber, Rachel Nichols, Sal Paolantonio, and Ed Werder....

ShortCenter: Marcellus Wiley Advocates For The Needle
What is ESPN prattling on about right now? We condense your morning SportsCenter to its essence....

Aw Jeez, The Lights Are Out At Candlestick Again, A Fan Is On The Field, And Big Ben Is Providing Commentary
The lights went back out in Candlestick with 12:13 left in the first half, leading a fan to conclude the time was ripe to run onto the field. Ben Roethlisberger, meanwhile, lamented James Harrison's suspension—while Harrison himself took credit for the outage....

When The Lights Go Down In The City
The start of Monday Night Football is currently delayed due to this transformer explosion that blacked out Candlestick Park and presumably led to several copped feels. [ESPN]...

I Am Totally Not Going To Panic At All About Aaron Rodgers Getting Frighteningly Outplayed By Kyle Orton
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....

Ron Rivera Says The Panthers' Trick Play Yesterday Was Inspired By The Movie <i>Little Giants</i>
Carolina head coach Ron Rivera told reporters this afternoon that the Panthers' trick play against Houston yesterday was inspired by "The Annexation of Puerto Rico," the Fumblerooski play used at the end of the 1994 classic film Little Giants. Here's the play in question, which in the movie is cal...