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J.J. Watt Returns Interception For An 80-Yard TD
J.J. Watt is a robot posing as a human who sometimes forgets to pretend that he's mortal and does really fantastic things on the football field as a result. This play, where he intercepts E.J. Manuel and rumbles 80 yards to the house without anyone even getting close to him, is one of those things....
Steve Smith Is Gutting And Sautéing And Eating The Panthers
We've had this Panthers-Ravens game circled ever since Steve Smith got released from Carolina, warned everyone to "put your goggles on because there is going to be blood and guts everywhere," and signed with the Ravens. It was worth the wait....
Antonio Brown Scores, Turns Into Spinning Football
Thanks to Antonio Brown, the Steelers tied the Buccaneers at 10 near the end of the first quarter. The receiver's celebration was inspired....
Brady Hoke's Dangerous Incompetence So Bad ESPN Announcers Denounce It
Michigan quarterback Shane Morris took a nasty, and illegal, hit to the skull in the fourth quarter of last night's loss to Minnesota. Not only was Morris immediately re-inserted into the game, but Wolverines head coach Brady Hoke claimed " I didn't know if [Morris] had a concussion or not."...
Inching Towards 2 Hours: The Marathon WR Just Dropped to 2:02
On a beautiful day for running in Berlin, Dennis Kimetto won his second major marathon title and locked up the World Marathon Majors prize. Oh, and he also became the first human to break 2:03. That's 4:42 per mile for 26 miles....
<em>SNL</em> Cold Open Features "Ray Lewis" & "Shannon Sharpe" Talking NFL Issues
Saturday Night Live opened its 40th season tonight with the NFL, as Kenan Thompson and Jay Pharoah took on the personas of Ray Lewis and Shannon Sharpe, respectively, attempting to respond to recent scandals involving Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson....
ODU Streaker Spikes Football, Evades Security (For A While) [NSFW?]
It took awhile for us to find good video of this streaker from last night's MTSU-Old Dominion game, but it was worth the wait. Here, from WAVY, is a censored clip of the gentleman who ran onto the field, spiked a football, and evaded a half-dozen security members—all while in full-on streaker mode....
Here Is A Sad Gallery Of Sad, Sad Michigan Fans
Michigan got its ass handed to it by Minnesota today in front of a dwindling crowd of people, many of whom got in for free. Here are some of those sad, sad fans....
UMass Video Board Falls Over During Third Quarter
UMass took on Bowling Green in its first game on-campus in three years today, and it would appear they haven't worked out all the kinks yet. Early in the third quarter, the video board fell over. Unfortunately, there's no video of the actual fall, but we can see the board hanging limp in the afterma...
Razorbacks Punter Shows SEC Speed In Scoring On Fake Punt
Sam Irwin-Hill is Arkansas' "punter from down under," but the former Australian footy player showed a bit of his old skills during a 51-yard fake punt rush for touchdown that put the Razorbacks up on the highly-favored Texas A & M Aggies....
Arkansas Player Hit In Face By Errant Pass While Watching Jumbotron
The gigantic video board at Jerry World has claimed another victim: this Arkansas player, who while sitting on the bench was staring up at it while an errant (or, maybe, thrown away) pass headed directly toward his face....
Northwestern CB Matthew Harris Carted Off After Helmet-To-Helmet Hit
It was another scary reminder of the dangers college football players face on a weekly basis, as Northwestern defensive back Matthew Harris lay motionless on the turf for several minutes following a helmet-to-helmet collision with Penn State quarterback Christian Hackenberg....
The Kansas City Royals Are In The Playoffs For The First Time Since 1985
The Kansas City Royals are going to the playoffs! We'll ignore for now that they've only earned a spot in the Wild Card play-in and that the Tigers lead the division by a game. Either way, the Royals will be playing more than 162 games for the first time since Ronald Reagan was president....
Officials Botch Blocked Punt In UTEP-KSU, Spend 12 Minutes Not Fixing
This is one of the more bizarre plays you'll see today. Kansas State blocked its second UTEP punt of the first quarter, only to see the entire play called back due to an inadvertent whistle. And it took 12 minutes—12 minutes!—for officials to realize and then verify that they screwed up....
Baseball Player Tears ACL On Homer, Hops On One Foot Around Bases
York Revolution center fielder Sean Smith hit a game-tying home run in the eighth inning for his independent-league team last night, but slipped on first base and tore his ACL. Smith refused to get help from anyone, however; he got on one foot and hopped the rest of the way....
Thom Yorke Did Not Bypass The Gatekeepers. He Is One.
As of this morning there is a new Thom Yorke solo album in the world, titled Tomorrow's Modern Boxes and available for $6 via BitTorrent. This is cool and good; I heartily recommend you stop using BitTorrent to illegally download pornography long enough to legally check it out, flush as it is wi...
Local TV Tries To Cover Shellshock Bug, Fails Miserably
With news breaking yesterday of a potentially catastrophic bug in the Bash shell since dubbed "Shellshock," media outlets rushed to breathlessly tell viewers about their newly hackable Apple computers. In that rush, they almost universally got the facts wrong....
The Most Popular Color Combinations In College Football
Here's a relationship chart of the colors of all 128 FBS college football programs, put together by 614 analytics. It serves as a good reminder that some schools have some truly ghastly color combinations. Brown and orange, Bowling Green? ...
The Sports Guy Vs. ESPN: How Bill Simmons Lost Bristol
It was, he would later tell a confidant, like something out of The Godfather. Bill Simmons was meeting with two of the most powerful executives at ESPN, John Skipper and John Walsh, in a conference room in ESPN’s then-unfinished Los Angeles office hard by the Staples Center. Within three years, thi...