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The Skins Turned Mike Shanahan's Presser Into A Hostage Situation
Or at least that's what it feels like, given some of the tweets that have been coming out of the Skins' facility today. The DC media was called in to cover a 10 a.m. press conference with Mike Shanahan, a thing that's pretty standard procedure when a coach has just been fired, and they arrived to fi...

This Eagles Fan Is Really, Really, <em>Really</em> Excited They Won The NFC East
Tonight the Eagles seized the NFC East title and a trip to the playoffs thanks to a win in Dallas. Fans back in Philadelphia were pretty excited, especially this guy known only as "Mr. G."...

Wisconsin Football Celebrates Packers Win, Except For One Sad Bears Fan
Players from Wisconsin's football team watched the Packers-Bears game from their hotel in Orlando as they prep for the Capital One Bowl. When Randall Cobb caught the game-winning touchdown for Green Bay, most of them celebrated. Most of them. The Bears fan in the Matt Forte jersey was so, so unhappy...

Whether Or Not Rob Chudzinski's Been Fired, Browns Players Are Mad
The Browns went from 5-11 last season to 4-12 this season under first-year coach Rob Chudzinski. According to Chris Mortensen, Chud will be fired. (Although he hasn't actually been fired yet.) Browns players are reportedly mad at the prospect of Chud leaving....

Anderson Silva's Final Moment
Anderson Silva, more than any other fighter ever, had—or has, who knows—a gift for timing, so that his career played out as a sequence of essentially perfect moments. The best may have been a Chaplinesque performance in a loss this summer that was so unimprovable that he should have said he was done...

Report: Mike Shanahan Was Near-Obsessive With RG3's Media Availability
Mike Shanahan is most likely done as Washington's head coach after today's game, which means this is an opportune time to talk anonymously about him. It seems that many people inside the Skins organization took advantage of that....

Make Going To The Gym This Year's Resolution (And Piss Everyone Off)
Let's talk resolutions. Let's specifically talk about other people talking about resolutions. You know all the capital-R Runners and muscle heads all get together drinking Michelob Ultras and smoking those Stephen Dorff electric cigarettes to shit talk on all the people who flood their gyms for the ...

Girls' Basketball Game Turns Ugly With Some Help From Skylar Diggins
Things got chippy last night at a high school basketball game where Skylar Diggins, the former Notre Dame star now playing for the WNBA's Tulsa Shock, was in attendance to have her jersey retired. One player punched another in the face and got ejected, all while Diggins sniped at her former team's o...

The Ballsiest Punt Return You'll See
This punt return is fantastic. Ryan Switzer baits the Cincinnati coverage team into thinking he's going to fair catch it—one Bearcat is right in his face—and then he just takes off 86 yards for the touchdown. It was his fifth punt return TD of the season, tying the NCAA record....

Jesse Palmer Saved Chris Fowler's Life With The Heimlich Maneuver
Jesse Palmer is more than a pretty face, impossible hairdo and your mom's favorite. He's a hero! Just listen to Chris Fowler....

Reports: Texans To Hire Penn State's Bill O'Brien
According to Adam Schefter and Chris Mortensen, the Texans and Bill O'Brien are working on an agreement to make Joe Paterno's replacement Gary Kubiak's replacement as well. ...

Turkish League Player Misses Goal From One Yard Away
It takes an enormous amount of skill to kick a soccer ball toward a goal from one yard away and miss the target. Romanian soccer player Bogdan Stancu must be really skilled!...

Dad Gets Bears-Fan Daughter A Packers Jersey For Christmas
Man, parents can be real assholes sometimes. ...

First-Half Lowlights From The Pinstripe Bowl
Notre Dame and Rutgers square off in the Pinstripe Bowl at the New Yankee Stadium. You can almost taste the tradition. ...

World Junior Championships Linesman Levelled By Czech Player
Michal Plutnar of the Czech Republic just ran over a linesman in a World Junior Championships game against Canada. I'm not sure how many times the broadcasters asked, in various ways, "what was he thinking," but it was a lot. ...

How Anderson Silva Turned Loss Into Victory
Anderson Silva and Chris Weidman will fight for the middleweight title tonight in a rematch of their bout from July, and it's a strange one, because despite Weidman having finished Silva off last time, no one really has any idea what to expect. Weidman could wax an aged and suddenly vulnerable Silva...

Gene Teague Slams Head On Court, Suffers "Really Bad Concussion"
This is a scary moment from early in the second half of Friday's Seton Hall game against Lafayette. Gene Teague, who was having a phenomenal game up to that point and already had a double-double, has his feet undercut as he makes his move to the rim and violently lands on his head. He then begins co...

The Redskins' Incompetent PR Guy Is Also A Giant Cry Baby
We've met Tony Wyllie—the Washington Redskins' deeply stupid, duplicitous shitbag of a PR flack—around these parts before. He's the man who once compared Dan Snyder's ridiculous libel suit against Dave McKenna to the plight of Egyptian protestors in Tahrir Square. He's also the guy who threatened to...
