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Oakland Fired Its P.R. Man Because Mark Davis Is His Father's Son
The Oakland Raiders fired their P.R. director, Zak Gilbert, Saturday because team owner Mark Davis did not like an article in Sports Illustrated that recapped Oakland's fourth 4-12 finish in the past 10 years. Davis felt the article reflected poorly on the way he and his late father ran the team and...
We Have No Idea Why Kobe Bryant's Wife Posted This To Instagram
Vanessa Bryant's Instagram sometimes can be a valuable source of actual news. Today, it featured an image of these four photos, which were taken yesterday at a barbecue....
Chris Kluwe Signs With The Oakland Raiders
It looks like our boy has finally found work. Chris Kluwe punted for the Minnesota Vikings for eight years, but was cut 10 days ago to make room for a younger, cheaper option: rookie punter Jeff Locke out of UCLA. In his time at Minnesota, he carved out a resume as maybe the best punter in franchise...
A Tribute To Rolando McClain's Brief, Brilliant NFL Career
23-year-old Ravens linebacker Rolando McClain retired from the NFL today, general manager Ozzie Newsome announced. But McClain will not be known as a Raven. He signed there just a little more than a month ago. He will instead be remembered as one of the Raideriest Raiders that ever Raidered....
Rolando McClain Got Arrested Again
Upon signing with the Ravens earlier this month—for no guaranteed money—linebacker Rolando McClain called it "a move that can’t go wrong." After being arrested in Decatur, Ala., last night—his third arrest there in 17 months—perhaps the only foolproof contract is one with a clause that doesn't let ...
JaMarcus Russell Cashed A Personal Check At A Grocery Store In San Diego Yesterday
JaMarcus Russell is now out on the streets of San Diego doing his thing, according to a reader, who, evidently, would like to be identified as "Sleazy Wink." He writes:...
Photoshop Contest: Desmond Bryant's Derpy Mug Shot
Raiders DT Desmond Bryant was arrested Sunday morning, and charged with criminal mischief. Details are sparse, but the Chronicle reports he was booked for "allegedly going to a neighbor's house inebriated and causing a commotion."...
Raiders Will Reduce Seating Capacity To The NFL's Smallest In Attempt To Avoid TV Blackouts
Oakland came in dead last in attendance this season, an average of 54,217 per game. That's just 86 percent of the capacity at O.co Coliseum, already one of the smallest stadiums in the NFL at 63,132. Not small enough. Nearly every game, the Raiders ran up against the NFL's blackout rules, which dict...
Pro Football Hall Of Fame Calls Up Sapp, Parcells, Ogden, Allen and Carter
The NFL's next Hall of Fame class, just announced, has a few dudes the TV made famous. There's Bill Parcells, who made a coaching career of winning two Super Bowls with the Giants and then convincing other teams believe he might ever do it again; Cris* Carter, who just proved that even Jerry Rice Li...
One-Time Raiders Defensive End Anthony Smith May Be The NFL's First Sociopathic Serial Killer
Anthony Smith was a defensive end for Alabama and Arizona for four years before being drafted 11th in the first round of the 1990 NFL Draft (six spots behind Junior Seau, six ahead of Emmitt Smith). He played seven seasons for the Raiders—the first four in Los Angeles, the last three in Oakland—befo...
A Pissed Off Bill Callahan Responds To Tim Brown And Jerry Rice
Someone finally got around to telling Bill Callahan that two of his former players have accused him of throwing Super Bowl XXXVII, and he is not happy. Here's a statement that Callahan released via NFL.com in response to accusations by Tim Brown and Jerry Rice that he lost the Super Bowl on purpose...
Jerry Rice And Tim Brown Say Bill Callahan Threw Super Bowl XXXVII
Bill Callahan, the offensive coordinator of the Dallas Cowboys, just got a promotion today. Jerry Jones took the playcalling reins away from Jason Garrett and put them in Callahan's hands. (Was Dallas's offense a problem? They ranked sixth in yards per game and 11th in Football Outsiders' DVOA stat....
Rolando McClain Got Thrown In Jail Because He Allegedly Told A Police Officer His Name Was "Fuck Y'all"
Oakland Raiders linebacker Rolando McClain can stop just one thing: the run. He can't stop the pass, and he can't stop himself from grinning hilariously on a perp walk, leading a mutiny against his head coach, or falling in the shit with Alabama cops. We saw a story yesterday that McClain had been t...
The Bengals Really Could Break Their 8,400-Day Playoff Winless Streak Today
For a summer in college I interned for the sports department of the Columbus Dispatch, which sent me for a few days to cover Cincinnati Bengals training camp. The 1990s had just come to a close—a dismal era even by the Bengals' standards—and the beat writers killed time during practice by stumping o...
Security Kicked Out An Entire Section Of Raiders And Chargers Fans
These seats are the absolute cheapest at Qualcomm Stadium: upper deck, behind an end zone, near the scoreboard. They're empty in this video, but not for a lack of tickets sold. This is the aftermath of a section-wide fight that went down in the fourth quarter of Sunday's absolutely meaningless Rai...
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"Hallelujah, Holy Shit! Where's The Tylenol?": Your Sunday NFL GIF Roundup [Updated]
We'll be putting all our GIFs for the day here, from London Fletcher losing his lunch to sad Tom Brady. We'll update the post as the later games conclude, so stay tuned. ...
The Raiders Cost Oakland 200 Police Officers In A Startlingly Direct Way
We looked at the steady increase in taxpayer-funded stadium construction recently, and Sports on Earth wrote about what they term "sports welfare"—this week, Bloomberg explained a combination of those phenomena, and a notably clear example of the way sports franchises can factor into the zero-sum ga...
The Raiders Plan To Use Terrelle Pryor Substantially On Sunday, Because Fuck It, Why Not?
So the 4-10 Raiders, with their expensive veteran quarterback and whiz-kid coach, aren't making the playoffs. At least they're trying something new now. Per Vic Tafur of the San Francisco Chronicle, offensive coordinator Greg Knapp plans to deploy third-string quarterback Terrelle Pryor on Sunday in...
Possibly Suicidal Pigeon Refuses To Leave Field During Chiefs-Raiders Game
We don't know really know what the hell is going on with this pigeon, which crashed Sunday's Chiefs-Raiders game by landing right in the middle of the action and absolutely refusing to give a shit about the 22 large men that were stomping around it. Maybe the pigeon was sick and disoriented, or wo...