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Ohio State Players Tease Defensive Coordinator For Talking About His New Job
Ohio State defensive coordinator Chris Ash has been hired to be the new head coach at Rutgers, and he wants everyone to know how excited he is about the new job:...
You May Be Invested In Guns And Not Know It
Do you have a 401k? Yes? Congrats! Investing in a 401k is a commonly used way to save for whatever the future brings when you’re old—it’s a retirement investment plan that you’re able to sign up for through your employer. That said, according to today’s New York Times, your 401k provider might also ...
Goalkeeping Boner Gives Portland A Goal 27 Seconds Into MLS Cup
Steve Clark got way too casual with this backwards pass from Wil Trapp and gifted Diego Valeri and the Portland Timbers a goal to start MLS Cup. At 27 seconds, this is easily the fastest goal in MLS Cup history....
Here Are Your College Football Playoff Matchups
ESPN just revealed the matchups for the second annual College Football Playoff. #1 Clemson will take on #4 Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl, and #2 Alabama has #3 Michigan State in the Cotton Bowl. Both games will be played on December 31, with the final on January 11 in Arizona. ...
Farewell, Elegant Bachelor: Scott Weiland, RIP
The thing about being a rock star in the ’90s is you had to act like you hated being a rock star, and this is where Scott Weiland made his first mistake. As frontman for Stone Temple Pilots, whose 1992 debut Core was an instant Columbia House Hall of Famer, he swaggered and sashayed and preened and ...
Lionel Messi Was Already A Baller As A 12-Year-Old In Argentina
Here are some highlights from a Newell’s Old Boys vs. El Torito youth match back in October of 1999. If your struck by the kid in the red and white number 10 jersey and his uncannily familiar way of freezing some defenders solid with his dribbling and nipping the ball away from others right at the v...
Edmonton Wins Cup
The Edmonton Eskimos defeated the Ottawa Redblacks 26-20 Sunday and won their first Grey Cup since 2005. Here’s where we’d say you wasted your time watching another week of regular-season NFL, but the 4 p.m. Steelers-Seahawks game was pretty damn good. The Grey Cup was good, too....
There's Never A Bad Time To Enjoy Some Vintage Shaq Highlights
For no particular reason, let’s take a moment to gawk at some of Shaquille O’Neal’s best highlights....
Controversy Over Lumberjack Celebration Engulfs Grey Cup
In what’s probably the most Canadian sentence I will ever write, the Edmonton Eskimos have successfully lobbied the Canadian Football League to restrict the Ottawa Redblacks from bringing along the loggersports team that traditionally saws off a celebratory log slice after touchdowns. The Grey Cup t...
Jerry Jones Says Rushing Tony Romo Back Was Worth it
Way back in September, when the Cowboys were 2-0 and looking like they could win a weak NFC East, Tony Romo broke his collarbone. The injury held him out for eight weeks, during which the Cowboys went 0-7. With the NFC East a shitpile at that point (for the record, it’s still a shitpile), the 2-7 Co...
Stoops Rhymes With Poops: Your Stillwater <i>College GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
ESPN sent the College GameDay crew to Stillwater for Bedlam, and the miserable weather led to what we can only assume was a smaller-than-usual crowd. They brought signs, though! Here are some of them:...
ESPN's Bomani Jones Cuts Straight To The Heart Of The Laquan McDonald Killing
Last night, the Chicago Police Department released footage of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shooting Laquan McDonald, a 17-year-old black boy, to death. McDonald had a small knife, but was moving away from Van Dyke at a safe distance and posed no threat. Van Dyke shot McDonald 16 times over ...
Blake Griffin And Nuggets Coach Mike Malone Got Into It Over "Hack-A-DJ" Strategy
It’s not often we see a coach being held back by his team from going after an opposing player, but things got chippy in the fourth quarter of the Clippers’ 111-94 win in Denver. The scuffle—limited to a verbal one—was sparked by Griffin’s displeasure with the Nuggets’ “Hack-A-DJ” strategy, and damne...
Derrick Jones Jr. Is College Basketball's Best Dunker
UNLV small forward Derrick Jones Jr. is a freshman, a mere teenager, not yet old enough to drink. And yet, he is terrorizing rims in and around gyms across America:...
The Jon Jones Redemption Tour Is Off With A Bang
This morning, MMA Fighting dropped an exclusive hour-long interview with former UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones. As you may remember, Jones had his belt stripped in April after he got in a car accident, fled the scene, and was subsequently arrested, just four weeks before he was set to defe...
The<i> Rocky </i>Movies, Ranked
Sylvester Stallone’s recent sit-down with Robert Rodriguez for The Director’s Chair made a pretty compelling case that the Rocky movies ought to be taken seriously as Sly’s greatest artistic achievement. Sure, most of them are exactly the same movie. (Rocky has to fight somebody no one thinks he ca...
The Cowboys Are In Over Their Heads With Greg Hardy
Before the start of yesterday’s NFL action, NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport reported that the Cowboys’ support for defensive end and accused domestic abuser Greg Hardy was beginning to wane:...
Apparently, You <i>Can</i> Wear A Hoodie Under An NFL Jersey
This is the NFL, where you will get fined for wearing the wrong cleats, or eye black, or headphones, or baseball cap. So when Packers WR James Jones played the entire 30-13 win over the Vikings with a hoodie on underneath his jersey, most everyone figured he’d have to cut a check to pay for his cozi...
Ohio State's Ezekiel Elliott: "No Chance Of Me Coming Back Next Year"
So Ohio State really melted down fast, huh? After coming into the day looking like a likely playoff participant, against a hobbled Michigan State team, the Buckeyes shit the bed and let the Spartans hang 10 up on them in the fourth quarter to storm back and win. After the game it got worse, as Ezeki...