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The NFLPA Can Make A "Let Us Play" Ad, But The Networks Don't Have To Let It Play
The NFLPA released an ad for its "Let Us Play" campaign, and CBS won't run it during Saturday's Texas-America All-Star game. Could this be what the NFLPA, which is better at internetting than most teenagers, had in mind to begin with?...
Hubristic Schadenfreude: Guy In Tapout Shirt Gets Floored
Remember, just because you buy the shirt, doesn't make you an MMA fighter. Or in this kid's case, maybe it gives him Keith Jardine's glass jaw....
Jack LaLanne Tried To Kill His Brother With An Ax, And Other Fond Memories
Occasionally, we'll select stories — old and new, sports and otherwise, relevant and merely sublime — that we urge you to read for one reason or another. Today: the late Jack LaLanne, fitness televangelist....
NFLPA's Labor Strategy Involves Liberal Use Of Twitter Hashtags
Today, all current and former NFL players received an email from NFLPA President Kevin Mawae, planning a day of solidarity on social networking sites tomorrow. @drMLKjr would be proud....
Today In Dumb Anti-NFLPA Spin
Florio has a pretty good rundown of the NFL's coming labor apocalypse, but there's one point he makes that I really hope doesn't catch on, even though you can be sure it will....
Sometimes Bowling Balls Do Magical Things
BOWLING. Josh Scanlon rolls two strikes in the 10th frame during the Team USA trials. Then the ball comically slips out of his hands on his third shot. The ball takes it from there....
A Former Player Responds To Roger Goodell's Open Letter
What a buzzkill. On the eve of the playoffs, just when fans' excitement in the sport is cresting, Roger Goodell tripped on his shoestrings again, puked all over his keyboard, and then hit "send."...
Don't Worry: In The Event Of An NFL Lockout, Bob Costas Will Still Get Paid
Here's a letter from Mary Cavallaro of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. In it, she assures the NFL broadcasters among her membership that they'll still get paid their current salary even if there are no NFL games to broadcast....
Your Non-Bowl College Football Open Thread
Villanova lost on the red turf of Eastern Washington last night in the first Football Championship Series semifinal [News Tribune]. The second kicks off at noon, as Georgia Southern visits the mighty University of Delaware Fighting Blue Hens....
Video Proof That Traveling Doesn't Exist Anymore
Where, you might ask, do our nation's NBA players get the idea that two steps is just a suggested limit? It starts early. PIVOT FOOT, YOU LITTLE CHEATER, NOT PIVOT FEET....
Surprisingly Congruous When You Think About It Mixtape Theater: Barry Sanders
Welcome to Surprisingly Congruous When You Think About It Mixtape Theater. Today's entry: Lions great Barry Sanders set to Clint Mansell & The Kronos Quartet's overture from the Requiem For A Dream soundtrack....
Here's That Nice Lady Getting Her Boob Licked At The Florida State-Florida Game (LEGAL UPDATES)
Yesterday we brought you a young lass made insta-notable by a fortuitously timed fall from atop a pickup truck. We were sent some more documentation of her UF-FSU tailgate afternoon, and it turns out she's...free-spirited. [NSFW]...
Raiders Fan Knocks Out Dolphins Fan, Crowd Reacts Jubilantly
Yet again, football fans took justice into their own hands. Here we have a mouthy (looking) Dolphins fan apparently insulting everyone around him before getting punched out by a Raiders fan. And you'd better believe the ethnographer confirmed he recorded it all....
At FSU-Florida Tailgates, Beer-Bonging May Be Interrupted By An Ass-Jiggling Gal Falling Off A Pick-up Truck
Hopefully, the poor girl in the huge sunglasses got to finally suck down that funnel she'd been diligently training for all day. She seemed rattled. [YouTube]...
Your College Football Night Games Open Thread
Having spent 16 months as a South Carolinian, I might could think USC/Clemson is the best rivalry going. I done seen how severely people turn on people who support the other side, and I revel in its peak-level sadism....
The Awkward Team Photos Of Our Awkward Youth (And One Dog): A Gallery
We asked for photos of America's uncomfortably posed youth athletes, and you delivered. Please enjoy....
High School Football Brawl In West Virginia Gets Really Out Of Hand
South Charleston High School vs. Hurricane. Benches cleared, haymakers were thrown, pepper spray was sprayed. Then the Ducky Boys showed up with bike chains and car antennas and things really went to shit. [WOWK]...
The Award For Best Headline Of The Day
... goes to the Sun Herald of Biloxi-Gulfport for referring to the Southern Miss/Houston game as a "shootout" while noting, in the very first sentence, that three Golden Eagles were recovering from — drum roll please — gunshot wounds!...
Here's Video Of The Knockout Of The Year Getting Delivered In Atlantic City Last Night
Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....
This Taurus Likes Long Manhunts, Smiling Perp Walks And Allegedly Shooting Football Players
The Hattiesburg American reports that a "massive manhunt" stemming from last weekend's "hunt club" shooting of a trio of Southern Miss Golden Eagle football players ended last night with Travis "Taurus" Brown's arrest....