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NFL Players' Softer Sides Are Just As Dumb
Disclosure: thanks to a friend in editorial, I'm often one of the anonymous guys in the "men tell you what they really want" articles at Cosmo. That's my excuse for knowing that this month's issue features some football players....
Did Tony Romo Forget How To Count To Four?
Watching the Dallas Cowboys run the same failed play two times in a row probably confused a lot of their fans, but it might have been their quarterback who was confused about how many downs he had left....
Rick Reilly® Has Found A New, Bizarre Way To Express His Oral Fixation
Teeth jokes are out. Tongue-bathing is in....
Jerry Jones Admits To Watching Irvin-On-Irvin Video
Was there ever a doubt that he wouldn't watch it? Probably had that big Texas snicker going the whole time. [Dallas Observer]...
Florida State Opens Door, Points Bobby Bowden Toward It
The chairman of Florida State's Board of Trustees says "enough is enough" and 2009 should be Bobby Bowden's last year. He also knows this great place that is a "retirement community" and totally not a nursing home. [Tallahassee Democrat]...
Zombie Pat Tillman Would Be Playing For Bill Belichick Right Now, Peter King Reports
In March 2003, the United States embarked on a misbegotten and illegitimate war in Iraq that would have profound and sadly irrevocable consequences on ... the 2005 NFL free-agent market. So says Peter King....
Braylon Edwards Accused Of Punching FOL (Friend Of LeBron) UPDATED
Well, the Browns' season just got a whole lot better. Their "star" wide receiver was accused of punching a man last night and the victim says it's all because Braylon Edwards isn't as popular as LeBron James....
The Continued Dissemination Of TMZ's Erin Andrews Heroism
This is still bothering me, obviously, and in order to sate my tin-foil sleazeball conspiracies, I'm publishing an email sent to me in order to corroborate my post that TMZ's coverage of the Erin Andrews peepholery was a little sketch....
The Lost Poise
Mark Sanchez threw three picks in yesterday's loss to the Saints, and on the season he has five interceptions against four touchdowns, all of which means that sportswriters must now address the grave matter of Sanchez's inexplicable lack of poise....
Baseball Season Won't Die
While the season is over for Schlongoria and company, there's still a bit of business left to settle in the AL Central before the playoffs start....
Good Interview, Lofty Interview
Peter King makes "a stupid amount of money." Not that he isn't worth it or anything. But really, he doesn't want to talk about it. [Wall Street Journal]...
Eli Manning Signed His Work In Dallas
That's Eli Manning's signature on a column in the Cowboys Stadium's visitors locker room according to an NBCDFW user....
TMZ's Bamboozling Erin Andrews Coverage
TMZ has curiously been anointed the white-hatted hero for turning over the email address of the individual accused of tearing apart a peephole and filming Erin Andrews undressed multiple times. So why did they screw up the story so badly?...
Posnanski Responds To Bissinger Diss Track
You'll recall that W.C. "Buzz" Bissingheinz called out Joe Posnanski in yesterday's chat equivalent of an old guy wearing his hat backward. Posnanski replies: "I have never had a feud before. Could this be the start of something new?" [JoePosnanski.com]...
Mike Francesa Continues Bitter Assault Against Sports Fella And ESPN
Irked by ESPN's "30 for 30" docu film fest, Mad Dog-less Mike Francesa went on another rant about the WWL's monopolizing of sports and called out Bill Simmons for being a "stooge" for the network. History repeating. [Fantasy555]...
Somehow, The Chilled Afterlife Of Ted Williams Manages To Get Weirder
Workers at Alcor, the cryonics lab where the frozen leftovers of Ted Williams are being preserved in liquid nitrogen, allegedly decapitated the Splendid Splinter and mutilated his head with a monkey wrench. There goes the greatest sentence ever written....
The Strangest Dirk Nowitzki Story You'll Ever Read
Deadspin presents to you a look at the burgeoning genre of Dirk Nowitzki fiction. Featuring homoerotic thoughts about Steve Nash, a Christ complex, and Oedipal musings. We are through the looking glass here, people....
Book From Hell
So, by the looks of it, Rick Reilly®'s new book promises to be a thoroughly dignified affair that won't in any way represent another sad step in a once-great sportswriter's descent into self-parody and studied wackiness. That much is evident....
Buzz Bissinger's Highlight Reel
So that happened. Buzz Bissinger popped up in the comments section this afternoon and he did not disappoint....
ESPN Plans To Favre The Favre Out Of You
"ESPN, says spokesman Mike Soltys, will announce that on next Monday's broadcast of its ESPN2 SportsNation (5 p.m. ET), it will try to set a record for the most mentions of Brett Favre on a TV show..."[AwfulAnnouncing]...