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Cleveland Newspaper Headline Inadvertently Says Browns Have No Balls
There's already Sunday's planned giveaway of white flags, and now there's this headline in today's Plain Dealer. Steelers week really brings out the city's subtlety, doesn't it?...

The Cleveland Browns Will Be Giving Out White Flags For Fans To Wave During Sunday's Game
Hey, fans of the 2-8 Browns! Are you having trouble getting excited for Sunday's game against the Charlie Batch-quarterbacked Steelers? Come on, it includes the return of Plaxico Burress! This is AFC North football at its finest! But maybe you're still hesitant about this game's quality. You might ...

Despite Taking Top-Ranked Indiana To Overtime, This Georgetown Fan Had To Lash Out With The Double Bird
Indiana dispatched Georgetown last night 82-72, but not without a bit of trouble. The Hoosiers were unable to put away the Hoyas in regulation, and needed the extra five minutes to keep their undefeated season going. Even in the best moments of Georgetown's night, though, it seems there was one fan...

Mitch Albom Was "Phony Sweet" And Other Highlights Of <em>PTI</em>'s Accidentally Released Behind-The-Scenes Audio
ESPN helpfully publishes an audio podcast of its popular Pardon The Interruption program daily for viewers who can't find their way to a television at 5:30 p.m. Eastern. Yesterday, though, we received numerous emails alerting us to the bizarre nature of yesterday's podcast. For one, it was more tha...

A UTEP Football Player Was Arrested For Allegedly Making A "Terroristic Threat" At Another Student
UTEP wide receiver Jordan Leslie was arrested Sunday after allegedly threatening a fellow student. He was charged with one count of unlawful carrying of a weapon and one count of making a terroristic threat....

Official <em>Monday Night Football</em> Twitter Account Accidentally Links To German News Story About Brutal Nightclub Death
Apparently, ESPN's Monday Night Football broadcast runs some Twitter contest that amounts to "What player is Jon Gruden thinking of right now?" Last night, Gruden was thinking of San Francisco's NaVorro Bowman, which user @DanShedd correctly guessed. The MNF crew congratulated Dan on Twitter, told h...

Peter King Got A New Phone Number, So Stop Calling The Number He Accidentally Tweeted
On Saturday, NFL writer Peter King accidentally tweeted out his phone number. We wrote about it. King brought up his phone number fiasco in this week's Monday Morning Quarterback column, in a section titled "The End of the 973-650-0966 Era":...

"I'll Shove That Lax Stick Up Your Ass": A University Of Akron Football Player Flips Out On Fellow Students
The University of Akron Zips are not doing so hot in football this season. They're 0-7 in the conference and 1-10 overall. With talk of the University of Maryland heading to the Big Ten conference, Taylor Smith, an Akron student with ties to Maryland (she wrote "Heart in Maryland" in her Twitter bi...

Handball Player Freaks Out, Pulls His Pants Down After Opponent Kisses Him On The Cheek
We won't even pretend to know much about handball, but does this happen often? Ivan Stuffer was getting ready for some kind of handball play (we know that much!) when his opponent got very close to him. Close enough to smooch him on the cheek. As you can see above, Stuffer does not react well to k...

University of Minnesota Wide Receiver A.J. Barker Writes Scathing Goodbye Letter To Head Coach Jerry Kill, Alleging Abuse And Intimidation
Tonight, Minnesota Gophers wide receiver A.J. Barker announced his leave from the University of Minnesota and his intention to transfer over Twitter:...

Ed Hochuli Reviewed An Un-Reviewable Play And Then Said He Did Not Review It Because It Was Un-Reviewable
Cleveland unexpectedly forced Dallas to overtime, and after an incomplete pass to Miles Austin with 8:35 left to go in the extra period Cleveland called timeout—presumably to force a replay from the booth. Cleveland thought the play was a catch, fumble and Browns recovery. Almost immediately, CBS ...
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Cam Newton Gives A Small Child A Football And An Epileptic Fit: Your Sunday NFL GIF Roundup [Update]
We'll be putting all our GIFs for the day here, from the happiest person you'll ever see on the receiving end of a ball from Cam Newton, to the Cowboys onside kicking in the third quarter, and failing. We'll update the post as the later games conclude, so stay tuned....

Why Does Everyone Care Which Exit Lane Kiffin Used When He Left The Visitor's Locker Room Last Night?
Yesterday afternoon's much-hyped grudge match between USC and UCLA went in the Bruins' favor immediately, and for good; the score was 24-0 midway through the second quarter, and, despite a spirited comeback to bring the Trojans within three, UCLA won by 10. The Bruins have the better record in the P...

The Mismanaged, Crazy Jets Might Be Keeping Tebow On The Bench Because They Can't Afford The Incentives In His Contract
One of the great things about the Jets this year—the only great thing, perhaps—is that by dealing for Tim Tebow, emphasizing the extent to which they'd use him (they said it would 25% of snaps), and not using him nearly that much (it was 10.1% before week ten and inched slightly higher after), they'...

Hey, David Canter? Peter King Is Trying To Get In Touch, So Here's His Phone Number
Yeah, we called. It rang only once, and then straight to voicemail: "It's Peter King. Leave a message." Very mellifluous. Maybe David Canter will have better luck?...

A Frustrated Neil Everett Muttered "Son Of A Bitch, Goddammitdangit" Live On <em>SportsCenter</em>
An apparently rough episode of SportsCenter got the best of anchor Neil Everett tonight, as going to break a hot microphone caught the personality muttering some mildly inappropriate language at the end of tonight's 1 a.m. show....

OK, What The Hell Is Up With Bud Selig's Hair?
Well hello there, who is that sexy septuagenarian—why, it's the commissioner of baseball, Allan H. "Bud" Selig!...

Four Months Later, ESPN Still Hasn't Cleaned Up Lynn Hoppes's Wikipedia Plagiarism
This isn't the proudest period for ESPN's news division. We've spent a lot of time talking about First Take and Tim Tebow, but there's another little something that ESPN still hasn't dealt with: What's up with all those Lynn Hoppes stories?...

Which NFL Pundits Have Made The Worst Predictions So Far This Year? Grading ESPN, CBS, And Yahoo
Republished with permission from PunditTracker.com....

Someone Is Shopping A Video Of Rasheed Wallace (Maybe) Fighting Some Dude In A White Plains Parking Lot
And we know this because we got an email about it from a tipster at 11:17 this morning:...