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A Reminder That The Falcons And Patriots Were No. 1 And No. 2 In The NFL's "Paid Patriotism"
As it turns out, today’s Super Bowl match-up involves the NFL’s top two teams in terms of paid patriotism—those all-American displays paid for by the military without being advertised as such....
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Kirk Cousins Shoves Volunteer Official At Charity Flag Football Game [Update]
We’ve illustrated Kirk Cousins’s legendary competitiveness a few times, but the Washington QB may have taken it a bit far today at a charity flag football game when he got very angry and shoved a volunteer official....
These Beautiful Aquarium Creatures Star In The Only Good Super Bowl Hype Video
‘Tis the weekend for highlight reels interspersed with clips of screaming fans set to bad arena rock music; do not waste your time on those. If you must use a video to prepare yourself for the Super Bowl, let that video be this one—seals and otters and penguins and a beluga whale, among many adorabl...
Your Super Bowl LI <i>Tecmo Super Bowl</i> Simulation Is Live
We updated the rosters. We updated the uniforms. We even updated the end zones. It’s time to CPU vs. CPU simulate Sunday’s Super Bowl in Tecmo Super Bowl, LIVE:...
The Falcons' Defense Is Basically Fucked
Patriots-Falcons in Super Bowl 51 is being billed as a showcase of the NFL’s two most prolific offenses, at the height of their powers. The Patriots, of course, are the known entity: Tom Brady and [insert name here] on offense, along with a defense that frequently schemes its way into being greater ...
Tom Brady And Dwight Freeney Play Video Game On <i>Conan</i>; Marshawn Lynch Steals Show
Takeaways from Conan O’Brien’s lasted edition of the now-annual Super Bowl Clueless Gamer segment: the Patriots are going to beat the Falcons; Tom Brady comes off as empty-headed as you’d imagine; Marshawn Lynch is still the best....
Baylor Is Still Full Of Shit
It isn’t transparency when it’s offered solely on your terms and to your benefit, especially if you are the powerful institution allegedly coming clean. There should be no comfort in the limited disclosures Baylor offered in a Dallas County court yesterday about how then-coach Art Briles, then-athle...
Lawsuit: Text Messages Show How Baylor Coaches Turned Football Program Into Disciplinary "Black Hole"
Earlier this week, former Baylor football assistant Colin Shillinglaw filed a lawsuit against the school, alleging that his firing in the fallout from Baylor’s massive sexual-assault scandal was unjust. Shillinglaw sued Baylor for libel and slander, just like former coach Art Briles did in his recen...
What Time Does 'What Time Does The Superbowl Start?' Start?
The Super Bowl is allegedly this weekend, and reports indicate that the contest will be played in Houston between the Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots. ...
The Darkest Super Bowl
Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here. Buy his book here....
Art Briles Drops Lawsuit Against Baylor Because He "Wants Some Peace In His Life"
Two months ago, former Baylor head coach Art Briles sued Baylor for libel and conspiracy, claiming that school officials lied when they claimed that Briles knew about a suite of rape and sexual assault complaints against football players. Briles also insisted that Baylor officials have actively work...
Roger Goodell On Trump, The Wall, And Muslim Ban: Football
When asked by the media about Donald Trump’s Muslim ban this afternoon, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell responded like Tom Brady and essentially grunted, “Football.”...
Canadian Super Bowl Broadcaster Forced To Air Stupid American Ads For Free<em></em>
This morning, a spokesman for Bell Media announced that the company would be laying off an undisclosed amount of workers at over two dozen locations. With over 6,000 employees, Bell is Canada’s largest media company. They are the parent company of Canadian sports giant TSN and they have broadcast pa...
Big Boy Jim Harbaugh Makes A Big-Boy Splash
Jim Harbaugh is a man who derives a great deal of pleasure from the various odd combinations that make up his life: steak and milk, the words of both Sir Spongebob and Sir Andrew Barton, Italy and Michigan, football and baseball, etc. The Wolverines coach added another to the list Tuesday, combining...
The Case Of Kyle Shanahan's Missing Backpack Has Been Solved
Kyle Shanahan is about to coach in the biggest game of his career. He might need his playbook this weekend, but he lost it after the backpack he was carrying it around in at NFL media day got nabbed! Who could have pulled off such a dastardly caper?...
Have You Been A College Football Hostess? We Want To Hear About It
It should be no surprise that part of the latest Title IX lawsuit against Baylor—which asserts that football players committed 52 acts of rape in four years—brought up the college-athletics tradition of hostesses. College football history suggests they started at Alabama with a group dubbed Bryant’s...
The USMNT Has A New Coach And The Same Old Problem<em></em>
It doesn’t make much sense to draw sweeping conclusions about the direction of the USMNT after yesterday’s U.S. vs. Serbia match, and it wouldn’t no matter what the result was. Despite being Bruce Arena’s re-debut at the start of his second spell as USMNT manager as he ushers the team into its post-...
Villanova Beats Virginia On Tip-In Buzzer-Beater
Donte DiVincenzo’s tip in as time expired gave top-ranked Villanova a 61-59 win over Virginia....
Lawsuit: Baylor Football Players Committed 52 Rapes In Four Years Under Art Briles
Baylor football players committed 52 rapes in four years, the majority at off-campus parties hosted by football players, including five gang rapes; the university paid off one woman who said she was raped by giving her free tuition; and football staff arranged for women to have sex with recruits on ...