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There Will Be No Tailgating At The Super Bowl
In a press conference held at a train station, a consortium of semi-important men in suits announced that you'd better not drive to the Super Bowl, or else....
Baylor Players Have Impromptu Bro-Down With Frat Boys At 3 A.M.
Ahmad Dixon and Antwan Goodley both play football at Baylor University, and they both seem like pretty rad dudes. Rad enough to go to Whataburger and take shirtless pictures with random fans at 3 a.m., at least. ...
Matt Prater Makes Longest Field Goal In NFL History
Broncos placekicker Matt Prater broke the record for the longest NFL field goal ever when he successfully completed a 64-yard attempt before halftime against the Titans....
Wisconsin Hockey Player Produces Filthy Between-The-Legs Goal
This goal's from Friday, but it's just so beautiful. Wisconsin's Tyler Barnes puts Tyler LaBate's pass between his legs and in for a goal that makes the play-by-play man screech in response. It definitely wasn't luck, though....
Urban Meyer's Former Florida Players Revel In His Failure
Auburn fans (and anyone who hates Ohio State) enjoyed Ohio State's loss to Michigan State in the Big Ten championship last night, foiling the Buckeyes' chance at a national championship. Others with a personal beef—such as, say, some of Meyer's former players and commits at Florida that remained wh...
Sad Urban Meyer Eats Papa John's After Loss
Oh man, this is sad. That is definitely Schnatter's face. I bet he didn't even shake up the garlic sauce. ...
Buzzer-Beater Leads Colorado Past Kansas For First Time In Ten Years
Askia Booker's buzzer-beating three led Colorado to a 75-72 win over the sixth-ranked Kansas Jayhawks, the first CU-over-KU win since 2003. The Buffaloes had gone 0-19 in that span....
Hey, Here's A Dumb Idea From A Bar In Wrigleyville
It looks to be the handiwork of Murphy's Bleachers on Sheffield, located across the street from Wrigley Field....
Milwaukee PD Says This Is Video Of Larry Sanders In A Bar Fight
The Milwaukee Bucks' young ref-thumbing 6-foot-11 occasional defensive lynchpin tore a thumb ligament last month during a bar fight for which the city fuzz are going to cite him....
Auburn's Field Goal Return Was Even Rarer Than You Think
The insane ending to last week's Iron Bowl had sports fans wondering if any college football game had ever ended in such an improbable fashion. NCAA records show that even in the missed-field-goal-returned-for-touchdown department, Chris Davis's score was especially rare....
One-Handed Beer Football Is America's Greatest Tradition
The best football action of Thanksgiving weekend takes place not in Detroit or Dallas, or on an SEC field. It happens in a park in Emerson, Iowa, where for more than a decade family and friends have been gathering for the PBR Bowl....
Paul Hornung Hopes It "Snows And Rains Like A Bitch" At The Super Bowl
Paul Hornung is your cantankerous great-uncle with a heart of gold....
The Greatest Love Of All Is Happening To Knowshon Moreno
This is pretty much perfect....
Emotional Man Knowshon Moreno Has Turbocharged Tear Ducts
We saw an odd moment during today's Broncos-Chiefs broadcast on CBS when the network aired a clip of Denver running back Knowshon Moreno crying a copious amount of tears. (We're told he got a bit emotional during the game's playing of the national anthem.) We think his display deserves a different ...
You Can't Give Yourself A Nickname, Ron Rivera
"Analytical Ron" might be one of the worst nicknames ever. Ron Rivera is bad at nicknames. Stick to sports, guy. "Riverboat Ron" has the cool alliteration, and someone already made a sign for it....
<em>Sports Illustrated</em> Goes Long On The Quarterback Who Couldn't
A 15,000-word piece about Tim Tebow is such a self-evidently bad idea that you would assume, not having read it, that this Sports Illustrated #longform offers something special to justify its claims on the time and attention of readers: fresh reporting, uniquely elegant writing, original ideas....
The Foodspin Thanksgiving Reader
Hey whoa Thanksgiving is here! This means you will have to provide some victuals for some people, or else they will finally have the excuse for disowning/defriending/excommunicating you that they have always secretly wanted. Below you'll find all the Thanksgiving-relevant Foodspin action you'll ne...
Cheap Bourbons, Ranked
Each year around mid-August, publicists start burying everyone in the food journalizing racket with ideas for Thanksgiving coverage. Most of their emails concern ways in which a client, usually a lesser television chef or an agricultural marketing board, can enhance your stuffing with this or that u...
Chart: A Week In The Insane Life Of An NFL Head Coach
Over on ESPN, Ravens head coach John Harbaugh was kind enough to provide a schedule of his work week leading up to Baltimore's game at Chicago on Nov. 17 (the story will appear in the Dec. 9 edition of ESPN The Magazine). It's not an easy job—Harbaugh spends about 69 hours a week in meetings (or mee...