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Model Strips Naked, Fights Cops At Aussie Rules Grand Final [NSFW]
The lady you see above is a Scottish model named Heather McCartney. That's her being escorted out of Saturday's Australian Football League Grand Final, essentially the sport's Super Bowl. She was kicked out of the stadium because, while watching the game from a corporate box, she decided to get supe...

Colts Immediately Cut Da'Rick Rogers After DUI Arrest
Da'Rick Rogers was arrested early this morning for driving under the influence in downtown Indianapolis, Fox 59 reports today. Fellow Colts cornerback Loucheiz Purifoy was his passenger. Here's what the police report said, according to Fox 59....

Ryan Fitzpatrick Went A Little Nuts During His Pregame Pep Talk
Before beating the Buffalo Bills 23-17 yesterday, Houston Texans quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick gathered his team let them know that he really, really wanted to beat his old squad. Here is a rough transcription of his speech:...

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ODU Streaker Spikes Football, Evades Security (For A While) [NSFW?]
It took awhile for us to find good video of this streaker from last night's MTSU-Old Dominion game, but it was worth the wait. Here, from WAVY, is a censored clip of the gentleman who ran onto the field, spiked a football, and evaded a half-dozen security members—all while in full-on streaker mode....

Wrong Cricket, Buddy
Hey, pal! There's a match going on! Get outta here!...

Law Enforcement Official: We Sent The Ray Rice Tape To The NFL
A law enforcement official tells AP he mailed a copy of the inside-elevator video showing Ray Rice punching out his then-fiancée to the NFL's security chief, Jeffrey Miller, back in April....

New Baseball Cards Visualize Advanced Stats
The image above comes from a new line of sabermetric-inspired baseball cards. According to SportTechie, the cards are a partnership between Bloomberg Sports and Topps. The cards feature home run spray charts for hitters and strikeout pitch location for pitchers. ...

This Church Song-And-Dance Is The Most Excruciating Thing I've Ever Seen
Oh God. Ohhhhh God. I hurt all over. I hurt all over and I want to die....

Here's Every Edit ESPN Has Made To Its <em>OTL</em> Ray Rice-Ravens Report
We noted earlier today that Friday's bombshell Outside The Lines report included some odd, paraphrased quoting of supposed text messages to Ray Rice. That, alongside the wild—later retracted—claims about the Revel Casino providing a copy of the tape to the Ravens and NFL security led us to examine e...

NFL Sponsors Don't Want Their Ads Running During Ravens Or Vikings Games
We've said before that public opinion doesn't mean a damn thing to NFL owners as they decide Roger Goodell's future, only money. So they have to be a bit worried that some of their advertisers have specifically requested that their commercials not run during Ravens or Vikings game....

The Problem With Peter King
Let’s begin with Peter King on Twitter last night. If you hate-follow poor Peter on Twitter, as I do, you know that his stream consists largely of mangled replies and random compliments to entire towns—Helluva main street you got there, Hanover, New Hampshire!—and last night was no different. The S...

ESPN Made A Very Weird Mistake In Its Big Ray Rice Story
On Friday, ESPN's Outside the Lines published a thoroughly reported and damning story about the Baltimore Ravens' handling of the Ray Rice case. Based on new information, though, it's apparent that one major part of the story was awkwardly mishandled, for reasons that aren't quite clear....

Morris Claiborne Stormed Out Of Cowboys Practice After Being Demoted
The Cowboys' disappointment with 2012 sixth overall pick Morris Claiborne reached a head yesterday, when the cornerback skipped practice and angrily left the team's training facility after being informed that he was losing his spot in the starting lineup....

Jordan Staal Breaks Leg In Exhibition Game
Exhibition games continue to be the worst, this time injuring Jordan Staal. The Carolina Hurricanes center was pursuing a pass along the boards in Tuesday night's game against the Buffalo Sabres when he was checked, and his right skate got caught on the ice. Staal's leg continued to move, causing th...

The Political-Messaging Huckster Behind Roger Goodell's Awful Presser
Roger Goodell was talking, but the words weren't his alone. "That speech was all Frank," says an associate of pollster Frank Luntz, lord of the dark arts of political messaging, who frequently works with Goodell and the NFL. "As soon as I heard Goodell's intro, I was laughing." ...

Ravens Owner Fires Back At ESPN Story, Says "Nobody's Losing A Job Here"
The Ravens took the weekend to marshal a response to ESPN's big Ray Rice story, and it's here—in the form of a press conference by owner Steve Bisciotti and an online rebuttal to points made in the ESPN report. Bisciotti claims that all the anonymous sources on the Ravens' alleged mishandling on t...

Adam Schefter: NFL Players Had Access To Rice Video Weeks After Incident
It seems like each day brings a new piece of information making it very, very hard to believe that the NFL and the Baltimore Ravens never saw video of Ray Rice knocking out Janay Palmer before TMZ made the tape public. Today's bit comes from Adam Schefter, who went on Mike and Mike and revealed that...

Peter King Thinks He Thinks You Think Goodell Is Doing A Good Job, Maybe
There's an NBC News/Marist poll going around—maybe you've seen it—in which 606 adults answered questions about the NFL's and Roger Goodell's handling of its various domestic violence scandals. One of the questions asks whether respondents think Roger Goodell should resign; 29 percent of them say ...