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Old Man Federer Survives To Reach Australian Open Final
Thirty-five-year-old Roger Federer sputtered his way to the championship round of the Australian Open. Though his all-Swiss semifinal against Stan Wawrinka looked like a gutsy struggle on paper—five sets! 7-5, 6-3, 1-6, 4-6, 6-3!—it actually lasted just over three hours, and the two major inflection...
Now It's Just Rafael Nadal And A Bunch Of Gorgeous One-Handers
Rafael Nadal dug around and exploited two glitches in the Milos Raonic serving machine—two successfully converted break points, that is—to win his Australian Open quarterfinal 6-4, 7-6 (7), 6-4. And now he’s surveying a field full of the prettiest one-handed backhands in all the land. Roger Federer’...
Roger Goodell Insists That Thursday Games Are Not Ass
Roger Goodell had a chat with repugnant putz Colin Cowherd today on his show, and, among other topics, the NFL commissioner defended the quality of Thursday games....
Roger Goodell Must Hate This
If there’s a silver lining to yet another appearance by the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl—they’re early three-point favorites—it’s that the whole thing should make commissioner Roger Goodell at least a little uncomfortable. Goodell has gone out of his way to avoid New England this postseaso...
Roger Federer Was Better Than Vintage
“It’s not so much fun,” said Tomas Berdych, the 10th seed at the Australian Open, after getting picked apart in a neat 92 minutes. “I would rather be in the stands watching than on the court.”...
Weird, Roger Goodell Isn't Attending The Patriots Game In Foxboro
Roger Goodell has gone to playoff games in Seattle, Atlanta, and Kansas City this season. The two conference championship games before the Super Bowl will be Packers-Falcons in Atlanta and Steelers-Patriots in Foxboro. The NFL commissioner will choose the option which allows him to be booed and bera...
Roger Federer Is Back, But The Youngsters Are Coming For Him
Lay out all the usual lame disclaimers: it’s Roger Federer’s first tournament back in the game since he hurt his knee giving his kids a bath and decided to take the whole rest of the season off. It’ll take him a while to get back to form, even his late-career, step-slower form. And the Hopman Cup is...
Baseball Hall Of Fame Voting Is Fascinating Right Now
Dec. 31 is the deadline for BBWAA members to submit their Hall of Fame ballots, and nearly one third of them have already made their ballots public. And here’s a hell of a thing: Probably not this year, but Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens will make the Hall of Fame within a couple of years....
This Strange Column About Bud Selig And Drugs Is Extremely Confusing
Estimable baseball writer Tim Brown has a column up today that’s either about how Bud Selig’s election to the Hall of Fame shows up the condemnation of players such as Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens by the likes of the veteran baseball writers who have refused to vote them into the Hall of Fame for ...
Hall Of Fame Voter Who Wants To Fight Curt Schilling Gives Up Hall Of Fame Vote
God, it’s “Get worked up about shitty Hall of Fame takes” season again. Every year I go in feeling optimistic—Oh, maybe my guy will get in this year!—and by mid-December I’d rather pull out my fingernails one by one than look at yet another goddamn ballot with two bewildering selections on it. ...
Roger Goodell On How Election Will Affect Roger Goodell: It Will Affect Roger Goodell<em></em>
Roger Goodell was interviewed on stage earlier today at the New York Times’s DealBook conference. He and Andrew Ross Sorkin spoke about the election intermittently throughout the 30-plus minute conversation. Goodell—the son of a former Republican congressman whose been known to rub elbows with the G...
New York Giants Release Kicker Josh Brown
The New York Giants have released kicker Josh Brown following the release of notes from his personal journals in which he admits to being “physically, mentally, emotionally, and verbally” abusive to his wife, Molly....
Josh Brown Releases Confusing Statement
New York Giants kicker Josh Brown released a statement Tuesday, per Adam Schefter:...
Roger Goodell: No, It's The Fans Who Are Idiots <em></em>
Roger Goodell is not having a great week. He’s off in the U.K. promoting the NFL’s sub-par football product by way of a team whose kicker was revealed this week to have written “I abused my wife” in journal entries from 2013....
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Josh Brown Placed On Commissioner's Exempt List [Updates]
The NFL is suddenly very concerned about Giants kicker Josh Brown, now that the sheriff’s office in King County, Wash. has released documents in which Brown described in his own words how he abused his wife, Molly. The league was less concerned a month ago, when it suspended Brown one game despite t...
The NFL's Private Spooks Made Molly Brown So Nervous She Told Deputies About It
Molly Brown reached out to the King County (Wash.) Sheriff’s Office after being contacted by the NFL’s private investigation firm, which wanted her to talk about the more than 20 times she said her now ex-husband, Giants kicker Josh Brown, abused her. At the time, Molly Brown already was talking to ...
Roger Goodell's Former Babysitter Says He Was A "Sour Child"
Would you believe that as a kid, Roger Goodell sulked and barely showed any signs of happiness? Janet Derby, his former babysitter who now lives in Sudbury, Mass., made that claim....
The NFL Always Had Access To The Josh Brown Documents<em></em>
Even before yesterday’s release of documents by the sheriff’s office in King County, Wash. in which New York Giants kicker Josh Brown admits in his own words that he abused his then-wife Molly, there was very similar evidence in his divorce file—a publicly available document that anyone could get. A...
Michael And Martellus Bennett Are Still Talking Outrageous Shit About, Well, Everyone
Nobody in the NFL gives nearly as good a quote as Michael and Martellus Bennett do. The brothers welcomed fans to the NFL season by dishing out burns to Eli Manning, Sam Bradford, Roger Goodell, and plenty of others. E:60 has a full profile of the brothers coming soon, and they released a minute’s w...
Roger Federer And Rafael Nadal Are Not In The Top Four For The First Time Since 2003<em></em><em></em>
Scroll through the ranking histories of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, skim over the mind-numbing string of No. 1's during Federer’s untouchable 2004-2008 run, and you might notice that you need to dig back to June 2003 to find a moment when neither Fed nor Rafa was among the top four players in th...