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Chart: All 64 Potential NFC Seeding Outcomes
There's been a lot of talk about the injustice of an 11-5 Arizona Cardinals team not making the playoffs—a distinct possibility!—but we could also have a 12-4 team as the 5 seed and an 11-5 team as the 6 in the NFC....
Nicolas Anelka May Have Celebrated Goal With A Nazi Salute
After Anelka scored this goal for West Bromwich, he took his left hand to his right bicep in a gesture that is called "La Quenelle," named after the word for "an elongated creamed fish dumpling." Apparently, an "anti-establishment" comedian in France named Dieudonné M'Bala M'Bala invented the gestu...
What It Was Like To Play In The Most Violent NFL Game Ever
After the most violent NFL game ever played, Marc Wilson sat on the team flight back to the West Coast, nursing his injured thumb. A Raiders team doctor approached. He had a secret message to pass along....
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[UPDATE: Bullshit] Santa And His Helper Crash Sleigh, Could Face Drunk-Driving Charges
Update (10:05 a.m. June 12, 2015): BuzzFeed has a good story about how this report was total bullshit. The original post is below....
Anatomy Of A Con: How The Public Was Scammed To Build Candlestick Park
While everyone's free to be as nostalgic as they like about Candlestick Park now that it's probably seen the end of its useful life, it's worth remembering that it wasn't only a miserable place to watch a game, but also a forerunner of the modern public financing con. The piece below, which original...
D.C. Santa Claus Shot With Pellet Gun In Front Of TV Crew
Here's some horrible footage from Washington, D.C. station WJLA. The ABC affiliate was covering a toy giveaway in the southeast side of the city when somebody shot Santa Claus in the back. ...
Someone Please Help Eddie DeBartolo Open His Beer
Here's a funny moment from last night's Monday Night Football broadcast, in which 49ers owner former 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr., desperate for something to wash down a mouthful of snacks, attempts to crack open a beer. It does not go well....
Tim Duncan Makes Amir Johnson Fall With The Most Duncan Crossover Ever
Shut it down, basketball. Shut it down....
Bye, Candlestick
[They played one last regular-season football game at the unlovable old pile in an unlovable corner of America's most overrated city. San Francisco's Candlestick Park—like most sports arenas, with the notable exception of the one replacing it—began life as a million-dollar swindle, and it seems only...
The Best Movie Scenes Of 2013
Yes, many people are already writing their Top 10 movie lists for 2013. We're saving ours for the last week of the year. While we wait for this terrific movie year to wind down, we're going to start looking back at some highlights. Today, it's our favorite individual scenes....
What Did Hanley Ramirez Do To His Hair?
Hanley Ramirez's Instagram photos from Sunday show him with normal hair. Then, he posts this earlier today, looking like Mufasa. Is it a wig? Extensions? Or does straightening your hair work that well? Whatever it is, Hanley should keep that style for next season....
Two Boys Kissing: How Our Favorite Sports Photo Of 2013 Came To Life
In January, photographer Deanne Fitzmaurice was on assignment for Sports Illustrated when she went to a San Francisco gay bar, HiTops, during the 49ers-Falcons NFC Championship game. She was assigned to get a photo that would accompany a story about the diversity of 49ers fans. Her photo, above, was...
Fight Erupts In USA-Canada Women's Exhibition Game
USA-Canada is quickly becoming the kind of grudge match you can respect and not one that makes you feel uncomfortable for Robert DeNiro. Prior to last night's throwdown in Grand Forks, these two teams also had a massive brawl in October in Burlington, Vermont. That's two fights in in three months ...
Here's A Picture Of Jackie Robinson And Vin Scully On Ice Skates
We brought you the story of Jackie Robinson's first time on ice skates, as told by Vin Scully, a while back but a Dodgers history account recently tweeted out a picture of the two on skates, posing as though they're about to race. ...
We Have Found The Worst Thing On The Internet
Some guy kept pestering us to post this, presumably in hopes that it would go "viral." Well, it certainly deserves to. Help this guy out, Internet....
Damian Lillard Takes Boys And Girls Club On Surprise Shopping Spree
Trailblazers star Damian Lillard treated some members of the Portland Boys and Girls Club to a surprise shopping spree at Toys 'R Us last night, and it was the coolest thing. Just look at how happy this little kid is!...
Here's Another Insane Christmas Wish List
After our own Drew Magary shared his daughter's crazy-ass Christmas wish list with the world, we received many other lists from parents around the country who also have, uh, imaginative kids. Here's another one, and it's a doozy:...
Gregg Popovich Stays Trolling David Stern
Remember when Gregg Popovich sent home all of his good players before a nationally televised game against the Heat, prompting David Stern to throw a hissy fit and fine Pop $250,000? Stern really taught Popovich a lesson that day! Well, not really:...
Ray Allen Spent His Whole Career Practicing That Amazing Game 6 Shot
Lee Jenkins has an awesome story about the last 29 seconds of Game 6 of the NBA finals and Ray Allen's incredible shot on SI.com today. It's full of great quotes from the game's principals, and it weaves together multiple perspectives without having to rest on the increasingly aggravating oral hist...