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Oregon State's Gary Andersen Resigns, Unnecessarily Gives Up Millions Of Dollars
In the midst of a third consecutive disappointing season, Oregon State and head coach Gary Andersen have parted ways; they’re now telling everyone that they decided to “mutually part,” with Andersen electing to forgo all the money he’s still owed per his contract....
Scotland National Team Manager Wants Big Scots To Hump And Make Tall Players
Gordon Strachan, manager of the Scotland national soccer team, has given lots of thought to what exactly is plaguing his native country’s soccer. Insufficient funding? His own bad coaching? The natural limitations of a nation of only about five million people? All minor issues by Strachan’s reckonin...
Western Michigan Tight End Doesn't Blame Sister For Prematurely Running Onto Field To Celebrate
A good sibling supports their kin when they achieve their goals. Maybe Western Michigan tight end Donnie Ernsberger’s sister Shalene shouldn’t have invaded the field after her little brother scored a touchdown in overtime, since the game wasn’t actually over, but her instinct was understandable....
J.T. Brown Says He Got Death Threats For Raising Fist During Anthem
Tampa Bay Lightning winger J.T. Brown revealed in a statement on Twitter that he has received death threats after he raised his fist while standing for the national anthem before a game on Saturday....
Deshaun Watson Is Extremely Fun And Seemingly Untouchable<em></em>
For the second straight week, Texans QB Deshaun Watson tied the NFL rookie record by being responsible for five touchdowns. Even though Houston lost to the Chiefs, 42-34, and some of Watson’s scoring came in garbage time, the QB still looked a hell of a lot better than Tom Savage. ...
Dutch Gymnast Manages To Catch High Bar Release Move With One Hand, Wins Medal
Epke Zonderland, the 2012 Olympic champion on high bar, is nicknamed “the Flying Dutchman” for the string of consecutive release moves he performs on the high bar. Yesterday during the final event of an otherwise fall- and injury-laden world championships, Zonderland, 31, gave the audience a thrill ...
Jerry Jones Says Any Cowboy Seen "Disrespecting The Flag" Will Not Play
Jerry Jones—the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, the inventor of the bullshit but diabolically ingenious national anthem protest rebranding scheme, and the odds-on favorite to portray Dobby the House Elf’s great-grandfather in any future Harry Potter sequels—is done pretending. No longer does he feel th...
Jaguars Junction: Week Five
Something quite remarkable happened in Pennsylvania yesterday....
Useless Prop Mike Pence Attempts To Explain Taxpayer-Funded PR Stunt<em></em>
Mike Pence tried to be a big strong boy yesterday, walking out of the 49ers-Colts game because a handful of 49ers players knelt during the national anthem, as they have been doing all season. Almost immediately, it was revealed that Pence had planned the stunt well in advance, and thus had taken a p...
Softball Coach's Son, Accused Of Harassing Auburn Players, Violated Rules At Arizona State
Before coaching softball at Auburn—where he was accused of subjecting players to sexualized attention from his son—Clint Myers coached the same sport at Arizona State; public records released Friday to Deadspin reveal that Myers’s son, Corey, was the center of an investigation there, too, into his i...
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Video Appears To Show Dolphins O-Line Coach Chris Foerster Snorting Lines [Update]
The man in this video, who talks about how wild it is that he’s snorting something that looks like coke before a meeting, looks a hell of a lot like Miami Dolphins offensive line coach Chris Foerster. (The Miami Herald’s Armando Salguero spoke to someone he described as “a club source” who says it i...
Here, Enjoy Some Wire Photos Of Aaron Judge Robbing A Home Run (And Ballhawk Zack Hample)
Aaron Judge won the world’s adoration earlier tonight for denying manchild ballhawk Zack Hample a baseball. (It also kept the game scoreless, but who cares about those details?) Here are some more wire photos of the catch for your enjoyment:...
Aaron Judge Robs Home Run, Denies Zack Hample Baseball, Is Officially World's Greatest Athlete
Aaron Judge snagged a Francisco Lindor fly ball just above Yankee Stadium’s short right field fence, but that feat pales in comparison to the act of humanitarianism that was denying ballhawk Zack Hample yet another baseball he doesn’t need....
J.J. Watt Helped Off Field After Suffering Leg Injury [Updates]
J.J. Watt tripped over himself early in tonight’s Chiefs-Texans game, leading the defensive end and hero fundraiser to collapse on-field, be helped off it, and eventually be carted to the locker room....
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Glove-Aided Dinger Helps Red Sox Stave Off Elimination
The Red Sox-Astros series was looking like a real turd heading into Game 3, with the Astros having outscored the Red Sox 16-4 in a pair of lopsided games in Houston. The Red Sox responded Sunday afternoon at Fenway with some overdue offense and managed to push the series to a Game 4....
Ben Roethlisberger Threw Five Picks Against The Jaguars
The 3-2 Jaguars have already matched their win total from all of last season, after humiliating Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers today. Big Ben had an abysmal game against Jacksonville’s defense as he threw five picks for the first time ever in a 30-9 loss. Here are four of them....
Purity Of Cardinal Way Being Polluted By Outsiders, Says Ridiculous Column
The St. Louis Cardinals have missed the playoffs for two consecutive seasons now. Some might say this is because they’ve become a middling NL team in both offense and pitching, and that an infusion of talent might propel them upwards from those low-to-mid-80s win totals, where they will probably nee...
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Fragile Stooge Mike Pence Walks Out Of 49ers-Colts Because Of Anthem Demonstration [Updates]
Mike Pence, a cauliflower that was once victimized by the movie Mulan, claimed that he walked out of today’s 49ers-Colts game, because the players supposedly disrespected the troops during the rote nationalistic pre-game ceremony. While the Colts stood arm-in-arm during the anthem, a reported 23 mem...
Don't Do It! Don't Do It!
Oh, you doubt Rashaad Penny’s Heisman bona fides?...