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Arian Foster, Three Dolphins Teammates Kneel During National Anthem
Miami Dolphins players Arian Foster, Jelani Jenkins, Kenny Stills, and Michael Thomas all kneeled during the national anthem before today’s game against the Seattle Seahawks....

South Dakota State Tight End Makes A Gorgeous One-Handed Touchdown Catch
The fade route, in theory, should exploit the height mismatch between the receiver and defender, but it usually results in an aggravating incompletion. In Saturday’s game against Drake, South Dakota State tight end Dallas Goedert made it work....

Bills Linebackers Start Season By Missing Team Bus
Buffalo Bills linebackers Jerry Hughes and Zach Brown missed the first team bus for today’s game against the Ravens, so they called an Uber instead. From Hughes’s Instagram, geotagged somewhere on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway:...

Ryan Newman Rips Into "Old, Bipolar" Tony Stewart After Wreck
Ryan Newman blasted Tony Stewart for being “old,” “bipolar,” and suffering from “anger issues” after a wreck tonight in Richmond that knocked him out of the race and led to a lengthy red flag stoppage....

Deadspin Up All Night: Gotta Lose A Couple Fights To Win
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Central Michigan Upsets Oklahoma State With Hail Mary Lateral [Updates]
Central Michigan, which completed one of the greatest Hail Mary plays of all time two years ago, did it again to beat #22 Oklahoma State 30-27 when Cooper Rush connected with Jesse Kroll, who then lateraled to Corey Willis for the touchdown. ...

Payet Rabona Assist!
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Popular Soccer Stats Twitter Account Tweets A Butthole Instead Of Soccer Stats [NSFW]
Squawka is a very popular soccer statistics website, boasting some 370K Facebook fans and 592K Twitter followers. Most readers expect geeky soccer analysis and statistical breakdowns of, say, how the Bayern Munich midfield passed to each other. What they didn’t expect was an extreme close up of a bu...

Look At This Flipping Throw-In Assist
Nothing more American soccer than scoring off of a deep ball throw in....

Borussia Dortmund Manager Pours Some Cold Water On The Christian Pulisic Craze
Hardcore American soccer fans are rightfully beside ourselves with excitement about our latest and greatest hope for a soccer superstar, Christian Pulisic—especially after his exploits during this past international break. Should he—a teenaged, Bieber-bumping child, mind you—leave Borussia Dortmund ...

The Best Jaguars Fan Has Been Found
A few months ago, Jacksonville news station WJXT roamed the streets in search of civilian takes on the Jaguars’ draft picks. Reporter Scott Johnson found a woman who was quite confident in her analysis of the team. On Thursday, she made her return to television....

Amanda Knox's Boyfriend Is Here To Party Rock
Amanda Knox—aka Foxy Knoxy, the American student accused, convicted, and then acquitted (twice) of murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy in 2007—is in Toronto this weekend to promote a forthcoming Netflix documentary that reexamines the case. ...

Christian Benteke Probably Made Crystal Palace Sign His Little Brother, Who Sucks
It’s often difficult for small teams to convince players at big clubs making big bucks to forgo the glory and riches of the game’s destination clubs in favor of being the star at the little team, even when said player has found himself latched to the big team’s bench. Thus small clubs must pull out ...

You Can't Expect A Wall Street Guy To Live Like A Peasant Just Cause He Takes A Government Job, Okay?
Stefan Selig was a vice chairman at Bank of America before becoming Commerce Department undersecretary in the Obama administration. Do you really expect a man like that to stay in a freakin Red Roof Inn??...

Novak Djokovic Has Had The Easiest Road To The U.S. Open Semifinals
Like a carefree penguin belly-sliding across a glacier, the best men’s tennis player in the world has cruised into the semifinals of the U.S. Open by playing only nine full sets. Let’s examine how cushy Novak Djokovic has had it:...

I'm A Little Worried About This Bear
Here we have a bear who seems to have stumbled into unfamiliar territory:...

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With The Rivalry Reborn, Pitt And Penn State Players Remember The Game That Defined It
Chet Parlavecchio was 10 minutes into our phone interview when he really got going. He was repeating a story he’s been telling on and off for 35 years, the one about that time he appeared on a Pittsburgh radio show and dropped a burn on Pitt in the run-up to Penn State’s 1981 game against the No. 1-...