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Seattle's Special Teamers Need To Stop Trying To Tackle
Last week, Seahawks punter Jon Ryan got annihilated trying to tackle someone. Today, kicker Steven Hauschka was taken out of the game with a possible concussion after trying to stop Darius Reynaud. Stop trying to help, Seattle's special teamers....
The <em>League Of Denial</em> Reporters Are Here To Take Your Questions
Last night, PBS premiered the Frontline documentary on the NFL's head-injury crisis, League of Denial. The principal investigative journalists featured in League of Denial, ESPN reporters (and brothers) Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru, are here to answer your questions....
Next Draft: League of Denial
I've raved about Kottke in this space before as a choice place to find cool shit. Here's another—Dave Pell's Next Draft. I get his daily e-mail which is chock full of interesting. ...
Reminder: <em>League Of Denial</em> Is Tonight. Here's A Clip You Haven't Seen
Here's a clip from the Frontline documentary League of Denial. It premieres tonight at 9 p.m. tonight on ES—oh right, on PBS....
Jadeveon Clowney Shouldn't Play Until He Gets Paid
South Carolina's all-world DE Jadeveon Clowney didn't play this weekend with a muscle strain, or maybe bruised ribs, and also some bone spurs in his foot. He's not been particularly clear on the ailment, or the state of his recovery, and the Gamecocks were surprised and confused that Clowney himself...
ESPN Gets Back Into The <em>League Of Denial</em> Game (Sorta)
ESPN is aggressively promoting League of Denial, the new book by ESPN reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru on the NFL's concussion crisis, today. There's an excerpt of the book published on ESPN.com. There's a lot of space dedicated to it on the site's front page. There's a story about the ...
South Carolina Spiked A TV Program Featuring A Slurring Steve Spurrier
Like most Division I head football coaches, Steve Spurrier is contractually obligated to appear on an eponymous television program every week following one of his team's games. This week's program—a recap of the Gamecocks' narrow win over UCF in Orlando Saturday—is very quickly being erased from ex...
The Beautiful Photography Site: Everyday I Show
For your consideration, and enjoyment:...
Goal-Line QB Sneak Works Out As Poorly As Possible
Hot, steamy D-III action here for your consumption. Albright College lined up on Stevenson University's one-yard line, ready to punch it in and tie up the score. Someone would score a touchdown, all right....
Steve Smith <em>Really</em> Wants You To Know He Ain't In Kerry Rhodes's Circle
Last week I wrote a post asking why free agent safety Kerry Rhodes couldn't find a spot on an NFL roster. Charlotte radio hosts Taylor Zarzour and Marc James were wondering the same thing, and put the question to Panthers wideout Steve Smith, who was disturbingly insistent in rejecting the idea....
Ron Morris Again Allowed To Cover Steve Spurrier And South Carolina
A day after Jim Romenesko reported that Steve Spurrier had bullied The State into banning Ron Morris, a columnist often critical of Spurrier and the Gamecocks program, from writing about South Carolina football, the newspaper has backed off its stance....
Steve Mason's Goalie Mask Features Zombified American Patriots
So this is a thing. It's...patriotic?...
Reporter Who Was Critical Of Steve Spurrier Replaced By Spurrier's Pal
So here's some bullshit: According to a report by Jim Romenesko, South Carolina Gamecocks head football coach Steve Spurrier has the power to bully a newspaper into silencing any reporter that he doesn't like. ...
Ed And Steve Sabol: The NFL Dream Machine
Today gives the start of the NFL season. What better place to start than Rich Cohen's excellent portrait of Ed and Steve Sabol? The league as we know it is hard to imagine without them. Published last October in the Atlantic, here's "They Taught America How to Watch Football":...
Former Marine Can't Play Football This Year Because Of NCAA Oversight
The NCAA has ruled that Steven Rhodes—a 24-year-old former Marine, now a walk-on freshman at Middle Tennessee State splitting time at tight end and defensive end—must redshirt his freshman year because he played intramural football at his military base. Hooray, NCAA!...
Does Not Compute. <em>Jobs</em>, Reviewed.
If Steve Jobs had made movies, Jobs is the kind of thing he might have done: It aspires to be innovative while it strives to be accessible and user-friendly. Focusing on a crucial period of Jobs's life rather than offering the standard cradle-to-grave portrait, this tries to be a somewhat unconventi...
Football Must Be Here: Shirtless Steve Spurrier Is Making The Rounds
We're not positive when this photo was taken, but so what? Photos of Steve Spurrier shirtless (and barefoot!) and again giving zero fucks are bouncing around the internet. Which can only mean one thing: Football season is at last upon us....
There's Something About Steve
We could all use a laugh. So read Pete Dexter's 1984 column on Steve Garvey:...