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The New Tampa Bay Buccaneers Logo Is Basically An Angrier Skull
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have tweaked their logo, and by "tweaked," they made the skull look more pissed off. That's about it....
Grant Balfour Has A Big-Ass Truck
This is Rays reliever Grant Balfour's big-ass truck. He is far from the only pitcher to own a big-ass truck, but his might be the biggest-ass of them all....
Former Ref Says He Had 15-16 Death Threats After Controversial Call
Bill Carollo, who was an NFL referee for nearly 20 years, said he received death threats and over 200 phone calls to his unlisted home phone number after a controversial call at the end of the 1999 NFC Championship. ...
A Complete Roundup Of Fans' Idiotic David Price Trade Proposals
Originally published in Baseball Prospectus. The 2014 edition of Baseball Prospectus is on sale now....
The Lesson Of Black Monday: Your NFL Team Doesn't Know What It's Doing
Yesterday was Black Monday in the NFL. My team's coach got fired. Your team's coach got fired. EVERYONE'S coach got fired. If six Fortune 500 CEOs were all shitcanned on the same day, the markets would crash; there'd be barricades in the streets by noon. But it's a telling sign of football cultu...
Here Is A Lie
Raymond James Stadium will host the 2017 college football national championship game. Hillsborough County Commissioner Ken Hagan has a highly scientific prediction that it'll be the single greatest thing that's ever happened to Tampa's economy:...
Guys Who Prank-Called Bills And Bucs GMs Won't Go To Prison
The two men who set up and recorded a conversation between then-Bills GM Buddy Nix and Buccaneers GM Mark Dominik will likely avoid prison time through an agreement with the government....
How Mike Glennon And The Tampa Bay Bucs (Sort Of) Stopped Sucking
Remember when the dysfunctional Buccaneers were an 0-8 dumpster fire fueled by MRSA and ineptitude? Greg Schiano and his Men have somehow won three straight, with some legitimate play from both sides of the ball—especially rookie quarterback/intrepid middle schooler Mike Glennon. Which leaves us wit...
Martin St. Louis Honored For 1,000 NHL Games, Scores Goal, Falls Down
Tampa Bay is honoring winger Martin St. Louis tonight on his achievement of playing in 1,000 NHL games (set last week in Los Angeles), and the Lightning captain made it an even more special night for fans by scoring his ninth goal of the season in the first period. Then he celebrated so hard he fel...
Greg Schiano Was Almost Psyched Out By A Jumbotron
Donald Penn's score in Monday's Dolphins-Bucs game was an awesome fat guy touchdown, but it almost didn't happen. Why? Because Greg Schiano was paranoid of the Jumbotron at Raymond James Stadium....
Florida Ruined The NFL
Burn Florida. Sterilize the entire state of its NFL teams as you would an MRSA contamination. Float it into the Gulf, Bugs Bunny-style. Send the NFL to Los Angeles or London or Lucknow, anywhere but the Sunshine State—professional football cannot thrive on its saline soils. After an ugly, addled Mon...
Steven Stamkos Stretchered Off After Leg Injury
Oh hey there's a gif too DON'T LOOK AT IT....
So You Got A Deadly Infection From Playing In The NFL? Prove It.
Of all the storylines you expected to be a part of the first half of the NFL season, a workman's comp issue involving a toenail probably wasn't one of them. But it is, and it's actually intriguing in a number of ways, large and small....
Gerald McCoy: Coaches Were Angry Because I Helped An Opponent Up
Sorry, Gerald McCoy, but as long as you're a Tampa Bay Buccaneer, don't respect your opponent....
Bucs' Cannon Scares The Shit Out Of Cam Newton And Steve Mariucci
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers got trounced by the Carolina Panthers last night, but they did succeed at making Cam Newton and Steve Mariucci nearly die of fright. ...
Lightning Defensemen Combine For Humiliating Own Goal
The timing couldn't have been worse. With 1:49 left in regulation, just 40 seconds after the Lightning had taken the lead on the defending champ Blackhawks, Matt Carle inexplicably and forcefully fired a pass back at Radko Gudas. It deflected off a surprised Gudas's skate, skittering past Ben Bishop...
This Is The Best Buccaneers Fan
This hazmat suit-wearing Bucs fan has been more entertaining than the team tonight. Go MRSAneers!...
It's Official: Greg Schiano's Players Hate His Guts
NFL.com's Michael Silver has a new report on just how badly things have soured between Buccaneers head coach Greg Schiano and his players, and it paints a bleak picture. There are two main takeaways from this story: Greg Schiano's players really, really dislike playing for him, and Schiano actually ...