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Marcus Mariota Carted Off With Broken Leg [Update]
Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota left today’s game on a cart and wearing an air cast after suffering an ankle injury against the Jacksonville Jaguars....
ESPN, Others Fall For Bogus Information About NFL Spring League
Late Thursday afternoon, SiriusXM NFL Radio tweeted the following:...
Your Thursday Night Football Giants-Eagles Simulation is LIVE!
CAN YOU HANDLE THE COLOR RUSH? Our Tecmo Super Bowl Giants-Eagles simulation is LIVE:...
The End Of Bernard Hopkins
Bernard Hopkins, a man I both like and admire, generally, if selectively, tells the truth. But he has some cinematic set pieces, one of which involves a story of being taken aside at the time of his release from Graterford Prison and told by the warden, “I’ll see you back here in six months.”...
The Least Important Writers Of 2016
Congratulations to all the wieners. ...
How Two Investigations Into Minnesota's Sexual-Assault Scandal Reached Two Very Different Conclusions
It was in the early morning hours after the Golden Gophers’ victory—in their September season opener, no less—that the student said she was sexually assaulted by multiple football players. She gave a statement to Minneapolis police a day later, going into detail about how she had sex with two guys a...
Nate Diaz Figures The UFC Should Pay Him $20 Million To Fight
The UFC is in a bit of a bind. They’d like to book the entertaining Khabib Nurmagomedov in a March fight for one of their multiple lightweight titles, but for stupid reasons they don’t have a good matchup for him right now. MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani texted children’s role model and potential Nurm...
George R.R. Martin Offers Fans A Christmas Present (Not <i>The Winds Of Winter</i>)
Famed no-pages haver George R.R. Martin, author of the popular A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novels on which HBO’s hit sibling-fucking drama Game of Thrones is loosely based, offered up a Christmas treat for fans over on his Not A Blog, which is a blog, today. Was it an announcement that he’ll fina...
Juan Martin Del Potro May Not Play The Australian Open
The resurrection of Juan Martin del Potro was one of the quiet joys of 2016. He’d been out of the game for two years, he’d sunk lower than the No. 1000 ranking, and his wrists seemed like they’d never again be capable of bashing those flat, unforgiving groundstrokes. Yet somehow he snagged a silver ...
Western Kentucky Busted Out The Trick Plays And Gave Us A Fat Guy Touchdown
With 40-odd bowl games to sit through, you have to appreciate Western Kentucky’s efforts to spice up a game between the AAC West’s fourth-best team and the Conference USA champions....
Report: CBA Has Exceptions So Harden And Westbrook Can Get Paid This Year
At first it appeared that the new CBA’s “Kevin Durant Rule,” which allows NBA teams to offer fatter contracts to keep their superstars from flirting with other options in free agency, would leave the Thunder and Rockets feeling like idiots. Last summer both teams just signed their cornerstones—Russ...
The Year In Ted Cruz Humiliations
There’s never exactly a good time to be Ted Cruz. His mannerisms are stilted, his friends are nonexistent, and he has far more skin than any one human should ever possess. There are, however, less-bad times to be Ted. And 2016 was not one of those years....
Here's How You Drain The Swamp
After promising to “drain the swamp,” Donald Trump has assembled a leadership team of billionaires, bankers, hedge fund guys, and the power-mad detritus of the Republican party. Sad! We could still drain that swamp with a couple of easy rules. ...
Dean Blandino Explains Why Yet Another Hit On Cam Newton Didn't Draw A Flag
The latest edition of What Will it Take for Cam Newton to Draw a Flag? aired on Monday night, when a scrambling Newton slid—maybe late—and got hit helmet-to-helmet—maybe glancing—by Washington LB Trent Murphy. There was a flag thrown on a play: a taunting call on Newton for flipping the football at ...
Iowa Refuses To Shake Hands After North Dakota, Down By 11, Tries Buzzer-Beater
With the Hawkeyes up by 11 with three seconds to play, there was no question about who was going to win tonight’s game between Iowa and North Dakota. But North Dakota’s Corey Baldwin stole the ball and Drick Bernstine tried to beat the buzzer with a little jumper anyway*, and Iowa coach Fran McCaffe...
The NBA's New "Kevin Durant Rule" Will Incentivize Young Superstars To Stay Put
We knew the new CBA made life a little sweeter for the NBA’s superstars, but it’s a dense thing to parse, and explanations have been dribbling out slowly. ESPN’s new Q&A with salary cap expert Larry Coon argues that the most noteworthy development is the owners’ new weapon to keep their superstar pl...
How Does One Guy Keep Winning The Eagles' Free Ticket Giveaway?
The Eagles’ #FanFriday promotion is fairly straightforward: A few days before each home game, the team posts on Twitter a random location in and around the city (and sometimes in Jersey, which I would mock except that I’m from there) where team mascot Swoop will soon be waiting. Be the first to high...
Ex-UConn Soccer Player Sues School After Losing Scholarship Over Middle Finger
In 2014, then-UConn women’s soccer freshman Noriana Radwan flipped off the ESPNU camera in a fit of excitement after the Huskies won their conference championship. I don’t think it reveals too much bias to say the act was, however shocking (not that shocking), effectively harmless....