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Julio Jones Makes Incredible Catch, Is Having His Own Game Of The Century Against The Colts
Julio Jones checks in early with today's first wild plays. ...

LSU-Alabama: A Story Told By Faces
Sure, there wasn't much scoring happening on the field. But that doesn't mean CBS's cameras didn't capture a goldmine of reactions to last night's game events. So here's a chronological (roughly) box score of LSU 9, Alabama 6 as told by the fans, coaches, and players themselves. ...

Moments Later, Nick Saban Turned Green And Tore A Referee's Torso In Half
In what is turning out to be the most boring Biggest Game Evar, Alabama is tied 3-3 with LSU at the half in a game filled with hard hits and big mistakes—including three missed Crimson Tide field goals. That's not what has Nick Saban enraged (blame a missed penalty call for that) but you can see hi...

LSU Tramples Own Mascot Before Taking On Alabama
Pssst. Mike the Tiger. Look out! Poor Mike the Tiger, not that mascots are particularly deserving of respect—especially when the same school has a live, actual tiger for which you're just an avatar— but that's a rough start for somebody heading into the BIGGEST GAME EVAR....

The Waiting Is Over: LSU-Alabama Open Thread
Lee Corso trolled the shit out of the Alabama student body. Kirk Herbstreit styled on set with the Bear Bryant hat. Brian Wilson...exists in this world to annoy everyone....

Salty Notre Dame Fan Is Auctioning Off Unused Timeouts From USC Game
Get your bids in quick—this auction ends at about 8:45 pm. Following the October 22 game against USC, Brian Kelly came under a bit of fire for not using the timeouts, currently valued at $53.50, especially after USC players insinuated that the failure to call the timeouts at the end of game meant N...

Biggest Game Ever
Tim is collecting the best moments of Every Synthetic Puffer's Nightmare's coverage of the lead up to The Big Game and screen capping them all for you. Come, inside and check them out. No, no. Thank you....

This Guy Was So Jacked Up For USC-Colorado He Decided To Get A Wacky Haircut
Your morning roundup for November 5, the day we learned lobsters have no feelings. Image via Mocksession. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....

Deadspin's College Football Top 25 Or So: It's Called The Big Ten, Not The Top Ten
It's time for a new installment of Deadspin's college football rankings. As always, the teams are ranked according to the logic and values of college football, no matter how bizarre or contradictory they may be. ...

Eighth Grade Is For Kids: Scouting America's Top-Ranked 15-Year-Old Basketball Stars
It's a Sunday in October, and Baruch College in Gramercy is hosting campus tours. In the basement lobby just off of the main gym, high school students and their parents, sometimes trailing younger siblings, walk through, following a college student who's walking backwards. Should they come to Baruch...

The Stupid Moral Panic Over Mocking Tim Tebow; Or, What Would Jesus Do About Tebowing?
Oh, please. You know why Tebow memes exist? You know why they've, let us say, gone forth and multiplied? Because of columns like this, that's why. Here's the headline:...

The Official Who Breaks Up A Hockey Fight Will Sometimes Get Punched In the Face. Twice.
Your morning roundup for Nov. 4, the day we finally had it up to here with hugging. Video of hockey fight via Cosby Sweaters; H/T to Alicia. For an excellent GIF of Cal Clutterbuck's punch, be sure to check out West Coast Digress. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....

The Mets Are Moving The Fences To Distract Themselves From The Fact They're The Mets
Not so long ago (2009), the New York Mets opened a new stadium in Flushing. It was supposed to be a classy, exposed-brick-and-green-steel tribute to the franchise's ascendance. Instead, Citi Field has been a monument to the Mets' modern futility and clumsiness....

Trent Richardson Doesn't Know How Much He Can Bench, Because Trainers Won't Let Him Try More Than 475
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Trent Smash!...

Dear Bill Simmons, The Helmet Catch Was Not Luck
Drew Magary's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Buy Drew's new book, The Postmortal, through here. Find more of his stuff at his Twitter feed....

Why A Former ESPN VP Filed A Pre-Emptive Lawsuit Denying He Masturbated In Front Of Erin Andrews
Last month, ESPN announced it was eliminating its bi-coastal, 25-person Content Development department, which was responsible for the network's 30 for 30 series, among other things. The head of the group, Keith Clinkscales, ESPN's senior vice president for content, development, and enterprise, left ...

How Contempt For Tim Tebow Caused An ESPN.com Commenter Revolution
The ESPN.com comment section is a den of iniquity and misspelling, and for the world's largest sports site, it's curiously inessential. The open registration means the discourse tends toward lowest common denominator, and it's too big to engender much sense of community. But once in a long while the...

Let's Watch Alex Ovechkin, Benched Late In Regulation, Call His Coach A "Fat Fuck"
Your morning roundup for Nov. 2, the day you wouldn't dare touch our Halloween candy if you knew what was up. Video of Ovechkin, which gets good at the 53-second mark, via 25stanley.com. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....

Andrew Luck Is More Of A Sure Thing Than Peyton Manning
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....

A Lesson In Dealing With Friends Who Suck At The Internet
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