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Roger Goodell Is Not As All-Powerful As He Thinks He Is
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"People Were Having Sex In The Penalty Box," And Other Shitshow Details From The Report On The BU Ice Hockey Team
The task force report released earlier this week about the Boston University ice hockey team's "culture of sexual entitlement" withheld the finding's explicit details from the public. The Boston Globe has obtained those details, which were based on testimonials from players, students, and others, an...
Saints Players' Bountygate Suspensions Overturned On Appeal
The NFLPA, arguing on behalf of four members of the Saints who were suspended for their roles in New Orleans' bounty scandal, was actually fighting the war on two fronts. There was one lawsuit in federal court, and a second, quieter appeal to a three-member panel, challenging Goodell's jurisdiction ...
Exclusive: Tyler Palko Is Not Working At A Shoe Store In South Dakota
NESN.com published a report on Thursday that said Tyler Palko, the former Kansas City Chiefs quarterback, was now working at a shoe store in Aberdeen, S.D. The source of this extraordinary news was Wikipedia, and NESN.com helpfully added this:...
The Existential Farce Of A Royals Pitching Change
I believe there is a hell, and it's always early September there. Your team is long out of playoff contention, forever playing out the string, yet the season never ends. Just meaningless game after meaningless game, and football is supposed to start soon, but it never comes. The game goes to extra i...
Yes, Chess Grand Masters Are Still Being Randomly Drug-Tested For Doping
Aside from the boring/kick-ass/boring nature of chessboxing, as well as the occasional airing of Searching for Bobby Fischer on Starz, we can't say chess comes across our radar very often, but the 2012 World Chess Olympiad is underway in Istanbul. Tipster Jay L. brought to our attention that Grand M...
Both Pilots Of The Plane In The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Crash Should Not Have Been Allowed To Fly
Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of the plane crash that killed 36 members of the Russian hockey club Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, including former NHLers Ruslan Salei, Kārlis Skrastiņš, and Pavol Demitra. Today Russian officials announced that they were charging Vadim Timofeyev, the deputy head of the ...
Colorado School District Says Peyton Manning Is A Gang Sign
If you're a student in the Greeley-Evans (Colo.) School District and you want to wear your brand-new Peyton Manning jersey to school, you might be gang-curious, according to the people who run your schools....
Like A Meaner, Braver, Less Funny <em>Bridesmaids</em>. <em>Bachelorette</em>, Reviewed.
1. In retrospect, the "surprising" success of Bridesmaids should have been the furthest thing from a surprise. It was a big, broad, audience-friendly comedy that made sure, in between all the poop jokes and the rampant silliness, that you liked all of its characters. It was ribald and bawdy, but nev...
Art Modell, 1925-2012: Grifter, Traitor, Model NFL Owner
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If You're In New York Tonight, Come Hear Some Good Writers Talk About Football
This month's edition of Gelf's Varsity Letters reading series is tonight at Pacific Standard on Fourth Ave in Brooklyn at 7:30. Kevin Cook, author of The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s—The Era that Created Modern Sports will be there, so will Peter Schrager, co-author of ...
Aaron Sorkin Wants You To Know Jay Paterno Was Really Moved By <em>The Newsroom</em>
Aaron Sorkin says Jay Paterno called him after Paterno watched an episode of The Newsroom earlier this summer. The episode, which was about last year's attempted assassination of then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, showed how some networks (like NPR) inaccurately reported Gifford had died. Which, com...
Roger Goodell's Sanctimonious Pledge To "Make Everything Safer, Including Our Military"
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Are Football Players Really Living Longer Than Baseball Players? Why Grantland's Study Is Wrong
Grantland recently published an article, "Mere Mortals," by Bill Barnwell, which claims that:...
Joe Maddon Had The Perfect Response To Bobby Valentine For Dragging Him Into His Radio Tirade
During his rant on WEEI yesterday, Red Sox punching bag manager Bobby Valentine brought Joe Maddon's name into his excuse for showing up later than usual before a game in Oakland (which he said was due to his son's flight being delayed)....
"Art Modell Is Probably Talking To The Devil About Relocating Hell," Says Internet
Former Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens owner Art Modell died this morning. He was 87. The reaction to his death on the internet, particularly from those with some connection to Northeast Ohio, was somewhat less than charitable. We've compiled a list of some of that reaction for you below. It's...
Photos From The Paralympics Just Won't Stop Inspiring The Shit Out Of You
In 2001 both of CART and F1 driver Alex Zanardi's legs were sheared off in this violent crash. He would drive again, and win, but in 2007 he made the decision to reinvent himself as a para-cyclist....
BU Men's Hockey Team Will Try To Change Its "Culture Of Sexual Entitlement"
The panel in charge of investigating the Boston University men's hockey team's "culture and climate" released its findings today, and it concluded that the student-athletes in the program should be treated as if they were merely students....
Someone Is Flying A "Free Sean Payton" Banner Over The Meadowlands
All eyes are on the Cowboys-Giants game tonight, and Sean Payton coached for both teams before arriving in New Orleans, so I guess East Rutherford is as logical a place as any to fly this loud banner. It's not quite Franco Harris's cardboard Paterno, but it's something. [Via Ralph Vacchiano]...
When, Exactly, Did The Red Sox Hit Rock Bottom?
There's no denying that the Red Sox have been awful this season. Everyone (outside of Boston) is reveling in it. Inside the Hub, however, media and fans alike are enduring what happens when the team that opened the season with baseball's third-highest payroll has Scott Podsednik batting third or Ped...