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Fan At Phillies-Mets Battles Bug Behind Home Plate
Top of the seventh. Bases loaded. Two outs. Full count. Bryce Harper at the plate. And one fan on TV was battling a bug of some sort....

CBS Shows Ads Over The Void After Power Outage Disrupts Chiefs-Jaguars Broadcast
Coming back from a commercial after the Jaguars cut the Chiefs’ lead to 37-19, CBS didn’t return to the game broadcast. In a nihilistic twist, the network kept showing ads over nothing....

Browns Lineman Ejected For Treating Opponent's Head Like A Soccer Ball
Cleveland Browns left tackle Greg Robinson had his day end in the second quarter when unwisely decided to boot Titans safety Kenny Vaccaro in the head. Way to be a dick, Greg....

Vernon Davis Hurdles Defender, Burns Eagles For 48-Yard Touchdown, Walks Off In Pain
With Jordan Reed inactive, Washington started Vernon Davis at tight end today against the Eagles. It paid off early with this spectacular 48-yard touchdown, but that might’ve used up all the remaining gas in the 35-year-old’s tank....

The Steelers Specifically Didn't Want This To Happen, Which Makes It All The Funnier
Back in March, before the Antonio Brown saga involved feet and a helmet, it was a relatively standard dispute of a disgruntled player riding an elliptical and demanding a trade from his team. The Steelers had no desire to keep him, but they still thought highly enough of him that they didn’t want a ...

Hugh Freeze Switches From Hospital Bed To Medical Chair, But Liberty Loses Again
Hugh Freeze, who is still recovering from a staph infection, should definitely be in bed munching on ice pellets, but he won’t stop jeopardizing his health for Liberty football, dammit. The dude coached from a hospital bed in the Flames’ first game of the season, a shutout loss to Syracuse, but for ...

19-Year-Old Bianca Andreescu Wins The U.S. Open, Fearlessly
If Bianca Andreescu was at all humbled or overwhelmed by the circumstances before her in Saturday afternoon’s U.S. Open final, she had a funny way of showing it....

Right On Cue, The Patriots Sign Antonio Brown
It almost seemed too obvious to be possible, but malcontent former Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown is headed to the Patriots to become yet another in what feels like a whole roster’s worth of talented yet difficult players who have found a home with Bill Belichick through the years. The terms, o...

An Incompetent Michigan Escapes Upset-Minded Army In Double OT
There were certainly some jitters in the Michigan fanbase about facing a bizarre, tough-to-crack team like Army in Week 2, but only the most cynical of Wolverines could have predicted the struggle that unfolded on Saturday afternoon in The Big House. Plenty of Michigan mistakes and just straight-up ...

NIU Quarterback Ross Bowers Front-Flips Into The Endzone, Yet Again
Ross Bowers’s mother coached the women’s gymnastics team at the University of Washington for 10 years, so maybe it shouldn’t come as a surprise that when her son, the starting quarterback at Northern Illinois, gets to the endzone, he takes the most acrobatic route possible....

Giannis's Shoulders Not Big Enough To Carry Everyone; Team USA Cruises Past Greece
The problem with simply double-teaming Giannis Antetokounmpo or clogging the paint to thwart him is that when the ball is not in his superhuman hands, it’s usually in Khris Middleton’s very capable hands or Brook Lopez’s or Eric Bledsoe’s, or hell, Pat Connaughton’s. ...

The Raiders Have Released Antonio Brown
It’s finally over. After a seemingly endless month of drama that included nightmare feet, a global search for an acceptable helmet, plenty of missed practices, a heated argument with his GM, a video that may have used an illegal recording of his coach, a hefty fine and loss of $30 million in guarant...

Pete Alonso Hopes For Even More Shirtless Mets Before The Year Is Out
The Mets have to play near-flawless baseball in the final month of the season if they’re going to sneak into that Wild Card game, and on Friday against the Phillies, even if the game threatened to go off the rails in the ninth inning, it all ended in tasty, shrimpy fashion. With the Wild Card-leadin...

Raiders Void Antonio Brown's Guaranteed Money, So He Finally Demands That They Release Him
It was always going to get even worse. While Jon Gruden helplessly did his best to write a happy ending to the saga with his clearly frustrated receiver Antonio Brown by laughing off a taped phone call released by Brown and saying yesterday that Brown will avoid a suspension for Crackergate, it was ...

Antonio Brown Posts Bizarre, Highly Produced Hype Video Featuring Recorded Phone Call With Jon Gruden
Antonio Brown’s had one of the most eventful weeks of an NFL offseason a superstar receiver has had in a long time, and the Raiders receiver has a desire to keep it going....

Of Course Tyreek Hill Got A Contract Extension
When news broke that the Kansas City Chiefs signed wide receiver Tyreek Hill to a contract extension earlier today, NFL reporters confirmed what everyone following the sport should have suspected for some time. The team did what professional sports teams do with such news, issuing a press release pa...

David Brooks Explores The Reaches Of Pure Mind
Our old pal Alex Pareene has it right, of course: The New York Times, despite its pose as the one universal press outlet of humankind, ultimately is for a very narrowly defined class of East Coast rich people....

Bigoted Wrestling Fans Are Getting Loud And Promotions Need To Set Boundaries
All Elite Wrestling’s All Out, the promotion’s fourth event and the last before their weekly TV show launches on TNT on October 2, ran on Saturday night in the Chicago suburb of Hoffman Estates. One of the key storytelling aspects of the show was setting up the match to determine the first AEW Women...

Dead Letters: "IT IS THE HARBINGER AT THE GATES OF THE GUARDIAN"
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How Do The Raiders Do It?
Year after year, move after move, hire after hire, the Raiders outdo their own capacity for abject humiliation, and every time you think they’ve bottomed out, they bring in a new excavator. And now, with the start and also pending end of the Antonio Brown era, they can honestly say that the earth’s ...