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Wind Blows Punt Backward For A Safety
Yeah, this is from Saturday, but if you think you can do a better job covering junior college bowl season, have at it, jerk....

Alex Ovechkin Scores Four, Is Ridiculous
When watching a Capitals game just as a fan, you never take your eyes off Alex Ovechkin. When an opposing team does it? Carnage....

Bill Cowher Had Fun At The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show
Bill Cowher was at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, and he seemed delighted to be there. Now that I have your attention, we should be asking more questions about the process of how these models are picked....

The Worst Solution To A Broken Pane Of Glass
One of the panes of glass lining the rink broke during the third period of the Red Wings-Panthers game. Normally, a maintenance crew would bring a new pane of glass and take a few minutes to fix it. Not tonight. Here, Panthers fans. Look at this non-transparent square for the rest of the game. Oh, y...

Classic College Football Programs With Character
So in case you don't know from A Continuous Lean do yourself a favor and check it out. It's a consistently smart, stylish, and elegant place. ...

Andre Johnson Spent Over $17,000 On Toys For Kids
Texans receiver Andre Johnson held his annual holiday toy shopping spree today at Toys R' Us for a dozen kids (and their siblings) from Child Protective Services. He ended up spending a total of $17,352. That receipt in his right hand is roughly the size of one Danny Woodhead....

NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 15 (Early Edition)
Here is your early betting info for Week 15 NFL; we'll update on Thursday with money lines and spread movements for these these games, and add info for Bears-Browns and Packers-Cowboys, which haven't opened yet....

Shawne Merriman Took Off In The Middle Of An Interview On ESPN2
Former Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman came on Highly Questionable this afternoon, purportedly to discuss the 11th Annual Lights On Foundation Coat Drive. The Lights On Foundation is a Merriman charity and it fights homelessness. ...

RGIII Is A Pawn In The Dan Snyder-Mike Shanahan Standoff
Mike Shanahan is daring Washington to fire him. Dan Snyder has no problems seeing Shanahan go, but not at the cost of the $7 million remaining on his contract for 2014. Caught in the middle of this ugly divorce is poor, innocent, Robert Griffin III. It's always the children who suffer. At least he'l...

Derek Jeter Revived A Dying Man With His Handsome Face
Everyone shut up, we have some very important Derek Jeter news to share with you....

Greg Hardy's Explanation For "Kraken From Hogwarts" Clears Up Nothing
On Sunday Night Football, Panthers DE Greg Hardy introduced himself as "Kraken" and said his alma mater is Hogwarts. Surely that's crazy talk. But after reading Hardy's explanation, perhaps we were the crazy ones all along....

Kansas City Sportscaster Maintains He Didn't Call KU The "Gayhawks"
This is one of the more confusing controversies in a while. Jack Harry, a sportscaster for KSHB in Kansas City who doesn't hide his Missouri sympathies, said something on Sunday night. Check the video above and try to figure it out....

Can I Cook Italian Food For Italian Guests?
Welcome to the Feedbag, where all the dumb questions about food, drink, cooking, eating, and accidental finger removal you've been embarrassed to ask can finally receive the berating they goddamn deserve. Also: answers. Send all your even-vaguely-food-related questions to [email protected] wit...

Here's A Goalkeeper Training By Getting Shot With Actual Cannons
This is from the Slovenian fourth division team SD Gorisnica, but it may as well be Wile E Coyote. ...

Curtis Granderson: "True New Yorkers Are Mets Fans"
Curtis Granderson was officially introduced a Met today, with a four-year, $60 million contract and a preternatural knack for winning over the fans. Within minutes of meeting the media, he tossed some fire on a Yankees-Mets rivalry that only exists on tabloid back pages. ...

Vote For Jack Morris (And Shut Up About Game 7 Already)
Over the next few weeks, we'll be examining the merits—and relative lack of merits—of all 36 players on this year's Hall of Fame ballot for the purposes of better informing the electorate, i.e., you. All entries in the series can be found here....

Wikipedia vandalism is generally tired, but let's make an exception for James Dolan's band, JD & The Straight Shot. USA Today pointed out some since-corrected Knicks jokes in the song titles, but there are already a few more to replace them. ("Don't Waste My Time I've Got a Team to Run Into the Grou...

Nate Silver's Model Gives The USMNT A 39.4 Percent Chance To Advance
When the U.S. drew Germany, Portugal, and Ghana for its 2014 World Cup group, the immediate consensus was that we were totally boned. But is it possible, after rigorous quantitative analysis, that we are less than boned?...

How Black Is Duke Basketball?
There's a lot of talk out there—and more than a little evidence—suggesting that this year's Duke Blue Devils, led by the very big and very mobile Jabari Parker, are the most athletic team in the school's history. We decided to investigate whether that claim is true. And since average vertical leap n...
