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Mark Brunell Claims Weed Ruins Lives, Calls For Increased NFL Testing
Former NFL quarterback Mark Brunell appeared on ESPN this morning to warn viewers of the scourge of marijuana, claiming it destroys the brain and ruins lives while demanding the NFL step up its testing and enforcement of an anti-weed policy. His claims were in response to Ryan Clark's recognition th...

Pete Carroll Is The Future
Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here. ...


Let's All Watch Bob Costas Make Weird Faces For Two Minutes
Here's some fun video from the Saints-Broncos game in 2012. Bob Costas prepares to wrap up the Sunday Night Football broadcast, and apparently his face needs some warming up....

Shirtless Seahawks GM Wears The Championship Belt
This is Seahawks general manager John Schneider doing his best "Drunk Guy Who Has Been at the Party For Way Too Long" impression after his team's Super Bowl victory. ...

Watch Your Super Bowl Highlights As Narrated By "J.R." Jim Ross
Look, tonight's Super Bowl XLVIII sucked. It lacked everything to which we were looking forward—from Omaha, to Beast Mode to, well, competitiveness. We made things a bit better, though, with the help of wrestling legend Jim Ross. Here's every big play from tonight's game as called by J.R. Enjoy....

The End Of Weber State-Sacramento State Was Just Absurd
College basketball already had a hell of a showing Saturday with top-ranked Arizona losing on a last-second shot and Duke forcing overtime against Syracuse with a buzzer-beater, but there was another crazy finish yesterday that didn't feature two perennial programs....

Lookin' Good, Gunslinger
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San Diego TV Station Airs Unsettling Photo In Super Bowl Weather Forecast
San Diego station KUSI's evening news tonight followed in the footsteps of most local broadcasts in previewing the weather for Sunday's Super Bowl. Where KUSI differed from those other stations is in their choice of graphics: a bizarre image of Green Bay Packers center Scott Wells holding a baby wit...

Doctor Predicts Tom Brady And Patriots Will Win The Super Bowl
I can't begin to explain how uncomfortable it is to watch this guy talk about how he'll be pulling for Tom Brady and the Patriots in the Super Bowl this weekend. "Go Patriots," he says, with a pump of his fist. It is a disaster....

Watch A New View Of Felix Baumgartner's Space Jump
GoPro footage somehow seems old hat already, with newjack stuff out there like Google Glass (usually disappointing) and Oculus Rift (HELL YES). But this? This is awesome. ...

Batman On Steroids: How The <em>NFL On Fox</em> Theme Song Was Born
It was March 1994, and Fox Sports president David Hill was on the phone with a new employee. Hill himself was something of a new employee. The network was only a few months old at that point, being built on the fly after Rupert Murdoch had unexpectedly outbid CBS for NFC broadcast rights. Hill was k...

A Blueprint For Unionizing College Sports
On Tuesday, we learned that the Northwestern football team had filed paperwork with the National Labor Relations Board in an attempt to unionize and officially become classified as university employees. Thomas Frampton, an attorney and co-author of A Union of Amateurs: A Legal Blueprint to Reshape B...

Wes Welker Had The Worst Time During This Interview
Yesterday, Broncos wide receiver Wes Welker sat down for a remote interview with Off The Record host Michael Landsberg—whom we've seen conducting strange interviews before—and he did not have a very good time. After reluctantly answering a handful of questions, Welker just got up and left....

Your Super Bowl Weather Report: NO ONE MADE YOU COME HERE
All week long, we'll be keeping track of the weather conditions for Super Bowl XLVIII. Here is your Friday update....

An Outdoor NHL Game Through A Ref's Eyes
The NHL stuck a GoPro camera and microphone on ref Wes McCauley for Sunday's Rangers-Devils game at Yankee Stadium. And as Harrison Mooney at Puck Daddy notes, you can't get more Canadian than Wes McCauley. ...

The NCAA Should Pray That Players Are Able To Form A Union
Originally published in Bloomberg View....

Your Super Bowl Weather Report: AND A GREAT SNOW MURDERED YOUR FACE
All week long, we'll be keeping track of the weather conditions for Super Bowl XLVIII. Here is your Wednesday update:...

Idiot Tries To Invade Jim Cantore's Space During Live Shot, Gets Kicked
Don't fuck with Jim Cantore, as he clearly knows MMA. Check out that flying knee!...
