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"Somebody Fucking Go": Broadcaster Mocks Dion Phaneuf's Girly Voice When He Thinks He's In Commercial
Ray Ferraro called TSN's broadcast of Leafs/Penguins tonight, and as sometimes happens with online streams (in this case, the NHL's GameCenter Live), viewers watching during televised ad breaks were treated to a live mic. And while we've heard announcers swear before, hearing Ferraro take a stab a...
This Week In Unintentional Dong Submissions
Imagine, if you will, that you got into a bar fight in Grand Rapids, Mich....
The Million-Dollar Drexel University LSD Bust: A Slideshow
'Twas a bad, bad day for lovers of the LSD on the campus of Philadelphia's Drexel University....
If This Drunk Canadian Just Kept His Mouth Shut, His Hat Wouldn't Have Gotten Pissed On
Oh, this poor, poor Canadian chappie. He's 34. He calls out a kid with a Mohawk because "we used to shave our heads." Then, he confronts brochacho wearing sunglasses at night in homage to Corey Hart, more likely than not. He then pulls the surrogate-father line of meddlin'....
Sorry Giants Fans, Chad McGhee Thinks The Patriots Will Dominate Your Team In The Super Bowl
Chad McGhee, the dean of Texas high-school six-man football observation, has some thoughts he'd like to share about the NFL's biggest game of the year. Granted, he had predicted the San Francisco 49ers would face the New England Patriots on Sunday. But, that doesn't change his vision of the outcom...
Shawne Merriman Gave Away Super Bowl Tickets On Twitter, And Nobody Seemed To Care
"However, according to the Twitter analytics tool Topsy, only five people even submitted videos to Merrman's Twitter handle. And one wasn't even clearly a Lights Out dance." [Daily Dot]...
Blood Writes: Fingers Aren't Supposed To Bend That Way
Welcome to Blood Week. We put out the call on Friday for your tales of of blood, violence, gruesome injuries, near-death experiences, mayhem, and blood. Many of you came through with submissions, which we'll be posting throughout the week. If you have a story and/or photos to share, email tips@dead...
Joe Frazier's Youngest Son Claims Frazier Told Him He Was Poisoned Two Months Before His Death
On the day before Joe Frazier died in November, his 20-year-old son, Derek Dennis Frazier, made a YouTube video saying he had not spoken with his father in two months. Derek, the youngest of Frazier's 11 children, also said he did not know where his father had been, even as he lay dying in a Philade...
Comments Of The Fortnight-Ish: Blood Week Edition
Let's talk about originality. When a joke makes you laugh, who exactly gets to claim credit for being a funny comedian?...
Justin Tuck's Nerves Had Him Throwing Up During The Super Bowl
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: you don't get the McNabb media treatment when you win....
Bill Belichick Was Once A Starter Jacket Model
Bill Belichick has been so successful as the head coach of the Patriots, it's easy to forget he spent five years in charge of the Browns in the early 1990s. Or that four of those seasons in Cleveland ended with losing records, including '95, when the team more or less mailed it in after then-owner ...
Meet The Next Generation Of NFL Analysts You'll Probably Wind Up Hating
Esquire talked to dozens of industry experts to gauge which current players are best suited to shout clichés and pass off conventional wisdom as shrewd analysis in a future life. Cue the laugh track. [Esquire]...
After The Scalpel, Out Come The Knives For 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 Madman Handcuffed Himself To The Goal During The Everton-Manchester City Match
We've no clue the protest this man is engineering (his t-shirt says something about Irish airline Ryanair) but the Everton-Man City match was put on hold for about five minutes as police attempted to unchain this hooligan from the goal. It's a good thing he chose the opposite end from Tim Howard;...
Jerry Sandusky Will Soon Learn The Names Of His 10 Accusers
The alleged victims' names had not been disclosed in the grand jury report. So Sandusky's attorney, Lawyerin' Joe Amendola, has asked for them, and the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office filed a court document yesterday stating it will provide them to the defense by the end of the week....
Blood Writes: Beware The Drunken Straggler Who Wanders Onto Your Deck And Falls Off
Welcome to Blood Week. We put out the call on Friday for your tales of of blood, violence, gruesome injuries, near-death experiences, mayhem, and blood. Many of you came through with submissions, which we'll be posting throughout the week. If you have a story and/or photos to share, email tips@dead...
Coming To Grips With Your Sexless Adulthood
Before we get to the Funbag, I should note that I'm doing a reading in Chapel Hill tonight at 7 p.m. at Flyleaf Books. The afterparty is gonna be at Linda's, which is about a mile away. And then, tomorrow night, there's gonna be a reading in Durham at the Regulator at 7 p.m., with drinks at either C...
Why Are Ray Lewis And <em>Friday Night Lights</em>' Peter Berg Shilling For The NFL On Player Safety?
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....
Here's The Most Gruesome MMA Injury We've Ever Seen, And We're Going To Go Throw Up Now (UPDATE: Fake!)
Click through to see what happened to Isiah Ordiz's femur after he wouldn't tap out of a heel hook from Rousimar Palhares. I cannot stress this enough: this is a Faces of Death-level photo and you will wish you hadn't seen it....
Kevin Hart, Who Lied About Being Recruited, Says He's Being Recruited
Way back in 2008, Kevin Hart, a two-star offensive lineman prospect out of Nevada, held a press conference to announce he was choosing Cal over Oregon. It turned out that none of it was true: Hart hadn't been recruited by anyone. At first he claimed that he had been scammed by someone posing as a re...