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Byron Maxwell Had A Very Bad Night
The Eagles threw a decent amount of money at Byron Maxwell this offseason, signing the former Seahawks cornerback to a $63 million contract with $22 million guaranteed. The team was banking on the 6-foot-1 Maxwell to use his physical play in coverage and turn into Philadelphia’s top corner. He’d pro...
The NFL's Dumbass Deflategate Science Report Is A Feature, Not A Bug
Last night, a mountain of documents and transcription emerged from Tom Brady’s late June appeal hearing before Roger Goodell. It’s been a circus, with a series of insults, emails, and sneaker requests to Tom Ford pouring out of the file cabinet, but the testimony most relevant to the case circles ba...
5 Thoughts On Tom Brady's Case From A Guy Who Read The Whole Damn Thing
As part of the legal battle over the four-game suspension Tom Brady received for his role in the deflation of footballs during the AFC Championship game, the NFLPA filed a number of documents in court Tuesday, including the full transcript from Brady’s June 23 appeal hearing. If you’re a masochist y...
The Full Story Of Tom Brady's Destroyed Cell Phone
The biggest revelation from Roger Goodell’s decision upholding Tom Brady’s four-game suspension was that Brady’s cell phone was destroyed shortly before meeting with Ted Wells and his investigators, even though he knew Wells wanted access to the contents of his text messages. Here is how Wells descr...
Chris Mortensen Unsatisfyingly Explains His Erroneous PSI Report
The first report that something fishy had occurred with the footballs during the AFC Championship game came from Bob Kravitz, a reporter for Indianapolis’s WTHR. But it was Chris Mortensen’s report the next day that 11 of the 12 footballs were under inflated by two pounds that turned what had been a...
Jeff Bagwell Grabbed A Boob
Astros legend Jeff Bagwell went to the ballpark last night to watch his old team, and he brought a lady friend with him. He also grabbed that lady friend’s boob:...
Smash Mouth Singer Flips Shit; Band Just Wants To Play "All Star"
Remember how when the Titanic sunk, the band kept playing on the deck so the passengers wouldn’t completely lose it as the ship went down? This video is sort of like that. In it, you see Smash Mouth frontman Steve Harwell flip his shit as the crowd hassles him and pelts him with crumbs of bread. But...
76ers To Wells Fargo: Give Us Money, Or We Won't Use Your Dumb Name
In an interesting bit of corporate jiu jitsu, the Philadelphia 76ers will cease referring to their home arena as the “Wells Fargo Center”—its corporate-sponsored name—reports the Associated Press. Instead, the 76ers will refer to it as “The Center” or their “home arena,” seemingly in retaliation aft...
Aaron Cresswell Puts West Ham Up With Top-Class Free Kick
West Ham's Aaron Cresswell put his side up early on Stoke with this marvelous free kick that left the announcers giddy: ...
A Troubling Statistical Conundrum, From A Burger King Baseball In 1996
Reader Sully from Holy Cross wrote in this weekend with a question. ...
Hold On, Jim Caldwell Went For The Most 4th Downs Last Year?
Football Outsiders published its Aggressiveness Index results yesterday, and came back with a very weird result. Jim Caldwell went for a shitload of fourth downs....
Browns Fined And GM Suspended For Being Supremely Dysfunctional
Because it's only like the 16th most interesting thing to happen to the Browns in the last year, and because the Falcons are being punished—more harshly—at the exact same time, this latest Cleveland mini-fiasco threatens to fly under the radar. Do not let it. It's a perfect example of the team bein...
Bob Huggins's Daughters Call Dez Wells A Rapist
Maryland guard Dez Wells was kicked off the Xavier men's basketball team in 2012 after being accused of sexual assault. An Ohio grand jury ultimately decided not to bring charges against Wells, and he later settled a lawsuit filed against Xavier. It's something he still hears about from opposing fan...
Penn State Students Chant "No Means No" At Maryland's Dez Wells
Yesterday, Maryland traveled to Happy Valley to play and ultimately defeat Penn State. It was a hard-fought game that went down to the wire, but perhaps the most interesting moment came midway through the first half, when Terps senior star Dez Wells went to the foul line....
Damn, Baron
Norman Powell just slammed home a nice dunk, but at best it's only the second best dunk by a UCLA Bruin ever. Or maybe it's lower? Did Tyus Edney ever do anything sweet for UCLA?...
Norman Powell Goes Through His Legs To Split Defenders, Dunks
Usually the dunks that get you jumping out of your seat happen because someone gets their head tomahawked on. So this effort from UCLA guard Norman Powell is a nice change of pace, a nice slam made impressive by the move that got Powell there. ...
Cops: Colts LB D'Qwell Jackson Punched Pizza Guy Over Parking Spot
Washington D.C. police cited Colts linebacker D'Qwell Jackson for simple assault Tuesday after he allegedly twice punched a pizza delivery man in the head....