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Dildo Thrown On Field [Update]
A dildo was thrown onto the field during today’s Patriots-Bills game, because Buffalo. Update: Here’s how the official removed the dildo from the field:...
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Texans TE C.J. Fiedorowicz Exits Game After Hit To The Head [Update]
Houston Texans tight end C.J. Fiedorowicz is being evaluated for a concussion after leaving Sunday’s game. Attempting to catch a pass from Texans QB Brock Osweiler in the second quarter, he took a hit to the head from Detroit Lions safety Tavon Wilson. Fiedorowicz immediately grabbed his helmet and ...
Chiefs QB Alex Smith Leaves Game After His Head Bounces Off The Turf [Update]
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith is being evaluated for a concussion after taking a hit to the head in today’s game against the Indianapolis Colts....
High School Team Beats Opponent In Victory Formation By Successfully Swiping The Snap
Friday night’s Goddard-Artesia high school game in New Mexico ended with a winning field goal after Goddard players successfully snatched the snap away from the center as Artesia attempted to kneel in victory formation:...
Juan Manuel Lopez Knocks Out Wilfredo Vazquez, Then Starts Fighting Other People<em></em>
A grudge match between two former Puerto Rican world champions ended with the winner brawling with the loser’s trainer after Juan Manuel López knocked out Wilfredo Vazquez and proceeded to trade blows with Vazquez’s corner man....
Braxton Miller Is Here To Get In On Kyle Schwarber's World Series Success
The Chicago Cubs’ Kyle Schwarber has re-entered our lives this week as a large adult designated hitter and reminded us that he’s pretty good at hitting the baseball. He was not quite so good, however, at football—which Houston Texans wide receiver Braxton Miller will happily remind you of with a t-s...
Former Gymnast Alleges USA Gymnastics Enabled, Ignored Pattern Of Sexual Abuse
In a lawsuit filed today in Los Angeles Superior Court, a former member of the United States gymnastics team alleged that Marta and Bela Karolyi (legendary USA Gymnastics coaches) and others helped create a “regime of intimidation” and abuse that allowed Dr. Larry Nassar to sexually abuse a series o...
Trump Ally Alex Jones: I'm Not Anti-Semitic, It's Just That The Jews Control Everything
You see, it’s not that Alex Jones—whom Donald Trump has previously called a “nice guy” with an “amazing” reputation—hates the Jews. It’s just that he knows how how devious and money-hungry they really are. And also that they control the Ubers....
Remember When The Chicago White Sox Won The World Series?
One of the less-mentioned aspects of the Chicago Cubs making the World Series is the fact that they haven’t done so in 71 years, and haven’t won a World Series in 108 years. Unless you’re a hardcore Cubs fan, you probably haven’t heard about these statistical anomalies....
Brett Favre's Vikings Had A "Bounty" Program Too
This excerpt from Gunslinger: The Remarkable, Improbable, Iconic Life of Brett Favre by Jeff Pearlman is reprinted with the permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Buy it here. ...
Xherdan Shaqiri's Left Foot Had A Hell Of A Game
It seems almost quaint now to remember that last summer, the fallen wonderkid Xherdan Shaqiri at first rejected, before accepting, the bejeweled life raft Stoke City tossed him in order to rescue him from Inter’s bench and the career obsolescence that loomed dangerously close. Stoke are a mainstay i...
Brock Osweiler Was Historically Bad Tonight<em></em>
Here is a neat, one-play summary of how Brock Osweiler’s return to Denver went....
Texans Tackle Derek Newton Tore Both His Patellar Tendons On This Play
Texans right tackle Derek Newton sustained one of the worst injures you possibly could this evening, when he tore both the patellar tendon on both of his knees. He appears to have fallen down while planting to block Von Miller, and he was helped off in a double air cast. Ian Rapoport reports that th...
We're Simulating Texans-Broncos In <i>Tecmo Super Bowl III</i>
TEXANS. BRONCOS. TECMO SUPER BOWL III ON SUPER NINTENDO. We’re taking our simulation to the next level, LIVE: ...
Zero Tolerance For Domestic Violence Will Only Make It Worse
Over and over in her interviews with law enforcement, Molly Brown said that money was one of the topics that made her husband, New York Giants kicker Josh Brown, angry. A fight over financial mail preceded him pushing her into a door while she was pregnant; years later, when she called King County s...
CBS's Brian Jones Rants Against Targeting Rule
Brian Jones failed out of the NFL due to injury—he even filed, and lost, a lawsuit over it—but don’t tell him that the sport of football needs rules to protect players’ long-term health. The CBS college football analyst alternately demanded players grow eyes in the back of their head or barked “KEEP...
WNBA: Refs Screwed Up, Go-Ahead Basket Should Not Have Counted
With the score tied up at 71 with under two minutes left in the last game of the WNBA Finals, the Sparks recovered an offensive rebound, swung the ball around, and eventually found their star Nneka Ogwumike for a relatively easy turnaround shot. She made it, and eventually would make the game-winnin...
Hindus And Trump Rallied Together In A Xenophobic Fever Dream
Grab a plate of good, oily pav bhaji and watch a well-loved Indian movie star perform for thousands of immigrants. He greets the crowd in Tamil, jokes about jet lag, shimmies, and shimmers in the hallucinogenic stage lighting; the crowd squeezes as close as security will allow. Then watch as presid...
BYU Pick-Six A Masterful Display Of Avoiding Tackles
Fred Warner picked off a Brett Rypien pass and returned it 59 yards to give BYU its first touchdown of the night against Boise State, and he did so with so much flair it required a lengthy replay review—one that, eventually, upheld the play....
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Derrick Rose Found Not Liable In Civil Rape Trial [Updated]
Knicks guard Derrick Rose was found not liable on all counts today in the civil suit accusing him and two friends of gang-raping a woman in 2013. Rose’s two friends, Ryan Allen and Randall Hampton, were cleared on all counts as well....