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Bizarre Sequence Features Three Iced Kicks Before Actual Attempt
The end of regulation in the Tennessee-Houston game was one of the strangest sequences in football history, including four FG attempts, a successfully iced kick, an iced miss, a nullified block, and a doink off the upright. ...
Fox Cuts To Halftime Show With A Minute Left In Vikings-Bears
It's a banner day for Fox production. There have been video problems, audio issues, hinky telestrators, rogue tickers. But this takes the cake....
Ohio University Marching 110 Does It Again, Covers Ylvis' "The Fox"
The last time we checked in on the Ohio University Marching 110, they were doing a "pretty good" rendition of Psy's "Gangnam Style." (Their performance of "Party Rock Anthem" isn't bad, either.) But during halftime of last night's bout against Marshall, the 110 gave their take on The Song Of The Su...
A.J. McCarron's Stability Tops Johnny Football's Flying Circus
A.J. McCarron gets slapped with the pejorative "game manager" label, as if taking care of the football and involving the ground game are bad things. Johnny Manziel? Spectacular as always....
Mayweather Dominates Canelo In The Eyes Of Everyone Except One Judge
Floyd Mayweather is still unbeatable....
Ole Miss Fans Make Blowjob Faces Behind Longhorn Network Set
It's been a rough week for Longhorns fans. At least the pain of last week's blowout loss to BYU can be soothed by a nice home game broadcast on Texas's own personal ESPN network, right?...
The Radio Game
Dig this bit from Mark Harris' short essay, “Recalling the Joy of Watching Baseball on the Radio,” which is featured in the collection Diamond: The Baseball Writings of Mark Harris. Most famous for his Henry Wiggens trilogy, Harris doesn’t argue that radio is superior to television, just that they e...
Johnny Manziel: Not A Strong Tackler
Worth remembering Texas wanted to recruit Manziel as a safety, which tells you all you need to know about the Texas defense....
Johnny Football Giveth And Johnny Football Taketh Away
In one series, in the less than two minutes, Johnny Manziel made Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide both seethe and clap stone-facedly with delight....
Tonight Is Not The Night Floyd Mayweather Loses
Every single time, you talk yourself into believing Floyd's lost a step. That every fighter has to fall off sometime. That this particular young, hungry, confident challenger will be the one to finally take Money down. ...
Johnny Manziel Throws For TD On Opening Drive; Let's Check in On Saban
Tracy Wolfson: How do you plan to control Johnny Manziel?...
Johnny Manziel, The Puppet: Texas A&M-Alabama <em>GameDay</em> Sign Roundup
We find ourselves on yet another Saturday morning cultivating the best efforts of the (mostly) drunken, (mostly) teen-aged minds of those shirking the responsibility and honor associated with higher education for some good fuckin' times. God bless you, you animals. ...
Taste Test: Nutella And Its Chocolatey American Ilk
How long we toiled—suffered! toiled and suffered!—how bitterly we toiled and suffered—and died!—under the pitiless yoke of plain peanut butter, cruelest and least forgiving of all the spreads. How fervently we yearned for chocolatey deliverance. We took to the rooftops of our humble mud-homes, bli...
Terry Bradshaw: "I Wouldn't Have Fucked His Old, Ugly-Ass Mother"
Maybe you're wondering, on this crisp Saturday morning, Deadspin, how could we possibly know if Terry Bradshaw would or would not fuck some unidentified person's old, ugly-ass mother? That's a very personal preference of Terry's to claim knowledge of. A fair question. The answer: he said it on live...
The Better Man: How Sugar Ray Leonard Handled Fear And Marvin Hagler
Originally published in the May 17, 1987, edition of The Washington Post Magazine. Republished here with the author's permission. His postscript follows. For more on Hagler-Leonard, check out Grantland's oral history....