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I Caught Tebow Fever, And I Don't Want To Be Cured
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....
Hundreds Of Packers Fans/Day Laborers Line Up To Shovel Lambeau Field
Because the team of the people hates unions, the Packers put out the call for folks to come help get the stadium ready, for $10 an hour. Four hundred and fifty were lucky enough to be handed shovels, with another 800 turned away. [Green Bay Press-Gazette]...
Everyone Thinks The Underdog Giants Will Beat The Packers
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What We Can Learn About Football (And Bill Belichick) From "The Belestrator"
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Knicks Fan Sitting Near Tracy Morgan <em>Really</em> Does Not Want Anyone To Know He Is Sitting Near Tracy Morgan
Okay, so this guy doesn't want to be on TV, even if anybody who knows him would immediately recognize his checked shirt and bald spot. But why so shy in the first place? Playing hooky from work? Cheating on his wife? Hideously and improbably deformed? (Why buy courtside seats, then?) Maybe he is,...
Let The Jets' Mutiny Against Mark Sanchez Begin
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John Parr Updates His 1985 Hit "St. Elmo's Fire" For Tim Tebow
The song originally written to honor Canadian Paralympic hero Rick "Man In Motion" Hansen is now paying tribute to another athlete who's on a roll who's inspiring people worldwide. John Parr, who earned a Grammy nom in 1985 for "St. Elmo's Fire," released his updated version yesterday featuring ly...
All The 3:16 Bible Verses, Ranked By How Likely They Are To Foretell Tim Tebow As The Messiah
Ryan Fitzpatrick, Matt Ryan, Aaron Rodgers all had games in which they threw for 316 yards this season: nobody cares until Tim Tebow does it. Everyone's seeking meaning in random numbers, even asking for comment from "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, as if he was the first to claim the 3:16 verse as his ow...
ShortCenter: Matt Millen And Robert Smith Solve All Of College Football's Problems
What is ESPN prattling on about right now? We condense your morning SportsCenter to its essence....
Does Anybody Know A Nine-Year-Old Power-Hitting Catcher In Raleigh?
I'm not sure why I'm so taken by this Craigslist posting, sent in by a pair of readers, seeking a very specific sort of ballplayer for a Wake County (N.C.) 9U travel team. Maybe it's because all the nine-year-olds we remember from little league swung as hard as they could on every pitch, and because...
Are NFL Coaches Getting Smarter About Fourth-Down Strategy?
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ShortCenter: The Denver Broncos' Big Win, Reduced To Buzzwords
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The Falcons Need Some New Fourth-Down Plays
The cat-and-mouse game of defensive scheming decided both playoff matches yesterday, but in different ways. In Denver, the Steelers stacked the box, daring Tim Tebow to throw. He did. But at the Meadowlands, on a pair of fourth down conversions, the Falcons telegraphed a pair of sneaks up the middle...
The Steelers Overestimated Tim Tebow Before They Underestimated Him
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Why The Steelers Lost To Tim Tebow
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Tim Tebow Just Made You A Believer: His Game-Winning Touchdown Pass On The First Play Of Overtime
And lo, on the day of Epiphany a great light shone, and all fell to their knees, Tebowing, in awe of the sight they had seen. [CBS]...
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Hakeem Nicks Treated The Falcons To His Own Interpretation Of "The Dirty Bird" [UPDATE: Jamal Anderson Responds]
After splitting coverage and making the Atlanta Falcons defense look absolutely foolish, Giants receiver Hakeem Nicks celebrated his touchdown with his take on the Falcons' Dirty Bird—a dance popularized when Nicks was in the fourth grade. [Fox] ...
Last Night's Phoenix Coyotes Broadcast Featured Some Lady's Five-Hole
It's unclear where the blame falls for this shot that lingered for several seconds up this woman's skirt: on the director who zoomed in, on the woman for whom modesty seems not to be an issue, or on Fox Sports Arizona reporter Tyson Nash for wearing such a ridiculous outfit. Either way, it's a howl...
NFL Wildcard Weekend Open Thread: Atlanta Falcons At New York Giants
Day two of the best weekend ever kicks off from New Jersey with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman guiding us through all the things they're not so sure wouldn't, shouldn't, couldn't or didn't happen....
Eli Manning and Matt Ryan: Post-Turnover Face-Off
The quarterback matchup today isn't just about who can throw for more touchdowns, it's also about who can make the most ridiculous face after giving one away to the other team. While the Manning face is certainly more renowned, Matt Ryan is certainly no slouch. In anticipation of today's head-to-h...