The NFL Has Suspended A Ravens Safety For What Many Think Was A Clean Hit
During Sunday Night's game against the Steelers, Ravens safety Ed Reed was flagged for a helmet-to-helmet hit. And now the NFL has suspended Reed for one game, noting it was his third violation, and...
View Article49ers Tight End Fuels The San Francisco QB Controversy By Raving About...
49ers tight end Vernon Davis had his best game of the season in San Francisco's 32-7 win over Chicago last night.After the game he heaped praise on back-up QB Colin Kaepernick, who played so well that...
View ArticleHere Are The Crazy New Uniforms Army And Navy Will Wear For This Year's...
Several teams in college football have tried and failed to come up with outside-the-box designs for edgy new uniforms.But Army and Navy came up with some pretty neat ones for their annual rivalry game...
View ArticleThis Week's Sports Illustrated Cover Is Basically An Adidas Ad
Notre Dame football's SI cover is super minimalistic, with the iconic gold helmet barely reflecting "Touchdown Jesus."But as a result of that minimalism and lack of symbols, the Adidas logo on the...
View ArticleKobe Bryant Fires His Death Stare At Jeremy Lin
Kobe Bryant brought out his signature death stare and fired it at Jeremy Lin when the Rockets point guard allegedly flopped midway through the fourth quarter.After the game, Kobe talked about flopping,...
View ArticleNFL POWER RANKINGS: Where Every Team Stands Going Into Week 12
An injury-plagued Week 11 went basically as played.Nine of the top-12 teams and eleven top-15 teams won, and the six worst teams in our power rankings last week all lost.As we enter Turkey Day, the...
View ArticleSPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: Moving To Big Ten Means Big Money For Maryland And...
In 2010-11, the athletic department at Rutgers University generated $53.4 million in revenue. That was less than all 12 teams in the Big Ten. At Maryland, the revenue was $57.8 million, smaller than...
View ArticleLamar Odom Is The Fifth-Worst Player In The NBA Right Now
After 10 games it looks like Lamar Odom is struggling just as mightily as he did in Dallas last year.In 12 minutes a night, he's averaging 1.6 points and 2.6 rebounds. Earlier this season, he admitted...
View ArticleThe NFL Un-Suspends Ed Reed One Day After Disciplining Him For Dirty Hits
Baltimore Ravens safety Ed Reed will not be suspended for multiple hits to the head and neck, the NFL just announced.Instead he'll be fined $50,000.The judge who overruled the league's decision to...
View ArticleBill O'Brien Won't Commit To Penn State, Could Leave After One Season
Penn State head coach Bill O'Brien was recently asked by David Jones of PennLive.com if the first-year coach is going to be back next season. And rather than give a simple "yes," O'Brien danced around...
View ArticleAn Anonymous Fan Sent Tim Tebow A 'You're Special!' Balloon
Someone sent this bouquet of balloons to Tim Tebow. Tebow said it "happens sometimes." Photo via Bart Hubbuch of the NY Post:Please follow Sports Page on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation...
View ArticleDavid Beckham Is Leaving The L.A. Galaxy, Is Australia Next?
Less than a year after signing a two-year extension to remain with the Los Angeles Galaxy, David Beckham has announced that the upcoming MLS Cup Final will be his final match with the club he has been...
View ArticleThe NBA's Latest Imaginative Commercial Has Superstars Dribbling To The Beat...
The NBA is giving fans the first glimpse of the new BIG color jerseys that will be worn by all teams competing on Christmas day in an advertisement that will be released on Wednesday. The jerseys are...
View ArticleUkrainian Team Scores A Goal In The Champions League On A Ridiculously...
Things got crazy in the Shakhtar Donetsk-Nordsjlland game in the Champions League today.Donetsk won 5-2 with the help of one of the most unsportsmanlike plays you'll ever see.A Nordsjlland player got...
View ArticleThis Giant Shadow Of Satan Is The Most Amazing Piece Of Soccer Pageantry...
CORRECTION:This post originally said the devil below was from the Galatasaray-Manchester United game today. But it's not.It's actually from the opening ceremony for the Estadio De Luz in Lisbon in...
View ArticleHere's How Plaxico Burress' Scandal-Plagued Career Came Full Circle Today
Plaxico Burress, one of the NFL's most controversial wide receivers, signed a deal to return to the Pittsburgh Steelers Tuesday.It'll be an intriguing return to the team that took him in the first...
View ArticleHere's How A College Basketball Player Scored 138 Points In A Game Last Night
Jack Taylor of Division III Grinnell College scored 138 points to shatter the all-time college record last night.So how'd he do it?It basically comes down to system. Grinnell, a liberal arts school in...
View ArticleRasheed Wallace Yelled 'Ball Don't Lie!' At A Rookie While He Was On The Free...
Rasheed Wallace is in mid-season form, playing significant minutes for the Knicks, shooting at the highest rate of his career, and yelling his iconic catchphrase, "Ball don't lie," at unsuspecting...
View ArticleKobe Bryant's Response To A College Player Scoring 138 Points Is Priceless
Earlier this morning we posted a brief quote from Kobe Bryant about Jack Taylor, the Division III player who scored 138 points in a game last night. It was excellent (via Kevin Ding of the OC...
View ArticleSPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: No Conference Has More Fans Than The Big Ten
A year ago, Nate Silver of NYTimes.com took a look at "The Geography of College Football Fans" using a little research to estimate the number of fans of the 120 college football teams in Division I (at...
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