Football

I admit to not watching the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl between Marshall and Florida International. But a reader alerted me that I missed seeing FIU sophomore safety Justin Halley, who stands 6-2 and weighs 187. It turns out that Halley, in addition to playing football, is also a male model. His most recent work, according […]

The Broncos can’t score a touchdown, but win the division; Patriots and Packers the top seeds; Colts snag top pick; wild card picks; hot player of the week. How I saw Week 17 of the NFL: I can't remember a lamer group of wild card games than what's coming up next weekend, especially in the […]

Over 8,000 people have signed a Change.org petition for the Denver Broncos to record an ‘It Gets Better’ video. But it’s not enough, as the team has said they will not record a video in support of LGBT and bullied youth. From the Huffington Post: "The Denver Broncos are committed to tolerance, acceptance and respect […]

Hot player of the week Tebow and Broncos go down; the Packers lose, the Colts win; New York teams suck; hot player of the week. How I saw Week 15 of the NFL: Sunday was a weird day in the NFL, with the unbeaten losing and the winless winning. But all eyes were on Denver […]

A group of Air Force Academy cadets decided to do a “spirit” video for their football game this year against Army. The cadets stripped and posed while lip-synching “I’m Sexy and I Know It,” that featured such lyrics as “I got action in my pants and I ain’t afraid to show it.” Suffice it to […]

The Broncos win again in bizarre fashion; the Cowboys lose again bizarre fashion; Packers closing in on perfection; four wild endings; hot player of the week. How I saw Week 14 of the NFL: This is getting ridiculous – now the opposing team has bought into Tebowmania. How else to explain Denver's 13-10 overtime win […]

LSU defensive star and Heisman Trophy finalist Tyrann “Honey Badger” Mathieu is learning not to get into a spat with ex-girlfriends/hookups. Spurned these days means sending out penis pictures of the offender on the Internet. Media Takeout has the pics, which are allegedly of Mathieu's private parts. Since the photos are headless, they could be […]

Major college football is the most unsatisfying of our sports, the only one where computers and voters determine who gets to play for the “national title.” This is how Nos. 2 and 3 finished in the BCS rankings this year: Alabama, 9419, Oklahoma State .9333, the closest ever between two and three. And thus, because […]

Hot player of the week How I saw Week 13 of the NFL: How bout dem Cowboys? Leave it to the Cowboys to lose a game like no one else ever has, by icing their own kicker. It was both lovely and bizarre to watch and was the most important result on Sunday. Dallas kicker […]

Hot player of the week Tebow is making the Broncos relevant; Peyton Manning just one of several key QBs out; Suh needs to sit; an idiot wide receiver; here come the Cowboys, hot player of the week. How I saw Week 12 of the NFL: Lord knows we've dumped on Tim Tebow a lot lately, […]

When you gotta go, you gotta go. We’ve all been there, when you just have the urge. But none of us urinate live during an NFL game on national TV. But San Diego Chargers kicker Nick Novak couldn’t wait to use the restroom, not with the game tied late against Denver. So, with a teammate […]

Dallas Cowboy Leon Lett committed a game-losing blunder in the final seconds in the snow on Thanksgiving 20 years ago. "It's Leon Lett! Noooooo!"

Tim Tebow says he loves Jesus more than he loves his family and is not going to keep quiet about. In response to former Denver Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer telling him to cool it with his public praise-the-Lord pronouncements, Tebow told ESPN, no way: “If you’re married, and you have a wife, and you really […]

We were wondering why our traffic was very high today and then discovered the reason: Our list of words you couldn’t put on the back of an NFL jersey (our most-viewed page ever) was back in the news. It seems that it mirrors that being considered by the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority, which wants to ban […]

Hot player of the week Green Bay improves to 10-0, but someone will beat them; the Patriots are lucky and good; the AFC is weak; the Eagles stay alive; Corso's f-bomb, a ripped punter is hot player of the week. How I saw Week 11 of the NFL: 10-0: Now that the Packers have hit […]

I love it when the bogus BCS is a mess. Major college football stubbornly refuses to have a playoff and the result is a unsatisfying system that got turned upside down Friday night when Iowa State stunned previously unbeaten Oklahoma State, 37-31, in overtime. LSU and Houston are the only major unbeaten teams and Houston […]

Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky proclaimed his innocence in an interview with Bob Costas of NBC (complete transcript). Sandusky said he regrets showering with boys, but says it was just “horse play” and that he is not a pedophile and did not rape a boy in the shower. Sandusky is free on […]

“Dream Team” chokes again; Colts in clear lead for Andrew Luck; Bills, Lions flopping; seedings; hot players of the week includes one who hugs his cheerleader-girlfriend. How I saw Week 10 in the NFL: Fire Andy Reid Now: My lead-in is a tribute to longtime Outsports contributor Joe in Philly. He would often use as […]

All the talking heads on TV and radio can say about the New England Patriots’ current skid is how bad the defense looks and how Bill Belichick has lost his touch. The chorus repeats the mantra: The reason the team is in a two-game losing streak is because the Patriots defense sucks. Albert Haynesworth just […]

The only good thing about LSU’s dull 9-6 overtime win over Alabama in a game the media hyperventilated about all week is that we won’t see a rematch in the BCS title game. At least we better not. College football fans don’t deserve to be put to sleep again. I can appreciate a great defensive […]