SHUTDOWN JACKSONVILLEBACK
The best part of this video: the shirtless bros in hot pants with shaved chests looking at us and going, "This is gay."
View ArticleStay classy: The worst words in sportswriting
There is a list of words used in bad sportswriting that, if included, should let you know that whatever you are reading is written for a sixth-grader, and not a particularly intelligent one. This list...
View Article30 FOR 30 OPEN THREAD: MISSISSIPPI GHOSTLINESS
There is no football on tonight, but there is a 30 for 30 on Ole Miss football and integration, and that's practically MACtion with a tangy hint of racism thrown in for good measure. Red Cup Rebellion...
View ArticleTHE CURIOUS INDEX,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NICK SABAN. We got you the most metal birthday present of all for your 61st birthday. The actual present Nick Saban woke to this morning: the warm embrace of the ESPN All-Access crew,...
View ArticleThe Alphabetical, Week 10: Predictions are fun and wrong
And we're off. Oh, Matt Murschel of the Orlando Sentinel. You are not worst, but you do happen to be first. After spending the last two seasons in NCAA postseason exile, USC is ready to reinvent...
View ArticleTHE ALPHABETICAL: BONUS LETTERS
THE ALPHABETICAL IS UP OMG THE ALPHABETICAL IS UP. Here are our bonus letters. ALPHA. IT'TH ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE We didn't write much about Notre Dame this week. With a GIF like this, you really don't...
View ArticleThe List: New Star Wars franchise ESPN tie-ins
Disney, parent company of ESPN, now owns Lucasfilm, parent company of the Star Wars franchises. There will be crossovers between the two universes, and they will be more disturbing than you even...
View ArticleTHE CURIOUS INDEX, 11/1/2012
DOOM. This Week in Schadenfreude is usually amazing, but godDAMN, Cal. That's a new bottom. It may seem like there's no hope at this point in what has to be Jeff Tedford's final season, but there is...
View ArticleCornbread Walker: the mystery revealed
Is this man's proper name "Cornbread?" No, it is not. His given name is Cornelius, per Kentucky Wesleyan University SID Roy Pickerill. "Cornbread" is a nickname. Does anyone actually call him...
View ArticleJOHNNY MANZIEL HAD A GOOD HALLOWEEN
Q: HOW YOU GONNA COMPETE IN THE SEC, PAWWWWLLLLLAGGIESM? A: By getting a bar-brawling and talented redshirt freshman, putting him in the Air Raid, and then watching him solve crimes like he was a...
View ArticleAND NOW A SPECIAL COMMENTARY FROM GENE CHIZIK
FROM THE DESK OF GENE CHIZIK, HEAD COACH AT AUBURN UNIVERSITY Part of the fun of college athletics will always be the debate surrounding it. "Is this team better than another?" "Who is the greatest...
View ArticleThe List: People attending the Brooklyn Nets opener
White woman with dreadlocks bemoaning lack of vegan options People with a favorite farm in the Hudson valley Bill Murray Sesame Street's Elmo and his second wife Tabitha Man with Brooklyn Nets neck...
View ArticleFACTOR FIVE FIVE FACTOR PREVIEW: VIRGINIA TECH AT MIAMI
The Factor Five, as always, determines the winner of the Thursday night game with a mix of five different extremely unscientific factors: Nebulous Statistical Comparisons of Dubious Validity, Mascot,...
View ArticleTHE CURIOUS INDEX, 11/2/2012
RANDY STAPLES UP IN THIS PIECE. The mustache starts to sag at the end, and that makes it better because bad prosthetics are always funny. The internet has helped get Jay Mariotti off your television...
View ArticleLOVE, MIZZOU FOOTBALL, AND OTHER DRUGS
It's been a strange year for Gary Pinkel: personal issues with a capital PERSONAL ISSUES, a switch to a new conference, and a team afflicted by an injury bug the CDC would describe as "buck-nasty."...
View ArticleTHE WEEK TEN DRINKING GAME! BROS!
Washington vs. Cal If you are watching Cal football, TAKE A SHOT OF BLEACH WHILE BARKING LIKE A DOG. The size of that shot should be THE ENTIRE BOTTLE. Temple at Louisville The Big East's best team...
View ArticleCollege football Top 25 scores: Alabama lives on
1. Alabama. The Tigers outgained the Tide on the night. LSU QB Zach Mettenberger played the best game he will ever play as a college football player. A.J. McCarron was, for 58 minutes or so, a...
View ArticleALABAMA/LSU: FINISH HIM
Sometimes you just have to resort to desperate measures to win a game. Fortunately, Alabama's totally fine with desperate measures, even if it means kicking their own heads through the goal posts, or...
View ArticleLET'S TALK ABOUT MITCH BARNHART DOT TUMBLR DOT COM
There's not much to say about Joker Phillips getting fired. The wheels came off with an audible pop at one clear point: the opening game against WKU in 2011, when Morgan Newton self-sacked himself, our...
View ArticlePISTOL PETE'S TEARWORTHY MOMENTS
Lot a things a man can be sad about in this world. Not many a them worth a tear. No mascot's seen more terror than the haunted eyes of Pistol Pete, so we asked him what a man can cry about. 1. When...
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