Hurricane Gustav has come and gone, but it's devastating effects aren't completely in the past. Well, maybe it's devastation has passed, but the New Orleans Saints are still adapting to life with a banged up practice facility...

But you already knew that, right? After all, haven't we ALL spent the past seven months waiting for the NFL to get rolling again? Well, it's only fitting that the Giants would get the ball rolling again this year, and that...

Last weekend, a CFL receiver for the Toronto Argonauts tried to do his best Chad Johnson Ocho Cinco impression by hiding a Spiderman mask behind the end zone, where he could pull it out and don it in front of cameras. Well,...

You'd think that NFL players really knew the ropes about fantasy football, but you'd be wrong. Instead, it turns out they have absolutely no idea how it works, to the point that Colt McCoy would use a first round pick on...

Leave it to a football player who delivers punishing hits to be terrified of something so abject as heights. OK, it's a completely justifiable phobia, but it might not have been Terrence Newman's brightest idea to invite...

When Rob Stone was assigned to cover Rutgers' college football game on Labor Day for the inimitable Erin Andrews, some New Jersey fans were so upset that they called for a federal investigation. Well, Stone responded the only...

At some point in between his birth and the time he got barbed wire tattooed around his sizable biceps, Bears All-Pro linebacker Brian Urlacher was allegedly a nerd. We say allegedly because we don't want him to get mad, hunt...

Everyone wants to make a big entrance into the stadium for the first college football game of the year, and we can hardly begrudge the University of Cincinnati Bearcat for that. However, we can find him truly ridiculous for...

Pacman Jones, as you'll hear in this clip, claims to be a changed man. He claims to be a different human being than he was in Tennessee, though also the same cornerback who can shut down a wide receiver. Well, judge for...

New Miami head coach Tony Sparano was a longtime Bill Parcells assistant, a career trajectory which, eventually, landed him a belly and a head coaching job in the NFL. Well, it turns out it landed him an agressive speaking...

The entire "Real Men of Genius" ad series from Bud Light was brilliant -- highlighted perhaps by "Giant Foam Finger guy -- but among the entire series, the "Fantasy Football Manager Guy" clearly rang most true. UT's a lesson...

Not only did Quentin Demps run back this kickoff 101 yards for a touchdown -- totally emasculating Patriots kicker Stephen Gostkowski in the process -- it was one of TWO returns the Eagles took to the house in a penultimate...

Everyone knows that Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson has a couple screws loose, but the last time we checked, no one thought he was stupid. Well, guess what? He is! Johnson, who admits that his inner-city childhood hampered...

We hate to give free publicity to major independent sports websites but, oh wait, no we don't. That's why we'll reluctantly happily plug deadspin.com's in-depth diary of crashing the YouTube studio of Kige Ramsey, a...

Ever wondered what it would be like to be recruited by a college football coach? Well, wonder no more, thanks to this ad for the Big Ten Network, the new conference-specific cable network that's going where YES and WGN only...