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Snoop Dogg got realer than Real Deal Holyfield on Instagram. Presumably, all the hookers and hoes now know how he feels. “Man, the Pittsburgh Steelers need a new f—ing offensive coordinator,” raves the Long Beach waver of the Terrible Towel.

The Cleveland Browns have opted to go with an undrafted free agent as the starting quarterback over the former Heisman Trophy-winner just selected in the first round. The team named Brian Hoyer the starter over Johnny Manziel Wednesday morning. Manziel

ESPN’s Bill Simmons may say “Washington.” ESPN’s Mike Ditka says “Redskins.”   “There’s so much horse$#!+,” the Super Bowl-winning coach and player says of the nickname controversy, “it’s incredible.” In an edited audio interview with Redskins author and superfan Mike

The Washington Redskins defensive backfield took to the grass at FedEx Field on Monday Night Football in a “hands up” gesture in support for slain teenager Michael Brown and the protestors on his behalf in Missouri. The nothing-to-hide body language

Johnny Manziel was all about rubbing thumbs and index fingers together in college. In the pros, he has taken to gestures involving the middle finger. Johnny Football flipped the Redskins bench the bird in the third quarter of the Cleveland-Washington

WASHINGTON, DC–Teddy Roosevelt may have given William Howard Taft the shaft after first giving him his big break. But the baseball team in the nation’s capital, more than a century after Taft’s presidential predecessor exceeded him in the November vote

Washington, D.C.–The Washington Nationals exhibited some of their best pitching of the season for a few innings on Sunday night, and then for a third of an inning some of their worst; their best fielding, and among their most atrocious

What can the New York Jets do to restore the mediocre franchise to past glory? Bring back Joe Namath? Okay. Call the New York Sack Exchange back into session? Sure. Encourage a Curtis Martin comeback? Yeah. But bring back Fireman

Major League Baseball announced that its thirty owners voted unanimously for MLB Executive Vice President Rob Manfred as the game’s new commissioner on Thursday. Even Saddam Hussein always made sure to include a few dissenters in the final tally to

Wednesday night, mourners grieved at a Port Leyden, New York, funeral home dressed in Kevin Ward Jr.’s orange-and-black colors. Race cars trekked to the scene to pay the respects of drivers. Dale Earnhardt, Jr., who surely knows the pain Ward’s

Kevin Ward Sr. says the first time his son left his vehicle during a race was the last time he did it. “I think the reason he probably got out of that car is who put him into the wall,”

The porn stars helped Pawn Stars with a name. The stars of the History Channel reality-television juggernaut are returning the favor. Corey Harrison of the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop has announced that the establishment has added $10,000 to the

The Dog is on his trail. Wanted mixed-martial artist War Machine has another worry today. Dog the Bounty Hunter’s deadline for the fighter to turn himself in has passed. Las Vegas police seek to put the cage fighter in a

Mixed-martial artist War Machine chose a side career in porn. Porn star Christy Mack didn’t choose to moonlight as a mixed-martial artist. The popular adult-film actress went public with pictures showing the horrific aftereffects of a brutal beating that she

A race-car driver says Kevin Ward Jr.’s death underneath Tony Stewart’s sprint car could have been avoided. He says this because he competed with both drivers Saturday night at Canandaigua Motorsports Park in New York and managed to drive past

Blame Tony Stewart for hitting what the other drivers managed to avoid. Blame Kevin Ward Jr. for deciding to become a pedestrian on a race track. Blame the speedway for using a haunted house’s lighting system. But blame the South?

If his name were Kevin Harvick instead of Kevin Ward, would we be taking such a blasé approach to his death? Tony Stewart, after some deliberation, didn’t race Sunday at Watkins Glen. NASCAR’s honchos should consider whether to prohibit the

The Great One has spoken. FOX411 reports that Wayne Gretzky has attempted to lecture his daughter’s suitor on getting stable and sober. Dustin Johnson, the PGA golfer engaged to Paulina Gretzky, recently announced a leave of absence from the tour

Richie Incognito for once lives up to his name. The lineman at the center of the Miami Dolphins 2013 bullying scandal peruses the NFL want-ads concealed, camouflaged, hidden, obscured–incognito. Less than a year after such loud antics as vowing to

U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken ruled in favor of twenty former athletes, including UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon, suing the NCAA for preventing players from receiving revenues for the use of their names, likenesses, and images. Wilken found “that the

A good general knows when to cut his losses.  The Army National Guard has dropped its sponsorship of Dale Earnhardt Jr. after spending tens of millions of dollars with next to nothing to show for the expenditure by way of

Dustin Johnson may be suspended from the PGA Tour (or he may not be). But he’s not suspended from playing golf. The controversial golfer shot a 61, according to Golf Digest, in recent days at the Gozzer Ranch Golf and

Major League Baseball’s owners will reportedly vote on August 14 on a new commissioner. The owners choose from MLB chief operating officer Rob Manfred, MLB executive vice president for business Tim Brosnan, and former Padres owner and current Red Sox

What’s a gnome Werth? On eBay, possessors of the one-day-old Jayson Werth garden gnome demand as much as $199.99. But the plastic doodad commands bids at just above the $50 mark. You can ask for anything. People don’t have to

One would think that at 61 Paul Serbu would empathize more than most with the motionless Morlocks inhabiting graveyards. Baltimore County, Maryland police have charged the Franklin, Ohio man with disorderly conduct in a cemetery for allegedly urinating on the

He gets the palm-over-fist pose perfect, flashes the championship bling, and dons the all black suit for the occasion. Brian Scalabrine calls his article “I’m Coming Home” and even signifies authorship with the line “by Brian Scalabrine as told by

Oscar De La Hoya invested his ring winnings in a boxing promotion. The man that retired him has put his money into mixed-martial arts. Does Manny Pacquiao know where combat-sports world spins?  Kevin Iole reports that Pac Man has invested

Levi’s Stadium sells vegan hot dogs, bans throwing footballs in its parking lots, and offers wine for $12 a non-glass glass. You can take the 49ers out of San Francisco. But you can’t take San Francisco out of their stadium.

David Blatt trailblazed an NBA head coaching job straight from an overseas league, lucked into one of the best players in NBA history joining his roster, and appears primed to compliment LeBron James in the frontcourt with the likely acquisition

In the 1970s, Barry Obama would shout “Interception!” to them as he took a hit off a joint out of turn. This weekend, he shouts “fore!” with the reunited members of the Choom Gang. The president spends his birthday weekend

If you walk up to the heavyweight champion of the world’s lunch table, taunt him, and proceed to eat the food off his plate, one of the alphabet-soup sanctioning bodies should make you the mandatory challenger by virtue of your

Paul George’s 2014-2015 NBA season hasn’t even begun. It’s already over. The Indiana Pacers all-star suffered a gruesome right leg injury in a Team USA scrimmage in Las Vegas Friday night. The fractured fibula and tibia came on a James

Everlast sells competition boxing gloves for $72.50 on Amazon. Heritage Auctions sold the pair Muhammad Ali wore in his first fight with Joe Frazier for $388,375. The fight, Ali’s third since his reinstatement after his draft evasion suspension, sold out

A buffed and big-mouthed Shannon Briggs crashed a Wladimir Klitschko training session in Florida earlier this week in hopes of coaxing the heavyweight champion to give him a title shot. “Every time I see you champ you’re fighting bums,” Briggs

The Boston Red Sox stuck with Jon Lester through cancer and the chicken-and-beer controversy. But enduring a first-to-worst season and facing an expensive price-tag to retain the soon-to-be free agent, the Red Sox decided to deal Lester in the hours

In 1940, the Chicago Bears slaughtered the Washington Redskins 73-0 in the NFL championship game. The team looks to avoid any such lopsided outcome on the debate over the franchise’s logo and name by launching “Redskins Facts,” a website advertised