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He gained a few unexpected fans in the gay community today, but the notoriously God-fearing quarterback scared off the very supporters who saw him as a Christian celebrity — they're calling his about-face on an anti-gay marriage pastor "disastrous."
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The Super Bowl is fast approaching and fan allegiances, many long lost to the regular season and others evolving as the playoffs press on, have come down to this: the 49ers or the Ravens. But how'd we get there? And which parts of America have jumped on which bandwagon?
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If Robert Griffin III's knee was the first casualty of the Redskins offseason, consider this the second.
The Twitterverse woke up Tuesday morning to NFL player Darnell Dockett virtually trying to woo Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron's girlfriend with the tempting prospect of ... fried chicken wings and a visit to a Miami strip club.
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Just two days after an NFL player with a history of head injuries committed a murder-suicide, a new study was released connecting even more former athletes to a degenerative brain disease that often leads to depression and suicide.
Details are slowly emerging about an unsettling incident involving Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, his girlfriend and a morning full of violence.
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Every year the Detroit Lions play the first game of Thanksgiving Day while the rest of America sits at home and eats their delicious turkey dinners and every year for the last nine the city has been left heartbroken by the cold reality of defeat.
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Last night we can all agree that there was a gross miscarriage of officiating during the Packers-Seahawks game. But forget the football: is there a way to parlay a sporting travesty into partisan gain? The political world is trying its hardest.
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Statistics show that the NFL's beleaguered replacement referees may be guilty of home cooking, are definitely guilty of calling more defensive pass interference calls, and have made this season's games longer--and yes, your bookie has adjusted accordingly.
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When George Will described American football as a liberal institution in his weekend column for The Washington Post, the missive was discarded as an outgrowth of Will's reactionary crankiness.
Discovered: Dads who snooze with baby have lower testosterone; popular kids are more likely light up; reruns boost mental health; is acupuncture safe?
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Following the Hall of Fame linebacker's apparent suicide, football fans are wrestling with the ethics of being a football fan.
Today in sports: Tim Tebow gets booed at a Yankee game, a yacht race turns deadly in San Francisco, New Orleans gets the NBA All-Star Game, Boston's too hot for a good marathon, and Derrick Rose is still complaining.
The big sports news today is supposed be that Peyton Manning has signed with the Denver Broncos. But the only thing people seem to care about is how it'll affect Tim Tebow, the Broncos current polarizing quarterback.
Newsflash: Some of Mitt Romney's good friends own football teams. That's in addition to his great friends who own NASCAR teams.
Four hours after GQ tweeted out Michael Silver's oral history of Tim Tebow's 2011 regular season, Denver Broncos backup quarterback, Brady Quinn has announced he's sorry, so very sorry, for what he said.
New York is chock-full of Giants fans today, reveling and doing what sports fans do best when their teams win: Having a parade! But everyone's not a Giants fan, and not everyone loves a parade.
As far as shows go, Sunday night's Super Bowl halftime bonanza was a pretty fun one, what with gladiators, glitter, and all that weird 3D stuff happening to the field.
The Players: Roland S. Martin, journalist and frequent contributor to CNN and admitted soccer hater; The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), critics of homophobia and, now, Martin
The Rhodes Trust offers their account of the Patrick J. Witt controversy, confirming to The New York Times that they suspended the Yale golden boy's candidacy in light of a sexual assault complaint.
Today in sports: Peyton Manning and Jim Irsay promise his final days with the Indianapolis Colts will be civil, Cleveland once again is a prime target for "sports blackmail," and college basketball is getting tough on taunting.
Cartoonist Steve Benson has a spiritual message for Tim Tebow.
The Big 10 and Pac-12 close a new scheduling deal to gobble up more college sports scheduling real estate, Penn State's top choice to replace Joe Paterno passes, and Alex Rodriguez's bad knee gets the experimental blood therapy treatment in Germany.
A strike against those arguing for the benefits of successful college football programs: male's grades tend to go down when their university's football team wins games, new research finds.
Today in sports: More fallout from the NBA blockbuster trade that wasn't, Fox is a strange position when it comes to the trying to get the Los Angeles Dodgers TV rights, and Cleveland Browns quarterback Colt McCoy's dad has harsh words for the way the team treated his head injury last night.
Yale quarterback Patrick Witt's wildly-covered decision to forego a Rhodes scholarship appointment so that he could play in this coming weekend's game against Harvard was supposed to be something he and his coach, Tom Williams, could relate to, but that isn't the case.
Patrick Witt, star quarterback of Yale's football team, decided to pull his Rhodes Scholarship application in order to play in the Harvard-Yale football game this coming Saturday, Bloomberg News and the Yale Daily News are reporting.
Plus: Dennis Rodman didn't speak with Michael Jordan in his three years with the Bulls
Plus: The first 'J. Edgar' trailer is all about the crime
Plus: A new study says running backs and quarterbacks suffer the most serious concussions
The NFL returns tonight, and not a moment too soon
Plus: Weather permitting, Stephen Strasburg will pitch tonight for the Washington Nationals
Plus: Texas A&M's long, slow retreat from the Big 12 is only just beginning
A showdown over public prayer plays out on a high school football field
Punishment for football players selling memorabilia for tattoos
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