That pasty and misshapen Midwesterner is the closest AJ comes to hitting taters these days.

You may want to add an update. Leiweke is a weasel but there's enough water elsewhere here to sufficiently extinguish this fire: http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2014/08/27/nhl…

There's been some talk of Cannon as a T but he's way more at home as a G.

There's a lesson to be learned from this thread. It's bleak, but it's there.

I would have liked to see Deadspin take this angle, that Welker shouldn't be playing any more, than focus on a side story featuring a big name.

The National Guard?

Richard Sherman got a 990 on his SAT. Spare me.

Is that also Malcolm Subban in this clip? Dude's having a week.

I'm no legal expert, but it seems like this guy has every right to press assault charges. No?

Cheesey crackers, at that.

Holy shit.

An Argentine who plays soccer in France took some sexy pictures? This might be a bigger story in the US than Argentina or France.

It's subtle, but it's also casual. To King, that a versatile, confident black quarterback should be controversial is like saying that the sun should rise in the east. I noted how differently he treats mediocre to crappy white QBs vs. a very good black QB in Cam Newton here:

Oh good, now the Oilers are even offending non-Oilers fans.

That's some supernatural ability, to pull it back in just milliseconds. Or he got tagged.

Neither. Watch his left hand on the second attempt.

Let's start here: he was clearly tagged out.

That picture looks like a young Tom Waits.

The Flyers would have wanted to incorporate something pretty bold in to their thirds because their cross-state rivals, the Penguins, were one of the teams that jumped in to the gradient-soaked, oversized logo trend of third jerseys. This, however, is a bridge too far even for Philadelphia.

It's a viral ad for Weekend at Bernie's 3.