Nice headline with the "now" implying that somehow there has been a changing, evasive narrative here. You guys rightly take ESPN to take outlets to task for creating bullshit, self-sustaining "stories". Bring the evidence or look in the mirror.

That match should have been stopped (hell, it shouldn't have even started), but it's well documented that Costa Rica didn't really complain about things in that game until after they fell behind. In any event, the US didn't go out of their way to actively cause trouble for CR. Weather happens. The Costa Rica…

I'm confused. My of avid reading of various comment sections has informed me that this kind of fakery only happens in pussy sports, like soccer.

Beardo and Dreads: better title for morning show or afternoon drive?

I'm sure players of American football would never fake an injury in an attempt to alter the flow of the game or gain advantage in some way. Just ask Brian Urlacher.

Needs more Eminem.

The guy with the dreads looks like DiCaprio.

Anyone else surprised by the speed that dude showed in making his escape? He outran the players.

Do you really expect GB to stop Frank Gore on 4th and inches? McCarthy doesn't.

You know how they say about some guys that he's an asshole, but you love him when he's yours? I'm not sure that even Niners fans really believe that about Harbaugh. Great coach though to be sure.

So are these Ark St.'s official road unis and this is going to happen every week they play on the road? Or did the equipment people just bring the wrong laundry to Auburn?

As an outside spectator with no real rooting interest, Joakim Noah's analysis appears to be right on. Some of the blowout mismatches were better played than this game.

If Panama had played last night anywhere near as well as they did in the Gold Cup, Mexico would be sitting 5th in CONCACAF right now. Incredible really.

Nicely done. I'll set the over/under on the average age of people who starred this comment at 41.5.

The NFL replay system is such a joke. It's just plain stupid to expect coaches to officiate the game. The missed drop get attirbuted to being Harbaugh's mistake, but the mistake is 100 percent an officiating mistake. Denver never would have scored that subsequent TD if this were a college game.

From the looks of recent pictures, I'm halfway surprised that Bielema himself didn't explode. Pig sooey indeed.

One of the major differences between FBS and FCS is that FCS schools have a lower scholarship limit than FBS schools. Mixing these schools in some sort of tier system would require a complete rebuild of the entire scholarship/revenue model.

At what point did I say they shouldn't be cared for? I'm glad they got a settlement. Would hav been nicer if it was an even bigger pot of money for them to split up. Just tired of the armchair attorneys spewing their theories on this stuff publicly when the guys actually handling the case seem to have a pretty good…

I'm pretty old, having played HS ball way back in the mid-80s,b ut even then we were told you shouldn't play for at least a month after sustaining a concussion. At least that what the doctors said. Maybe we just had really really top-of-the-line medical advice in central Wisconsin way back then.

Aussie Rules must be reserved for sports broadcasting startups. ESPN had tons of it in the rotation back in the early days.