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Doin' Laundry With Stevie Brown, The Giants' Most Recent Breakout Star

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“It just so happens I'm someone they didn't expect much of and I'm just doing my job.”

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On a Tuesday afternoon last week, Stevie Brown was sitting in a laundromat near his home in North Bergen, New Jersey watching his clothes swirl in the wash. It was his off day, but after dropping off someone at the airport, he had to make the trip to the public laundry facilities to do what many other New Jersey residents without power have been doing since Hurricane Sandy left much of the state in the dark: clean his clothes.

It’s a strange image – a rising star on the Giants not being able to get any clean underwear without lugging clothes to the closest laundromat. But the Giants safety, who went from unheralded offseason pickup to the NFC Defensive Player of the Week in the span of about a month, had been told by the power company there that he may have power back in his apartment until Thursday or Friday. By the time it comes back, he will have made it almost a week without any heat or light (or laundry ability) at home.

“One of my teammates in my building still has power and his whole half of the building does too,” he said. “I don’t understand how that happens. I’m just chilling on the other end in the dark.”

He’s making do. His biggest worries have been getting enough gas in his car to get to practice and enough laptop battery every night to watch film. Meanwhile, at work, he’s becoming another Victor Cruz-like story for Big Blue.

Brown is the latest in a string of Giants’ players who have managed to take the opportunity of a teammate’s injury or suspension to become a major factor. He got his chance when Kenny Phillips went down with a sprained MCL at the end of September. With backup strong safety Will Hill suspended for taking Adderall, Brown stepped. He's already made five interceptions.

“I wouldn’t say I’m the next big thing,” he told BuzzFeed. “It just so happens I’m someone they didn’t expect much of and I’m just doing my job.”

Brown’s story is familiar to Giants fans. Like Cruz did before his breakout year, Brown spent most of his last year in the NFL on the IR, sidelined with a quad injury. This season, he sat quietly learning the playbook and when a seemingly deep bench crumbled, the versatile safety (he played some linebacker in college at Michigan) ended up being a good fit. Even with Phillips returning, Brown fits in well to what seems to be an emerging three-safety package the team is trying out.

Asked if there was something about the Giants that made it easier for breakout stars to shine, Brown simply said the club was a place that everyone wanted to be.

"It's just a guy who has taken advantage of his opportunity," GM Jerry Reese told Newsday. "It happens all over the league."

But it doesn't in the way that it seems to have happened for the Giants lately. And that, former NFL executives told BuzzFeed, has a lot to do with the ownership and club culture.

Ted Sundquist, a former Broncos GM, said the Giants tend to be more patient in developing potential young stars than many organizations, giving them a chance for more breakout players like Brown.

"I think Jerry Reese has a lot to do with that. He knows what type of players they're looking for character-wise and who will fit into Coach Coughlin's system and they go out and get them," he said. "They know what they want and they see something in a guy and they stay extremely patient and give them a chance to develop."

Joe Mendes, the Redskins' former Vice President of Player Operations, said he believed the Giants' coaching staff was better than most at preparing backups to step into the starting lineup.

"What separates them from so many other clubs is that they have a plan and they have a structure and Coach Coughlin has worked extremely hard to cultivate just a great New York Giants culture," he said.

The intangibles of the Giants work ethic and patience through the organization, Mendes and Sundquist said, had a lot to do with their player's surprise successes. Those are easy values to say you believe in, but tough ones to actually display in a stressful NFL environment.

"The recipe’s the easy part," Mendes said. "But it’s the cooking it that’s hard."

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21 Breathtaking Photos Of A College Basketball Game Played On An Aircraft Carrier

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This weekend's Battle on the Midway between Syracuse and San Diego State was a pretty good basketball game, but led to some amazing photographs.

Image by Gregory Bull / AP

Image by Mike Blake / Reuters

Image by Mike Blake / Reuters

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Ryan Lochte Back In A Speedo

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Over the weekend, the Olympian competed for the first time since the London Games — meaning he was finally back in a (revealing) Speedo.

Ryan Lochte was back in the water for the Minneapolis Grand Prix. According to Sports Illustrated, the swimmer swam the 200 individual medley and the 200 backstroke walked away with five wins "during the first races of the six-meet series."

But his speedo was the main attraction.

IMAGE: Marilyn Indahl-US PRESSWIRE

IMAGE: Marilyn Indahl-US PRESSWIRE

As for Lochte? He was more concerned about grabbing a burger after his first swim.


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15 People Who Think Nick Saban Should Be Fired

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Nick Saban will be coming by later to smite all of you.

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It wasn't a good weekend for the most intense and maniacally committed college football coach in America, as Nick Saban's Alabama Crimson Tide fell to the Texas A&M Johnny Manziels, 29-24. The loss dropped Alabama from first to fourth in the BCS standings, and unless two of the remaining undefeated trio of Oregon, Kansas State, and Notre Dame lose in the coming weeks, the Crimson Tide will not play for a second consecutive national championship. Alabama has gone 64-13 with two titles during Saban's tenure, but for some, THAT'S NOT ENOUGH! (It seems like a few of these people are being sarcastic, but a terrifying number of them are clearly not.)


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Is This The Worst Foul Shot In Athletic History?

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Wow. Just… Woof.

In Friday night's Lakers-Warriors game, Andris Biedrins was fouled and went to the free throw line. And then something horrific happened.

In Friday night's Lakers-Warriors game, Andris Biedrins was fouled and went to the free throw line. And then something horrific happened.

Let's see that again. And this time you can rub it to see just how horrific it was.

Let's see that again. And this time you can rub it to see just how horrific it was.

Was there anything in his set-up that could be blamed?

Was there anything in his set-up that could be blamed?

Aha! Enhance!

Aha! Enhance!


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11 Reasons Fantasy Football Is Super Dumb And We Shouldn't Even Bother Anymore

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Enough is enough is Enough (is a bad Jennifer Lopez movie). Why do we put ourselves through all this pointless frustration!?!

This guy was fine until fantasy football drove him to stab pins into his face.

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It's that time of year. Days are shorter. Winter is beginning to set in. You're ready to quit fantasy football forever, and you really you mean it this time. Each and every November, millions of fantasy football players begin to feel their seasons (and their pre-season buy-ins) slip away. Sundays cease to be days of rest and become days of furious anger and desperate howls to god (or Payton Manning) to just help you win this damn stupid game. It's not worth it. It's time we band together and just quit. Here are some of the many reasons why.

Trading Doug Martin Only To Watch Him Turn Into Doug "HOLY HELL, WATCH HIM GO" Martin

Trading Doug Martin Only To Watch Him Turn Into Doug "HOLY HELL, WATCH HIM GO" Martin

This has happened to all of us. You trade a promising young guy who has yet to have a truly transcendent game. Then BOOM. Young guy explodes in an orgy of fantasy points. This year's case study: Doug Martin.

In one of my fantasy leagues I traded the Tampa Bay rookie for LeSean McCoy. The trade seemed like a no-brainer. Sure, Martin had upside, but he'd yet to show himself as a definitive number one running back. Meanwhile, McCoy is a feature back. You know what happend next. Doug Martin turned in a 251 yard game with 4 touchdowns. That's good for 51 points in a standard fantasy football league. It's also good for a sore hand from punching a wall.

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Getting Beat By A Defense

Getting Beat By A Defense

Defenses in fantasy football are usually talked about as a joke. Anyone who picks one too high in your draft is laughed out of the room and mocked for months. But then there comes that fateful night when you're winning your matchup by 14 points and all your opponent has left to play is his defense. You feel pretty good about it, only to watch the Bears put up 350 points on seventeen interception returns for touchdowns. And then you have to have a conversation with your foreign-born neighbors who want to know why you're screaming, and then you have to explain the idea of fantasy football to them and it sounds so stupid when you say it out loud and they act sympathetic but you know they're just filing it away as a reason they made a mistake in emigrating to this fast-declining country. They should have just moved to Shanghai like their uncle said.

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5 Most Random Professional Athlete Side Businesses

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From tricked-out fanny packs to barber shops, here are the greatest examples of what people with a few million bucks laying around can do.

The JammyPack

The JammyPack

Started (in part) by: Atlanta Falcons running back Jason Snelling

The backstory: "A group of friends and I were in California on the beach and a guy comes up wearing a Speedo and a lime-green fanny pack, and one of the girls we were with said, 'The only way to make a fanny pack cool would be to add speakers and call it a jammy pack,'" Snelling told BuzzFeed. Weeks later, the JammyPack was born. That was over four years ago, and the product, which is available online only is bringing in the Benjamins, Snelling insists. "It's a fun idea that we started from scratch," he said proudly.

The Bourre App

The Bourre App

Started (at least in part) by: Baltimore Ravens safety Bernard Pollard

The backstory: After Pollard saw the card game's popularity rising among his NFL teammates (it also made a brief appearance in the spotlight for its role in the infamous Wizards locker room gun incident), he decided to create an app to make it easier for people to play anywhere and without shelling out any money. “I just want the app to make people be able to have fun with the game, where you don’t have to hand out any money and then your wife looks at you crazy, like, ‘You just wrote a check for how much?’” he told Mashable in September.

Source: Mashable  /  via: mashable.com


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Mike D'Antoni Is The World's Worst Pick-Up Artist


The Pistons And Sixers Are So Unwatchable You Can Buy Tickets To Their Game For 95 Cents

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There's bad and then there's Charlie Villanueva vs. Lavoy Allen.

How bad has the NBA gotten for Detroit and Philadelphia? Check out these tickets available for tomorrow night's game.

How bad has the NBA gotten for Detroit and Philadelphia? Check out these tickets available for tomorrow night's game.

95 cents! Here are 13 things that are more expensive than a ticket to tomorrow night's Pistons/Sixers game:

• A small frosty from Wendy's.
• 8 minutes of a car vacuum at your local self-service car wash.
• A pack of Doublemint gum.
• An episode of Real Housewives from iTunes.
• A Snickers bar.
• A 16 oz. bottle of Coke.
• A single subway ride in New York.*
• A game of Big Buck Hunter at your local bar.
• The cheapest lottery ticket at your local bodega.
• A loose cigarette.
• About four ounces of Bud Light at a bar in New York.
• Any of the food available at the Pistons/Sixers game.
• The service fee on your ticket to the Pistons/Sixers game.

*For the cost of going to and from work in New York you could take FOUR people to Pistons/Sixers tomorrow night.

How do the Pistons feel about this?

How do the Pistons feel about this?

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How about Andrew Bynum and the Sixers?

How about Andrew Bynum and the Sixers?

Image by Matt Rourke, File / AP


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3 Really Funny Sports-Related Cat GIFs

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I've been closely monitoring the cat GIF flow for months. Enjoy.

Training for his next cat fight.

TWO POINTS!

ALL the way down, cheater.

The New-Look Rockets Are So Good, They Play The Game In Imaginary Space

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James Harden is two plays and three planes of existence ahead of the game.

Last night against the Heat, James Harden drew a clear path foul and headed to the line to shoot two. He celebrated his first point with the spirits of Hakeem Olajuwon and Yao Ming.

Late in the game, Jeremy Lin had a chance to hit a go-ahead three. He drained it in the imaginary bucket you can't see. He missed it in real life though.

You Can Now Own A "Deez Nets" T-Shirt

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Hang on deez Nets? Swing from deez Nets? Score on deez Nets? I don't know.

Brace yourself: you can now be the proud owner and wearer of a "Deez Nets" Brooklyn Nets t-shirt, courtesy of Adidas and Sports Authority.

Brace yourself: you can now be the proud owner and wearer of a "Deez Nets" Brooklyn Nets t-shirt, courtesy of Adidas and Sports Authority.

Via: sportsauthority.com

Of course, the phrase "Deez Nets" is a play on the name of the song "Deeez Nuuuts," off of Dr. Dre's classic <i>The Chronic</i>. (Obviously, this is NSFW. It's Dr. Dre.)

This is funny for a few reasons:

1. An NBA team has lent its logo to a shirt based on one of the more vulgar songs in the '90s hip-hop canon — I won't get too deep into the lyrics, but click through to that YouTube page if you're curious. (Or just listen to the song! You have ears!)

2. That song name has been hovering around American culture as a grade-school prank for a couple of decades now; Urban Dictionary says, "catching people with 'deez nutz' has become America's 3,157th favorite pastime, just behind underwater basket-weaving and just ahead of collecting Spongebob Squarepants paraphernalia."

The game works as following: you ask someone a question, and if the response is "What?", "Who?", "Huh?" or anything starting starting with one of the 5 "W's", you're free to get that person with "DEEEEEZ NUUUUUTZ!!!". Works best when done loudly in quiet public places such as a lecture hall, church, or a line at the bank.

Via: urbandictionary.com


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An ESPN NFL Show Can't Stop Talking About "The Princess Bride"

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Last Friday, the hosts of ESPN NFL Kickoff decided to have some fun by stuffing as many The Princess Bride references into a half-hour show as possible. Here's a cut of every single one.

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A Montage Of Amazing Tricks

Watch A Coach's Beautiful Speech To Students Hit Hard By Hurricane Sandy

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“We take care of our business and then we go home to deal with the dark.” Beach Channel, a high school in the Rockaways, was devastated by Hurricane Sandy, but its football team played on, and their coach's pep talk was a tour de force.

Few locations were hit harder by Sandy than the Rockaways — tens of thousands of residents remain powerless two weeks later, and schools in the area have been re-purposed from education institutions into shelters and emergency staging areas. Beach Channel Campus is no different — helicopters had been landing on their practice field; only 15% of the student body was able to attend class when officials tried to hold it at another site.

Nevertheless, the Beach Channel Dolphins were expected to play in a playoff game against the favored and much-larger Port Richmond Raiders, and, even though players were staying in hotels, shuttling emergency supplies around, and sleeping on their cousins' floors — one player said he never knew "a carpet [could] be cold" — the team decided to compete. Coach Victor Nazario assembled 25 guys, and this tape from the Gotham Schools site shows what happened before the team went out to play despite having not seen each other in half a month.

"We take care of our business, and then we go home to deal with the dark."

The odds against the Dolphins proved to be too large, and Beach Channel lost the game to Port Richmond 38-6. But senior captain Justin Zemser delivered another moving speech after the game.


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Eric Berry Is TERRIFIED Of Horses

Hope Solo Was In Court Today With Jerramy Stevens

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They were possibly supposed to get married today and maybe got in a violent fight but maybe it was a big misunderstanding.

Temperamental but talented US Women's Soccer goalie Hope Solo and her alleged fiancee Jerramy Stevens (more about that in a minute) spent their afternoon in Kirkland County Municipal Court after Stevens was accused of assaulting Solo (a charge they both denied). From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

The two were planning to get married Tuesday — on Stevens' 33rd birthday. Stevens appeared in court after a fourth-degree assault arrest stemming from an incident at a Kirkland house Monday in the early hours of the morning. According to a police report, Stevens was arrested after police were called to an altercation in which Solo's older brother, Marcus, used a "stun gun" while allegedly fighting a group of males who were not invited to a party at the house.

When police came to the house, Hope Solo came out with blood on her elbow screaming at her brother to not speak to the cops. When police entered the home, they then reportedly found former NFL tight end Stevens with blood on his shirt. Again, from the P-I:

Police found Stevens purportedly alseep on the floor of an upstairs bedroom. According to the police report, Stevens said he had not heard the altercation between Marcus Solo and the unwanted male guests. An officer asked why Stevens was hiding on the floor behind the bed; Stevens said he wasn't hiding but was sleeping.

Stevens was arrested (according to the P-I "usually must make an arrest in domestic violence calls" and he had admitted to arguing with Solo) and appeared in court on suspicion of fourth-degree assault charges. A judge dismissed the case, citing a lack of evidence.

Jerramy Stevens, In Orange, Far Right:

Jerramy Stevens, In Orange, Far Right:

Via: @ChrisDaniels

According to King-TV reporter Chris Daniels, Solo and Stevens said they had been together for two months and had been arguing about where to live after they got married. While neither lawyers for Solo or Seattle-based lawyers for Stevens immediately returned BuzzFeed's request for comment, Stevens' Tampa-based lawyer did tell us he was looking into it. After all, he pointed out: "Mr. Stevens is on probation in Florida." (He was arrested in Tampa Bay in 2010 for possession of marijuana.)

One question: What was going on with this wedding? Were there other members of Team USA going? Because they usually tweet about social things they do and they haven't made any mention of it.

We may never know. But if you have heard anything or have an invite to Hope Solo's wedding, please email us at sports@buzzfeed.com.


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Cheerleader Takes A Terrifying Fall, Waves To Crowd As She's Wheeled Off

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During Tuesday's Knicks/Magic game, Magic cheerleader Jamie Woode fell during a routine and landed on her head. Thankfully she seems to be doing okay.

Between the first and second quarter of the Knicks/Magic game, Magic cheerleader Jamie Woode fell and landed on her head.

Source: youtube.com

The game was delayed for an extended period of time, as Woode was wheeled off the floor.

Source: youtube.com

When Woode was wheeled off, she waved to the crowd, putting a nice finish on the end of a scary moment.

When Woode was wheeled off, she waved to the crowd, putting a nice finish on the end of a scary moment.

As scary as the moment was, early reports about Woode&#39;s condition are encouraging.

As scary as the moment was, early reports about Woode's condition are encouraging.

Source: @NYPost_Berman


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5 Steps To Achieving The Most Humiliating Athletic Play In History

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This is the Casablanca of embarrassing sports moments.

Step One: Get a rebound.

Step One: Get a rebound.

Step Two: Shoot on the wrong basket, miss, and get your own rebound.

Step Two: Shoot on the wrong basket, miss, and get your own rebound.

Step Three: Shoot on the wrong basket again, miss again, get your own rebound again.

Step Three: Shoot on the wrong basket again, miss again, get your own rebound again.

Step Four: Shoot on the wrong basket again, miss again, get your own rebound again.

Step Four: Shoot on the wrong basket again, miss again, get your own rebound again.


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The Marlins Just Told Their Fans To Go Screw Themselves

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Where have we seen this before? Oh, wait, every time the Marlins have ever briefly been relevant.

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Sources say that the Marlins have agreed to a trade that will slash their payroll from $102 million to $24.4 million by sending Jose Reyes, Josh Johnson, Mark Buehrle, John Buck, and Emilio Bonifacio to Toronto in exchange for Yunel Escobar, Henderson Alvarez, Jeff Mathis and prospects Jake Marisnick, Adeiny Hechavarria, Justin Nicolino, and Anthony DeSclafani. Wow. Let's take a step back for a second, so we can see just what a huge middle finger this is to Miami's fans.

Flashback to December of last year. The Marlins opened up their checkbooks and quickly worked a three-year $27 million deal for closer Heath Bell — then turned their sights on New York Mets batting champ José Reyes, who signed a six-year $102 million contract with The Fish. Three days later, star pitcher Mark Buehrle joined in the orgy of cash and signed a four-year $58 million deal to take his talents to South Beach. That meant the Marlins entered the 2012 season with two of the best infielders in baseball (Reyes and Hanley Ramirez), a great, if second-tier pitcher (Buehrle), a great reliever (Bell), and one of the most exciting young outfielders in baseball (Giancarlo Stanton). Besides an exciting roster, the team added a new look, a new love of specificity ("Forget the Florida Marlins, our Marlins belong exclusively to Miami, fuck off, Kissimmee!"), an entertaining, talented, crazy person managing the team (Ozzie!!!), and a brand-new stadium to tie everything together. For the first time in years, baseball fans in Miami had something to look forward to. And then they started playing baseball games.

The season didn't go according to plan. Ozzie Guillen said some dumb things about Castro. Bell got rocked. Both Ramirez and Reyes struggled and before you know it the Marlins found themselves at the bottom of the National League East.

So obviously changes needed to be made, but this? This is extreme. It was one thing to trade Hanley Ramirez to L.A. during the season. That was a deal that would let the Marlins add a young pitching prospect (Nate Eovaldi), clear a huge amount of salary, and rid the team of the seemingly rapid decline of Ramirez (who rebounded a bit over the second half in L.A.). It's another thing to take a match to your entire foundation, and that's what this is. This is a full-out rebuild less than 12 months after selling your fans on a very expensive assemblage of All-Stars. How can Marlins fans trust this ownership group to be different than the previous one? This is exactly what the team has always done. It's the THIRD massive fire-sale in the Marlins' 18-year existence. If I (for whatever reasons) were a fan of the Miami baseball franchise, I'm pretty sure I'd be thinking about adopting a scrappy team from Tampa as my own. At least most of those guys will probably be back next year. But don't take my word for it. What do you think, lone exciting Marlins player spared by this deal, Giancarlo Stanton?

Sounds about right, Giancarlo. Sounds about right.

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