This big Viking's got some moves.
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H/T Barry Petchesky at Deadspin, via VikingUpdate.com.
This guy is better at kicking than I am at anything.
Today, a Norwegian kicker who made a video of trick kicks that went viral got a tryout with the New York Jets. Let's look at why they, or some other team, should give him a chance.
(That's a long field goal by NFL standards.)
Ibrahim Elhoseny, a ping pong player from Egypt, may play a bit different than any opponent he faces, but he still brings impressive skill to the table!
Could've gone better. All of it.
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Arguably the greatest college football player of all time, Tim Tebow's NFL career had a rough start that finally seemed to smooth out in 2011 as he made it to the second round of the playoffs with the Broncos. So, how did 2012 go? Spoiler alert: not well.
Based on the way it started off, 2012 really seemed like it could be the Year Of Magical Tebowing. After taking over as the Denver Broncos' starting quarterback in Week 6 and leading them to a 7-4 record over the rest of the season, Timmy Tremendous pulled off a terrific and to this day inexplicable upset victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers in the wild-card round of the playoffs. But afterward, in the divisional round, the Broncos came up against the NFL's premiere eviscerator of dreams: Bill Belichick's New England Patriots. Tebow got throttled, dismantled, and otherwise destroyed by the Pats, completing only 9 passes out of 26 en route to a 45-10 loss. A terrible loss, but Tebow had seemingly established himself as the starter on a playoff-caliber team, so the future looked bright, right? Turns out the light at the end of the tunnel was just a train filled with garbage. A garbage nightmare train.
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In March, Denver signed Peyton Manning to become their starting QB. Manning was about to turn 36 years old and had just sat out an entire season with career-threatening spinal problems. Tebow was 24 and in Spartan physical shape. It says something about the esteem in which the NFL held Tebow's 2011 season that the Broncos' decision was widely considered a smart one.
With Manning in town, there wasn't a whole lot of reason to hold on to Tebow, and so with little fanfare (ha) and next to no media attention (double ha), he was traded to the New York Jets.
That press conference can be seen above. In it, Tebow says the word "excited" 44 times.
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Josh Freeman threw eight interceptions in the first 13 games of 2012. He's thrown eight more in his last two.
Through Week 14, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were a mediocre 6-7, but their young starting QB, Josh Freeman, was having a nice year: he'd thrown 25 TDs to only eight INTs. That all changed in Week 15.
Poor Andy Reid.
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Andy Reid, whose mustache is pictured above, is the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles. He has been the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles since 1999, making his tenure the longest of any current NFL head coach. And today, with the Eagles' 27-20 loss to the division-rival Washington Redskins cementing 2012 as the team's worst season since Reid's first year with the team, Reid has likely coached his last game in Philadelphia.
Despite Reid's generally impressive level of success during his time with the Eagles — highlighted by five NFC Championship games, including one Super Bowl, over 14 seasons — there's one feature of being a head coach that he's never quite gotten the hang of: clock management. As in, at the end of games, he tends to either waste, misuse, or otherwise bungle the small amount of time remaining.
Today's contest with the Redskins looked like it would suffer the same fate. Down seven points, the Eagles got the ball with four minutes, 15 seconds remaining. An eternity, in terms of one drive. And the more time there is, the more ways Reid could potentially mess it up. But his players had a surprise in store for him, and, in some ways, that surprise would be a fitting tribute to his years with the team.
This Chiefs fan is so sad, she can't even spell “Christmas” right.
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He could've lost plenty, too — but generally only publicizes his winning bets.
Quote Floyd gave to David Mayo of MLive in March.
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Pay-per-view sales for Floyd Mayweather's May fight against Miguel Cotto topped $94 million dollars, and Mayweather personally raked in well north of $40 million. What does Money Mayweather do with all that money? He bets on sports, a lot (possibly too much) and posts pictures of his betting slips on Twitter.
Mayweather bets on the NFL. He bets on Gonzaga men's basketball. He once bet on the Utah State football team. Most of his bets are relatively sure things, like a $33,000 bet that the then-No. 3 Duke Blue Devils basketball team would outscore 13-15 Wake Forest by seven in the first half. He cashes in on scores of low-risk bets by fronting an absurd amount of money, though he rarely tweets photos of his losing betting slips like he does with the winners. Here's a month-by-month breakdown of Mayweather's bets — a lot of profit here, but keep in mind, these are just the ones he publicly announced.
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Put $400,000 on Alabama at halftime of the BCS National Championship game. Won $333,333.
It's magic.
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Some athletes you fall in love with. Some you fall in lust with.
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It was a hot year.
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Ding dong, the witch is dead.
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It apparently takes a very well-qualified individual to put on a three-hour event once a year.
As bowl season shifts into high gear, the student-athletes putting on the show get gift baskets. The gentlemen in charge of putting on the bowls get insane mega-salaries. (Many bowl games are run by tax-exempt, non-profit organizations, and therefore post their 990 tax return forms, which disclose executive compensation, online each year. The info below, then, is about the compensation these various execs received in 2011. Maybe they all took vows of poverty this year! Probably not, though.)
Read more about McVay and the state of bowl-executive compensation in this USA Today investigation.
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In the year of the 2008 Sugar Bowl, Hoolahan received $645,386 despite the fact that the bowl lost money.
Everyone's favorite billionaire did an AMA on Christmas Eve, proving once again, he's the best.
This old woman had a very Ricky Rubio Christmas.
This new Sprint spot premiered during the Christmas day games, and before the final punchline seems to be going in a sexy, sexy direction.
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Dirk Nowitzki is a hero.
H/T Scott Bell at the Dallas Morning News.
How a simple surprise gift can change a kid's day.
Mine eyes have seen the glory.
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Nothing says the holidays like accidental sexy Instagrams and bad athlete damage control.
