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Sad Alex Smith Is The Best Part Of Super Bowl Media Day

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Is that bitterness or just sadness in his eyes?

This is Alex Smith. He has basically been the starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers since 2005. At least he was until a concussion earlier this year brought about the Colin Kaepernick era in San Francisco.

This is Alex Smith. He has basically been the starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers since 2005. At least he was until a concussion earlier this year brought about the Colin Kaepernick era in San Francisco.

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With Smith temporarily sidelined, Kaepernick took full advantage of his opportunity. He dominated games, electrified fans, and captured the country's imagination. He also relegated Smith to the bench permanently.

With Smith temporarily sidelined, Kaepernick took full advantage of his opportunity. He dominated games, electrified fans, and captured the country's imagination. He also relegated Smith to the bench permanently.

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And the move has been pretty okay for the 49ers as Kaepernick has just, you know, led them to the Super Bowl.

And the move has been pretty okay for the 49ers as Kaepernick has just, you know, led them to the Super Bowl.

Image by Jeff Haynes / Reuters

But Alex Smith is still on the team, which means he has to go to New Orleans too. And he has to be a part of media day and face reporters.


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The Manti Te'o Story As Told By "Mean Girls" Quotes

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Lennay Kekua is a grotsky little byotch.

This is the story of Manti Te'o trying to convince the world he's extremely gullible and fell victim to a fake girlfriend hoax.

This is the story of Manti Te'o trying to convince the world he's extremely gullible and fell victim to a fake girlfriend hoax.

Via: s1.ibtimes.com

He spent more than 500 hours talking to a girl he believed to be Lennay over the phone and on the computer.

He spent more than 500 hours talking to a girl he believed to be Lennay over the phone and on the computer.

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His Notre Dame teammates vaguely knew of Lennay, but thought the whole situation was a little fishy.

His Notre Dame teammates vaguely knew of Lennay, but thought the whole situation was a little fishy.

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The Sad Alex Smith Meme

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“In the arms of an angel, fly away from here.”

Today is Super Bowl media day, where the players face the media. The big story? How sad former 49ers starting quarterback Alex Smith looked.


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This Cake Is A Perfect Replica Of Colin Kaepernick's Arm

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This is art.

Created by the Village Bakery in Modesto, CA

Created by the Village Bakery in Modesto, CA

Via: @si_vault

How close were they? Here's Kaepernick's actual bicep.

How close were they? Here's Kaepernick's actual bicep.

Via: nydailynews.com

Randy Moss Got Served By A Guy Who Was On "Dancing With The Stars"

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And who also happens to be the greatest wide receiver to ever play football.

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During Super Bowl Media Day, San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Randy Moss gave this very telling quote:


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There Might Soon Be A PokerStars-Brand Casino In Atlantic City

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A re-entry into the United States for the site that's been banned from American shores since 2011? It's up to Chris Christie.

Source: Illustration by John Gara

PokerStars doesn't give up easily. In 2006, when Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, making online gambling illegal, the site stayed put, offering its games to Americans on the premise that poker is a game of skill (which is true — in the long run; in the short run, of course, poker outcomes are often determined by simple luck). In 2011, when the Department of Justice shut down online poker for real, PokerStars paid a fine of $731 million, but admitted to no wrongdoing — and kept on the alert for their next opportunity to get back onto U.S. computer screens. Now, with the legalization of online gambling within the borders of New Jersey just a Chris Christie signature away from reality and Atlantic City casinos posed to be the entities that run the sites, PokerStars' parent company has applied to purchase an Atlantic City gambling den.

Its targeted casino, the Atlantic Club, ranks among the biggest dumps in A.C. (and, in light of the city's general decrepitude, that's saying something). Last year the Atlantic Club was 10th out of 12 casinos in terms of revenue, with a gross operating loss of $13.6 million during its first nine months. Until December 2011, it was known as the Atlantic City Hilton, but Hilton yanked the licensing agreement. A Hilton spokesperson told the Press of Atlantic City that the chain needs to "protect its name and identity." No wonder, then, that the joint's owner, hedge fund Colony Capital, had been shopping it around with a bargain-basement asking price that is said to be below $50 million. There doesn't seem to be much reason for PokerStars, which doesn't operate any other casinos (though it does have a minority stake in London's Hippodrome Casino), to want the Atlantic Club besides as an inroads for setting up online gambling in New Jersey. (The law would make all online versions of Atlantic City games — not just poker — legal within state borders.)

The $50 million asking price would be a mere pittance for Stars, which ranks as the world's most popular online poker site, with a total value that's been estimated at $2 billion. (It says it's dealt 85 billion hands since its inception in 2001, which is somewhere around 13,000 for each minute it's been online.) The site's founder, Isai Scheinberg, left a senior programming job at IBM to launch the company, which took off in a big way after Chris Moneymaker, an accountant from Nashville, came from out of nowhere to win the 2003 World Series of Poker. Moneymaker got to the World Series via a seat that he won on PokerStars with an investment of just $40; overnight, Moneymaker became a role model for young players, with Stars their favored site. Considering what it could earn as an online casino in New Jersey — according to U.K.-based data service H2 Gambling, total online gambling revenue should amount to around $140 million in year one alone, and PokerStars' brand recognition would seem to make it a strong candidate to get a very big chunk of that change — the $50 million price for the Atlantic Club is a good deal.

It's conceivable but unlikely that New Jersey authorities might reject the purchase of a casino by a group that's been in legal trouble, says I. Nelson Rose, a professor at Whittier Law School in Southern California and a gambling-law expert. "Thirty years ago I would have said that nobody involved with illegal gambling could get a casino license," Rose said. "But that has changed. Now everybody seems to think that if enough time has passed and you change your executives, then it's OK." (PokerStars' Scheinberg has stepped down from active management and handed the reins to his son.)

Nonetheless, the deal in Jersey is not a lock. Though the state legislature has approved legalization, this will not be the first time that such a bill has been on Governor Christie's desk. Two years ago, he was presented with a similar proposal and turned it down because the bill specified that some online gambling revenues would be diverted to the horse-racing industry, which Christie opposed; he also said he was concerned that people might gather together to gamble online at internet cafés. "He's making up an issue that doesn't exist," said Raymond Lesniak, a Democratic senator who boosted the bill at the time.

Christie has said he has concerns about the current bill, as well: that it will encourage people with gambling addictions to lose even more money, and that Atlantic City businesses might be hurt if potential casino customers don't have to leave home for their gambling fixes. But he's also said that helping the A.C. casino industry is a priority, and the casinos favor legalization. On his "Ask the Governor" radio show on Jan. 22, he said he has not yet made a decision on the bill, but he'll have to decide by Feb. 7, the last day on which he could veto it.

Rose, for one, thinks that PokerStars will eventually win over both Christie and the New Jersey Casino Control Commission. "The odds for PokerStars are very good," he says, pointing out that the site, despite running what the U.S. government said was a massive, illegal operation, managed to make amends without admitting wrongdoing via an agreement that left open the possibility that they could do business in America. "Stars has been smart and lucky, and history is on its side."

Insane Man Surfs 100-Foot Wall Of Water To Set A World Record

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I'm not sure what's crazier: That a surfer rode a 100-foot wave, or that there are regularly 100-FOOT WAVES ON EARTH?

Big wave surfer Garrett McNamara likely set a new world record when he surfed a 100-foot wave in Portugal this week.

Big wave surfer Garrett McNamara likely set a new world record when he surfed a 100-foot wave in Portugal this week.

The Guinness Book of World Records now has to verify the height of the wave, which isn't exactly a speedy process. According to The Inquisitr, it took more than a year for McNamara's previous record to be verified.

Via: @ciscosalvador

McNamara set the current record in 2011 when he rode a 78-foot wave at the same spot in Nazaré, Portugal. Here's some more mind-melting footage from his day at the beach.

The waves grow to such a frightening height because of the Nazaré Canyon, a 16,000-foot underwater canyon off the coast.

To put a 100-foot tall wave into perspective, here are a few things that measure 100-feet:

Most 10-story buildings.
1 full length NBA court (with six feet to spare).
2 standard IMAX screens.
100 1-foot waves.
A stack of five average-size giraffes.
A stack of 14.2 Andrew Bynums.

H/T Sean Newell at Deadspin


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What Do You Learn In A $50 Online Class About Football?

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Offense, defense, and networking.

Bajillions of Americans will watch the Super Bowl on Sunday, and many of them will be die-hard football crazies. Some, though, will be non-fans who will watch the NFL's title game because it's a thing everyone does. This year, that contingent is in luck: Udemy, a fairly credible-seeming online learning website, is offering a course entitled "How to Watch an American Football Game." I'm a lifelong fan of the sport, but I signed up and took it this weekend out of curiosity. (According to the site, 138 others had taken the class as of this afternoon.) Here's what I learned.

1. This Course Was Put Online By Patriots Fans
The class I'm taking is a tape of a lecture given to live, real students at the British Consulate in Boston, supplemented with some online materials. Pats references abound. At the beginning of the class, after a simple quiz, I'm given a set of links to click through, and the first one goes to a video from the infamous "Tuck Rule" game between the Patriots and Raiders in 2002. There are a lot of football rules that should probably be explained before that one. All of them, perhaps: the application of the Tuck Rule during that Patriots-Raiders contest is perhaps the most infamously incomprehensible officiating incident in the history of the sport. For shame, Patriots fans, letting your urge to gloat confuse these poor novices.

2. Football Is Pretty Complicated, Actually
The course is divided into four "quarters." There are two instructors: Diane Darling, author of "the definitive book on networking,", and former Boston College athletic director Gene DeFilippo. The instructors begin by explaining basics like kickoffs and first downs and touchdowns, moving on to penalties, offensive and defensive formations, and play-calling. You know the part about the various types of penalties is coming up because Darling introduces it while wearing an official's cap:

It becomes apparent that football is a difficult sport to thoroughly explain in an hour. We don't move quite as slowly as I expected, either: Early on, as DeFilippo breezes through a discussion of how teams can score points, one attendee asks if someone could explain what running and passing are. I assume there would have been more questions, but attendees were too polite to interrupt. For example, when DeFilippo mentions that teams can decline penalties, he never explains why that could be advantageous, and no one asks. If you think about it, it is pretty convoluted to come up with a game in which you can help yourself by letting the other team get away with cheating.

3. Understanding Football Will Help You At Work
It becomes clear early on that the purpose of this course is twofold: To explain the basics of football, and to use those concepts to improve one's networking skills. Some of it's a bit of a stretch, though. I'm taught that football is a popular conversation topic, which I suppose is true. Also fair: the section on terminology from football used in the business world: "You dropped the ball," for instance, or "Let's do an end run." Some of the connections to football are kind of thin, though. Here, for instance, are some "penalties of networking":


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The Craziest Way For An Athlete To Get Outed

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Former NFL lineman Kwame Harris was not publicly out of the closet until a strange arrest.

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Kwame Harris (pictured here as a member of the San Francisco 49ers in 2007) was arrested last August after what was an apparently vicious fight with an ex-boyfriend in the parking lot of a Menlo Park, California restaurant.

The details of the incident weren't noted by the media until Monday, when the San Mateo Daily Journal reported that Harris was due in court for a pretrial hearing related to felony counts of domestic violence and assault. Until this report, Harris was not widely known to be gay.

The story goes that Harris met up with an ex-boyfriend of his, Dimitri Geier, at a restaurant called Su Hong in Menlo Park, California. The two were just friends at this point and the purpose of the meeting was to get a bite before Harris drove Geier to the airport. But then things took a weird turn.


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The 13 Most Dramatic Super Bowl Moments Of...All...Time!!! [Crowd Goes Crazy]

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What a dramatic headline! More drama inside.

John Riggins Steamrolls Don McNeal, Super Bowl XVIII

John Riggins Steamrolls Don McNeal, Super Bowl XVIII

THE SETUP: In the fourth quarter of Super Bowl XVIII, the Redskins were trailing 17-13. Running back John Riggins, who had been carrying the team, tore off this 43-yard touchdown run, during which he discarded Dolphins cornerback Don McNeal like a dog shaking off water. The score put Washington ahead for good.

THE PAYOFF: The Redskins won 27-17, and Riggins had 166 yards on a grueling 38 carries, earning him Super Bowl MVP.

Steve Young Gets The Monkey Off His Back, Super Bowl XXIX

Steve Young Gets The Monkey Off His Back, Super Bowl XXIX

THE SETUP: Steve Young had existed in the shadow of Joe Montana up until Super Bowl XXIX. In that game, he threw six touchdowns and won MVP, putting himself in the shadow of no one. At the end of the game, he acknowledged the pressure he was feeling by going up to his teammates on the sidelines and telling them to take the monkey off his back.

THE PAYOFF: The monkey was off his back. After winning two Super Bowls as Montana's backup, Young now had a title of his own, with an MVP award to boot, and he would make the Hall of Fame in 2005 partly on the strength of that all-time-great performance.


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NBA Player's Personal Website Spells His Name Wrong Multiple Times

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Antawn, Antwan, Jeff: what's the difference, right?

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Antawn Jamison is a forward for the Los Angeles Lakers. There he is above, being told what to do by Kobe Bryant, a position he probably finds himself in often. Like most NBA players, Jamison has a personal, official website extolling his virtues and telling his story. Unlike most NBA players, Jamison's personal, official website spells his name wrong. Multiple times.

The website's header starts out promisingly: there's his name! It's spelled correctly! "Antawn"!

The website's header starts out promisingly: there's his name! It's spelled correctly! "Antawn"!

So does the "About Antawn" section, which starts with something by his mother. (Awww.)

So does the "About Antawn" section, which starts with something by his mother. (Awww.)


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Manti Te'o Hoaxer Tells Dr. Phil He's Gay, Te'o Wasn't Involved

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Tuiasosopo acknowledges that he's at least “confused.”

The Today Show got a first look at Dr. Phil's interview with Manti Te'o Hoaxer Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, who addressed his sexuality and Te'o's involvement.

H/T Steve DelVecchio at Larry Brown Sports.

Super Bowl Media Day In 10 Seconds

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The hard hitting questions that need to be asked.

This is all you need to know about Super Bowl Media Day.

Thanks for being a good sport, Dennis Pitta, but what America really wants to know is how ticklish Ray Lewis is.

H/T Matt Yoder at Awful Announcing

Sports Illustrated Honors Gay Fans With A Kiss

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The magazine's preview of the Super Bowl includes a picture of two men kissing in a sports bar.

Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice for Sports Illustrated.

Image by Stacy Lambe/Buzzfeed

On page 48 of the sports magazine's Super Bowl preview, there is an unexpected image of two men kissing. The photo, taken by Deanne Fitzmaurice, captures "the moment the 49ers won the game which secured the team a spot in the Super Bowl." The unidentified couple was snapped at Hi Tops, a new gay sports bar in San Francisco.

"A lot of people that come in don't even know it's a gay sports bar; that's the best part," Hi Tops bartender Logan Chavarria told NBC Bay Area. "And then we find out we have a common bond."

But the photo isn't the only win for the LGBT community. Sports Illustrated also takes the time to shine the spotlight on queer football fans in the print issue.

(For more on the bar, visit Gay.net.)


College Basketball Just Turned Into A Sesame Street Episode

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All right, boys and girls: Let's teach Marshall Henderson how to play nice with others!

This is Marshall Henderson.

This is Marshall Henderson.

Marshall Henderson is a shooting guard for the Ole Miss Running Rebels. He leads the SEC in points per game. And, as you can probably tell from the photo above, he's also a crazy person. (Awesome, but crazy.)

Deadspin's Tom Ley had a great breakdown of Henderson's awesomeness earlier this week, but Henderson added to the legend last night during Ole Miss' home loss to the Kentucky Wildcats.

Image by Rogelio V. Solis / AP

First of all, Henderson's volcanic intensity was in full effect. The face he makes after taking this offensive foul —

First of all, Henderson's volcanic intensity was in full effect. The face he makes after taking this offensive foul —

— is positively horrifying.

— is positively horrifying.

Right after he took that charge, the crowd threw something onto the court, and Henderson hurled it right back. (Remember: this is HIS crowd. Ole Miss is at home.)

Right after he took that charge, the crowd threw something onto the court, and Henderson hurled it right back. (Remember: this is HIS crowd. Ole Miss is at home.)


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Note To Sports Fans: Don't Throw Hot Dogs At Players

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I can't believe this has to be said.

This is Tyler Seguin of the Boston Bruins. Last night he was involved in the decisive shootout against the New Jersey Devils at the end of the game in Boston. When he was on his approach something weird happened.

This is Tyler Seguin of the Boston Bruins. Last night  he was involved in the decisive shootout against the New Jersey Devils at the end of the game in Boston. When he was on his approach something weird happened.

Image by Jared Wickerham / Getty Images

A hot dog flew out of the stands and right in front of the goalie, presumably in an effort to distract the goalie.

A hot dog flew out of the stands and right in front of the goalie, presumably in an effort to distract the goalie.

Image by Jared Wickerham / Getty Images

Here you can see the toss in action.

Here you can see the toss in action.


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The 4 B's Of The Super Bowl

How To Get Drunk For Your Super Bowl Team

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Honor your team the most meaningful way: customized booze.

1. Panky By The Bay

1. Panky By The Bay

Fernet-Branca is a bitter herbal liqueur that's been popular in San Francisco since before the Porhibition, and today is the unofficial drink of the restaurant industry.

Inspired by a Hanky Panky

Serves 1

INGREDIENTS
1.5 oz gin
1.5 oz sweet vermouth
2 dashes of Fernet Branca
Orange peel for garnish

DIRECTIONS
Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice, shake vigorously for 20 seconds and strain into champagne coupe. Garnish with an orange peel.

2. The Baltimore Bloody

2. The Baltimore Bloody


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Super Bowl Cornerback Says Gay Players Would Not Be Welcome On His Team

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Come on! You play in San Francisco!

San Francisco 49ers corner Chris Culliver was interviewed by Artie Lange about gays in the NFL. He sounded less than enlightened.

San Francisco 49ers corner Chris Culliver was interviewed by Artie Lange about gays in the NFL. He sounded less than enlightened.

Image by D. Ross Cameron/Contra Costa Times/MCT

He continued about whether he could play with such a player.

He continued about whether he could play with such a player.

Image by Ross D. Franklin / AP

When asked if players should be forced to keep their homosexuality secret, Culliver responded:

When asked if players should be forced to keep their homosexuality secret, Culliver responded:

Image by Paul Kitagaki Jr./Sacramento Bee/MCT

The 49ers PR staff's probable response:

The 49ers PR staff's probable response:

Ours too by the way...


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