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Here's a quick look at 5 stats from Sunday's NFL action: • Redskins running back Ryan Torain had a career-high 172 yards against the Buccaneers on Sunday. Torain's 121 rushing yards in the first quarter were the most in the opening quarter of ...

"Hey, we've been crunching these numbers and we're going to fire you because your job is absurd." Every morning, Dan O'Brien prepares himself to hear those words. As the senior writer for the humor site Cracked.com, he knows just how great his job i...

The voting results are in for Ole Miss' new mascot: 62 percent -- Rebel Black Bear 56 percent -- Rebel Land Shark 42 percent -- Hotty Toddy It was a close race, but the surprise isn't the winner (it was really the safe choice, after all), it's that...

Admiral Ackbar is dead. Again. The University of Mississippi has released a list of candidates for their long-vacated mascot position, and despite a strong push from students, the "Star Wars" character did not make the cut. The final three possibi...

Tristan Couvares trusts you. The star of the new web series "ControlTV" has to. He's putting his life in your hands. For the next six weeks, his every waking moment will be chronicled, and his audience will choose everything from what he wears, to ...

$54,896. That's a lot of clams. Or, in Dez Bryant's case, a lot of steaks. Roy Williams finally got even with the Dallas Cowboys rookie wide receiver after the pad-carrying fiasco during training camp. Bryant took his fellow players on offense out...

Steve Wiebe's algebra class isn't going to be happy. The Finn Hill Junior High teacher in Kirkland, Wash. has just come up with a new assignment. He has no idea how many hours he's devoted to the arcade game Donkey Kong, but has a plan to find out....

If you don't know who Chael Sonnen is, it's not for his lack of trying. Heading into his Aug. 7 fight with Anderson Silva, the little known MMA fighter made a huge splash with his mouth. But it wasn't even his comments regarding UFC that gained the...

What is with the former-great-on-former-franchise crime in the NFL? Last week, famed Dallas Cowboy Michael Irvin took a shot at his old team arguing that playing with Roy Williams was like going 10 on 11. When the current Cowboys receiver tried to...

Don't call him Archibald. Former Ohio State and Cincinnati Bengals running back Archie Griffin was named after his grandfather and his first name isn't short for anything. He knows there are very few who share his given name and doesn't know whethe...

Cleanliness may be next to Godliness, but Derek Dooley just wants his players to stop getting staph infections. That's why the Tennessee head football coach took time earlier this week to diagram some plays with a bar of soap. "We had, I told th...

Doug Flutie just might be busier these days than he ever was playing football. The former NFL and CFL quarterback heads up the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism, plays in two baseball leagues, plays drums in a band with his brothers and still m...

Doug Flutie has kept himself active since he left the game with a variety of projects.

Athletes have been losing their hair at an alarming rate over the last couple days. First, nearly the entire St. Louis Cardinals team shaved their heads on Monday. Then came word from the White Sox that Manny Ramirez may have to cut his dreads to fit...

Something has to be done about NFL preseason games. Not because the games are boring. Not because of the risk of injury. (Sorry Donnie Avery.) The NFL preseason has to be shortened because it warps the minds of fantasy football owners. So we at Pag...

Phil Mickelson did his best Kramer impression on Tuesday. The No. 2 ranked golfer in the world spent the afternoon hitting balls into the Hudson River in New York City. But unlike the Seinfeld star, Mickelson was doing it for charity from the deck of...