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On any given Sunday (or Monday, or Thursday), your NFL Run & Shootaround crew will be gathered around multiple televisions, making inappropriate jokes and generally regressing to the mean. Catch up on all the NFL action right here. Everything, Eve...

The year in sports, 2012, told in GIFs and riffs. The Little Giant Here's a video of Lionel Messi scoring 86 goals in the year of our Maradona, 2012, breaking Gerd Muller's record of 85 goals for club and country in a calendar year. It's ...

In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Monday. A near-perfect Alex Smith threw for 232 yards and three touchdowns as the 49ers dismantled the Cardinals 24-3 on Monday Night Football. As Cardinals coach ...

Bryce Harper 5/27/12 4th Home Run #4 Ticket Unused! - $6.00 On the surface, this seems like a perfectly harmless and inconsequential eBay listing that like many others before it makes you ask yourself, "All right, who would really buy this?" But the...

Here's a look at the numbers behind some of the biggest sports stories this past month. Send us suggestions for next month's edition by tweeting at @michaelkruse with the hashtag #GrantlandStats. Average number of viewers for NBA games on TNT this...

An annotated version of a classic story from The National.

The story behind our strange modern standard.

And all your other burning questions answered in this week's edition of The Bake Shop.

Thoughts on preventing head injuries in hockey, from a Hall of Fame goaltender.

Looking back at classic sports literature.