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vulture sports Jan. 11, 2021

Nickelodeon’s NFL Game Ends With Saints Coach Drenched in SlimeOne hundred percent more SpongeBob and Young Sheldon than your average football game.

By Halle Kiefer
vulture sports Dec. 14, 2020

Timothée Chalamet and Pete Davidson Are Just Two Angry Jets Fans in ‘Sportsmax’Those fries look good.

By Rebecca Alter
vulture sports Dec. 7, 2020

Watch Steve Kornacki Bring His Stressful Energy to Sunday Night FootballTake a nap!

By Justin Curto

holiday programming Dec. 1, 2020

Rockefeller Center’s Tragic Tree Finally Gets a Win, Beats NFL for Prime TimeThe game will kick off at 3:40 p.m. ET to not conflict with the lighting ceremony.

By Justin Curto
games Dec. 1, 2020

The NFL Is Too Big to Let COVID Stop ItThe increasingly pandemic-afflicted league has learned an important lesson from other sports: Just keep playing.

By Will Leitch
in memoriam Nov. 16, 2020

Vikings’ Adam Thielen Takes the Field With a Special Alex Trebek HomageThe Vikings wide receiver wears custom cleats honoring the late Jeopardy! host.

By Halle Kiefer
vulture sports Nov. 9, 2020

Notre Dame President Does Not Preach What He Practices on Social DistancingStudents are being reprimanded by a priest who caught COVID at the White House.

By Justin Curto
halftime anytime Sept. 22, 2020

The Killers Welcome Raiders to Vegas With Rooftop ‘Mr. Brightside’What is this, 2003? You wish. You wish it was 2003.

By Halle Kiefer
vulture sports Aug. 4, 2020

Dwayne Johnson Hopes You’re Ready for Some (More) Football With XFL PurchaseThe actor was among the investors who purchased the defunct league founded by Vince McMahon.

By Halle Kiefer
lost bets July 14, 2020

Post Malone Got a Patrick Mahomes Tattoo After Losing to Him in Beer PongThis feels right.

By Justin Curto
vulture sports July 2, 2020

NFL Plans To Play The Black National Anthem Before Games, But Only For One WeekThe (gorgeous and powerful) ‘Lift Every Voice’ will be performed before the (boring and old) ‘Star Spangled Banner.’

By Chris Murphy
vulture sports June 29, 2020

Ava DuVernay Is Making a Colin Kaepernick Series for NetflixWith Kaepernick as the narrator.

By Rebecca Alter
extremely online Apr. 24, 2020

The Remote NFL Draft Was Basically a Meme Super BowlThe girlfriends really stepped up.

By Justin Curto

vulture sports Mar. 17, 2020

Tom Brady Says He’s Leaving Boston, on St. Patrick’s Day of All DaysCheck in on the Bostonian in your life.

By Justin Curto
super bowl 2020 Feb. 3, 2020

All the 2020 Super Bowl CommercialsYes, someone convinced Bill Murray to do another Groundhog Day.

By Amanda Gordon
super bowl 2020 Feb. 2, 2020

Jennifer Lopez and Shakira Win Super Bowl LIVThis year’s MVP goes to the pole.

By Halle Kiefer
super bowl 2020 Feb. 2, 2020

Demi Lovato Absolutely Crushes the National Anthem at Sunday’s Super Bowl LIVA week after her emotional return to the Grammys.

By Halle Kiefer
jj what? Jan. 29, 2020

Sports Star J.J. Watt Hangs With ‘Sports’ Star Kyle Mooney in SNL PromoThe Houston Texan will host this Saturday.

By Rebecca Alter
white nationalism Dec. 15, 2019

Military Investigating Possible White Power Hand Signal at Army-Navy GameBoth military academies are “looking into” a hand gesture associated with white power that cadets flashed during the broadcast of the football game.

By Matt Stieb
sports Nov. 11, 2019

A Simple Trick for Enduring Football SeasonCourtesy of Jenny Slate.

By Amanda Arnold
the sports section Nov. 5, 2019

And a Cat Runs Into the End Zone!If you don’t listen to this incredible football play-by-play, you hate fun.

By Devon Ivie
crazy coincidences Oct. 20, 2019

Tom Brady Swears Massage Parlor Cameo In Netflix Show Not a Robert Kraft JokeA stunned Paul Rudd spots the Patriots quarterback leaving a strip mall spa in the pilot of Netflix’s Living With Yourself.

By Halle Kiefer
heroism Oct. 7, 2019

This Crocheting Woman Is the MVP of SportsThis is how to “watch” a football game, or any game for that matter.

By Bridget Read

sexual assault Sept. 11, 2019

NFL Star Antonio Brown Accused of Rape by Former TrainerA new lawsuit alleges that the Patriots wide receiver forcibly raped a woman at his Miami home.

By Erica Schwiegershausen
racism Aug. 9, 2019

The Sleight of Hand at the Heart of Trump’s AppealStephen Ross and Tucker Carlson reveal the glue that holds the Republican coalition together.

By Zak Cheney-Rice
games July 30, 2019

Peyton Manning’s Undeserved Reputation Is His Greatest AchievementSomehow, none of the scandals seem to have stuck.

By Will Leitch
power Feb. 25, 2019

Patriots Owner Robert Kraft Charged With Soliciting ProstitutionDetectives allegedly have video evidence of Kraft engaging in sex acts at a Florida spa.

By Claire Lampen and Opheli Garcia Lawler
football Feb. 4, 2019

Trump: Football Is Too Unsafe for My Son, Not Unsafe Enough for OthersThe president says football is too “dangerous” for Barron — and that the NFL isn’t as “vicious” and “violent” as it should be.

By Eric Levitz
super bowl 2019 Feb. 3, 2019

There Should Be a Whole Super Bowl Just to Watch Gladys Knight’s National AnthemIf anyone can make you feel patriotic, it’s Gladys.

By Halle Kiefer
sports Feb. 3, 2019

Ava DuVernay Is Happily Boycotting the Super BowlAnd hopes you will, too.

By Devon Ivie
games Jan. 29, 2019

Was the NFL’s Success This Season Just a ‘Dead Cat Bounce’?After years of trouble, football got popular again in 2018. Why?

By Will Leitch
games Jan. 15, 2019

If You Could Play Any Sport, Which One Should You Choose?(I don’t think it’s football or baseball.)

By Will Leitch
the sports page Jan. 13, 2019

Travis Scott Refused to Headline Super Bowl Halftime Show Without Charity PledgeScott, Maroon 5, and Big Boi are confirmed to perform together.

By Devon Ivie

games Dec. 19, 2018

Why Tom Brady’s Decline Sucks Even for Tom Brady HatersAll of a sudden, we can’t even hate the guy guiltlessly.

By Will Leitch
games Dec. 4, 2018

The NFL’s Real Problem Isn’t Kareem Hunt. It’s Roger Goodell.The NFL’s incompetence and apathy in responding to domestic violence makes it seem like the league is awash in abusers. It isn’t.

By Will Leitch
just asking questions Nov. 27, 2018

Donald Trump Doomed a Football League, But He’d Have Been a Great NFL OwnerAuthor Jeff Pearlman on how Trump’s time as a USFL owner predicted so much of his presidential behavior, including his feud with the NFL.

By Joe DeLessio
protests Nov. 2, 2018

49ers Cheerleader Becomes First to Take a Knee During National AnthemThis seems to be the first time an NFL cheerleader has joined the protest against police brutality.

By Amanda Arnold
american cuisine Oct. 22, 2018

The ‘American’ Food at the NFL’s Europe Games Is Really … SomethingJust your casual two-foot-long hot dog topped with mac and cheese.

By Chris Crowley
wine pairing of the week Sept. 25, 2018

Watching Football? Grab One of These Unexpected Sparkling WinesThe perfect thing to drink when you’re snacking on pigs in a blanket.

By Vanessa Price
games Sept. 19, 2018

This Football Play Didn’t Just Trick the Other Team, It Gamed the Rule BookNow look for a lot of coaches to take advantage of new safety rules this way.

By Will Leitch
super bowl Sept. 19, 2018

Guess We’re Getting Maroon 5 As Super Bowl Halftime PerformersOkay, but will they wear Nike?

By Dee Lockett
equality Aug. 7, 2018

The NFL Will Have Male Cheerleaders for the First Time EverThis season, three men are joining the squads of the Los Angeles Rams and the New Orleans Saints.

By Sarah Nechamkin
the sports section July 20, 2018

NFL Anthem Protest Policy Put on Hold Under Agreement With Players’ UnionThe joint announcement came hours after a report that the Miami Dolphins might suspend protesters for four games sparked new outrage.

By Margaret Hartmann

the national interest June 10, 2018

The Rule of Law Is Crumbling Further Each Day Under TrumpFootball, pardons, and the authoritarian nightmare.

By Jonathan Chait
June 5, 2018

Facing Boycott, Trump Disinvites Philadelphia Eagles From White HouseWith fewer than ten Eagles planning to attend, Trump decided to avoid embarrassment and ratchet up his feud with NFL players over anthem protests.

By Margaret Hartmann
May 24, 2018

Jets Owner Says He’ll Pay Fines If Players Defy New Anthem-Protest BanChristopher Johnson is acting owner of the Jets while his brother serves as Trump’s ambassador to the U.K.

By Margaret Hartmann
May 23, 2018

New NFL Anthem Rule: Players Must Stand or Stay in Locker RoomIf a player takes the field for the anthem and doesn’t stand and show “respect,” his team will be fined.

By Adam K. Raymond
May 3, 2018

State Support for Colleges Declines As Student Diversity GrowsPublic higher education was hit hard by the Great Recession and a GOP wave in the states. Now, a more diverse student population may leave pols cold.

By Ed Kilgore
movie review Apr. 4, 2018

HBO’s Paterno Takes an Unconventional Approach to a Cautionary TaleAs the title character, the usually galvanic Al Pacino barely speaks, a nearly-still center surrounded by smash cuts and TV-talking-head inserts.

By David Edelstein
booleading Apr. 3, 2018

No Sweatpants in Public, and Other Harsh Rules for NFL CheerleadersA new report details what can get cheerleaders fired.

By Emilia Petrarca