Month: October 2024

New Orleans Saints right tackle Ryan Ramczyk will miss the entire 2024 season after being placed on the reserve/physically unable to perform list on Thursday. The move was expected with Ramczyk still experiencing knee issues. It ends his season because he's a vested veteran who was placed on the list prior to final roster cuts. Ramczyk, 30, was limited to 12 games in 2023 and underwent offseason knee surgery to repair significant cartilage damage. Ramczyk said late last season he has been dealing with the cartilage issues for the past three seasons. Earlier in his career, Ramczyk was one of the top offensive linemen in the league and played 63 games over his four regular seasons. He earned first-team All-Pro honors in 2019 and was a second-team selection in both 2018 and 2020. …

No. What’re you, new? No one rises to the level of Robert Lewandowski. It’s Robert Goddamn Lewandowski. Dude just scored 40 goals in one league season, which is utterly insane. That’s after he scored 34 last year. Seventy-four motherfucking goals in two seasons in just the Bundesliga. That’s four seasons-worth to most forwards. Lewandowski is just a celestial being, the best striker in the world right now, and any team would struggle to have other players approach his level. That said, the only thing missing from Lewandowski’s career is a definitive international performance. We thought we were on the cusp of something in Euro 2016, where Poland managed to get to the quarters. On the way they drew Germany, and got a soft draw in the group with Ukraine and Northern Ireland, the …

Clinton Portis was back yesterday with yet another fractured segment of his personality, this one somewhat sweeter than the past ones, literally even. We proudly introduce "Bro Sweets," Clinton's most recent tortured mental sliver. This one had a little something extra: Redskins kick returner Antonio Brown, who actually hid under Portis' coat and did the old improv trick of acting like Bro Sweets' arms. (He was hawking jewelry and, in a charming touch, actual candy.) We did not realize that being a special teamer for the Redskins called upon such a wide variety of skills, but we support the notion nevertheless. Remember: The more the Redskins win, the more fun Portis has with this whole thing. They play The Buzzsaw That Is The Arizona Cardinals this week; e…

Attention Jeff George: If your son's Pee Wee football league needs referees this weekend, we know some guys who are available. After a wildly entertaining, somewhat comical ending that kind of reminded us of the final scenes in Caddyshack, the Pac-10 wound up suspending the officiating crew that mucked up the last minutes of the Oregon-Oklahoma game on Saturday. Balls were tipped, onside kicks erroneously awarded … look, mistakes were made, OK? But the suspensions (for one game) and an apology from the Pac-10 did not mollify Sooners coach Bob Stoops, whose team lost 34-33: I've made a million mistakes. I'll make a million more in each game, and in that game included, I wish there were things I could have done differently or changed. Unlike officials, players and coach…

Probably. The video, shot in Croatia on Saturday night, purports to be footage of soccer legend-cum-legendary shitshow Diego Maradona engaging in a street fight. It was reported that the Argentine was in a Dubrovnik nightclub getting it in that night. And though the YouTube is blurry, you can make out a very Maradona-like figure when he steps into the light, and a voice that rings out pretty clearly to those familiar with his past exploits. The calls of "Diego! Diego!" also lend some evidence. And I mean…this is Diego Maradona we're talking about. This is what he does. [ 101 Great Goals/ CroatiaWeek] …