Roundup: Australian Fisherman Find Terrifying Shark, Page 3 Won't Publish Topless Models & Why Didn't Refs Notice Deflated Footballs?
By Jason McIntyre
Most likely to go down for deflategate? Probably the referees. [CSNNE.com]
Chicken Soup for Kobe Bryant’s soul. I’m going out to the store to buy this and will have it the night before I play pickup basketball and play in my tennis league. [ESPN]
Mike Ditka to Bryant Gumbel: If I had an 8-year old son, I wouldn’t let him play football. [Chicago Football]
Three mock drafts now have Marcus Mariota going 6th to the Jets: Mine, this one from Daniel Jeremiah and this one from Pete Schrager. [Fox Sports]
The Colts noticed the Patriots were using a deflated ball when D’Qwell Jackson intercepted a Tom Brady pass late in the 2nd quarter. He took the ball to the sideline and the Colts notified the league. [Newsday]
Why are there so few black high school football coaches in Western Pennsylvania? [Post-Gazette]
Alabama linebacker was arrested for domestic violence because he kicked his girlfriend’s car. [Tuscaloosa News]
What can be done to change the laborious end-game situations in college basketball? [Rush the Court]
“… the NCAA relented and instead of holding Joe Paterno responsible for the sexual abuse of children by his assistant coach in his facilities, even after he learned about it, he is off scot-free.” [Fox Sports]
Max Scherzer’s $210 million contract isn’t really $210 million. [Fangraphs]
Oliver Luck, eventually, is going to be the NCAA boss who gets the players paid. [NYT]
“A federal agent acting undercover was helping to run the digital black market Silk Road for a salary of about $1,000 a week in Bitcoin, according to testimony.” [Vice]
The new offensive coordinator of the Ravens, replacing Gary Kubiak, is Marc Trestman. [Baltimore Sun]
Pete Rose, not surprisingly, would vote for Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds into the Hall of Fame. [Toronto Sun]
So is Charlie Strong eventually going to have to testify in this case? Hope the kid got something in writing. [Courier-Journal]
Guy crashes his bike and lands on … a snake! [via Adam]
Michael Bennett’s bicycle ride mashed up with the Wizard of Oz.