A day after arriving in Minnesota, Brett Favre practiced with the Vikings and then announced his return to the NFL (again), saying the decision was "very tough" adding that ultimately it "was really about the team."
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Isiah Thomas Says Carmelo Anthony's Going To The New York Knicks
According to a team source that spoke to the New York Daily News, Isiah Thomas has assured New York Knicks owner James Dolan that Nuggets superstar Carmelo Anthony will sign with the New York Knicks next summer.
So, should we believe him?
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by Andrew Sharp • Aug 18, 2010 3:57 PM EDT
Fight Football League: It's Going To Be A Riot (Literally)
One day I'm going to have my own little adult Halloween. It'll be just like Halloween as a kid, but I'll probably have to skip dressing up and knocking on stranger's doors since that might get you shot. Also, I'll probably just go buy my own candy, and just get the ones I like and not the awful black-and-orange-wrapped peanut candies, which were an adult's way of saying "I hate you, your costume, and this entire holiday."
So what I'm saying is that I really just want to sit inside and eat candy out of an orange plastic pumpkin, and there's nothing wrong with that at all. But it would be so much better if you could watch people playing a football-like game once the sugar kicked in, and if that game involved punching people in the face without penalty for 48 minutes.
Oh, so that's been done, eh? (Video proof after the jump.)
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by Spencer Hall • Aug 18, 2010 1:16 PM EDT
Diagram: How Your Appreciation Of Brett Favre Is Manufactured
What follows hinges upon a rather controversial idea: that nobody is apathetic toward Brett Favre's retirement/un-retirement antics, no matter how often or strongly they insist otherwise. The only question that remains is how evolved we are in our appreciation of Favre. First, we (read: those of us old enough to remember Favre's entire career) appreciated Favre's on-field heroics. Then we cringed at the perceived tainting of his legacy when he signed with the Jets. Then we were exasperated by his annual bouts of waffling.
Your feelings toward Favre are a manufactured result of a process, like paper coming out of a mill. The question is: where are you in this process? Consult the diagram below and find out. Dates are not important, as the occurrences are cyclical by this point. If you're at steps 1-8, you're a mark; steps 9-12, a casualty; steps 13-14, an entry-level Brett Favre hipster. I would wish you luck, but wherever you are, you're already there.
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by Jon Bois • Aug 18, 2010 1:04 PM EDT
John Wall Likes The Cowboys? (fist pump) The Redskins Lose Again
You have to understand where I'm coming from on this one. I began liking the Cowboys almost entirely because it produced entertaining indignance from my Dad. Did they happen to be the best team in the league at that point? Sure. Rivals of my hometown Redskins? Yup. Does that make me a spineless bandwagon fan?
Yeah, but it would be more spineless of me to switch now that I'm conscious enough to realize that I began my life as a bandwagon fan (mostly to piss off my dad).
...And I always knew John Wall and I had a lot in common. From the Washington Post:
AWWW NAWWW... Wall likes the Cowboys too! What up John? Let's be best friends.
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by Andrew Sharp • Aug 18, 2010 10:10 AM EDT
Best Of The SB Nation Network: August 17, 2010
We have 274 fantastic sports blogs in SB Nation, so in case you didn't have a chance to read them all today we've collected the best stuff right here. Get sports smart in no time fast!
Basketball
- Blazers Edge asks Portland fans if they are shocked to see Brandon Roy in a video that features pot.
- Fear the Sword looks at the recent GQ article about LeBron James hose-baggery.
- Orlando Pinstriped Post goes in depth with Dwight Howard's shot block numbers.
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by Eric Simon • Aug 18, 2010 12:00 AM EDT
A Deranged Shirtless Man Wants To Sing To You About The Cowboys
If there's one resource that is never on the decline, it's bizarre fan videos on the Internet. I believe Versus once had a TV show that made use of this phenomenon for content. Naturally the producers had to actually filter it so only the coherent and not unsettling would ever get air time.
Matthias here would not be passing through that checkpoint, most likely. In a video the man submitted to the Cowboys blog Blue Star, a Southern California-based backer of America's Team saw fit to introduce an incredibly intense new fight song for his favorite team. Moreover, he felt it needed to be done while shirtless in his kitchen. Forget your sartorial needs, he will clothe himself in fury.
What might be most disturbing about this is that he actually got another person to help him film it. It's one thing to act crazy for an unseen online audience, but when someone else is actually in the room? Woof.
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by Michael Tunison • Aug 17, 2010 9:33 PM EDT
Ohio State's 'Race To Glendale' Needs Its Own Travel Channel Special
This is a week late, but we do not care, because OH MY GOD LOOK AT THIS THING, an "artist's rendering" of Ohio State's 2010 national title campaign:
via blog.dispatch.com
The artist is one Van Monroe, whom we hope finds continued success in his field, because we want one of these to come out every year even if the Buckeyes' ultimate endgame is the Little Caesars Bowl. Pictured in snappish pursuit of Terrelle Pryor are the marauding forces of Alabama, Texas, and Florida, presumptive deterrents to the Buckeyes' quest for the crystal football, because depicting shots of Ohio State's actual opponents Marshall, Minnesota, and Eastern Michigan just wouldn't have quite the same punch. (You ever try to make a gopher look menacing?)
by Holly Anderson • Aug 17, 2010 8:33 PM EDT
Zach Lee, Kyle Parker Ink Their Departure Dates From College Football
Amid the flurry of baseball signings this week, two multi-sport stars for different teams of Tigers will be abandoning their quarterbacking jobs in major-college football -- one for more money and one after more time than anyone anticipated.
First, and newsiest, is the wooing of LSU's Zach Lee by the Dodgers. For $5.25 million, the freshman Tiger will eschew any further gridiron action and report to Los Angeles. SBN's LSU community reacts about how you'd expect for fans of a team facing a lot of questions on offense as is:
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by Holly Anderson • Aug 17, 2010 7:14 PM EDT
Alert! Brett Favre Headed North! Stop The Presses!
Are you holding a baby? Performing open-heart surgery? Currently dangling with both hands from a wire suspended between two eighty-story skyscrapers? STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND TURN ON ESPN BECAUSE BRETT FAVRE IS HEADED NORTH. You cannot miss this national news of immense importance, and those petty things will wait.
Ignore any other news you may hear. We at SB Nation are into facts, not supposition, so here's what we can say safely: Brett Favre is on a plane, and that plane is headed north. Therefore, we feel confident in publishing the following map illustrating the possible destinations for Favre this afternoon.
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by Spencer Hall • Aug 17, 2010 3:16 PM EDT
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