Tim Tebow on Vice

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What I Want from the NFL in 2013

First of all, I want football to continue to happen and not cease to exist because the world has been swept by disease/war/starvation/robots and we no longer care about frivolous things like what large men do with an oddly shaped ball. Then I want Tim Tebow to be happy. Full story

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J! E! T! S! Mess Mess Mess!

I love it when Tim Tebow's teammates tell the media that he's terrible. I love it when Rex Ryan's wife makes foot fetish videos. I love the dysfunction and the abject failure and Mark Sanchez's terrible love life. Go Jets! Full story

The Mercy Rule

The Jets Are America's Team

The Cowboys aren't America's Team, though they're called that. The Jets, mediocre and unprepared like us, get that honor. That the team's owner wants a Mitt Romney win more than a Super Bowl is sad icing on the despair cake. Full story

Wide World of Balls - Five Golden Rings

The Olympics are underway and weird, baseball players with goatees are being traded, and football has (kind of) started. Full story

The Mercy Rule

The Worst Idea in Sports

Most television networks would not take time out of their own broadcasting schedules to air formal-dress jerk-off awards, for obvious reasons. But if the network in question was an all-sports network trying to figure out what to do with a weekday night during the Major League Bas… Full story

My Dark Secret: I Like Watching Skip Bayless

"First Take" is completely indefensible, boorish, brainless, redundant, and drenched in corporate musk. And I watch it every week. Full story

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The Black Comedy of Tim Tebow

The most important thing to remember, as Tim Tebow's career makes its official transition into farce, is that it was already, and always, a joke. Full story