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Michaele Salahi, Ex-NFL Cheerleader, Crashes White House Dinner

Tom Herrera — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:15:00 EST

by Tom HerreraMichaele Salahi, a former Redskins cheerleader, and her husband Tareq, caused quite a stir on Tuesday night when they dodged security and crashed the White House state dinner. The couple hopes to be on a reality TV show called The Real Housewives of Washington -- Michaele Salahi is one of the finalists for the upcoming Bravo show -- and this kind of thing probably only helps their chances.

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Thanksgiving Dinner: The NFL Edition

Ryan Wilson — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

by Ryan Wilson

Filed under: NFL, Backporch Features

Because we're almost certain you've wondered which Thanksgiving Day favorites best represent various NFL teams. In the true spirit giving, consider it our gift to you. You're welcome.

Thanksgiving Dinner: The NFL Edition originally appeared on Back Porch FanHouse on Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Beware of Football-Tackling Deer This Holiday Season

Ryan Wilson — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:00:00 EST

by Ryan Wilson

Filed under: Outdoor Sports

This story has been around a while but it merits a mention nonetheless. Not only is it a cautionary tale, it's a fitting, obligatory pre-Thanksgiving warning of the perils of mixing deer and football. Even if by accident.

Last month, seven-year-old Brandon Hiles of Wintersville, OH, was playing football in his backyard when, in his words,"The deer started charging at me and then it hit me in the back of the leg and then I flipped over."

Thanks to Brandon's quick-thinking friend the deer was only credited with a tackle.

"I saw that the deer was attacking him so I hurried up, grabbed a stick and started beating it hard as I could," Wyatt Pugh, 9, said.

Beware of Football-Tackling Deer This Holiday Season originally appeared on Back Porch FanHouse on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:00:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Deion Sanders Talks About Goldy Gopher the Stiff-Arming Mascot

Ryan Wilson — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:00:00 EST

by Ryan Wilson

Filed under: NFL Network, College Sports

Finally. Deion Sanders has weighed in on Goldy Gopher, the University of Minnesota mascot who, in his spar time, loves to mock praying players and stiff-arm kids to the ground. On Monday, I wrote that Goldy seemed a little to amped during a halftime show that included a bunch of mascots taking on a youth football team.

And now, thanks SBNation's Spencer Hall, I have Sanders' thoughts on the "Minnesota gopher ... who's dressed as a bear."

Deion Sanders Talks About Goldy Gopher the Stiff-Arming Mascot originally appeared on Back Porch FanHouse on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:00:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Supreme Court Frowns Upon Impromptu 'Happy Gilmore' Tee Shots

Ryan Wilson — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:00:00 EST

by Ryan Wilson

Filed under: Golf

This is surprising: a guy has a few pops at a bachelor party golf outing, decides to "Happy Gilmore" his tee shot, and ends up hitting his playing partner. Never would have guessed.

The Legal Watch Blog writes that the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia is now involved. After 15 holes of golf that included "dozens of beers, a bottle of tequila, several marijuana joints smoked 'before the third hole, 'power slides' in the golf carts and clubs smashed against trees," things somehow got worse.

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Man Parachutes Off Tallest Building in Pakistan in Windy Conditions

Michael David Smith — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST

by Michael David Smith

Filed under: Sports of an Extreme Nature

Valery Rozov is a Russian extreme sport athlete who has won X-Games medals and done more than 8,000 jumps off various high objects. But when he jumped off the tallest building in Pakistan, he underestimated the wind.

Man Parachutes Off Tallest Building in Pakistan in Windy Conditions originally appeared on Back Porch FanHouse on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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WSJ: Obama Basketball Fans Want Him to Play Less Golf

Ryan Wilson — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:30:00 EST

by Ryan Wilson

Filed under: Current Events, Golf

In today's Wall Street Journal Elizabeth Williamson writes about one of the great mysteries of our time: "Why has Barack Obama forsaken basketball for the links?"

During the campaign we were constantly reminded of the then-Illinois senator's basketball-playing prowess (there's even this play-by-play of a pick-up game from the official Obama-Biden YouTube channel). But now that he's in office Williamson points out that golf has become his sport of choice.

WSJ: Obama Basketball Fans Want Him to Play Less Golf originally appeared on Back Porch FanHouse on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:30:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Vince Young, Jerome Boger Did Not High-Five, According to NFL

Ryan Wilson — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:00:00 EST

by Ryan Wilson

Filed under: NFL

Vince Young continues to revive a career once thought dead. The third-overall pick in the 2006 draft had a fantastic rookie season, suffered through injuries and inconsistent play the next two years, and finally got a second chance after head coach Jeff Fisher begrudgingly benched 36-year-old Kerry Collins last month.

Vince Young, Jerome Boger Did Not High-Five, According to NFL originally appeared on Back Porch FanHouse on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:00:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Meet the 6-Year-Old Tackling Machine

Ryan Wilson — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:15:00 EST

by Ryan Wilson

Filed under: Youth Sports

Nyrel Sevilla is six years old. And he plays football. And I don't mean he puts on his uniform and tiptoes around the field jumping on the pile after the play is over. He's a one-man tackling machine, wreaking havoc on other six-year-olds unlucky enough to have the ball when he shows up.

Video lunacy after the jump:

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PETA Implores Georgia to Use 'Robot Bulldog' for Next Mascot

Will Brinson — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:45:00 EST

by Will Brinson

Filed under: College Sports, Current Events

A recent FanHouse post on the tragic (albeit peaceful!) death of Uga VII inspired some emotional responses from the passionate readership. So I'm pretty excited to find out what folks think about the latest news regarding the Georgia Bulldogs mascot.

PETA, the ever-popular, never-annoying animal rights activists, want an animatronic bulldog to take the place of the real live bulldog. Yeah, I know. I wish I was kidding too.

Via the Atlanta Journal Constitution:

PETA Implores Georgia to Use 'Robot Bulldog' for Next Mascot originally appeared on Back Porch FanHouse on Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:45:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Disgruntled Parent Hires PI in Effort to Get High School Coach Fired

Ryan Wilson — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:30:00 EST

by Ryan Wilson

Filed under: High School

Here's a fun story of an obsessive, overbearing parent desperately trying to live vicariously through his high school basketball-playing son. John Lekas, unhappy with his son's playing time, hired private investigator Debra Hennessee to dig up dirt on head coach David Adelman in an attempt to get him fired.

Hennessee would eventually call police after Adelman had a few adult beverages (depending on who you believe, it was either five or ten beers) and decided to drive to Taco Bell. (Because, really, nothing goes better with a buzz than a passenger seat full of 89-cent burritos.)

Adelman, who blew a .14, was arrested for driving drunk, and now his lawyer is hoping to get the case dismissed on the grounds that police didn't have probable cause to stop the coach in the first place.

Via The Oregonian:

Disgruntled Parent Hires PI in Effort to Get High School Coach Fired originally appeared on Back Porch FanHouse on Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:30:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Man Pleads Guilty to Sending Threatening Letters to Tom Coughlin

Ryan Wilson — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:15:00 EST

by Ryan Wilson

Filed under: NFL

This seems like a bad idea at every stage of the process: some enterprising soul sent threatening letters to Giants head coach Tom Coughlin in an effort to make a few bucks.

Via the Associated Press:

Man Pleads Guilty to Sending Threatening Letters to Tom Coughlin originally appeared on Back Porch FanHouse on Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:15:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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High School Buddy of Tim Donaghy: 'He Was a Degenerate Gambler'

Michael David Smith — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST

by Michael David Smith

Filed under: NBA

On the episode of Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel that debuts Tuesday night on HBO, Gumbel sits down with Jimmy Battista, a high school buddy of disgraced NBA ref Tim Donaghy and professional gambler who helped Donaghy hatch his plan for betting on NBA games.

High School Buddy of Tim Donaghy: 'He Was a Degenerate Gambler' originally appeared on Back Porch FanHouse on Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Alicia Sacramone Says She's Dating Brady Quinn

Ryan Wilson — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:45:00 EST

by Ryan Wilson

Filed under: Gymnastics, NFL

Browns quarterback Brady Quinn has a thing for athletes. First it was soccer players and now it's gymnast Alicia Sacramone.

During the 2007 NFL Draft, as Quinn waited for nearly six hours in the Aaron Rodgers Memorial Green Room to hear his name called, then-girlfriend and former Miami of Ohio soccer player Lindy Singler loyally sat by his side as one team after another passed on the Notre Dame quarterback.

During a recent chat on the USA Gymnastics' official Web site, Sacramone openly talked about her relationship with Quinn. (Via SportsbyBrooks and Larry Brown Sports):

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Charlie Weis to Spurn Chiefs for Browns Once Fired by Notre Dame*

Will Brinson — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:30:00 EST

by Will Brinson

Filed under: College Sports, Backporch Features, Fake News

The FanHouse Fake News Network. Because the Onion ain't hiring. Jerks.

In anticipation of mutual head coaching availabilities in 2010, Charlie Weis and the Cleveland Browns have met to discuss the possibility of Weis taking over for Eric Mangini at the end of 2009, a source deep within the Browns organization has told FanHouse.

"Charlie understands that the Chiefs with [Scott] Pioli are a good fit," the source said. "But he also knows that no one expects and embraces sports mediocrity quite like the city of Cleveland. Plus, there, 6-5 WOULD be good enough. And from what Weis told the Browns, that matters a lot."

More Fake News: Bill Belichick Explains Pats-Colts Outcome

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High School Touchdown Overshadowed by Ridiculous Block

Ryan Wilson — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:45:00 EST

by Ryan Wilson

Filed under: High School

The abundance of high school touchdown videos now on the internet lessens their impact (sorta like how you feel after watching a dunk contest for more than 10 minutes -- at first you're blown away by the athleticism, but after seeing some variation of the same dunk, you quickly get bored), so you're relegated to looking for absurdities within the absurdities.

And in the case of the 2009 Oregon 6A playoffs, I think we've found it.

High School Touchdown Overshadowed by Ridiculous Block originally appeared on Back Porch FanHouse on Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:45:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Firefighter Hit by Bus, Completes Ironman Triathlon 40 Surgeries Later

Michael David Smith — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:00:00 EST

by Michael David Smith

Filed under: Endurance

Matthew Long is a New York City firefighter who was at the World Trade Center on 9/11, and that experience made him resolve to always be in peak physical condition so he'd be ready for anything. As a result, Long started competing in triathlons.

And then, in 2005, he was run over by a New York City bus.

Firefighter Hit by Bus, Completes Ironman Triathlon 40 Surgeries Later originally appeared on Back Porch FanHouse on Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:00:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Next Steelers Quarterback: A Graphical Treatment

Ryan Wilson — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:30:00 EST

by Ryan Wilson

Filed under: NFL, Backporch Features

Word on the street is that the Steelers will be holding open tryouts for Charlie Batch's job now that he's on the shelf for six weeks. And much like last year's Byron Leftwich-Daunte Culpepper Face Off for Chaz's gig, Pittsburgh has assembled an all-star cast to assume the role of Big Ben's backup. In all likliehood, come Tuesday afternoon, the Steelers will have signed either Jeff Garcia or Cleo Lemon.

(And this, folks, will be the exact moment when we can say, without hesitation, that Pittsburgh's hopes of returning to the Super Bowl went right down the Thomas Crapper.)

Other possible (and not-so-possible) candidates after the jump.

The Next Steelers Quarterback: A Graphical Treatment originally appeared on Back Porch FanHouse on Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:30:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Hacker Uses David Clowney's Twitter Feed to Tell Fan: Kill Yourself

Josh Alper — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:00:00 EST

by Josh Alper

Filed under: NFL

UPDATE: Apparently, David Clowney's Twitter account has been hacked.

The hacker's response to Clowney's apology (via Clowney's Twitter feed, no less), as well as the original post, after the jump.

Hacker Uses David Clowney's Twitter Feed to Tell Fan: Kill Yourself originally appeared on Back Porch FanHouse on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:00:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Patriots Still Cheating? Belichick Now Reduced to Pulling Fire Alarms*

Ryan Wilson — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:00:00 EST

by Ryan Wilson

Filed under: NFL

It was two years ago that then-Jets head coach Eric Mangini ratted out the Patriots for what would become Spygate. The NFL slapped Bill Belichick with a $500,000 fine, took away one of their first-round picks, and kindly asked us to move on.

Eventually we did, but not before accusing the Patriots of cheating their way to three Super Bowl titles this decade before karma intervened by way of David Tyree.

New England became an afterthought when Tom Brady went down 15 minutes into the 2008 season, football gods and Pats-hating fans finally mollified. But it was only a matter of time before the Dark Lord found new ways to gain an advantage over opponents. And now, after some time off to regroup, Belichick is back, this time with psychological warfare. Or as the liberals would call it: subtle forms of torture.

Read on in mock incredulity:

Patriots Still Cheating? Belichick Now Reduced to Pulling Fire Alarms* originally appeared on Back Porch FanHouse on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:00:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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