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  • Buffalo Bills Hire Rex Ryan as Head Coach, Prepare for Signature 'Enthusiasm'

    Sometimes people fall in love because they are the only ones left at closing time. That seems to be the case for the Buffalo Bills and new head coach Rex Ryan, who reportedly coveted jobs in Atlanta and San Francisco before coming to the realization that the team for him was residing in the Northeast."Following an extensive search, we are pleased today to announce that Rex Ryan is our new head coach," Bills owner Terry Pegula said in a statement this weekend, via ESPN. "Rex brings a wealth of experience and enthusiasm to the position that we feel will be a tremendous benefit to our players and the entire Bills organization."According to the (New York) "Daily News," via syracuse.com, the former New York Jets coach had the open Atlanta Falcons job in his sights, but after failing to secure a second interview with the organization, he turned his sights to San Fran.Ryan's request for a second interview out west was also rebuffed, so he decided to move forward with a second Bills interview Saturday, Jan. 10. There, he reached an agreement on a five-year, $27.5 million contract to coach in Buffalo.

  • Dallas Cowboys Lose NFL Playoff Game After Controversial Ruling: Twitter Goes Insane

    NFL fans got a huge batch of poetic justice served right before their eyes Sunday afternoon, Jan. 11, when the Dallas Cowboys fell to the Green Bay Packers 26-21. As usual, it was not the fact that they lost, but how they lost that will live on in football lore.Important context: The Cowboys reached Sunday's divisional-round game after defeating the Detroit Lions in Dallas Jan. 4. That contest was marred by a bit of officiating that was unprecedented and controversial. We will skip the X's and O's, but the 'Boys essentially lucked out big time en route to earning a win in the final minutes of the game.On Sunday, Dallas seemed poised to carve out another late win when quarterback Tony Romo completed a deep pass to star wideout Dez Bryant on 4th-and-2. Bryant leapt over Green Bay's Sam Shields to make a spectacular catch before crashing to the ground.The referees ruled Bryant had completed the catch and was down at the 1-yard-line, but Packers coach Mike McCarthy challenged the ruling, and the officials decided to overturn the call and give the ball to the Packers, who promptly marched down the field and ran the clock out to advance to next weekend's NFC Championship Game in Seattle.Did the refs make the right call? Yes, but the rule is a bit dumb. Bryant failed to maintain possession of the football as he hit the ground, with the ball coming loose from his left arm as he reached for the goal line. To the naked eye, the play was a no-doubt legal catch, but the rulebook was clear: Because Bryant was falling while attempting to make the reception, he needed to hold onto the ball all the way to the ground.

  • Peyton Manning to Retire? NFL Legend Considering Ending 17-Year Career

    Much has changed for Peyton Manning since Christmas. Days before the 38-year-old future Hall of Fame quarterback helped the Denver Broncos defeat the Oakland Raiders in their final, regular-season game, Manning seemed optimistic about his future."I certainly plan on being back if the Broncos would have me, but at this point I'm kind of thinking about Oakland," Manning said, via ESPN. "I know this is the time where conversations about what head coaches are going to return and I guess for some reason I get to fall into that category because I'm closer to the same age as some of the coaches."I have no plans along those lines [of retiring]. I'm enjoying playing, I'm looking forward to Sunday's game and hopefully the game to follow that.''But the following game came Sunday, Jan. 11, and it was ugly. Manning was mostly ineffective in a 24-13 loss to the underdog Indianapolis Colts in Denver. Afterward, he refused to commit to the 2015 season."My mindset right now is just disappointment after [Sunday's] game ... I'm disappointed, I kind of need to process this game, we'll meet [Monday, Jan. 12]. I'm disappointed, I need to process this game,'' he said.When pressed for a "yes" or "no" concerning next fall, Manning was unable to offer anything worthwhile.

  • Ray Stevens Defends 'Ahab the Arab' Song Many Call Racist

    Ray Stevens is a dyed-in-the-wool conservative, but he has long maintained his 1962 country hit "Ahab the Arab" is not a political statement. In fact, he has defended the song several times over the years, and he has recently been forced to do so again. The 75-year-old was asked by Nashville Gab if he still gets criticism."Yeah, only from screaming liberal idiots," he replied, via The Boot. "You know, some guy on MSNBC called me a racist; I doubt if he'd ever heard the song."Stevens explained how the song, about a young Arabian man with a camel named Clyde who secretly courts one of the sultan's women, came to be."When I was a kid, my mom gave me a book called 'Arabian Nights,' and I wrote the song just from information I learned outta that book," he said. "You know, the book talked about Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves and 'Open sesame' and, you know, all the fun stuff that is in that book. And so I thought, I'll write a [song] about this guy, and he's messing around with one of the sultan's girls in the harem. There's nothing racist about it."Here is a sampling of the lyrics:"And he'd say "[alleged Arabic content] "Which is Arabic for, 'Stop, Clyde! "Clyde would say "[alleged Arabic content] "Which is camel for, 'What the heck did he say anyway?'"Stevens sat down with Fox News's Bill O'Reilly in 2010 to discuss the tune. Here was part of the transcript, according to ThinkProgress:

  • Foo Fighters Invite Alice Cooper, Slash, Jack Black and More Onstage for 32-Song LA Forum Set

    The Foo Fighters wanted to celebrate Dave Grohl's 46th birthday in style, and they certainly accomplished that Saturday night, Jan. 10, at the Los Angeles Forum. The boys invited Slash, David Lee Roth, Jack Black, Perry Farrell, Paul Stanley and more onto the stage during an action-packed setlist, with Alice Cooper making an appearance for covers of "School's Out" and "I'm Eighteen."Check out the latter appearance below:

  • Spoon 'Austin City Limits' Gig Now Available for Streaming [WATCH]

    Spoon had never taken a four-year break between albums before the gap between 2010's "Transference" and 2014's "They Want My Soul." Singer Britt Daniel and Co. recently taped an "Austin City Limits" gig that proved the group is back in the groove, but Daniel also explained why Spoon was gone for so long."When we finished that last tour in November of 2011 — it was at some festival in Germany — we kind of just said, 'Well, that's the last show for awhile, and who knows what's going to happen,'" Daniel told "Entertainment Weekly." "And we were all a little ground down at that point. It had just been too long that we were touring that record. So we went our separate ways without really saying anything."After a few months of "getting a girlfriend" and lying low, Daniel decided to found the Divine Fits with Dan Boeckner. That project kept him going until Spoon were ready to record again last winter.Now, they have — another — critically acclaimed album and appear to be back in the flow of things."I really feel like you can hear that variety on the record, and I feel like it ended up being a good thing," Daniel said. "The second batch [of] songs are a bit wilder. I think they're kind of wilder songs, to begin with, but the recordings of them are a little more out there, and I think that the record needed that."You can check out their recent ACL performance below:

  • Lenny Kravitz Joins Katy Perry Super Bowl Halftime Performance as 'Special Guest'

    Last year, Bruno Mars got the Red Hot Chili Peppers to join his Super Bowl halftime performance. There was really no need for the addition, from an aesthetic point of view, because Mars killed it on his own — but the NFL and Fox decided they needed to appeal to an older audience. This year, Katy Perry was expected to have enough firepower to perform her own gig, but the "Teenage Dream" singer just announced she is adding Lenny Kravitz to the show."My first special guest is going to be an incredible rock & roll icon, a guitar god," Perry told NBC's Willie Geist in an interview set to air Monday, Jan. 12, on "The Today Show," via "Rolling Stone."E! reports the 30-year-old singer was pumped about the addition of Kravitz, an international sensation with two U.S. mainstream rock No. 1 hits — "Are You Gonna Go My Way" and "Fly Away" — under his belt.

  • Cursive, Beach Slang Announce Massive US Tour [SCHEDULE]

    Cursive frontman Tim Kasher does not like to stay in one place for very long. He admitted as much last year. So, a recently announced 2015 tour that spans more than a month and tackles dozens of U.S. cities comes as no surprise.
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