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Jim Harbaugh insists he will coachable when it comes to the tricks of driving the Indianapolis 500 pace car this weekend. More...

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Coach Jim Harbaugh insists Michael Crabtree is not expected to miss the full 2013 NFL season after undergoing Achilles tendon surgery. What can the San Francisco 49ers expect when he returns? More...

Hakeem Nicks didn't attend New York Giants organized team activities Wednesday. According to one report, the wide receiver's absence is tied to his unhappiness over his contract situation. More...

Ramses Barden said in February it was best that he moved on from the New York Giants. Three months later, it looks like the veteran wide receiver might have changed his mind about Big Blue. More...

Today Tesla paid back almost 1/2 billion in loans to the department of energy; that's 9 years earlier than the loan called for. It's good news because it shows that not all government investment in new technology is inherently bad. They're taking on a new market (electric vehicles) and doing so very well; at the moment. They still have a long road ahead of them in terms of being able to make money, but if they fail it won't be at the expense of taxpayers. They were able to take a government loan and use it well enough to generate enough private investment to pay back the loan in its entirety way ahead of schedule. http://www.teslamotors.com/about/pre...ne-years-early Here's a copy of someone's insight from hacker news (where I got the original article) that does a good job explaining what is going on and (generally) the road ahead. Quote: The reason why Tesla is able to pay the Dept of Energy loan early is because of a secondary stock and bonds offering worth about >850+ million. In another words, Tesla is raising funds by generating more debt (from bondholders) and diluting share value (from shareholders), roughly about 3.5 mil out of 40 mil float, and using that money to pay the US govt. TSLA rose on the news despite diluting shareholders is because coupled with the announcement, Elon Musk mentions that he will personally put an additional 100mil into the secondary offer; and general exuberance that TSLA will use the cash for more infrastructure build-out, a la Google, Yahoo during their heyday's. Make no mistake, this is as much a PR ploy by Tesla to pump up their offering. It's incredibly smart for Musk and company to raise money in a very favorable environment as TSLA climbed from 45 to 90 after earnings. However, it remains to be seen if they can be still profitable. Note that they are still selling each car at a material loss; and only managed to show a profitable quarter by trading green credits they gained from their manufacturing. To truly scale, they need to either drive down the production cost of their cars down and broaden their market as there are only so much supply of carbon-emission credits on the market. Disclosure: I trade TSLA options on volatility, without any directional bias.

As NFL owners met in Boston this week, taking care of league business such as selecting future Super Bowl sites, another whisper made the rounds: Is America?s most powerful game growing even more dominant? Read full article >> More...

Daniel Shirey – USA Today Sports Images To say Robert Griffin III won over the hearts of the Washington Redskins and their faithful fans would be a vast understatement. RG3 came into the league last year and, in just his first NFL season, captured the hearts and eyes of Redskins fans and fans of football as well. He immediately became one of the most liked and influential athletes in the league. There are just so many things that make Griffin a polarizing and likeable figure. For starters, he’s pretty great at playing the game of football. In his rookie season he completed 65.6 percent of his passes for 3,200 yards, 20 touchdowns and just five interceptions while also rushing for 815 yards and seven touchdowns. However, Griffin is also charismatic and likeable in almost every instance that the public sees him in, which only adds to his likability. However, RG3 has come under criticism over the past week after he released pictures that showed wedding gifts that he had received from fans after his registry at Bed Bath & Beyond was made public. Critics have come forward saying that he shouldn’t be accepting gifts as a pro athlete who makes millions of dollar from people who likely make less money than him. To be frank, that criticism of Griffin is absolutely absurd. He didn’t make his registry public; the Washington Post did that. He didn’t ask fans to buy him gifts; they did that on their own crazy whims. Griffin isn’t at fault here. It would be nice to see him donate some of those gifts to charity, but he shouldn’t be faulted for receiving gifts that he had no control over. Quite simply, he didn’t do anything wrong. Cody Williams is a Senior Writer with Rant Sports. Follow Cody on Twitter @TheSizzle20 and like his Facebook page.

Since 1934 the Redskins and Eagles have squared off 156 times and unlike the heated*rivalry*with the Cowboys and the longstanding tension with the Giants, the Redskins have won over 50 percent of their games against their Pennsylvania counterparts. Similar to the inaugural installment of Redskins-Eagles in 1934, the Redskins swept in 2012 thanks to a […] More...