For most of you, the day Marco Rubio dropped out of the Republican presidential race is the same day he disappeared from your life, perhaps forever. The same may not be true for me.

This February, as every February, the football fandom community is awhirl with speculation about the timing of the Super Bowl. The NFL has dropped a breadcrumb trail of clues in the promotional campaign leading up to Sunday’s big game, and plenty of football fans think they know exactly when kickoff will happen.

Last weekend, this year’s Super Bowl matchup was decided when the Seattle Seahawks defeated the Green Bay Packers and the New England Patriots blew out the Indianapolis Colts. But instead of talking the Super Bowl, sports fans are obsessing over a hilarious controversy involving the Patriots deflating footballs.

YOGURT DIP SCANDAL? Here are the bare facts:

Brennan Clay is a free agent NFL running back who this week alleged that his wife is cheating on him with star Dallas Cowboys running back Demarco Murray, pictured above, who was also Clay's teammate at the University of Oklahoma. Tonight, Clay posted naughty text messages he says show Murray asking his wife if they can fuck in her bed.

As Deadspin explained earlier this week, dressing up as NFL wife-puncher Ray Rice for Halloween is a bad idea. Worse idea? Dressing up as Ray Rice in blackface. Worst idea? Dressing up as Ray Rice in blackface and proudly posting it on the Internet.

Bill Murray introduced today's Atlanta Falcons-Detroit Lions game in London because, I guess, why not. He notes, "If I were an Englishman and heard the Falcons were gonna fight the Lions in public, it would sound a little too cruel for me."

Over the weekend, we learned that a Daily Show-staged showdown between Native American activists and supporters of the Washington Redskins name left at least one of the Redskins fans feeling "in danger" and "defamed." Last night, that segment aired.

Rihanna said "fuck you" to CBS this morning for pulling her song "Run This Town" from the Thursday Night Football intro last week. According to Rihanna, the network is trying to "slide it back in" this week.

Even as Barack Obama all but declares war on militants in Iraq, the biggest story in America is the scandal enveloping the National Football League. But for sports fans, this story has been lengthy and complicated, with new information nullifying what we thought we knew. Here, for the still uninitiated, is the story that could undermine our country's biggest sport.

On Wednesday night's show, Jon Stewart delved into the disastrous NFL response to the Ray Rice domestic violence case. His conclusion? You done fucked up, NFL.

The Oakland Raiderettes will now be treated like normal human workers thanks to the wage theft lawsuit two former cheerleaders brought against the Raiders earlier this year. The Raiders are going to cough up $1.25 million in back pay per a settlement agreement reached yesterday, and from here on out, the Raiderettes will be paid above minimum wage.

Jimmy Kimmel's Mean Tweets schtick has already visited the NBA twice, and now it's finally arrived in pro football.

The Washington Post editorial board announced today it will stop using the word "Redskins" to refer to DC's professional football team.

Over the course of the last year, NFL cheerleaders have attempted to raise their pay to at least minimum wage through various lawsuits. In June, two Oakland Raiderettes sued the league for fair pay. The NFL's official response? Not our problem.

Today in the Washington Times—a conservative paper you forgot existed—columnist Michael Taube asks a simple question regarding the NFL's Washington "Redskins": "Why not the Washington Reagans?" Indeed, why not?

Even an unscientific ESPN poll tells an enduring truth sometimes. Apparently the only places where a majority of hypothetical Washington NFL fans really couldn't brook a hypothetical name change for the team are the deep South and Utah. Maybe that changes if we leave a link to the poll here.

As the calls for the Washington Redskins to change their shamefully racist name have gotten louder, the organization has doubled down on its insistence that the slur is a point of pride. An 81-year-old newspaper article unearthed this week, however, makes that claim a little harder to stake.

The Washington Redskins—the team of choice for dumb, angry white men—may be a racist disgrace, but let's not forget that they're also a case study in hilariously incompetent propaganda-mongering.

This week, fifty U.S. senators signed a letter urging the Washington Redskins to change their name, because it is a "racial slur." Needless to say, conservatives are outraged. If you start doing away with racism, where does it end??