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There are people who watch the Super Bowl despite not knowing shit about football. This much is obvious. If these people are smart (which they are, inevitably, not, else they'd know something about football) they keep their mouths shut. More »
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Every time the Phillies visit Nationals Park, it feels like a home game for them. The stands are filled with fans who made the two-hour drive south to cheer for the Phillies, and it's disheartening for Nats fans to be outnumbered in their own stadium. The same thing happens when the Yankees visit Baltimore, or the Red Sox play in Tampa, and it's embarrassing. But the Nationals finally stood up and said "no more." More »
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer was born and raised in New York City, and when she was young, her family had Giants season tickets. Last night, she and Eli Manning were both guests on The Late Show With David Letterman. But, as Gellar explained to Letterman, she didn't get to meet the two-time Super Bowl MVP backstage: More »
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Your morning roundup for Feb. 7, the day BACON. Photo courtesy @eastsidedave, via Busted Coverage. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors. More »
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I hate those faux walls they put up behind basketball announcers during booth shots. You know what I'm talking about, those screens they erect to make it look like the broadcasters are in a studio while simultaneously blocking the view of people up front who are trying to watch Quick Change or Frisbee Dog or the Zooperstars or whatever else entertainment is happening on the court during the break. They're deceptive and silly and overall an annoyance. More »
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There hasn't been much to celebrate in San Diego sports in many, many years. The Chargers last won an AFL title in 1963, and, uh, the Padres have never won an MLB title. But San Diegans can't curse at the games! More »
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We're not sure exactly what this is, but a spectator outside the set of The Herd With Colin Cowherd was engaged in some bizarre activity with a foam finger earlier today during Cowherd's conversation with Matt Forte. Is he playing guitar? Pretending it's a shotgun and he's on a rampage? Something more prurient (perhaps a commentary on Cowherd/Forte)? The world may never know. [ESPNNEWS] More »
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Supporters of Egyptian side Al Masry invaded the field after today's 3-1 win over Al Ahly in Port Said, attacking Al Ahly players and security personnel. Al Jazeera is reporting that eight people have been killed and more than 60 injured. [via 101 Great Goals] More »
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Chad McGhee, the dean of Texas high-school six-man football observation, has some thoughts he'd like to share about the NFL's biggest game of the year. Granted, he had predicted the San Francisco 49ers would face the New England Patriots on Sunday. But, that doesn't change his vision of the outcome, he said during a telephone interview Monday afternoon. More »
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The last time we checked in with J.R. Smith, he was breaking ankles while his sister Stephanie was starting brawls. More »
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Here's the latest development in the Alabama-LSU teabagging affair. From tipster "Big Nic" comes this photo and accompanying [sic]'d message. More »
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St. Mary's moved to 21-2 overall and 10-0 in the WCC with a convincing 80-66 win over BYU last night, and the frustration of the Cougar faithful (pun intended) was no more evident than at the start of the second half—when fans throwing items on the court earned BYU a technical foul call. More »
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Brian Downing, the alleged Alabama teabagger, has, since surrendering a week ago, found himself some lawyers. And those lawyers—Michael Kennedy and Miles Swanson—have found Deadspin's email addresses. Their words, on the sexual battery charges in New Orleans: More »
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Your morning roundup for Jan. 26, the day somebody finally tried to do something about all that cannibalism out there. Photo via Mocksession. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors. More »
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Writes tipster Derek B., "My buddy got this tattoo Eli giving Peyton a noogie today. He's a huge Giants fan." More »
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Explains Michael Lapayower, "This is a parody of 'Sh*t Girls say.' All MLB Baseball fan's say Let's go (there favorite team name). I'm sure there's a bunch of things I didn't say. Leave them below in the comments." More »
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It's not really a scam; that's a sensationalist headline. Just jumping the gun on what will spend all day being a very dumb story. Because it is about Duke, and every story about Duke eventually breaks down to the lowest common denominators of the pro-Duke and anti-Dook factions flinging feces at each other across the Internet. Duke is the Tim Tebow of colleges. More »
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Czech Tomas Berdych faced deafening boos and squeals (which are apparently some kind of Australian version of hissing) after refusing to shake the hand of Spain's Nicolas Almagro following Berdych's four-set win today in Melbourne. More »
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The trap has been baited for the drunk and stupid. San Francisco PD will be dressed as Giants fans at Candlestick Park, the better to sniff threatening behavior on the part of the locals. After a number of Saints fans reported being verbally and physically abused last week, the Niners and the city are taking extra security measures. More »
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This email just arrived in the Deadspin inbox: More »
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Brian Downing, the man who is accused of "pressing his testicles on the neck of an unconscious LSU fan," as the Times-Picuyane puts it, turned himself in to police last night and has been booked on one count of sexual battery and one count of obscenity. Here's his endearing mugshot. More »
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Your morning roundup for Jan. 20, the day we learned old men in Japan engage in vaginal prayer. Photo via Busted Coverage. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors. More »
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An important social issue has arisen from the debate around the New Orleans teabag incident last weekend: When is it OK to teabag someone who has not specifically asked to be teabagged by you? Sometimes, police call that kind of thing sexual battery, but police terms can be confusing! To help settle the uncertainty, we've put together a handy flowchart for your reference. More »
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The Russell County, Ala., sheriff says Brian Downing—the man we identified this morning as the Alabama teabagger—visited the sheriff's office this afternoon with his attorney and spoke by phone with the New Orleans police detective investigating the teabagging incident. More »
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A tipster told us the other day that the assailant in the Krystal teabagging incident—a "sexual battery," as far as New Orleans police are concerned—was a man named Brian Downing from Phenix City, Ala. We think we've found him. More »
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New Orleans cops now believe an act of sexual battery has occurred in the Krystal teabagging incident, and are seeking the public's help in finding a "person of interest." WWL has the full wanted poster, while the Times-Picayune reports police won't say if the victim is cooperating. WVUE in New Orleans spoke with Baton Rouge DA Hiller Moore, who says he's "more than willing" to lend resources to the Orleans Parish prosecutor for the investigation. The episode's even drawing international attention. More »
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Casey Lewis is the 24-year-old Wauwatosa, Wis., resident who found internet fame with a tearstained, semi-comprehensible meltdown on the way home from a bar after the Packers' loss to the Giants. She's cleaned herself up and is doing the media circuit, going on Milwaukee radio and doing an interview with RandBall. More »
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Randy Patrick was mysteriously absent from tonight's 10:00 news on WKRG in Mobile, but anchor Mel Showers stood in and briefly noted that as we reported on Deadspin earlier today, Randy's son Patrick Setterstrom is a co-star of the now-famous video of the Alabama teabagging incident. More »
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Mobile, Ala.'s WKRG opened its 10 p.m. newscast with the video of an Alabama fan teabagging an LSU fan at the Bourbon Street Krystal after the BCS title game. What WKRG failed to mention is that one of the stars of the video is none other than Patrick Setterstrom, a recent college grad and son of the station's sports director, Randy Patrick Setterstrom. Indeed, if you watch the video, it's Patrick Setterstrom who first attempts to pull out his package before girlfriend Ellen Cassin (who's conveniently wearing a jersey with her own name on it) stops him. More »
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I can't. I can't even do this. Thank you Giants, and thank you Internet, and thank you Megan for being a better cameraperson than friend. More »
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Those of us un/fortunate enough to have visited the Krystal restaurant at the mouth of Bourbon Street in New Orleans know it's a place where the occasionally odd, bizarre, or criminal events take place. We don't know which of these this incident is, if not all three. That's especially given that some people are claiming the victim in this is now dead, making the "This guy's life is over" line uttered in the video creepy. [Edit: He's not dead.] (We're trying to get in touch with New Orleans police. We'll update if we hear from them.) More »
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When the clock hit zero at the end of Florida State's shocking 90-57 upset of #3 North Carolina, none of the Tar Heels' star players were on the floor. In fact, they were already in the locker room, as they'd been pulled out of the arena along with the rest of UNC's scholarship players—leaving five walkons to face the storm of Seminoles fans as they rushed the court. (Keep an eye on the FSU fan who hangs on the net, leaving a portly security guard to try and get him down.) [ESPN] More »
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Because the team of the people hates unions, the Packers put out the call for folks to come help get the stadium ready, for $10 an hour. Four hundred and fifty were lucky enough to be handed shovels, with another 800 turned away. [Green Bay Press-Gazette] More »
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Greg from Lemont, Sarah Kustok from CSN, you two are just about the cutest couple and this isn't creepy at all. Make it happen. [CSN Chicago] More »
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Okay, so this guy doesn't want to be on TV, even if anybody who knows him would immediately recognize his checked shirt and bald spot. But why so shy in the first place? Playing hooky from work? Cheating on his wife? Hideously and improbably deformed? (Why buy courtside seats, then?) Maybe he is, after all, simply ashamed to be in such close proximity to Tracy Morgan. [MSG] More »
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At first glance, it looks like these two jokers kicking back with beers simply had seats at the end of the Dallas bench, but it soon becomes obvious they're actually seated between Delonte West and Vince Carter. It's tough to tell whether the best part of this is the video itself—complete with that terrific shot panning the Mavs bench until we get to our boys—the look on Carter's face, or the incredulous reactions of Pistons announcers George Blaha and Greg Kelser. I'm going with Blaha's call: "Look, Delonte West, a couple guys enjoying cocktails, dressed inappropriately." Yep. That pretty much sums it up. [Busted Coverage] More »
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Last month, for just the fifth time in the team's 92-year history, the publicly owned Packers launched a stock offering for 250,000 shares in the franchise. Here's the official certificate that a fan named Arvind received in the mail recently, which boldly acknowledges him as a shareholder in the "Green Boy Packers, Inc." More »
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You do remember the crying Bama fan, don't you? Dressed like Bear Bryant, a blonde sorority girl on his arm, moved to tears by an overtime loss in the Game of the Century. He headed down to New Orleans this weekend, where he was recognized by an LSU fan who just happened to have a blown up photo of him as a poster. More »
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Your morning roundup for Jan. 9, the day we learned another way to open a beer bottle. Photo via @IzzyGould. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors. More »
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Two months ago, John Sieglinger of Raleigh removed his raiment and ran across the field at halftime of the East Carolina University-Southern Miss football game. Three days after that, The East Carolinian student paper published uncensored photos of Sieglinger's Streak on its front page and its website, sparking moral apoplexy among dongphobic school administrators. More »
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