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James Harrison’s heel turn – plus other NFL pro-wrestling grudge matches we’d like to seeFormer Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison has started a new career, though it isn’t too different from the one he left a few years ago....

Remember way back in 2019 when Myles Garrett swinging a helmet was the biggest story in the world?It’s been almost a year since Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett ripped off the helmet of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph and began to clobber him with it into the turf. Garrett, Steelers Maurkice Pouncey, and Browns David DeCastro were all ejected....

Orange Skies in Bay Area Just the Latest Sign That End Times Are HereThe skies in northern California right now can best be described as burnt sienna, or something that you’d expect to find swirled in the whipped cream of your pumpkin spice latte....

I Can Really Identify With These Dads Who Like Swords

Thanks to Brendan Karet and Dave Weigel, the Deadspin staff has spent the last half hour or so watching this video of a husky man in business casual wailing away on some meat, and then following the Youtube rabbit hole down to, uh, more videos of What If Game Of Thrones But Middle Management?...

<i>X-Men: Apocalypse</i>'s Biggest Disappointment Is The Villainous Prune

As we’ve noted before, the pleasure of a superhero blockbuster lies in watching familiar, inevitable tropes refashioned in mildly refreshing ways. The people making these films are tasked not with outright originality but with clever recombination. How do we make the good guys defeat the bad guys—be...

Restaurant Removes Bacon Sign, Ignites Culture War

This is it, folks. This just might be it. Your love of bacon will bring you to ruin, our ancestors said, but did we listen? Did we heed? No we did not. And now: Here we are, careening bacon-scented over the precipice of disaster. "My grandfather was alive in 2014," they will say, huddled fu...

Harrowing Ad Running During Olympics Advises You To Pray For Death

This advertisement, spotted today on NBC Sports Network, seems worth bringing to your attention. Presumably paid for when the time slot was being filled by one of the network's strange gun shows, it features a concerned citizen pointing out that America will, sooner or later, be struck by natural di...

Here Is The Robot That Will One Day Hunt Us Down Like We Are Vermin

Meet WildCat, the latest robotic creation from the species-betrayers at Boston Dynamics. WildCat can run 16 mph on flat surfaces, and although it hasn't yet acquired a taste for human blood, that will surely change in the near future. ...