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Rony Seikaly Partying Too Much For Hot Wife


See that woman right there? Her name is Elsa Benitez, and she's a supermodel. She is also married to former NBA oaf Rony Seikaly. Pretty good, right? Way to go, Rony, yeah? More »

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Sigh. More Mike Piazza Gay Rumors


Honestly, we never get tired of Mike Piazza gay rumors. No, seriously. We love them. The newest one, as "printed" by our twisted sister Gawker, is that Mets catcher Mike Piazza and local weatherman Sam Champion are building a place together on the Jersey Shore. More »

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Rosey Grier Knows Your Needlepoint Needs


This is an actual, real book that came out in 1973: Needlepoint For Men, written by former NFL defensive star Rosie Grier. Flickr has all the photos, and look: You can even buy it on Amazon. More »

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What? Sports Aren't Funny


According to Daily Variety, which we don't have a subscription for, so we're gonna just link to someone else who heard about this, Comedy Central has just filmed a pilot for a sports program based on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart." The show would be an half-hour weekly program, and the channel — well, not actually the channel; some people who speak for the channel — says they plan on spending more energy and time on sports. More »

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Here Come The Fat Dudes!


The old fat men are returning to the sports world. One would think fat men would be comfortable in their post-sporting life; they could, you know, just sit around and eat. But former Red Sox whale Rich Garces and former Supersonics DNA machine Shawn Kemp are making their way back. Garces, "El Guapo," if you will, has re-signed with the Sox and is reportedly "big," which is comforting to hear. Kemp, on the other hand, is slimming himself down, saying he "doesn't want to be remembered as Flubber, which is a shame, because we all enjoyed remembering him as Flubber. On his official Web site, Kemp stays quiet, probably because he's busy working out and impregnanting. It's nice to see them back. Hey, Barkley, you hearing this? More »


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Robinson Boozes It Up At The Wrong Time. Again

We aren't one to talk about public drunkeness, but we still feel obliged to point out that when former Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Koren Robinson decided to show up at his one-day jail sentence for a DUI conviction, well, he probably shouldn't have been drunk. Just a thought. The good news: Being currently unemployed, he doesn't have to show up for training camp this week. Whew: Another round! More »

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Players Just Don't Care About Their Balls Anymore


We may have mentioned this before, but back when we were young, untalented, jittery baseball players, we refused to wear a cup. We had a complicated explanation involving positioning and playing catcher, and, in retrospect, it doesn't make much sense. But apparently we're not alone. Slate reports that "kids are just not wearing jockstraps anymore." More »

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Scrappy Podsednik Upgrading In Lady Department

We've always liked Chicago White Sox outfielder Scott Podsednik. He's small, he's scrappy, he plays hard, he steals bases, he likes to get his uniform dirty in the way that fans always like white players to get their uniform dirty. But we always liked his understatedness the most: Nothing flashy, just straight ahead hard work, or some such nonsense, we're kind of just quoting the press release here. More »

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Cuckolded Red Sox Scuffle

Controversy in Boston is nothing new, even when the Red Sox are coming off a World Series win. Outfielder Johnny Damon and soon-to-be-closer Curt Schilling have been having a minor scuffle, with Damon saying Schilling shouldn't be a closer and Schilling responding with, "Contrary to popular belief, I have done this before." But the source of the discord could be off the field, in the controversial field of scarves. More »

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We Can't Imagine What She Might Have Been Upset About

It appears O.J. Simpson spent his Independence Day getting beaten up by his ex-girlfriend. (You read that right: O.J. Simpson has had many girlfriends since 1994. That's a pretty lousy background check, if you ask us.) The woman, Christine Prody (who once told the National Enquirer that OJ confessed the murders to her), beat on O.J. and a friend of his repeatedly when he tried to give her back some old belongings. More »

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NBA Stars Stand Trail For Beating Up Male Stripper. Yep.

Somewhat underreported around these parts, the trial of NBA players Gary Payton, Sam Cassell and Jason Caffey began yesterday in Toronto. More »

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Indians Gay Porn Reliever Sent Down (Again)


A sad day in Cleveland: reliever Kazahito Tadano has been sent down to the minor leagues. Who's Tadano, you ask? Oh, how quickly you forget: Tadano is the Japanese player who had to apologize to his Indians teammates for making a gay porn film back in Japan. (That's him in the screen shot above.) More »



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Luis Alicea Will Pee For You

Former St. Louis Cardinals infielder Luis Alicea is now the manager of the Lowell Spinners, the Class A minor league affiliate of the Boston Red Sox. Last week, the Spinners were selected for random steroid testing. Alicea says the test wasn't too tough. More »


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David Beckham No Longer Fantasized About In Prison

Apparently, athlete culture's a little different in England than it is here. Soccer "megastar" David Beckham — also, in England, you don't necessarily have to be all that good at your sport to be the most famous — lamented to the soccer press that he is losing all of his gay fans to rugby star Gavin Henson. You heard that correctly: A major athlete saying he's disappointment that more gay men don't want him. More »