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In Shocking Betrayal, Penn Basketball Ditches Cheesesteaks For Fish Burritos

The Penn men’s basketball team is 5-2 so far this year; freshman Michael Wang has been particularly impressive. Their losses are to Kansas State and Oregon State. The only blip this season so far is losing Ryan Betley for the season five minutes into the opening game. (Penn rallied to win at George ...

Kelly Olynyk Attempts To Finish Burrito In Just Four Bites

The NBA season is long and the plane rides are plentiful, leaving plenty of time for shenanigans. On a recent team flight Celtics center Kelly Olynyk was somehow convinced to attempt to take down a monster burrito in just four bites, and of course Amir Johnson documented it (and posted it to Snapcha...

Christ, It’s The "Creamy Vs. Crunchy Peanut Butter" Debate Again

Time for your weekly edition of the Deadspin Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. Today, we're covering screen angst, littering, socks, and more....

Burrito Smackdown: Chipotle Vs. Qdoba

Serious Mexican-food folk talk mostly about tacos these days, which is cool, except that tacos are sorta bullshit. I mean, there's nothing wrong with a taco, other than the fact that it's just a miniature open-faced burrito, i.e., a lesser burrito. Disdaining the burrito—it's not even authentic Mexi...

FiveThirtyEight has kicked off its search for America's best burrito. A selection committee—with the help of a Yelp-based "value over replacement burrito" metric—will pick the 64 contenders from over 65,000 establishments; burrito correspondent Anna Maria Barry-Jester will take it from there. [FiveT...

JaVale McGee Threw A Free Burrito Party, But Only One Dude Showed Up [UPDATE]

JaVale McGee invited 10 Twitter followers to a free lunch with him at Chipotle yesterday. And in typically JaVale fashion, the invitation was well-intentioned, but poorly thought out, producing a hilarious result. Given just five minutes notice, only one fan made it to Chipotle: Andy Mathisen, who d...

Best News Lede Ever? Best News Lede Ever

"The Brevard County doctor who was arrested for groping a woman while dressed as Captain America with a burrito in his pants will not go to jail." [WFTV, via FilmDrunk]...

If Dan Snyder Sees Bugs, You Better Well See Them Too

Time for your Deadspin Open Mailbag Tuesday. Email us here or submit your questions via Twitter. This week, we're covering fertility, Thanksgiving, Project Runway, NSFW warnings, and more....

Many Burritos Died To Bring You This Information

When it comes to masked vigilantes and their burritos, consider Deadspin your No. 1 news source. Eater X, otherwise known as Tim Janus of New York City, is your new world burrito-eating champion. Defeating foes such as Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas, "Crazy Legs" Conti and Tim "Gravy" Brown, Janus c...

Gentlemen (And Ladies), Start Your Burritos

Since the burrito is the official food of Deadspin, we couldn't end the day without reporting on this. The Costa Vida World Burrito Eating Championship is set for Saturday in Portland, Maine, and you do not want to miss this classic faceoff. The colorful stars of burrito eating tend to put their hot...

Deadspin HOF Nominee: Burritos

We are in a difficult position here, trying to summarize why burritos became such a large part of the Deadspin psyche. You see, we really had absolutely nothing to do with it....