I think you can probably call the game.
Last night it was very cold in Colorado,
After 99.75 miles and more than 16 hours of running, Thomas Lorblanchet comes striding slowly down 6th Street in Leadville, Colo. It's almost 9 on an August night, and as he crests a small hill, his way is lit only by his headlamp and the glowing light from the one-story houses that line the street. His strides are…
The video above comes from this past weekend's Buffalo Bill Downhill race, which is a thing in which skateboarders race down a mountain in Golden, Colo.
It was with no small degree of concern that Deadspin noted the lack of a Sign of the Apocalypse in this week's Sports Illustrated. Until August, the magazine had been chronicling the demise of Western civilization via sports news of the weird at least as far back as 1993, when it noted that "David Carradine, years older …
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We apologize in advance for the analogy, but it's clear that Major League Baseball has gone into the beanball wars with no exit strategy whatsoever. Things came to a head on Sunday with five ejections in the Rockies-Giants game — including both managers — after four beanings. Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti was…